French Poppy

i heart my cupcakes

thank you baby girl.  i love you and your brother too!

rh illustration ~ june issue

thank you Romantic Homes magazine, for giving me these opportunities to do illustrations for your  magazine. :)  i hope i get the opportunity to do many more illustrations for whoever may need them, i love it!  i would much rather work on doing these types of assignments every day than anything else.  this has been a big dream for me and i cannot tell you the gratitude i feel.  there is an old native american proverb that says:

"certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture your heart" 

Happy Mother's Day to you all!

Teresa

The best Mother's Day present

i love it when my baby girl is home.  there is a lot of creating going on, usually in every part of the house.  she has several projects going on right now.  kayla doesn't fall asleep easy at night, so she is usually painting, or doing some sort of artsy thing.  last night she started a great painting on a slab of wood.  beautiful it is!  it's like living with a little elf who creates while you are sleeping and when you wake up there is always something gorgeous to look at. 

look at that beautiful mess.  it's great.  my art table has been taken over by a magnificent artist, i hope her good juju rubs off on me.

i can't wait until this little woodland piece is finished.  kayla is working on a body of work for her BFA portfolio so she can be certified.  i am so proud my heart is singing, she pulled off a 3.7 gpa this last semester.  now how cool is that!! 

love it all!!  if you would like to see some of kayla's work, she sells bits and pieces at her etsy store.   

french poppy bags

getting a little excited about the new french poppy bags that will be for sale at the farm chicks show. wow i can't believe how fast this is sneaking up on me, i won't be ready, i am a last minute do it kinda person, never prepared, but i am going to do my best.  i have loads of things to accomplish, like..finishing furniture, tea-dying lace, making bags, tea towels, pillows, cards, prints, let's see have i left anything out?  probably, and as always i will think of something new to do like the week before, oh wait, yeah i thought of something..the t-shirts..lori..can we do it????  we shall see.

 

I really love chocolate!

I really love chocolate, like a lot, and today I made these way out of this world chocolate cookies.  If you ever find yourself with a craving of have to have chocolate, trust me these cookies do the trick.  They aren't really a dark chocolate, but just a satisfying lighter chocolate, although you could probably make them a richer dark chocolate by the chocolate you prefer to bake with.  Here is the recipe!

CHOCOLATE SUNDAE COOKIES

1 1/2 cup flour

1/2 tsp salt

2/3 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

1/2 cup butter (softened)

1 egg

1/4 cup maraschino cherry juice

1/4 cup maraschino cherries, chopped

2 Tbsp milk

2 oz. unsweetened chocolate, melted

1/2 cup chopped nuts

Large Marshmallows

Chocolate Frosting

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Cream brown sugar and butter together well.  Blend in the egg.  Stir in 1/2 of the flour & salt.  Add cherry juice and the milk.  Stir in remaining ingredients,(chocolate, nuts, cherries and the remaining flour & salt) mix well.  Drop by spoonfuls on an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake 12 to 15 minutes.  Cut marshmallows in half, place cut side down, on cookies.  Put back in oven until the marshmallow is melted down a little. (i pressed the marshmallow down after taking it out of the oven), cool, frost with your favorite chocolate frosting!  EAT!!

Little Shop Listings

couple new prints listed at my etsy shop.

what do you call these chairs?  bistro chairs?  i think maybe, i know i wish i had some authentic ones from france.  until then i will just be happy painting them.

thanks for taking a peek, at my bistro chair scenes. 

oh and by the way, can anyone else believe how fast this year is going already, i can't believe it's may  already? 

 

Industrial meets Shabby

If you have an old industrial chair, and not sure what to do with it?  Grab some vintage chenille and re-cover your chair pad.  I love the industrial look mixed together with vintage/shabby.  This was a little piece of robin egg blue lumpy chenille I used for the chair paid.  I also added a little more cushion to it.  The trick with these chairs, is that there is no way to use a staple gun - because of the metal, but these smart people who designed this particular chair made little pointy hooky thingys underneath, kinda like the back of a picture frame, where those little pieces hold the back of the frame in.  Yep, that's what this looked like except they were sharp pointed little tabs.  So all I had to do was fold the material over and hook it on and presto, a lot slicker than the staple gun.  This little chair is getting ready to be sold at The Farm Chicks show. 

 

Another Piece of Art

i know it seems like i am all about art lately and selling prints, etc., and i apologize if it seems boring.  when one is in creative mode, you go with the flow.  honestly i haven't found my groove until lately.  i have dabbled in this and that, doing different kinds of art, but nothing felt right until now.  i love painting things that make me feel good, like chandeliers, coffee scenes, that kinda back in time european feel.  i could open a coffee house and be surrounded by this kind of thing.  i have been doing other things of interest too, like playing tennis, cooking some good dinners, baking and praying for spring/warmth/sunshine, any of it.  i have a new hammock i want to loose track of time lounging in on a lazy weekend day, but it doesn't seem to get warm. 

today i am doing more painting, working on a couple commission pieces, a baby theme piece of work, and a few other projects.  i hope that your day is filled with creativity and sunshine!

new chandelier print available for sale here.

Chandelier Graphic Available

okay i am going to try this again. :)  i posted this yesterday, but had some troubles with the "buy it now" button, so have opted to have it available for purchase from my sidebar store.  i am not sure when you purchase through the paypal widget if it gives your email address.  i would be sending this graphic to your email, so if you purchase it, please be sure and leave that information.  thanks for looking!  if you are into chandeliers and need a graphic for your blog, website, or just for fun, i hope this one works for you. 

teresa

new dressform print available at my etsy shop.  the original from this is watercolor, acrylic, ink on 14" x 20" hot press watercolor paper.  i have contemplate selling the original, if you would be seriously interested in buying the original, please send me an email for pricing.  the print sells for $18.oo, which is an 8" x 10".

UPDATE:  RARE FOR ME TO DO THIS - BUT THIS ORIGINAL IS LISTED AT MY ETSY SHOP!  :)