In My Pink Shabby Cottage World

These are places I get inspiration

2010-04-25T03:22:00.000-07:00

A wonderful place to get cottage pieces to decorate for the every seasons of the years. You will fine linen that is unique That's So Shabby has lovely Painted Furniture. I love the scriptures on the site. At So Shabby Pink there are some romantic decoration beautiful boxes with cabbage rose carving for housing your linen pieces Check back for more cool site

Using Photo Editing Software In Scrapbooking Discussion 1

2009-09-16T12:50:00.000-07:00

Digital photography is quickly becoming widespread in our society and as a result of that photo editing software is also drawing a lot of attention. Aphoto editing software allows you to improve your digital images. For example, you can crop them, remove red-eye, change colors or contrast, and even add and delete elements. You can crop the photograph to emphasize the key part. Reduce the size of

Roses AND Foxglove

2009-08-02T16:28:00.000-07:00

This beautiful bouquet of flowers filled with roses and rosebuds of pink, red, yellow, orange on a bed of rich green leaves. I painted the background in acrylic paint and the roses in layers of oil. The container is painted with Prussian blue and silver metallic accent. The color are bright and vivid. This painting influenced by french country, shabby chic, cottage chic,and folk art style. Be the

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

2009-07-20T06:53:00.000-07:00

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen. It was first published in 1813.Pride and Prejudice has consistently been Jane Austen's most popular novel. It is one of my favorite. Pride and Prejudice is a sharp humorous and telling of mannerism played out in early 19th Century English society. It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day. The title Pride and Prejudice refers (among

He is My Rose of Sharon

2009-07-11T04:24:00.000-07:00

This was inspired by the idea of Christ as the Rose Of Sharon his sweetness, The Cross, his thorny crown and the Holy Spirit descending like a dove. I was also reading the Song of Solomon 2. That is a very passionate book. I have posted it to ebay this week. Rose of Sharon the plant is Hibiscus syriacus. It isn't a rose, but its large, flat blossoms and nectar attract hummingbirds and tiny

More painting inspired by French country, shabby chic, and cottage chic style

2009-06-27T00:19:00.000-07:00

Painting inspired by French country, shabby chic, and cottage chic style

My newest painting for the week of June 14 ebay Listing

2009-06-14T23:12:00.001-07:00

Here is one my French Shabby Cottage Roses Palette Knife 8"X 10" with a little Palette knife technique. I like a little texture in my paintings. I like to feel the painting. My nana became blind when I was about 8 years old. She had to rebuild her life. She used her hands to see our faces as we grew up. I like that everyone can see the roses.Here is another painting my French Shabby

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2009-05-28T12:17:00.001-07:00

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Folk Art Painting "Cherry Blossoms on the Potomac"

2009-05-19T01:05:00.000-07:00

more details My shabby painting up for auction this week. I love pink.

Shabby chic painting

2009-04-30T23:51:00.000-07:00

Shabby chic painting I just finished

My Pink Shabby Chic Rose Painting

2009-04-17T18:01:00.000-07:00

This is my shabby chic pink rose painting. it is 18 x 24 x 3/4 inches.This is an Abstract oil and acrylic painting. I used palette Knife to paint the flowers. I like the texture with layers of oil. These rose and friends will make room or any environment happy.

2009-01-20T19:58:00.000-08:00

Barack Hussein Obama, America's first black president, giving hope in his presence and speech. This is the American I thought I would never see. I thought about the 60's although a child suffering experienced of tear gas for three days. My little eyes burned for a week with this gaseous substance. My mother applied cold clothes to my eyes repeatedly. Our neighborhood was a mixture of people

MERRY CHRISTMAS

2008-12-24T10:05:00.001-08:00

Wishing Everyone a Merry Christmas!

My new shabby artistic pieces

2008-11-14T13:09:00.000-08:00

My latest painted shabby roses. I painted on office supplies. I thought it would make a nice gift or a stocking stuffer for someone who loves the them.

New Image Power Of The Cross

2008-10-29T12:19:00.000-07:00

I imagined this image the fire or power of the cross, the power of Christ to bring salvation to the world by giving his life. I read 1 Corinthians 1:18

Autumn in North Carolina

2008-10-27T15:48:00.001-07:00

Looking Out of the Window in North Carolina, I saw all of these beautiful colors. The trees color palette are rich and jeweled. When my children where small they would go outside,jump in the leaf pile I'd just gathered for my compost. At first I'd be a little peeved but I could not help but laugh because those kids where so cute. They would even get the neighborhood kids involved. I soon gave

My Son Finding His Way

2008-09-29T21:07:00.001-07:00

Yesterday I watched My son sleeping. He is so quiet these days. Sometimes I hear him calling out in his sleep. I woke him up and he looks at my puzzled. He is a Quadriplegic on a vent. I tried to get him to talk to me, friends, or a professional. He just brush it off and says I worry to much. He became a quadriplegic two days before his 13Th birthday. The doctors never found the cause of it. "If

Needed Sunshine

2008-09-28T16:01:00.000-07:00

I yellow is such a happy color so you know I had to paint my yellow roses. I started painting this picture channeling happy thoughts after hearing news of the banking bailout. Why are we the taxpayers the scape goats? Why can't some of this money go directly to homeowners forgiving some of the mortgage debt? I needed to divert my mind. Yellow was my color. There needs to be more oversight of the

It's My World

2008-09-22T11:13:00.000-07:00

This is my latest Design at cafepress. It my Gothic side. It kind of pretty goth. You can purchase this design by clicking the title.

Poppies Poppies

2008-09-17T19:34:00.001-07:00

This painting of poppies in a field and me daydreaming about a place in North Carolina.Click the title to purchase a print.

The Burning Bush and The Angel

2008-09-15T15:37:00.001-07:00

My visual interpretation of Moses encounters the Angel in the burning bush . This is an abstract paintingExodus 3:1-21Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.2And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked,

Rose By Rose

2008-09-13T12:30:00.001-07:00

These are part of my red rose series. These paintings are at imagekind.com.Click title to purchase print on canvas.

My Rose

2008-09-09T18:30:00.001-07:00

I love to paint abstract roses. Click title to purchase a print.

2008-09-09T18:21:00.000-07:00

The Dance

2008-08-24T00:37:00.000-07:00

I was inspired by ballroom dancers doing the salsa. They where so intense as those all they could see was each other. Click title to purchase print on canvas.

A man and a woman in space

2008-08-11T13:51:00.000-07:00

I have been experimenting with a man and a woman clinging together balanced,suspended in space. I love the look of oil, and palette knife on canvas. Click title to purchase print on canvas.

Art as Therapy

2008-08-10T09:45:00.000-07:00

I have been in the hospital and on bedrest for a while. I read a lot of novels, newspaper, watched TV and got so flustered at being still. I took out my paint brushes, my oil paints and acrylics and started painting what ever came to me.I like canvas to paint on. I like that I can order canvas on line, but I even recycled newspapers by brushing gesso on to the pages. I hope you like my abstract

Abuse of Power Reinstated

2008-06-17T14:32:00.000-07:00

About mid January at 4 in the morning there was a knock at our door. My son's nurse answered and there were police with their guns drawn. They came through the lower level of my house. The nurse woke my son who woke my husband up who had been to the hospital for twelve hours with my daughter. My husband stood at the top of the stairs while the police officer yelled for my husband to move. My

Embellished towels

2008-06-09T17:35:00.001-07:00

Waverly Towels I embellishedThe Guest~bath~Show towels with bouquets of roses usingFrench bistro Fabric by Henry Glass 100% cotton~the sweetest pink ticking around a vintage reproduction which has been discontinued ~venise lace fluffy Double ruffles in two different fabrics, rosebuds-fabric and cute polka dots.

The Battle, Computer play or Homework

2008-06-03T19:41:00.000-07:00

I can surely say that "The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire." I am in the middle of three teen girls. They all have different personalities. They clash and bring the fight to me. If one of them perceives you taking sides God help you. Then they unite and the fight is against me. I feel as though I am in the middle of a buzz saw at times. I look at them and think in my mind show no fear. You

2008-05-24T21:41:00.000-07:00

Today I spoke with my sister in law for almost 2 hours. I found myself planning in my head a trip to meet family who are scattered to the four winds of the US. With the gas prices rising, trips normally taken are being postponed or all together scraped. A friend of mine drives a large truck spending $400 a month in gas going back and forth to work. She wanted to buy a smaller car. Even so $300

Potty Training

2008-05-15T09:43:00.000-07:00

One of my relatives asked me about potty training being that I had five babies to potty train. For a while the subject would come up one way or another in our long distant phone calls. The only thing I could say to her is that the baby would let her know when he was ready to start to use the potty. She was in a hurry to stop with the diapers. I told her she should try the pullups. There