Project to start December off organized...

This is simply a piece of tri fold junk mail....a cell phone flyer that I covered with pretty papers and stamped. Add areas for lists, a paperclip and don't forget to stitch up the sides of one fold to make a pocket and.............voila! You have a coupon holder for all those stores You "might" get to this season. This one just seemed to me to be a good reminder for the season when I am out there in all the retail mayhem. Maybe, just maybe it will remind me to think twice and consider if there is something I can "make" at home too. I hope you do too!! Have a great week and Happy Holiday's here we go! I can't wait. XOXO

Love is...........

Still so much to share with you of Silver Bella.........I hope you are ok with it all! For those who haven't seen this in blogland yet, I wanted to share the "LOVE" chapter swap. For this swap, 14 of us who were randomly assigned a portion of 1 Corinthians 13:14 and on.... Mine was "Love is not rude". So we all began our little art and heart journey into the assigned portion. I was blessed by the talent and hearts of these women, especially the hostesses...with the mostesses....of Love that is!!! Check out these sister's Karla and "Miss" Lynn pictured above. Two adorable girls I just couldn't get enough of. Downright good as gold, I tell you!! Miss them already. Miss Lynn posts and lists names of these artists here as well. Loved how the art and relationships just came about with this swap so easily.

Thinking of you all ~Feel the Love dear friends!!

I dedicate this Love post to my sweet friend Cassie who lost her house this past week. She is doing well and keeping Joy. Amazes me, this Love thing!

Canvas Swap part 2

Here you see a close up of what I made for Michelle. I failed to take many closeups before hauling it off to Silver bella, but thanks to my camera buddy Steph, we have a snippet here. I really enjoyed making this canvas for Michele even though there was surely an element of pressure and I hadn't done a "one on one" swap before. The rewards were worth it though. Wait until you see what she made me!! ooooh la la!! Lucky girl, am I!!! Hugs to all you lucky girls too this good day:) Micheles blogspot name, too by the way!!

Keep me safe, O God for in you I find refuge

How appropriate right now. And the word refuge has been coming again and again to me.
This sweet treasure of a canvas I recieved in the One on One Canvas swap from Precious Michele Witchell. She is a beautiful lady and dreamy vendor and you can check out her Etsy shop here. I loved that we told each other our "likes" and both went to town creating how we would interpret each other. Oddly enough we were a pretty good match and had similar canvases:)

Wish we lived closer Michele...........I am sure we would create together! For now, you are in my heart with your art.......placed it just to the right of my creating desk.........oh thankyou sooo much. Your scripture Psalms 16:1 really hits it for me. Just perfect. Perfect timing:)

Sweet hugs to all you girls this Monday. XO

Kisses and Prayers for Cassie

Cassie and I have been childhood friends for a lotta good and bad times. I even named my third daughter after this special girl. Sorry to say, this one of those bad times though. I'm sharing so that we can all pray for her family. They are safe, and I am so thankful.
They lost everything in a house fire early this morning. Everything. And If I understand correctly, they got out barefoot and coatless and yes, thank Sweet Jesus they got out. Still trying to wrap their heads around it. Thankyou for your prayers and enjoy your sweet home sweet home this weekend girlfriends:)

Back to our Silver Bella program

Seems as an artist, I am always falling in Love. This class, and this artist, Lisa Kaus 's authenticity and direction spoke the loudest to me this past week at Silver Bella 2010.

It's a personal message in my own colors, words and spirit. My roomies and my mantra for the week......... "own it" rings true here. I am saying that I am owning this piece. It is me. I can say I fell in love with me in this artwork. I am so excited to explore this medium and me a little more. This is the true beauty of Silver Bella to me. Stay tuned for more beautiful things girls!

XOXOX Sending you a colorful ~ love yourself day girlfriends!!

Important announcement!

We interrupt the regularly scheduled (Silver Bella) program to bring you this special announcement!! It is the amazing and talented~ Piper Cohen's birthday!!!!

And we admit, your friends who love you~ totally messed up. We feel awful. Will you please forgive us Piper?? We both had big gooseeggs on the calandar. How could we forget to write down such an important day?? How about the study we are doing on guilty conscious this week?? Big red target on our backs maybe?? No excuses though............we messed up. Please forgive us. Will you let us make it up to you with a rockin' Bella craft and a snack this Friday at 10:00?? Next Tuesday if not?? Oh we hope so. We think you are the cat's meow! Enjoy today!

Love you dearly,

Cherie and Anjie

Where to begin.....

Silver Bella 2010 So much to show, and to say!! I think Charlotte Lyons said it all beautifully here. I'm excited everytime I look at my projects and think of the classes and teachers................the swaps and the Hostesses'ssssssss and Vendor night, and Opening night, and Closing night...............but more on that very soon. Just had to do this post today. My Indiana girls........no fussing or tweaking photos, finishing anything or gushy words.
Here we are, and this is what we do.................Enjoy!!

Back from Silver Bella

What a beautiful experience. Lots to show you! I hope for now, you will enjoy the scenes from this sweet spot in Omaha Nebraska. Check out the few inches of snow we had too! Perfect for Silver Bella. The sunny wet pictures were actually the next day when it warmed up and I had a chance to walk through town. I will be back with more really cool artful inspiration, Hopefully each day this week and some next too! Happy day fun friends!! XO

Take good care

Remember the envoy's from my earlier post? Here they are with a message I purchased at Curious Sofa on my way to my first Silver Bella. Reminds me of how Words are so powerful. Here's a message from Melody Ross as well, that I think we could all benefit from. I hope your heart is touched and your words are good and kind......I expect much of the same at Silver Bella too this week..........oh my, I think I am taking this little cross stitch a little too seriously....haven't packed a thing............off I go! See you all real soon. Sending Love! XO

Envoys

Loved this new technique with Art fiber paste by Golden. A stucco kind of look. The words were so sweet to convey from these great Childrens book pages. I had to look up the word ENVOY and was really blessed to find that is means "messenger". I'm in love with birds and creatures in the wild.........and they seem to find me at just the right moment. Messengers. Always looking for the next one! I hope you have a super time looking for yours as well. They sure do scurry about preparing for Winter these days! Me.... I am preparing for Silver Bella. Oh so fun:)

Sending Love this Monday my friends! XO

Holiday Open House and BIG giveaway from Lola Rue and Company

My goodies went to Lola Rue today for sale ...........my latest messy art room project:)

Our dear friend Lisa, owner of Lola Rue and company was busy doing her AMAZING creative thing at the shop today.....preparing for the always outstanding Holiday Open House for this Friday...........Please check out the details here and for her blog giveaway. Generous give away!

But, that is Lisa. So generous. She inspired me at a point in my life where whether to create or not was no longer an option. She is one who helped give me wings to fly. So Thankful for you, Lisa. There are others, but for now.......if you get a chance stop by Lisa's blog and leave a love note (and maybe win $100 gift cert?!) I really hope you will. Thankyou all of you who inspire me so. More on that throughout November.....and yes, more on my mess in a day or two. Sending Love!

So remember the Mess?

Well, I cleaned it all up this weekend..........and made new messes. Moral of the story, life is just messy. Clean one up......here comes another. I'll show you some more messes in the next day or two. Lots of fun:) Good messes. Wishing you a good and messy day too, my friends! XO