Finally...pictures of the new home!

I'll admit, I should have done this a while back, but I was just too busy! So after much prodding and poking, I went outside this morning with my camera and took some pictures. Here is the front of the house...

This is the view from my backyard deck. I live in a rural area of CT, but then again, CT is very rural outside of it's cities. I have my very own woods complete with wild turkey, opossum, owls, field mice and a crap load of deer. Unfortunately, with the deer come the ticks and Lyme disease. Can NEVER be too careful out there!

My squirrel resistant bird feeder and it really does work! I get goldfinch, cardinals, chickadees, robins and a whole bunch of others that I haven't identified yet.
Tah-dah!!! My illustrious studio! My own little corner of Nirvana. It ain't much but it's better than what I used to have...a place in the garage! I'm moving up in the world! (Actually moving down in the world since this is in my basement!)
And this is sandee organized! Take a really good look at it because it probably won't look this way in a week!
The studio is larger than this but the other half isn't finished yet and the lighting there is very poor, or more realistically speaking, there isn't any lighting! Soon...........

Gothic Arch Tip-in

I'm in a Gothic Arch tip-in in one of my yahoo groups. These arches are for Cindy; her theme is RED and ? and Artist's Choice. How fun is that!!! These are the 1st 2 pages to come out of my new STUDIO!!!!! OK...so the studio is in the basement and doesn't have a window, but it's a real studio and it's MY SPACE!!! No reason for the sons or husband to go in there. Finally, a place to call my very own.

For Sweet Peggy

I had so much fun working in peggy's RR journal. Her journal began as a photo album with preprinted flowers and photo cut outs. It was a challenge to see what would work. I really liked the way the pages turned out; I hope she likes them too!!!

We'll Always Have Paris...

I'm in a Tip-in Round Robin in one of my Yahoo groups. These pages are for Michelle. Her theme is La Vie est Belle which is Life is Beautiful. She wanted sepia tones and a color of our choice.I sure hope she likes these!!!

Thinking GREEN!!!

I'm having a run on Green today! I don't know if it's because I was loving the color or because I was too lazy to get up and get something else to work with!!! Either way, I'm happy with my art today! This 3-2-1 (3x3, 2x2, 1x1 inch pieces) are for my buddy peggy, who I REALLY, REALLY MISS!!! Can you guess what the theme is?!?

Junkalicious!!!

I can see daylight again! Gary and I spent a good part of the weekend trying to really get through the bulk (MOUNTAIN!!!) of the moving boxes. He found most of my art supplies that were packed up for the past 4 months. It was like going shopping all over again!!!

I had to make a Diva Dictionary page for my Altered Divas Yahoo Group. (I wish I had more time to participate in that group; the women are all wonderful.) We had to make up a word and do a 5x7 art piece depicting the word
My word is JUNKALICIOUS...these pages were made with the crap...er, I mean junk, that was sitting in bags in the basement. You know, the stuff you don't know what to do with but hate to throw away??? I used all sorts of junk...old text, a napkin, discarded painted watercolor paper, glittery vellum, green foil wrapped around a slide cover, postage stamps, stamped images that I have NO IDEA where they came from, and puka beads from an old broken necklace. I was living a JUNKALICIOUS moment!!!

Arte y Pico Award

I feel so honored to be given the Arte Y Pico award by Gayle Page-Robak. After the past couple of weeks of moving, unpacking, schlepping kids, all I can say is THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!

From what I gather the origin of this award is a lady named Eseya from Uruguay, South America, and the title is something like "Art and a little of other things too". This is Eseya's site which is supposed to be posted each time the award is given by the person receiving it.
The idea is that you then pick five blogs that you believe deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and contribution to the blogging community. List the names of the people you chose to receive the award on your blog and link to their blogs. Then let your award winners know by posting a comment on their blog.
Each award winner is to show the award and put the name of the person who gave them the award with a link to her/his blog. You also need to show the link to the Arte Y Pico blog to honor the origin of this award.There are so many blogs and blog owners that I appreciate and admire. Not only for all of the art they share but, also, the wonderful techniques they share. It is hard to pick five but here are the ones I have chosen:

Barb Burkard

Caryl Hoobler

peggy gatto

Martha Brown

Julie Molina

Hats and Crowns Mingle

Now that I'm somewhat unpacked, I have more time to art! What a joy to be able to sit down in my kitchen (my studio is nowhere near finished!) look out into the woods and reflect on things. These 2 atcs are for a Hats and Crowns Mingle in my Altered Designs Yahoo Group. The images are from Lisa'a Altered Art.

Edgar Allan Poe

These two arches are for Donna in my Altered Art Swap Yahoo group. Her theme is Edgar Allan Poe...one of my favorite authors since middle school. I chose The Raven because I loved it when I read it the very first time. I know it's a favorite among many, and I probably should have picked a more difficult writing of his. But I just had to stay with what I loved the most. ENJOY!