On the Easel

Nine new canvases all in a row. Actually not all new and obviously not in a row, but this was yesterday's work.


I am off on a new journey and will show progress during the coming days.

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Link Love

If you like abstracts like I like abstracts, you must click here now and read a wonderful interview of artist John McLaughlin. Go to his website also so you can enlarge the pieces - I adore the ones in the Paintings on Canvas category. His work reminds me a little bit of my friend Sarah Giannobile, you can click here to see her paintings.
I think I love John & Sarah's work so much because I cannot seem to paint this way myself. I get really hung up on composition and rarely feel the freedom to create this 'all-over' type work, but I greatly admire artists who pull if off successfully like these two. I love the element of drawing in their pieces and have recently explored that in some of my work. Every time I see work with small drawing elements it reminds me of the Paul Klee quote, "A drawing is simply a line going for a walk." That thought makes me smile.
In recent days I am moving in different directions, almost as though somebody turned me on my head. I don't yet know where it will lead......oddly, I have had probably a half dozen people (at recent shows) tell me my work reminds them of Paul Klee. Huh? Not sure I see it myself, but I wallow in the compliment.

Got Transfer?

Boy, not me. I am a transfer moron. Sure, I know how to do them, but I lack one really pertinent quality and that is patience......Geez, Louise, I am just way to impatient, I get so immersed in my process, all passionate, flinging paint and such. And that transfer thing just doesn't fit in too well. 
But Check this out. Cyndi has a blog post that has specific tutorials on all types of transfers. I might even find something that would work for me!!! Thanks Cyndi for a great post.

Color Mists

Check out what Aileen Roberts is doing with my stencils. Very cool and so easy.

Texture Play

I've been playing with texture. Lots of it, using Wood Icing of course, my newest love and oh how I love it. . Every time I say "I love it" I think of my grandsons, who invariably retort, "are you going to marry it?" and then laugh wildly at their elementary school joke. It makes me smile.

Anyhoo, I digress. I am bringing the Wood Icing to Art Unraveled and folks in my Three Times Charming class will get to use it. Knowing me, I'll find a way to jam it into my other class too, cause well, you know how I am.

In other news, I am finishing up edits on the book, hanging new art at the store, herding cats, and just generally trying to calm down. I don't have a show till the 2nd weekend in July. Whew does that ever feel good! I do need to paint some big stuff between now and then but that excites me and I am anxious to get started.

If you are local to the St. Louis area, consider participating in the Komen Walk on Saturday. Anyone who comes into the store with their race t-shirt gets a $25 discount!! We are celebrating our partner Rose, who is a breast cancer survivor, yippee!!

Artfest Here I come!

Woo Hoo, I am doing the Happy Dance cause I am so excited to be teaching 3 classes at Artfest in 2011. Two of them will be taught by me alone, but one of the classes is a collaborative effort between me and my brilliant editor, Tonia Davenport. We put our heads together and conjured up an interesting idea that will (hopefully) be interesting to others too! I don't want to reveal too much, you will have to watch the Artfest website - the schedule will be posted August 1st.

And don't forget to check Crescendoh today to see my new links. Every day this week, there is a new batch - tutorials, artist friends, videos, etc. Some good stuff. And geez Louise, somebody pinch me already as Jenny Doh has featured my stencils in her "What's Hot" section!!!!

Crazy Days

I was in Chicago this past weekend at the 57th Street Art Fair. We had heavy rains and bad winds interspersed with absolutely perfect weather. It was wild - the Midwest at its finest for sure.
Sadly, there were tents destroyed due to heavy winds, including one booth filled with all glass, yikes. Just horrible. As you can see from these pictures, the destroyed tents look very similar in construction - I don't know the exact brand of these, but we refer to them as EZ Ups (which is one brand on the market). They are also called EZ Downs and I am sure you can see why. Let me give you one piece of advice - if you ever consider getting into this biz, spend the extra money to invest in a sturdy tent and heavy weights. It is just tragic to see this kind of damage and trust me this was only a small portion.

There are 2 other pics which show my booth, including one where I had a painting sitting against the bike rack that kinda blocked entrance into part of my booth. It had become so very shady (I touched up this photo in PS) I wanted to drag all my art out of the tent so people could actually see it. Look closely at the other photo and you will see John sitting in his man cave behind the booth.....sound asleep I might add.

Incredibly, I had a good show. The 2 piece in the back left corner are gone. Along with another large-ish piece and a bunch of mid-range pieces. Oddly, I sold very few mirrors, geez it is so hard to predict what will move at a show.

Don't forget I'm curating over at Crescendoh this week. Click on over to see who and what I have linked up. There will be new links every day - they are good ones (at least I think so) and I hope you enjoy them too. Happy Monday everyone.

Oh, and some news....

This weekend, 57th Street Art Fair in the Hyde Park neighborhood - Chicago!!! I will be in Booth # 33 right smack in the middle of Kimbark. The show, in its 63rd year, is one of the oldest art fairs in the country and presents some wonderful art in all media. As usual, my goal is to bring home more than I spend, wink, wink.

Hours are 11-6 on Saturday and 10-5 on Sunday. Hope to see you there!!



Starting on Monday I will be a Guest Curator over at the CrescenDoh site. I am thrilled by this honor and hope you will check it out. Thanks to Jenny Doh for such a terrific opportunity.

Green thumb? It must be paint

I'm not so great with plants. My Mom is a world class gardener who raises amazing flowers which she harvests for pressing and then makes gorgeous paper that she uses in her handmade greeting cards. Me? Well, not so much.  I have never had a green thumb.

For years I would get this hankering for flowers and would spend way too much money planting them all around our yard. I would forget to water. I hate to weed. Forget to water. The 'dead head' thing baffles me. And did I mention I forget to water?? Oy, you can imagine how successful that was.

We have so many deer around our current house that now I don't even bother. Several years ago I got *really* into gardening(overstatement) and had a rather large Hibiscus in a pot on the patio(ok, so I bought one expensive plant). It bloomed like crazy and was beautiful. I had it right outside the door to the kitchen, thought it would be 'safe' from the deer. "Hahahaha," the deer said, "you silly woman." As one day I looked out at my 'pot of twigs.' They had eaten the entire 24 inch plant.

Anyhoo, I have majorly digressed. Terrariums are the thing for me. Love.Them. I have one on my desk at the store. It is a precious reminder of nature as I work in my Mall Environment. I just heard that Terrariums are IN now. Who knew!??!  Check it out on Design Sponge, a blog I adore.

Swoon - a - Rama

Great article about the artist Swoon.

Old is New

                (click to enlarge)
You are no doubt wondering what I've been up to lately.....on a bit of a mania (yikes!), albeit a good one. I have come up with lots of new pieces cause I am simply exploding with ideas.

I've been teaching my private lesson students (at the store) and that is just so much fun- I adore working with people one on one, we accomplish so much and I can tailor the class precisely to their needs. In fact, most of my students come with a specific project in mind and I work with them to accomplish it, "releasing" them once they are confident to proceed on their own. I feel a bit like a Mother Bird, pushing them out of the nest, watching them fly. And they are brilliant of course, capable of so much more than they ever imagined. When I was a kid my Grandpa Hoffman used to say that I should be a teacher. I hope he is watching now as I enjoy this so very much.

In other news, I am more obsessed with texture than ever before. I'm using the Wood Icing paste and it works beautifully with my stencils, so that is quite nice, yippee! These are a couple pieces I finished this week. The techniques here are similar to the ones I am offering in my Three Times Charming class at Art Unraveled in August. Check out the website for details regarding all the classes - still space in both of mine!! And I hear all these people say "Phoenix in August?" Well, guess what, St. Louis is August is ?!? too, as are many areas. So seriously, I welcome the chance to stay in Phoenix making art with other fun peeps - what could be better? I will also vend my stencils and introduce other new items (hint - can you say rubber stamps? They coordinate with the stencils). Yep, you heard it here first.

Well, I gotta boogie and get outside for my walk before the weather turns too beastly. We are having an early hot spell. I hope this does not mean we have been propelled directly into summer? But you never know, we are in St. Louis, after all.

More TV

I did a little spot on Great Day St. Louis last week. As usual, the people were super nice which helped me relax and do my best. You can click here if you want to watch my segment. There is a cooking section right before hand, but it's pretty interesting, so you might like that too.

My show in Springfield, IL was excellent and I sold a good amount of work. Sadly, the weather really sucked(can you say rain!), but the art patrons of Springfield braved it and came out to support the art fair - such a really super group of people, I just adore them.

John and I brought home a wet tent which is now strewn around our basement as it dries. Ugh, what a mess. You gotta be slightly touched in the head to do this biz for long. I'm in my 6th year, wonder what that says about me.

Hey baby

Jill Berry and I were talking 'music' the other day. Not really talking, ya know, but emailing. Appears we have quite similar taste which is kinda cool. Jill's hubby has a band and she knows lots more about music than me, so she turned me on to some new groups and I ordered a CD (yeah, I am kinda old school like that, still buying CDs. Although I did download some tunes too). Anyhoo, I got them off this site. It is way cool - a site with independent music.
So yesterday I got an email from the company telling me that my purchase had been shipped. It was such a delightful clever communication that I thought I would share.....

Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure it was in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, May 17, 2010.
We hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. In commemoration, we have placed your picture on our wall as "Customer of the Year." We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Sigh...
We miss you already. We'll be right here at http://cdbaby.com/, patiently awaiting your return.

Is that not the cutest? Makes me want to pop over there and order again. Which I suppose is exactly what they want (ha) but good for them! I enjoy competent smart marketing and hope I run my business that same way. 

(no affiliation and no, I wasn't compensated, I just think this is a neat company and thought I would share.)

Cool art

This is such very very cool Kinetic Sculpture. Check it out here.  I cannot imagine how the artist even conceives this type of work. Absolutely amazing.

Finally, an iPhone Camera class

I just realized that my friend LK Ludwig is teaching a class on the iPhone Camera and a tons of apps that she uses. Woo hoo do I ever need this! It sounds absolutely excellent and what a terrific price. And well duh, I mean come one, it's LK!!!! Anyhoo, just boogie on over HERE to check it out.

Weekend recap

So my friend Corinne Smith was in the show with me this past weekend. We are actually 'art fair' friends which means we really don't know each other that well. But I like her a lot and sense that John and I would hang out with she and Steve if we lived near enough to them. They are both very funny and we shared some laughs. I adore Corinne's abstracts, so click here to see her website and check them out.

Here is a pic of my booth on Sunday after we popped the top off. It was looking a little spare as I had sold some stuff (good) and hadn't spread things around yet (bad).

And here is an art fair patron that I rudely documented on my camera - I simply couldn't help myself. I mean check out that rain bonnet! I haven't seen one of those in probably 35 years. Seriously. What is so funny is that she wore this on Sunday which was the totally sunny, no wind day.

And finally, two of the pieces that I recently finished. I like these two a lot. They are 8" wide by 16

tall, painted on MDF in case you are wondering. 

I am currently getting ready for another show this coming weekend, Springfield, IL if you happen to be in that vicinity.

Great Mail

Got 2 really fun packages in the mail today. Geez, I know the nicest people!




This fabulous card and stack of tunes comes from my friend Pilar who I know only from the Internet (but really hope to meet in person some day). In addition to her other artistic talents, Pilar has a knack for picking out cool music and she never fails to introduce me to interesting musicians I might not have found on my own - because I am old and living under a rock. Ahem.

And that little vintage camera keychain actually lights up (tiny flashlight?) plus makes a neato sound when you depress the shutter, just like the real thing - it makes me want to act like a fashion photographer and keep pushing the button over and over. It comes to me from Carolyn, who I met at Valley Ridge. She is super sweet and I adored having her in my classes. We talked 'camera' and she has now loaded the apps I mentioned here on her phone. I guess she saw this and thought of me - how sweet is that!?!?  And now I will think of her every time I use it.

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A Story for Mother's Day

I know this amazing Dad (a collector of mine) who contacted me last year to make a collage painting of his son as a gift for his wife on Mother's Day. This year he called again and asked me to update the family. It's so touching to watch them grow. 

To start the process the Dad writes a bit of text and sends it to me, along with a bunch of pictures. His text is poetic and heartfelt - it sums up his feelings about his children, the things they do together, likes/dislikes, etc. I use his writing as inspiration and then search thru my collection to find visuals that will help create a meaningful piece.

Here are this year's pieces. Each and every collage element is symbolic and specific to this family's story. And that is what these collages represent - stories. I love the role of visual story-teller. Inserting hidden parts into my works, little snippets that surprise and (hopefully) delight the viewer. Each and every time, I truly feel honored to have been 'allowed in' if you know what I mean.

Happy Mother's Day to my Mom and to all the Moms who work so hard making this world a better place.

When, oh when

Will I ever be able to put my feet up and relax? I keep telling myself....after VR....after class....after I finish the new commission....after the next show...
But the so-called 'after' never arrives. I will not subscribe to a theory of wishing my life away cause that seems nuts to me. On the other hand I am kinda wiped.
I believe I get a break after these next 2 shows.
I'm at Laumeier in St. Louis starting tomorrow then in Springfield,IL the 15th and 16th.
Then a break. And I'm really gonna do it, I swear.


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More Valley Ridge

Here is a little movie that will hopefully give you a feel for the Valley Ridge experience. There are shots of the land, the studio, surrounding area and student work. It is a magical experience; Kathy and Bill take such good care of me. I am one lucky girl. 



I took these pictures with my iPhone. For those of you who inquired about apps, Kathy turned me on to ToyCamera and CameraBag. Geez, they are fantastic apps, nearly idiot-proof which is something that I need, tee, hee.

The music is Au Revoir Simone; the song is Shadows.

More Triad work - Valley Ridge samples

These paintings were some of my class samples for the Triad class at Valley Ridge - they are pieces that I made working with different triads. It was really gratifying to see how each person evolved after doing the Triad work. I could hear them talking among themselves, sharing their  mixing experiences, trying new combos - oh, I felt like a little mother hen, just puffed up with excitement that my little chicks were exploring new horizons. And their paintings, ooh la la!!!!

As for me......well, I hardly know where to start. The trip was exhilarating is so many ways. Although I taught for 4 days straight, I feel energized and just so very excited to get back to my own painting. I have ideas, oh how I have ideas, so many that my head is spinning a bit, all in the best way possible.

I have today (only today, yikes) to get grounded  here at the home-front. Then a l-o-n-g 12 hour day at the store tomorrow that includes a meeting, my regular work, and the first week of my ongoing Decorative Abstract Painting Class. We still have openings if you are interested - the class meets from 6-8:30 for 4-Wednesdays. Cost of $160 includes everything and you will end up with a finished abstract work for your home. I think it is going to be fun.

More Valley Ridge scenery and student work will be coming soon, so stay tuned.

Valley Ridge

I've been at Valley Ridge for the last 4 days teaching brilliant students, adding new apps to my phone and being inspired by this special place. I will share more pics in the coming days but here is a photo I took. The Toy Camera app is pure magic!


-- Post From My iPhone

And the paint is flyin'

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

This is a fun site to make your own Jackson Pollock.

New Doodle-roo

This one was pretty time consuming. I finished it while I was out at Artfest. And then the strangest thing happened......I was in Akamai, the terrific art store in Port Townsend, and they had Origami paper that was so unbelievably similar to my doodle! I had never even seen B+W Origami paper before. Naturally I had to buy some.

Spring has Sprung

I've been doing a lot of work with Triads lately - mainly in preparation for the class I am teaching at Valley Ridge (and yeah, we still have a few extra spots if you want to jump in, call Kathy).

I work with Triads a lot as I love to mix all my own paints rather than rely on what comes out of the tube. Obviously I used a lot of white here too and pencil and collage and Wood Icing for the texture. No black though (except pencil), I simply wasn't in the mood on the day I painted these. I was trying to harness the feeling of Spring.

The Next Step

I'm working at the store today and have just gessoed 9 substrates.
I have 2 shows in May and my inventory is quite low. I'm eager to paint, excited beyond belief really. So what will I paint next? Hmmm,


that is a very good question.
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Peep Peep

Peep Contest
I adore seeing the pictures from this contest each year. Great fun! Seems there are a lot of political ones this year. The arty ones tend to be my faves, such as the Georgia O'Peep, but they are all quite clever.

Channeling Jesse Reno

One of the classes I took at Artfest was with Jesse Reno. I adore his work, even more now that I have met him.




I made ugly art in his class.
But today I decided to play with some of his techniques and this is what blossomed. Not sure this little piece does Jesse's teaching justice but I kinda like it. Hopefully I'll try some more soon.
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The Stencils Are Here

Ok, so maybe I've toyed with you just a wee bit about these stencils. They are my very first design effort. Me, with my rudimentary 'puter skills, has somehow managed to design a set of stencils, creating vector files in Illustrator, doing screen drawing, etc, etc. Believe me, the process had its moments.

I found an amazing manufacturer who produced the most lovely clean crisp images I could ever imagine. These are the stencils I always dreamed about. Seriously, I know that sounds ridiculous, but I reallyreally like stencils.

I took them to Artfest and my friends Misty and lk debuted them in their classes. Geez, what a dream come true, talk about instant promo. And then Vendor Night hit. My table was swarmed with people. It was a feeding frenzy. I stood there completely overwhelmed, deer in headlights. You would have thought I had never sold anything in my life. But I was mainly gratified at the support - people liked them!!! What an amazing thrill.

Now they are available for purchase on a secondary blog called Stencil Girl Products.  There will be more stencils coming along with rubber stamps that are the inverse of the stencils. Plus some other things that I have up my sleeve. To check out the stencils, get prices, buy them, etc, etc, just
CLICK here.

Artfest Day 2


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Leaving on a Jet Place

I'd love to be able to sing, "All my backs are packed I'm ready to go, " but alas that isn't true. I have clothes and supplies strewn all over the house, little piles of 'must-have-with-me' stuff, mainly my comfort things, like the Aveda Balance Oil that I sniff when I get nervous or my favorite L'Occitane hand cream. I am a real dork like that, I have ritualistic travel needs. Yesterday I made sure my fave soothing/healing meditations were loaded onto my iPhone. Sounds like I'm a bit nuts, huh, but Artfest is such an amazing feast for the senses, I want to be able to fully enjoy the experience. And that means I want to be calm, cool and collected (right....) and hopefully be able to sleep every night. At my age, when I am prone to wandering the house aimlessly at 2 or 3 am, I need all the holistic aid I can muster, tee, hee.

Anyhoo, I did organize and ship my vending stuff, yippee. Here is a pic:

There is more that I am carrying with me, but this stuff is kinda heavy, so I sent it on ahead.

And, for the plane, I have so many projects, reading things, podcasts, etc. Crazy. Lately I've been on a doodle binge of sorts, prompted by my friend Carolyn, who showed me her Foamcore Doodles, done with an Identi-pen. I loved hers so much I had to run right out and get some Identi-pens for myself. They are the ultimate easy doodle pen by the way, two tips, so all you really need to carry is one pen. Here is one I just finished:

Wowza, I love the contrast between the glossy foamcore and the deep intensity of the pen. I've been using scraps of foamcore, 5" squares, so this is small and easy to carry.

Music for Smilin' Fridays

There are certain songs that I adore and they never fail to make me smile. Here are a few of them:
What a Wonderful World how can you not adore Louis Armstrong. And I just learned about this girl but I already love her happy sound The Cricket's Orchestra, Meaghan Smith is cute as a button and her voice is kind of old fashioned yet hip.  But my latest obsession is this version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World Swoon, swoon.

And, on a totally different topic, any perfectionists among us - ok, I plead from sometimes suffering from it myself, most of us Type A's go thru this, ugh, what a plague, talk about a good quality gone bad. Anyhoo, Robert Genn has a brilliant newsletter about Perfectionism with respect to Painting. You can read it here. And, if you don't get his email newsletter, consider signing up. Good stuff.

I am finishing up my Artfest Vending stuff. You might say I'm in a frenzy. Can you say 300 stencils? Aaaaacckkkk, all arriving today, need packaging, etc, etc. Once I get back from AF, I will put them on etsy, so you can all check them out. I've been playing with my samples for a few weeks and have to say (somewhat modestly, blush, blush) they are pretty cool.

They call me 'the pusher'

Catnip, that is. Jasper mellows out.


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OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version - Official

All right, I know that over 8 million peeps have already seen this, but I hadn't. So maybe you haven't either? Anyhoo, its pretty cool.
Good song too.

Meaghan Smith - A Little Love

I really like this girl! Her new CD is released today, yippee.

Paint chart madness

It seemed like fun when we first started, but believe me, it gets old hand painting paint charts.


There is a certain satisfaction seeing them all done though. And this is only half of them.

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Japanese way of folding T-shirts!

An oldie but a goodie. Too bad John did the laundry yesterday; we could practice!!

Art Journaling

I adore art journaling, absolutely worship folks like Teesha and Judy and Kim who work on their journals regularly.

I buy all the journaling books and mags. Swoon and swoon more.

I own all the supplies. Swoon.

Yet I never seem to get it together.

Between managing all my other commitments, it seems that Art Journaling always falls by the wayside. It sounds ridiculous to say that I have too much 'other' art going on to journal, but that is basically what happens.









I do keep a written journal, one that is next to my bed, just plain old hand writing.....thoughts and dreams and sketches....I am sporadic
at best and will sometimes go months without entries, how sad is that.
But there was something about those Teesha YouTube videos that sucked me right back in. She made it look so easy!

I made her "Amazing 16 page Journal." I am now in the embellishment phase, sort of randomly working on pages. I did put some writing down on part of one page (below). Its my plan to finish all the collage and then carry this to Artfest with me. I will be able to do writing, doodling, etc. around all my collage parts. And I won't have to carry too many supplies (just the journal and a black pen) which is cool.

I am hopeful this is a habit I may be able to manage moving forward? And maybe I will become an Art Journal person after all.

One could only hope, huh?

New Eyes

I am seeing things with new eyes.
Returned home late on Saturday night and yesterday was amazing. Even cleaning my house felt special as I was spellbound by shadows cast by the pendant lights above our kitchen island. The cats' fur seems softer, their faces sweeter. And John, dear as ever, is even more so.
Life is very very good, blissful indeed.
I am holding this creative energy like a humming bird, sheltered gently within in my hands.....

Three little hearts

All in a row. Found them at the beach - one each of coral, shell and stone. This discovery feels important for some reason or maybe I'm just in a contemplative mood. I am blissed to be in sunshine today.


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Ah, the good life

Having been running around like the proverbial chicken, I am now relaxing in Florida.


It is beautiful here, this is the vew from Claire's house.




And here is the view of the Gelato at Sonny's.
It is raining right now but we've already been at the beach today so now I am doing a little work. So sad. Not.

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Design mania

Design continues on my new line of stencils. Most of these are things I have hand cut (oy, talk about hard work) in the past so I am thrilled at the idea of having them manufactured.
Stay tuned for more info.



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Monday Monday

A vignette of my favorite things in my office. I got this wonderful paint by number in Pt. Townsend a couple years ago. Most of the other things are gifts from friends, all have symbolic interest for me.
Are you like that too? Do you surround yourself with special things, mementos and the like?


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Location:Paul Pointe Ct,Wildwood,United States

It has to be a Cadillac

Ok, as you read this rant, keep in mind that I used to own one way back when..... In another life when I used to work for GM.

Probably I shouldn't even be ranting and maybe I should apologize in advance to anyone I might offend. Ya think I've groveled enough?

So. You're driving along in your everyday vehicle. Not speeding, just driving along. And whoosh, a friggin' huge (got gas?) vehicle flies by throwing snow and ice over anyone in it's wake.

It's always a Cadillac. An Escalade to be precise. I think the manufacturer puts a li'l sumpin sumpin on the seats...shoots right up the a-hole, it does.





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Location:Chestfield Pkwy S,Chesterfield,United States

Conversation Hearts

Here is a link to my recent TV appearance. I have to confess, these have been fun! Who would have thunk it? I am apparently a ham. Once you get to the webpage, Click where it says Romantic Dessert & Personalized Hearts.

Capybaras rock

Thanks to Mary Ann Moss for a heads up on this fantabulous site:
ZooBorns
There are amazing pictures of zoo babies, hence the name. Anyhoo, you can click by animal name to see a specific type. I instantly selected Capybaras because I had Guinea Pigs when I was a kid (Penelope,Brigitte, Amelia Earhart and Perky - geez, I sorta brained out on his unimaginative name, ha) and Capybaras have always reminded me of really big guinea pigs. The babies are adorable as you might imagine. They seem like they would be fun to have around.
Or not.
I guess its possible that not everyone loves rodents like I do.

Conversation Hearts

Looking for a last minute personal and artsy gift for your sweetie?
Join Heather Haymart &
Mary Beth Shaw in making
Conversation Hearts.
Yep, just like the candies.
You'll make up your own message. We'll have collage stuff, paints, and frames.
Wednesday 2/10 from 6:30-8
Wood Icing @ Chesterfield
$25 includes everything you need
Call 636-536-0409 to hold a spot.

Watch me on Great Day St. Louis from 10-11 am tomorrow to see a demo.
That's Channel 4, CBS.

You know the EZ cut tool for the Dremel? It makes the item you are cutting really hot, like burn your skin hot. Just saying......