A Holiday Affaire Christmas Botique

Welcome.  I am so happy that you stopped by.  My home is always open for you to come in and sit and relax with a cup of hot tea while I share with you the inspirations for my art. I don't know about you but it seems that the Holiday season is in full swing and everybody is going a mile a minute getting ready.  I am going to join you for a cup of tea - I have been so busy painting today that I dipped my paint brush into my tea on two different occasions!  Time for me to take a break!!!

This time of year I am busy painting Snowmen and Snow ladies to donate to a local charity for raffle prizes to help raise money for Christmas for families in need of a little help. This year I was invited to participate in A Holiday Affaire and take some of my Snow people to show and sell and you are invited to attend with me.

There will be lots of fabulous original gifts and art, jewelry, ceramics, altered dolls, holiday decorations, scarves, gourd art,mixed media, etc. and my Snow people. The affaire is located at Bungalow Bucci at Linda and Robert Bucci's charming bungalow in Costa Mesa.

Let's join Bentley. my Studio Assistant to look for inspiration and take a look at some of my Snow people that will be there:

Snow ladies and their pink bicycles. I have so much fun painting Snow people as they each have their own personality - love finding places for the birds to perch on them!!!

I will also be selling bookmarks, tags, as well as my small original paintings of Snow People.  Everything of mine will be priced form $10.00 - $30.00 and will make very affordable original art gifts.

Snowmen and their red bicycles:

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Thank you for stopping by.  I love hearing from you and sincerely appreciate your visits, Comments, e-mails and those of you who follow my blog.  Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to see me paint something special.  I have had several tutorials on painting Snowmen greeters in the past and will repeat one for you next week.

Have a lovely weeek and I hope some of you local bloggers can come to the holiday Affaire as I would love to meet you.

Blessings, Erin


"Therefore I tell you, do not worry."  Matthew 6:25     

Fall Gatherings from My Garden

Welcome.  I am so happy that you stopped by.  My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax with a cup of tea.   Can you believe that Thanksgiving is next week??? I don't know where the time has gone.  Each year my church hosts a Thanksgiving dinner for around 400 people in need and I volunteer to decorate the tables - I take flowers, pumpkins and Fall decorations from my garden to use.  After the dinner, I take the pumpkins to the food bank to give to families to make pies for Thanksgiving - so my pumpkins get a lot of use. 

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Let's join Bentley, My Studio Assistant, and go into the garden to see what I will be taking to  church to use to decorate for the Thanksgiving dinner.

                                              All the pumpkins and scare crows will go.

Fall leaves and Mums will go.  I also take my watering cans to arrange flowers in.

I decorated 16 tables last year and literally took all of the containers from my garden.  I wanted the tables to be  homey and not to fancy and everyone loved the cottage look.

I found this sign last year at Michael's and thought it was perfect to use at our church Thanksgiving dinner.

Last year we fed two homeless dogs and this year a Vet volunteered to give the dogs a free check up. This year we are giving out new blankets, socks, toilet items, food to go and lots of love for one another.

Thank you for stopping by.  I love hearing from you and sincerely appreciate your comments,

e-mails, visits and those who follow my blog. 

Wishing you and your family a Happy and Joyful Thanksgiving.

Have a lovely week.  Blessings, Erin.

"They shall celebrate the fame of your abundant goodness."  Psalm 145:7

Painting A Vintage Bird Cage

Welcome.  I am so happy that you stopped by.  My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax while I share with you the inspiration s for my art.  I have been decorating my garden for Fall and putting pumpkins in some of my vintage bird cages - they remind me of my Grandmother's charming bird cages that she had for her singing Canery birds.

Let's join Bentley my Studio Assistant in the garden to look for inspiration.

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I wanted to use a red bird cage, red chair and Sunflowers in a large companion painting to go in one of the bedrooms with red and white buffalo check and floral accents.

Here is the completed painting with the red bird cage, red  chairs and Sunflower.  I also added a rusty iron bird.

Thank you for stopping by.  I love hearing from you and sincerely appreciate your visits, e-mails, comments and those who follow my blog.  My computer has been fixed and I should be back to blogging once a week.  Please let me know if  you have any questions or would like to see me paint something special.

Have a lovely week, Blessings, Erin

"With God are wisdom and strength; he has counsel and understanding."  Job 12:13