tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316256382322837602024-03-18T00:44:26.393-07:00My Painted GardenThis is where I create and share my art, cottage garden, tips on decorating with color, recipes from my garden,and the inspirations behind my work. Make yourself comfortable and join me for a tour of cottage gardens, vintage shops, flowers markets, lavender fields in Provence and Parisian flower shops looking for the perfect painterly boquet of flowers or garden treasure which will end up in one of my paintings.My Painted Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14496715508574651151noreply@blogger.comBlogger336125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31625638232283760.post-24377346623624789442018-01-15T09:58:00.000-08:002018-01-15T12:36:37.500-08:00Painting Last Pink Roses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;">Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. My garden gate is open for you to come in and sit and relax for a few minutes while I share with you the inspirations for my art, however, it is windy and chilly today so we will be in my studio.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">We have had a very mild winter so far here in Southern California and our Roses have not been pruned back yet for the winter, and I have been busy painting the last of our Roses before they are pruned this week.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Bentley, my Studio Assistant, is waiting in the garden to bring you into the studio!</span><br />
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I am still recovering from re-occurrence of an auto immune issue and in my down time have been experimenting using a palette knife to paint with for added texture.<br />
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Thank you for stopping by. I have missed posting and visiting with you and am now well enough to post more often. I do post almost daily on Instagram and you can follow my art and garden on my Instagram page by clicking on the link t top of the page.<br />
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Have a lovely week. Blessings, Erin<br />
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"For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song." Isaiah 55:12<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. I generally share my garden and the inspirations for my paintings with you. This year I was so honored that Cottages and Bungalows magazine shared my home in their Easy Seaside Style issue and have requests from some of their readers to have a peek inside my cottage to see how I decorate for Christmas with my art. So . . . . . I decided to re-post and update a previous Christmas home tour. My front door is always open for you to come in and sip a cup of tea while I share with you my painted cottage.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">This year the wreath on the door has one of my little snowmen paintings on the wreath.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">My Studio Assistant, Bentley is eagerly waiting for you at the front door.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Directly past the entrance is the dining room. I collect blue and white china and you will see it throughout my home. It reminds me of my childhood summers spent at the family beach cottage at Wrightsville Beach, N.C - the charming cottage was filled with my Grandmother's mismatched blue and white china, old quilts, white wicker, and flowers - all the things that I love to paint.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The painted blue table is on of my favorites and displays a little Christmas painting of my red front door and Bentley. The mirror behind the table reflects the outdoors.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">I like to keep Christmas decoration simple using greens, berries and seas shells in keeping with my coastal cottage style of decorating. I collect vintage table cloths and have several lovely ones with reds that I save to use at Christmas time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The living room is to the right of the dining room. It is a large room filled with wonderful natural light and is hard to photograph due to the light. The next two photos photos were taken from the dining room looking into the living room. I switch out the throw pillows according to the seasons and use the red and white check indoor/outdoor pillows for Christmas and Fourth of July.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The painting over the mantel was sold to one of the magazine readers and has been replaced by this painting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The flag painting in the dining room recently sold and was replaced by this one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Bentley in the dining room looking into the living room.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The mirror is opposite the fire place and I love the way it reflects my art.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Decorations are natural and simple with sea shells, nests and greens.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">I tuck my small whimsical painting in among seas shells and plants where I can find room for them!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">I bought the blue cupboard at a garage sale -it was used for tool storage and had a vice bolted on top - it has wheels and I paid $25.00 for it and wheeled it down the street to my house!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">We have a living Christmas tree that lives in the garden during the year - it is especially meaningful this year as it survived our terrible drought in Southern California. We decorate the tree with flags and sea shells and keep decorations to a minimum. A star fish tops the tree.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The staircase has a lovely landing with a tall window that lets in lots of light and is a great place to grow ferns and Christmas plants as well as hang one of my large paintings of a California vineyard.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The landing is also one of Bentley's favorite places to hang out. Simple green garlands with red berries and sea shells are wrapped around the banisters.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">My office and bedrooms are upstairs. The large Flower Shoppe painting hangs in my office that is a loft room over looking the living room and side garden. I like to mix old painted furniture with primitive wood antiques as the unpainted wood tends to anchor the room.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Our guests love staying in this room and always comment that they feel like they are in a beach cottage. It has another one of my large paintings of a local scene and porch overlooking our beautiful Newport Bay.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Two of my little Rooster paintings are on the wall. I have fun painting my personal art to match my decor! Roosters rule in my kitchen thus the Rooster art! The blue chair is a favorite place to sit and read with a cup of tea as it gets the morning sun.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Bentley loves to hang out in the kitchen waiting for a taste of Christmas baking.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">Thank you for stopping by my painted cottage. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for visiting my blog, leaving me lovely comments, e-mails and those following my blog.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Wishing you and your family a Merry and Blessed Christmas and a very Happy New Year. I will see you again in January 2018. Blessings, Erin</span><br />
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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 for a few minutes. I am updating and re-publishing last years post as each year the week before Thanksgiving we start our "fall gatherings" and gather up all of the pumpkins and Fall flowers to take to our church to use to decorate tables for the annual Community Thanksgiving dinner for anyone in need of a meal. Most of the pumpkins are donated to our local food bank or to the soup kitchen to use for pies and soups.</div>
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Bentley, my Studio Assistant, is waiting in the garden to help gather.<br />
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Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. I am re-posting one of my most popular Fall posts .My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax for a few minutes with a cup of hot apple spice tea while I share with you some of my favorite Fall garden spaces. We have finally settled into beautiful Fall weather in Southern California after a severe heat wave and are enjoying glorious blue skies and nippy evenings. We are also expecting much needed rain later this week.<br />
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"Art in the Kitchen" - another one of the little paintings I taught at Sherman Gardens "art in the garden" series.</div>
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Let's have our tea in the kitchen and then join Bentley, my helpful Studio Assistant, in the garden where he is waiting to show you around. I use the old vintage wagon to keep small pumpkins and pots of Mums in for guests pick up a few to take home with them - we call it our "welcome wagon".<br />
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Every year I decorate a vintage ladder with Mums and pumpkins.<br />
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This is one of my favorite corners for tea. Blossom faithfully keeps watch over the garden.<br />
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Love how the blue furniture looks in the Fall with oranges and yellows.<br />
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This is another favorite spot where I like to sit and sketch.<br />
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Another cozy spot to sit and work in my watercolor journal.<br />
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We support our local farmers by buying lots of pumpkins at the beginning of the season and either share them with friends in our "welcome wagon" or donate them to our local soup kitchen to make pumpkin pies that will be served at the community Thanksgiving dinner for those in need of a meal.<br />
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One of my favorite containers for Fall bouquets - an old rusty funnel with a glass inside to hold flowers.<br />
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I love using seasonal signs to create little vignettes and add interest and<br />
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A little " art in the garden". My class at Sherman Library and Gardens painted this little pumpkin.<br />
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Another favorite place to have morning tea.<br />
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It is starting to sprinkle so I will stop our tour and finish it after the rain.<br />
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Thank you for stopping by I sincerely appreciate your visits, comments, e- mails and prayers for my continued recovery from a re-occurring auto immune issue. <br />
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Have a lovely week. Blessings, Erin I saw this quote on FaceBook and loved it so much I wanted to share it with you. "Lord, let them see you in me." <br />
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"With God are wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding." Job 12:13<br />
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Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. I am so excited to invite you into my home to have a cup of tea and share with you a peek into the fabulous August/September "easy seaside style" issue of Cottages and Bungalows annual coastal issue focused on all of the sensory experiences of summer. I am honored and thrilled beyond words that my beach-cottage style home was shared with their readers in an article "Art Imitates Life". The beautiful article was written by Meryl Schoenbaum, photographed by Bret Gum, and styled by the very talented Editorial Director/Editor Jickie Torres. Please note that all photographs were taken by the talented Bret Gum and styled by Jickie Torres and were published with their permission. I ask that you kindly not use their photos.<br />
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I love primary colors and use white walls and white slip covers to tone down the bright colors in my art and accessories - and throw in primitive wood antiques, baskets, metals and wooden boxes to add texture and interest.<br />
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I collect blue and white china and use it throughout my home to add a touch of harmony. I adore and grew up with books and use them throughout to add height to tables and lamps. Everything in this room except the lamps, slip covered furniture and throw pillows was collected over the years at flea markets, garage sales or picked up on side of the road. <br />
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The mirror came from Ballard Designs an was sanded to add a little age.<br />
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Mirrors are used in the dining room, living room and kitchen to reflect light and bring the outdoors - indoors.<br />
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Fresh herbs in the kitchen are used year round for cooking and are always available to snip for tea or food preparation.<br />
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Sunflowers are my signature flowers that appear in most of my paintings along with the ever present blue and white china.<br />
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The August/September issue has more photos of my cottage as well as lots of charming homes, cottages, porches and seaside style and can be found in the magazine section of most stores.<br />
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The magazine also has several photos of my art studio. Thank you Jickie, Bret and Meryl for the beautiful article.</div>
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Thank you for stopping by. I sincerely appreciate your visits, comments, e-mails and those following my blog. I hope to get back to more regularly posting soon. I was diagnosed with an auto immune issue in June and have been going through IVIG and struggling to get back on my feet.<br />
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"The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord. " Psalm 33.5<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">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 for a few minutes while I share my early Summer small space garden with you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Bentley, my Studio/Garden Assistant, is waiting to show you around.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">The vintage metal market basket is located inside the front gate to welcome visitors and is filled with seasonal flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Our small space garden is divided into little rooms filled with vintage finds. The first room is pea gravel lined with a brick sidewalk.</span>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The blue bicycle basket is also filled with season plants/flowers. Flags and flag pillows come out around Memorial Day and stay throughout the summer months.</span><br />
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The seating area is located across from the front porch. Our neighborhood is located about two miles from the Newport Bay and Pacific Ocean where small lots are a trade off for ocean breezes and located within a bicycle ride to the beach. Our lot is small and every inch is used to maximize its use - most of the flowers are planted in containers which make it easy to change around seasonal plants .<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAe0rYarouJoF6leyJQCds2ZiPfcw665rREN0kTraB052GyxVLSIX6BW1xOJQ7267Ixf4aKYIHTZ1rxrzbGRZ4h1_6iMI5TyNbNw3AUCjJGkFQLieuM7lSU2tAjHBgqxbuBQKZjumLdw/s1600/DSC_0278.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAe0rYarouJoF6leyJQCds2ZiPfcw665rREN0kTraB052GyxVLSIX6BW1xOJQ7267Ixf4aKYIHTZ1rxrzbGRZ4h1_6iMI5TyNbNw3AUCjJGkFQLieuM7lSU2tAjHBgqxbuBQKZjumLdw/s640/DSC_0278.jpg" width="426" /></a></div>
<span style="color: #444444;">A vintage sap bucket welcomes visitor to the seating area.</span><br />
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I painted faux flagstones to create a walkway around the garden rooms. This one leads past the potting bench to the little table where we have lunch or afternoon teas.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">"Blossom" the vintage dress form watches over the garden - she is a fashionista and changes her outfits often.</span>
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This is my favorite reading nook - located in a corner across from the dining table.</div>
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The path leads behind the house to the Sunflower Garden that gets sun all day.</div>
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The path leads to the kitchen garden where we grow herbs for cooking and is the perfect place to have tea in the morning.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">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 while I share with you inspirations for my art. This time of year I have a lot of request for Sunflower paintings with flowers in season and I have been busy in my studio painting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Our California Farmer Markets seem to have Sunflowers year round and my container Hydrangeas and Sunflowers are just starting to bloom. I love the yellows and purple/lavender colors together and especially love how they look combined in a vintage Mason jar.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I also added a touch of pink Hydrangea to this painting for an extra pop of color.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Have a lovely day, Blessings, Erin</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">May all who fear you find in me a cause for joy, for I have put my hope in your word. Psalm 119:74</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax for a few minutes with a cup of tea while I share with you the inspirations for my art. I picked up a beautiful bunch of Lilacs at Trader Joes and pared them with Sunflowers - the scent of the Lilacs is heavenly and I love the way they look with the Sunflowers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">We are having beautiful weather after all of the rain and the flowers are in full bloom.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Looks like Bentley, my Studio Assistant, is also enjoying the Lilac fragrance.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">I arranged them in a vintage Mason jar and also arranged them in a basket to paint.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Thank you for stopping by. I sincerely appreciate your visits, comments, e-mail and those of</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Have a lovely week. Blessings, Erin</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> "May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance." Jude 1:25</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span>My Painted Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14496715508574651151noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31625638232283760.post-9028386812136835372017-03-30T18:32:00.001-07:002017-03-31T09:22:55.472-07:00Spring in the Garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;">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</span> <span style="color: #444444;">while I share with you Spring in my small garden.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Bentley, my Studio Assistant, is waiting to show you around.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The garden entrance is pea gravel and has the feel of an English cottage garden. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The flowers and decor in the garden are very seasonal. I like to use yellows, pinks, whites and lavender flowers in the Spring and keep the colors softer than the Summer garden that is a riot of bright colors.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">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 while I share a few early Spring and Easter decorations in the garden. This is the time of the year when my vintage rabbits appear in the garden and take their place with the rabbits that always live in the garden.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Let's join Bentley, my Studio Assistant, to see if we can spot some rabbits!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. Today you are invited into my studio for a cup of tea to sit and relax for a few minutes while I share with you some of the magical abstract florals our Eastside art group created. Once a month 9 creative artists get together for a day of fun , art and creativity. We take turns hosting the gathering and each artist teaches a form of art - it may be painting, collage, fiber art, metal smiting, jewelry, weaving, gourd art, clay art, print making, journaling, sewing, gourmet cooking etc. March was my month to teach and since Spring is around the corner I taught abstract florals.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">The first thing we did was sprinkle charcoal powder onto watercolor paper and then pour water onto the paper to create designs. We then looked for various patterns on the paper to use to create flowers, faces, figures, etc.</span><br />
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I demonstrated the process using samples that I created - if you look closely you can see the patterns in the background created by the charcoal.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Her paint palette looked like an abstract painting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Jackie created amazing faces.</span><br />
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The paint pallets were beautiful and looked like abstract art forms.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Flowers were created using all kinds of techniques - splattering, traditional brushes and finger painting.</span><br />
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Libby created a variety of magical flowers.</div>
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I found sunflowers in my charcoal splatters and a bouquet of flowers from paint splatters in my demo painting.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">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. We are so blessed with lots and lots of rain this year after 5 years of record drought. Our flowers love the rain especially our winter pansies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">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 while I share with you the inspirations for my art. We are so blessed to </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">have so much rain in Southern California and near record amounts of snow in our mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Let's join Bentley, my studio assistant, in between rain storms to look for winter Primroses in bloom.</span></div>
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<br />My Painted Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14496715508574651151noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31625638232283760.post-19527672755258823282016-12-31T10:10:00.001-08:002016-12-31T10:10:02.567-08:00New Year Wishes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;">Wishing you Joy, Peace, and Good Health in the New Year. Thank you for stopping by for a cup of tea with me in 2016 while Bentley and I shared with you my joy for painting, gardening, flea marketing, and my new love for teaching art at the beautiful Sherman Library and Gardens. I sincerely appreciate you visits, comments, e-mails and those following my blog. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Wishing you and your family a very Happy New Year. Blessings, Erin</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Bentley found some winter Stock to share with you one more time before year end.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> And we will have one last cup of tea before 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span>My Painted Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14496715508574651151noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31625638232283760.post-70729551495405077842016-12-18T16:31:00.002-08:002016-12-21T11:50:27.029-08:00Christmas Cottage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;">Welcome to our Christmas Cottage. My gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax with a cup of tea for a few minutes during this busy time of year. We are so thankful to have rain in Southern California that is helping with our terrible 4 year drought. We are also having cold nights and beautiful but chilly days. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Bentley, my Studio Assistant, is waiting to bring you in the house for tea as it is getting chilly outside.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">My theme for decorating this year ended up "red and white check" both indoors and outdoors.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> Let's go inside where it is warm and Bentley is waiting to show you around. Opps our tour guide decided to take a short nap on the stair landing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">The guest bedroom is ready for guests with greens, sea shells, vintage stockings and a little tree.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> I use my sea shell collection as part of our Christmas decorations and use this delicate vintage table cloth each year for Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">My home is decorated in coastal cottage style with my coastal cottage art and I love using my seashell collection as part of our Christmas decorations.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">The vintage flower stand used to be in the garden - now it resides in the living room in front of a sunny window and is perfect for plants and display for shells and bird nests!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">Thank you for stopping by. I sincerely appreciate you visits, comments, e-mails and those following my blog this year.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Wishing you and your family a Joyful and very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">I will be back with a new post the first week in </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">January 2017. Blessings, Erin</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> "When they saw the star they rejoiced with exceeding joy." Matthew 2:10</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax for a few minutes and enjoy a cup of tea. We are so thankful to have had rain and cool weather here in Southern California and our winter flowers are thriving.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Let's join Bentley, my Studio Assistant, to see what is growing in the garden.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><br />So far we have not had freezing weather at night and some of the white Impatients are still blooming.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">The ferns on the front porch are protected from frost and so far are doing well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> I plant Paper Whites so they are spaced out to bloom through January.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">I love red and white check for Christmas and Summer and it is always fun to get the pillows out for Christmas - they are indoor/outdoor and have lasted very well over the past 10 years.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> I made some of the Christmas ornaments last year with my art group.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Blossom our vintage dress form is all dressed up for the holidays - can you tell she is wearing socks for mittens and has on a mini Christmas tree skirt around her waist! She is a fashionista and shops exclusively at the Goodwill Stores!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> Another favorite spot for morning tea is the kitchen garden.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Have a lovely week. Blessings, Erin</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;"> " May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance." Jude 1:2</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. I am taking you with me to the beautiful Sherman Library and Gardens in Newport Beach, CA to enjoy the Christmas flowers and have tea in the tea garden. The garden is very seasonal and I recently shared with you their Art In the Garden series where I teach flower painting classes. Today I want to share with you the garden decorated for Christmas and the inspirations for our last flower painting class of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The red geranium flowers beds are surrounded with parsley plants and the bright green is so festive.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">The garden is located on 2.2 acres just blocks from the Pacific Ocean and is a horticultural retreat filled with seasonal flowers and plants, cactus and succulent gardens, fountains, walkways, a fabulous research library with over 25,000 books on the Pacific Southwest, gift shop, tea garden and fabulous Cafe Jardin featuring french cuisine pared with California wines. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> The tea garden is decorated with white Poinsettias this year.</span><br />
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Past the bench in the kitchen garden and into lovely room in the Cafe Jardin set up for my last "art in the garden" class where we painted Poinsettias on gift boxes and gift tags.<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">This was the last class for the year and I am so blessed to have the garden invite me back to teach seasonal flower painting classes open to painters and non painters throughout 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Thank you for stopping by. I sincerely appreciate your visits, comments, e-mails and those following my blog.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Have a lovely week. Blessings, Erin</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax for a few minutes with a cup of tea and a piece of gingerbread. An old Irish family tradition in our family is to make gingerbread on the day after Thanksgiving and serve it with tea as our way of kicking off the up coming Christmas season.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Let's join Bentley, my Studio Assistant, in the garden to share with you a few things we are growing for gifts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">We usually start in the garden where various plants and Poinsettias are planted to add holiday color and are also used for gift giving to gardener friends and we grow herbs to give to our friends who like to cook.</span></div>
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Ivy makes a wonderful gift - the addition of a red bow to a hand painted watering can makes an adorable festive gift with a few vintage garden tools.<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> "The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places .. and you shall be like a watered garden . . whose waters never fail. " Isaiah 58:11</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. Today you are invited to leave my garden and take a little field trip with me to the beautiful botanical gardens at Sherman Library and Gardens for a little review and repost of the classes I taught this year as part of their Art in The Garden series.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The Art in the Garden series is based on art lessons in the garden featuring seasonal flowers in bloom in the garden. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The setting for the classes is beautiful and so inspirational. The classes are for all levels of painters and non painters and we paint a single flower bloom on a small 4x4 canvas that is manageable for everyone taking the classes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The gardens are tended by over 100 volunteers and staff.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The garden features 2 1/2 acres of shaded walkways, native California plants and flowers, fountains. turtle pond, green house, bog. library, tea garden, seasonal flowers and a fabulous cafe featuring French cuisine pared with California wines and seasonal fruits and vegetables - some are grown in the garden.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"> "Therefore I tell you, do not worry." Matthew 6:25</span><br />
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Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. Today you are invited into my studio for a cup of apple spice tea to see what I have been up to for the past five weeks while on an extended blog break. Bentley. my Studio Assistant, is waiting in the garden to take you into the studio.</div>
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I took a long blog break to take Donna Downey's Abstract Florals on line class and have been busy painting flowers and playing with a palette knife. Our garden is all decked out for Fall. but my studio is blooming with Spring and Summer.<br />
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The vases below were painted using a palette knife. I am still practicing and love the dimension it gives to the vases.<br />
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"The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places . . .and you shall be like a watered garden . . .whose waters never fail." Isaiah 58:11<br />
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Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit and relax and enjoy a cup of tea in the cool mornings. I have been busy painting the last of the blue Hydrangeas before I dry them for Fall arrangements. I collect blue and white china and love to paint blue and white china combined with blue hydrangeas.</div>
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Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. Today we are going have a quick cup of tea and leave the garden and take a little trip a few miles down the Pacific Coast Highway to the beautiful Sherman Library and Gardens to look for Rose inspirations. I am so blessed to be teaching art classes there as part of their "Art in the Garden series" and will be teaching how to paint a simple Rose in September.<br />
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The gardens are located a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean on 2 and 1/2 acres filled with glorious seasonal plants and flowers, a greenhouse with tropical plants and Orchids, a library , charming gift shop, tea garden and fabulous cafe.<br />
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Our classes are usually held around the fountain in the beautiful tea gardens.<br />
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The beautiful surroundings are inspirational for our art in the garden classes.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7HQEK9fBqLwSrMosvSqSz_B0MRjbEPOxwj95CQ80cNpdtjeSrnPx8RrYPmKRZI9BQlFLg55FDThgUflMeKKJ1TDOCZmsi7R6hiWmaoxSO2Wdou9mhbEoA9s6DaaigWeTZoBNVQzdjMA/s1600/DSC_1109.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7HQEK9fBqLwSrMosvSqSz_B0MRjbEPOxwj95CQ80cNpdtjeSrnPx8RrYPmKRZI9BQlFLg55FDThgUflMeKKJ1TDOCZmsi7R6hiWmaoxSO2Wdou9mhbEoA9s6DaaigWeTZoBNVQzdjMA/s640/DSC_1109.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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The Rose gardens are lovely this time of the year.<br />
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The turtle pond is one of my favorite places - the Otter is adorable.<br />
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After I returned to my garden I found more Rose inspirations.<br />
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The classes are open to all levels so I decided to teach how to paint a simple Rose bloom .<br />
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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 in the cool morning. I planted Zinnias early this year and they were in full bloom by March - now they are all bloomed out for the year so I picked the last of them to make bouquets to share with friends and also paint.<br />
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Let's join Bentley, my Studio Assistant, to pick the last of the Zinnias.<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"> I picked a big bouquet and arranged them in various containers.</span><br />
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I decided to paint the Zinnias in the vintage Ball jar as I loved the contrast.<br />
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Welcome. I am so happy that you stopped by. My garden gate is always open for you to come in and sit with a glass of lemonade while I share with you some of my favorite places in the garden. We are in the midst of a heat wave and the perfect time to cool off in the garden shade.<br />
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The sap bucket makes a fun container to hang on the back of an Adirondack chair. I change the look from time to time by adding different flowers and paint colors to the bucket.<br />
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Perfect spot for morning tea before it gets too hot.<br />
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The little path behind my house leads to the kitchen garden.<br />
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The umbrella creates a nice shady spot to sit.</div>
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We have very little rain in the summer months and I like to use old thread bare rugs in the garden to add a little color. The pillows are all indoor/outdoor fabric and also add much needed color<br />
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The Nasturtiums are in their final bloom stage as they do not like the heat. I will be sorry to see them go as they put on such a show!</div>
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Bentley's favorite spot to hang out!<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">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 ice tea while I share with you inspiration for my art. Today I will take you into my studio to share some of the beautiful wreaths our Eastside Art Group made. I made a garden theme wreath to hang in a new little seating area in the garden and will show you that before we go inside. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">I used bright green moss and ferns to add a little color harmony to the bench. pillows..</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMzjDUqmMrrH8a95fZ1pVDOTcJMl1FcZOE2fZKyx7kD1qYTuoetzJAqyZFAlUc49SUrsl5SPu2YJzCQUDVSgGuJmWhVswU97c7TNSfAzAMCC-7VyBLuLpeYcpFtnPbmKSmOfIIpW4wA/s1600/DSC_2389.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMzjDUqmMrrH8a95fZ1pVDOTcJMl1FcZOE2fZKyx7kD1qYTuoetzJAqyZFAlUc49SUrsl5SPu2YJzCQUDVSgGuJmWhVswU97c7TNSfAzAMCC-7VyBLuLpeYcpFtnPbmKSmOfIIpW4wA/s640/DSC_2389.jpg" width="442" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Let's go inside to the studio where Bentley, my Studio Assistant, is waiting to show you around. Our class was taught by talented Diane who is one of Bentley's favorites. Our Eastside Group is made up of nine very creative, diverse and talented artists who take turns once a month teaching a class - subjects range from jewelry, metal smithing, collage, journaling, painting, gourd art, wreath making, fiber and fabric art, sewing, print making, etc. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Bentley and Diane at a previous class - he was just as happy to see her today!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Diane brought numerous supplies for our class -grape vine wreaths,sea shells, grasses, seeds, berries, flowers, pine cones, raffia, moss rope, etc. etc. etc. and demonstrated two different wreaths.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">A pretty floral wreath with lovely fall colors and a charming sea shell wreath.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Under Diane's guidance - soon this . . . . . . .</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Turned into this beautiful wreath made by Sherrill...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">This soon turned into . . . . . . . ..</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">A beautiful wreath made by Marilyn</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Sherrill was soon into wreath making and loving it and she made this one out of seashells and beautiful pine cones shaped like little flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Norma made this lovely wreath with a Native American theme.using beads, feathers and clay figures and a charming dream catcher.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Marilyn and Sherrill continued making wreaths - unfortunately I did not take photos of their other lovely creations. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Thank you for stopping by. I sincerely appreciate your visits, e-mails, comments and those following my blog.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Have a lovely week. Blessings, Erin</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness." Galatians 5:22</span><br />
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