Royal Wedding

Now I have seen everything! The Royal Wedding is upon us! Speaking of weddings, my twenty year anniversary is coming up this August. I plan to create a piece of art commemorating our anniversary. Not sure that I'll be getting a wedding picture manicure though!

Chinese Opera Singer - Foreign Intrigue

Art Fest 2011 in Port Townsend, Foreign Intrigue workshop. I worked really hard on my creation, I am very happy with her!

Art Fest 2011 in Port Townsend

Wow...what great creative energy! This was my 3rd Art Fest in Port Townsend WA. It is a amazing creative gathering produced by Teesha and Tracey Moore of Issaquah WA. You can find them at http://www.teeshamoore.com/. This class was taught by Lynn Perella. The class was Foreign Intrigue. We used an exotic photo and created a collage with paint and paper. What a fun class, and really enjoyed it.

Urban Craft Uprising - Seattle, July 10th!

Daniel Smith was our last stop before heading home. All in all it was a good day with my new owner. What adventures will we go on next?

We drove by Pioneer Square on our way to my owners favorite art store Daniel Smith.

We stopped in at Uptown Espresso for an iced vanilla latte. Luckily monster didn't like, so I got to drink it all!

We were hungry so we had some Pagliacci Pizza...yum. The monster decided he likie pizza!


The awesome photo of my new monster. Just purchased from the Urban Craft Uprising show My new monster followed me around Seattle today.



These are my new rings. I also have one in pink...aren't they fab. Love them! I will post the link to the artist later. Don't have the card with me.

Kennedy School House - McMenamins - Oregon

This is a curvy hallway with amazing art on the wall. This hotel is very whimsical with lots of art...love it!






This is such an amazingly cool place. Kennedy School House is an actual school house renovated into hotel with a restaurant, many bars, theater, soaking pool and great artsy shopping area near by. The Alberta Street Neighborhood is just 8 blocks from hotel with fantastic galleries and restaurants.We had a great family mini vacation here. I want to go back without the kids sometime!

McMenamins - Kennedy School House Hotel, Portland, Oregon

Just got back from a little 4th of July vacation with my family. What a fun place to stay. McMenamins, Kennedy School House, Hotel. Check it out!
McMenamins - Kennedy School Home I'll be posting pictures of the hotel later, so check back!

Freemont Solstice Parade

Every year in Seattle Fremont, the greatest place in the universe. Fremont has a Solstice Parade and festival. This year they had an Art Car display before the parade. I missed it but got this video to show the fabulous cars that were there.

Another BP image I need to share

What a great visual to represent this tragedy. I am not religious but I think it is time to say a few prayers. This poster was designed by Burton Durand.

BP's New Logo (designer unknown)

Haven't posted for a while. I saw this on my facebook page news feed and had to share it! A great new logo design for bp. A picture is worth a thousand words! The designer is unknown. Great design who ever you are!

Spent the day working on a tutorial

Spent the day yesterday learning so much from a tutorial by Blog Spoon Graphics: I created all my elements in Illustrator CS3 and then moved them into layers in Photoshop CS3. I learned so much about layers. I am a little rusty on Photoshop, but am now getting up to speed. I have so many other ideas I need to finish before I start school on Monday. That's right I'm going back to school. I need to finish my Associates degree and then I think I'm going into teaching. Really want to teach art in elementary school. Anyway need to go and get my books!