zip-a-dee-do-dah...

What's the happiest place on earth? Why it's the place in your heart when you get invited to Disneyland by your kids.

 Could our insides withold the rockin and rollin of the Matterhorn? the darkness of Space Mountain (at 8 am I might add)? the death defying drops in the Tower of Terror ( at 9:30 pm)? The walk from Disneyland Park...to California Adventure and back again? 

 With the nifty i-phone app MOUSE TIME and the expertise of our season pass kids... we were able to get fast passes, plan the park day and be able to squeeze the most out of it. 

 It was fantastical...
magical...

I had forgotten how much fun the parks could be!

                              

                                                            Truly a zip-a-dee-doo-dah day...

Last week to enter my giveaway below...

and i say...

be safe...be happy...be patient...be kind...be true...
make time for friends...and be good to yourself...

Don't forget to enter my giveaway in the post below...
cheers to a new year!

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

anais nin

2012 Giveaway!

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...the way i see it...2011

the way i see it around here...

  

merry...merry

sleigh bells ring...

Happy Birthday to my Dad today...
89 never looked so good...



a few of my favorite things....

I have posted a few of my favorite things from my Salzburg Echoes collection on my etsy site.

lions share

sitting room

mozarts room

open wide

seahorse guardian

artists tell all...

If you have never been to The Altered Page blog...it's really time you went. If you dig art...you can learn and read so much from Seth Apters pool of artists who spill the beans whenever he summons them. Why...because his blog rocks...and...artists are an unruly bunch...AND if that wasn't enough...soon...Seth's book will be available... It's called "The Pulse of Mixed Media: Secrets and Passions of 100 Artists Revealed" and I'm one of those artists revealing secret and passionate stuff.

Thanks Seth for the oppourtunity and giving artists the chance to share. 

Today on Seth's fabulous Altered Page blog I will tell you about my the one favorite tool I could not live without... Check it out

And here is the link to pre-order Seth's new book.

art is not just for hanging on the wall...

 I thought I would post a few pics from my 'Regalia" event that was at the end of November.

 A great turnout and lots of fun...

It's exciting to see this dream come alive...

 My clothing site is now online.
I'd love you to visit it here...

Have a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving...

regalia...fine, fancy finery

This is where I will be this weekend...having a little winters celebration with my art.wear.
Drop by for a sip of wine or hot apple cider if you're in town.



a theory that's colorful...

My article on my Color Theory art appears in the newest edition of

Somerset Studios Magazine...November/December 2011.

The whole collection is here...

can you guess?

Can you guess who we dressed up as for this Halloween party?



Be safe and have a Happy Halloween....