Another coming together and creating- Bobbi Ann Cook

I love it so much when I give some one something and they take it , do all the work, and make it so much better than it was before.

My dear friend Bobbi Ann Cook is a sweetie I met on bead-space.

Here is her Bead-Space profile. She is selling beautiful amulet bags there for almost nothing. Check it out http://bead-space.com/bobbianncook

She is a giving and caring woman and a jewel in my life, and I thought this is before she did this!

She took this little bead and turned it in to a beautiful focal piece on a work of love and art.

The bead color is achieved by putting a thin layer of Baja blue Pinata ink over Pearl White Cernit. Then it is stamped with a rubber stamp and Gold Pearl-ex ink. I add the cap embellishments in Champagne Cernit, Bake and antique with Ne-Opaque brown.

Howard carries all of those products: http://www.clayfactory.net/

It frames the bead nicely and is fashioned after medicine and amulet pouches, which I absolutely adore.

Ancient peoples used to put their little treasures and magic pieces in them and carry them around their necks and close to their hearts. We could all use a little good JU-JU, eh?

She also made this beautiful hanging crystal for Madi when she was born!!

Bobbi is carrying on a tradition in her family and honoring her mother in her beadworks.

Do yourself a favor and go visit her and her gallery of work on Bead-space.

http://bead-space.com/bobbianncook

Bobbi also has a blog now!! Congrats Bobbi, welcome to blogland!

http://bobbianncook.blogspot.com/

Premio Meme Award

I have been awarded the Premio Meme Award by Creative Treasures by Donna,

Thank you so much Donna, I love this.

You can visit Donna here http://ctbydonna.blogspot.com/

She has some absolutely gorgeous jewelry and a beautiful blog to boot.

What the hell does "to boot" or "ta boot" mean? LOL! something to do in my spare time eh? Look that up. NOT! (I probably will now that I wrote it here)

I am going to tell you now 7 facts about myself (the rules) ;-O

1. I love my grand daughter and grand son.

2. I am so grateful to be able to do what I love.

3. I am so grateful for all my pretties, thank you! (everything I do here I do for you! and me!!! LOL!!)

4. My office and Craft area are totally in disarray. (looks like a sh-t storm hit the place) now doesn't that make you all feel better?

5. I can find everything.

6. I don't dye my hair anymore.

7. I used to work in a power plant. (and my nickname on my hard hat was cannonball) make up your own stories here. If they are good, tell me, I will use them. Lol!

And 7 people I would love to pass this to! (the rules) ;-O

I understand life and know that some of you may not have time to take this and post it and follow the rules, but I just wanted you to know that I listen, I read, and I care. You are important bloggers to me.

1. http://awalkinthepark-susan.blogspot.com/

2. http://dianaevans.blogspot.com/

3. http://claymama1.blogspot.com/

4. http://cornerstoregoddessjewelry.blogspot.com/

5. http://cindypack.blogspot.com/

6. http://burdart.blogspot.com/

7. http://quote-ching.blogspot.com/

Here is a description of the award and some of the meaning.

From K-squared Ramblings http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/

Traced back and described here and Posted here http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2009/02/08/premio-dardo-thoughts/

"There are at least two different descriptions of the award in English:

This award acknowledges the values that every blogger shows in his or her effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values every day.
and
The PREMIO DARDO is designed to recognize unique voices and visions on the Web as well as to promote fraternization amongst bloggers of all sorts.
The number of blogs you’re expected to pass along the award to is variously given as 5, 10, 12, and 15."
NICE!

Another Liberty

I was enamored of this guys murals and wanted to share, his name is Eric Grohe.

You can visit him here,

http://www.ericgrohemurals.com/index.html

This is the wall before.

Beautifying America through art!!

my grandma says...

Oh my!! My grandma says there are only a few more days on her necklace giveaway.

http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/06/2nd-giveaway.html

You might just want to get your name in there before it ends.

4 x 6's- Sacred Heart

Black Tee-Juice fabric marker for outline, Lumiere acrylic paints, and regular acrylics.

The other Mirror

I made a mold set quite a while ago called Etruscan, it was one of my favorites. It was discontinued rather quickly because the big retail stores didn't pick it up. The numbers were low, in the trash it goes. Some one requested the mold, there are no more, so I remade the pieces for them. I test the molds before sending them out so I added the pieces to this frame in gold Cernit with the interference powders on it: Blue, Red, and Violet Interference Pearl-ex, baked them and then antiqued with Pewter Lumiere.




The frame was quite plain before but I like it a lot now.


Here are the instructions for painting the mirror.
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/06/paint-mirror-quick-and-easy.html


See what happened to the other one here.
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/06/raven-vomiting-diamonds.html

Many faces of Madi...

This is what has been keeping me busy lately!