Brenna Fairy

My Granddaughter turned 3 this year. My middle daughter, her aunt lives in the State of Washington and so mailed her gift. I arrived the day of her birthday party. When Brenna opened her gift from Aunt Angela she found a Fairy outfit, because she love Tinkerbell and all the fairies of Pixie Hallow. Since Angela is now living in the Rainy state she had to include Pok-a-dot Rubber boots. So being three one must wear it all, Purple Fairy outfit and Rain boots. The Wings were a little heavy for the fabric of the dress, so I held them up by pulling the fabric a little tighter and using a Clothes Pin. She was calling me from the sun porch and I looked up to see a sweet little Fairy looking at me. I had to have a picture of that! Then when I went into the sun porch she still was looking through the door and I caught her back with the boots and cloth pin. Her mom (my oldest daughter Danielle) said she looks like Altered Art!

Mine is the one on the left of the page, here is a larger photo. I was very excited to see my small piece of Art published.

The Baby Shower & Somerset Studio's Gallery

Saturday, November 22, I was rushing off to a baby shower for a young mother to be. I had to get there early because I made the cake. She was having a boy and they were doing his room in little trucks so the cake followed the theme. I made a little road in the land of plaid, air brushed with food coloring. The night before I had made little trucks and a little baby out of fondant.

I hopped in my van with the car riding shot gun. As I was about to pass my mail box I decided to grab the mail. I was very excited to see Somerset Studio Gallery Winter 2009 in my mail box. I wondered if something I had sent in had made it into the magazine. I really wanted to stop and look but had the shower to attend and the cake to deliver.

I had to wait 2 hours to rip the plastic off that magazine in go the page by page. Then there is was the little Halloween Witch Pocket Watch that I had made. I was so excited to see it there in Full Color, with my name next to it.

Mermaid Mural

It has been a couple of very busy Months. In early November I started a Mermaid Mural on my Granddaughter's bedroom wall. She told me she also needed a fairy, so I will put adding that in the Mermaids hand. The Mermaid is just sitting tranquil on a rock listening to the sea breezes without a care. I used acrylics, added a little some pearl powders to the paint I used on her scales and fins. She looks nicely dimensional in person. When I was contemplating painting her scales, I thought that would take hours and be hard to make uniform. Then I remembered seeing celery in my daughters refrigerator and decided to use that as a stamp. I worked well and saved a lot of time. Brenna loves her. I will be adding the Fairy next, probably in January. They live three hours away, so we always have to make plans.