HAPPY 2007!

I hope you all had fun welcoming in the new year!!!

I am diabetic... so a little cold can put me down for days! thank you all so much for your well wishes, I did not get to party in 2007, but I am doing better :)

one of my goals for this year was to give my web site a overhaul... I no longer teach jewelry classes... so I closed down alot of pages and I need to clean it up, I have decided to use it as a place card to show case my art like so many do. My other art goals are to open a esty shop and get some of my art published and over hall my stuido and make it a more creative looking space, it just amazing to me how some artist can make there studio look like art and not a landslide of junk! my studio is organized and user friendly but I long for it to look inspirational, and its hard because I really lack wall space because I have really packed it in my odd shaped 12 x18 space :) oh how I long to have Sara Lechner's , amazing studio loft!

ok so all you girls that are going and sees this know what it means!

In Three short months I will be at artfest!!! with my best supper best friend Nancy Nelson and I want to know who I will get to meet! so please if you see this and will be attending, droop me a line and let me know :)
I put a count down to artfest on my side bar and its really funny because the 28th of March is also my birthday so its really funny for a soon to be 41 year old to count the days before her birthday!


Teesha Moore did this and I just love the words! (artfest attendees got a stack of Teesha's art cards as a treat with our registration pack)

Tuesday I have:

Patricia Seggebruch

Friday:Anne Bagby

Saturday:Susan Lenart Kazmer

This is my first art retreat so I can not wait to be amazed and inspired :)

Hawaiian Breakfast

Hawaiian Breakfast, originally uploaded by ruthrae.

I did way to much over the last 2 days... so now I am back in bed :(
but I did get this lovely hawaiian breakfast brought to me :)
if you have never had a hawaiian breakfast it includes:
Portuguese sausage
Eggs
White rice with shoyu
Guava juice.

the last time I left the house was Christmas... so I am going a little stir crazy... I did get the kids to help me put away the christmas stuff yeasterday and I did get my stuido clean... but today I will hang low maybe I will go out and get some movies (I have HGTV overload can you believe that!!!) becuse me and my new supper best friend (AKA the bed) have a date for new years!

ALL THE BEST IN 2007 Blog viewers and fellow art girls! I wonder what fun artful things are ahead of us in the new year ? :)

the end of a year long journey

My pages for Marci's Paris theme RR Calendar.
This is the last of 12 calendars that I worked in this year.
I grew so much from doing this... the girls that worked in the Calenders were all so outstanding! it was a journey and a Honor to work with them and get to know there art up close and personal. I can not wait untill I get my book back! I will be sure to share it with you when I do :)

(if you want to see the pages up close you can here along with all the pages that I did this year.)

MMCA Interview :)

I did this interview almost 2 years ago... its part of a process to being acceped into the MMCA art group... I cringe to read it now!!! Its funny how some parts of us can change so much while others stay the same :)

I have been in bed for 2 days now...

I am doing a little better today and my goal is to only take a nap this after noon... everyone in my house has avoided me like I have the plague! because who wants to get sick on during winter break!

Things I must do today!

1. clean the computer screen and mirrors behind the bed!!!
2. change my sheets!
3. toss out all the tissue I used last night!



the only family member who is by my side is baxter! because even the Jack Russell is smart enough to stay away!

Motion

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. ~Rumi

Today I made some motion pieces (you can see more here) I call them that becuse all the stuff inside of the vinyl moves around :)

I made it to the post office!

I spent the morning finishing last minute gifts and warping them.

this is a secret santa gift that I just got out today! I was a bad secret santa sister this year and very late! I stitched the present inside of the black felt, you must cut the red X's to open the package :) the girl I made this for favorte colors are red and purple :)
This is what is inside of the Heart case. Its so great to know that I got all my packages out :)