One of the watercolor sketches from An Imaginary Visit to the Beach Class currently going on now! No, I have not retired from blogging nor the blogosphere! I just have too much going on and too many projects to mind at the moment! However, all is well in my world. I appreciate all the emails I've received lately to make sure that I'm still alive...

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Chris and I slipped away to spend a few hours at the beach yesterday, hoping the winds would blow away some of the dust and cobwebs from our too busy lives...... We watched this guy for a while, just flyin' along..... .....when suddenly, he (nearly) stops in mid-air..... .....and makes a sharp turn.....straight down! Zooooooooooooooom! Splash down!!! This was all that could be...

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To those of you who paint with such freedom and abandon, with paint drips, splatters, mingling and backruns, you are my heroes! This watercolor postcard was painted from life. I decided I wanted to just paint - no lead, no drawing, just me and my brush and the paint. I let the colors run. I let the water fall. I let it run...

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COMPUTERY: PAGES - A NEW BLOGGER WIDGET Once again, Ms. Susie is on the ball and has a tutorial on additional pages for Blogger just like Word Press does! Yippee Skippee!!!! Go check out Susie's great tutorial on how to do this! (Click the underlined red link above.) ...

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Fear.  Fear is such an insidious creature, lying in wait for us, ambushing us when we least expect it. It can start with something simple–a project not going well, followed by a negative thought or three, and then it pounces! It has us in its claws and moves in for a slow, torturous, stripping-away of our self confidence, our faith in ourselves, and...

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Woohoo!! Finally! Christmas has finally been packed away and safely deposited back into the attic for the next 10 months. Yes, I know it's February. We had a running debate for several weeks about just leaving it up as fast as January flew through here! It never fails, though, that something, an ornament, a pillow, or a piece of greenery, will hide out...

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The Art Hearts web site is now up with all of the art submitted!! It can be found here. It is currently publishing to my Mobile Me account. It will eventually publish to Art Hearts For Haiti.com. I've been having some technical difficulties with my software. Once that is resolved, I will change the address to the correct one.  All of the hearts...

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Below is an image of my “stealth” sketching kit. This is what travels with me wherever I may go. I have found that when I least expect it, I either have time or exciting subject matter to paint, and you know what they say about not planning and planning to fail! Gotta be prepared!! If you look at the lower left corner of...

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The call went out and you've responded in a HUGE way - we have finished up with 115 hearts*!!! Once again, let me say to each of you Thank YOU - you humble me with your generosity of time and your willingness to get involved. The blogosphere is made up of just the nicest folks in the world! Now we move into Phase...

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