Sweet Treats! Arriving daily On Pearl Aveune!

Just look at the goodies!

This 

White Rabbit arrived from Robert,

The Halloween Fanatic.

and this, wood carved Santa, arrived

from LLA Creations.

These pictures do not show the quality of workmanship!

Truly remarkable! 

 Be back in a bit to show a couple of more treasures that arrived.

(have to download the photos)

hold on, I'll be right back!

Okay, I'm back.
This necklace was custom made by, Marie Segal.

When I won this giveaway, Marie contacted me and asked
me a few questions, and wha-la, she created this!

Ya know sometimes I never win anything, and then boom!I win!

And the last piece of art I received is this ACEO card I purchased from
Madame K,

Isn't it just the best? I think so!

Without realizing, I have started my collection from all of these talented talented artists.
Thanks to all! I greatly appreciate it.

A Word Of Warning!

I recently found out that someone is using my email address to gain personal

information from un-suspecting people.

If you receive a message from Pearl Avenue Studios, asking for your

information, it's not me.  If one of my customers hadn't noticed

an exclamation mark at the end of my address, she, also would have thought

it was me.  I would never ask anyone for their private and personal

info.  But it does explain why, when I sent out emails, that one was blocking

me. 

So please Beware!

...and as for the person using my address...

look over your shoulder! 

Someone may be after you!

Tending the Flowers...and watch them grow!

Okay, it's not my actual garden.  

My garden is in the process of...WEEDING!

It was so pretty a couple of weeks ago, and all

of a sudden the weeds took over.  But pulling them

is good for the soul, so I've been told.  We shall see 

how "good" my soul gets!

The artwork above was inspired by one of my favorite songs.

Not hard to figure out which one.

 It's mixed media, using paint, pencils, oil pastels, vintage paper and

bees wax,

on a salvaged wooden top, from an old trunk, and measures 24" by 36.

My art changes directions often, I envision one thing,

but my hands create another.

Well I do need to get back to the "Real" garden,

before the rains roll in or I'll be making mud pies!

Be well!

My Brain On Blog!!!!!!

Fade to Black!

Oh, you don't see anything?
That's because, after losing the images on my blog, (thanks to hosting night-mares),
I ventured into the land of HTML!
Now let me tell ya, I'm not a '' type of brain.
This stuff if right up there with algebra for me...though eventually I know
I would have figured it out, but I'm the '//www.type./ that has to have an
answer first, then work my way backwards to figure out how the answer got there in the first place!
Make sense?
Just the way I'm wired.
Now to me, since I lost the images, I felt my blog was broken.
It was in limbo. Unfinished!
And that really bothered me.
It was the first time I didn't want anyone to pop in, and see what a mess I had.
So I spent most of the day, reading, researching codes, HTML's,
the inner workings, the guts of  a formula.
The more I absorbed, the more my head swelled, (left-side only).
My eye started twitching, (left one), and I felt the throbbing of
knowledge trying to penetrate into the jumbled mass of what is
suppose to be my brain.   

But thanks a beautiful wonderful Queen,..who flew in with her broom,
and swept away the webs that were weaving my brain in a tight cocoon,
I'm able to see there is light at the end of the blog.
Thanks Gourdie!
And darn it, I will go back and learn some of this stuff.
I will!

Be Well!

I'm Home.....!

I'm home, but I'd bet you didn't even know I was gone.

I ran down...okay drove down, to Texas to help my Son and Daughter-In-Law, 

move into their new house.

In it's self , it wasn't a fun trip! Moving never is.  You just want to get it DONE!

So it went from this pretty clean kitchen, to...

this!

What to do?  Lots'!

Guess who got to unpack most of this?

While my Daughter-In-Law, and my Husband went to get the cats, (that's another story, oh believe me! ).

I got to figure out where to put everything, knowing all along after I leave, that my Son and DIL will have to

organize and put things away, to their preference.  That's okay, I know they have to live in

the house and acclimate their everyday routine to feel comfortable with the flow.  

It did help, to have friends and chocolate wine!

After  a long day,  of loading and un-loading, it was time to feed those who helped.

 Food, wine, laughter and love...Here's to those who wish us well, and the rest of you can go to

Pittsburgh! (Please note, I have nothing against Pittsburgh, it's just a quote from a W.C. Fields, joke

that sticks in my head!). 

Good times!

Now, I'm home, and am anxious to create, and catch up on four days of seeing and reading what

yall' (Texas twang, because I met friend of my DIL  and Son, who, gave me great pleasure just listening to her accent, ) have been up to!

 Really, I hope that made sense!

Be well!

Staring into space!

You know when you have deadlines, no 15 day grace periods, no window, options?

The rush of completing commissioned work  without compromising the quality, can 

mentally drain the brain! (ex-neigh in the brain-neigh ). In the past two days I have been

working non stop.  I finished the rabbit, and a table that I  refinished  for a good customer.

The table is what drained me, I had to strip away layers of gawdy, mustard yellow paint, off a once

beautiful table. You'll be happy to know it is once again a beautiful table. The reason I'm drainded 

is because the customer called on Monday saying she would pick it up on Saturday...it's my own 

fault though. I once again procrastinated!  Another lesson, one I battle with quite often.  I woke up

this morning and told myself, "you will have this table finished by 3:30 pm. ".  I was off by 30 minutes!

It was time to eat!

And then, I sat down and the adrenalin rush was over.

I stared into 

SPACE!

That blank lifeless stare.  It lasted a good 15 minutes before I came back.

And by the way,  buffing the table by hand with paste wax...is good for "Buff" arms!

Now I'm going to put some life into that blank empty blank stare.

I've got to Hurry on this...I'm already Late getting it finished!!!!!

I was supposed to have this finished already!

But a tailor fit, takes time, right?

Is he trying to tell me I'm Late?

Fortunately the person who ordered this is very understanding, 

and for that I'm very grateful.

So back to work I go, before I hear a shout of, 

"Off with your head"!