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Showing posts with label Katie Runnels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Katie Runnels. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Good Stuff!!!


Please take a moment to hop on over to The Constant Gatherer and see the giveaway that dear Katie is hosting featuring moi! One lucky reader will receive their choice of 4 beads in their choice of a flock of owls or birds!

Also be sure to check in at Katie's Etsy shop now and in the coming week, as a little birdie told me she might be having a sale, and there are bargains galore to be had! She's cleaning house and I'm keeping a keen eye peeled for any crumbs of her glorious stash of vintage finds that she might need to purge....

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

recently...





I’m back to the blog after a long and much needed hiatus. I’ve spent my time working on my creativity and contemplating this blog and what it will entail. I also just returned from a trip to Pennsylvania to visit my amazing family, whom I am grateful for everyday. I'm going to be frank with everyone out there, blogging does not come naturally to me. I'm a very solitary and secretive girl. I normally keep all my wild thoughts to myself and I often get caught up in what I should write, whether it is worth reading, whether I would want to read it myself. I write, I make drafts that I sometimes but rarely post....

I wanted to tell you about this amazing class I took with the talented Katie Runnels of The Constant Gatherer a few weeks back. It was held at the studios at Flatiron Studios in Greenville, SC hosted by Teresa of Art & Light Gallery. All during the month of May, there were Saturday workshops with several talented ladies such as Lily Pottery, Royal Buffet and Jess Gonacha in addition to Katie.

Katie is a fellow SCAD alumna and it was fun to see how she works and glean a little inspiration as well as make a fun still life terrarium. I was just tickled *pink* about how mine turned out, I'm actually working on a painting inspired by it...That will come soon.

There are more posts about Katie's class here & here.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

sending the goods....

closeup of wreath
all the goods arranged together
I'm really excited about how this turned out! almost don't want to let it go....
I wanted to post pictures of the pretty little items I sent for the "All that I love" swap hosted by The "year of color" blog hosted by artsy mama. The swap was pretty liberal in that Kari aka artsy mama, let us work with our swap partner to get to know them and really exchange things that we thought each other would like. My partner, Marlene, exchanged ideas back and forth and we decided we would exchange items based on the idea, Salt Water Taffy. Both Marlene and I live near the shore and both enjoy the color scheme that salt water taffy evokes.

I made an adorable Katie Runnels -inspired wreath, replete with salt water taffy colors, perfect for spring decorating, included a handmade heart ornament that i made from canvas, one of my junk ornaments, and a small box of bits and baubles that she can -hopefully- use in her crafts. I also included some cute vintage inspired valentines and some hot chocolate, until spring breaks up there in the frigid north...