Happy Hearts to All

Happy Hearts to All!...

Creating heart Valentines with cookie cutters and clay!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Sending Happy Valentines

with my latest ceramic heart designs

♥. HAPPY HEART'S DAY . ♥

You are LoVed

Here is the latest project I am working on,

a pillow shaped ceramic vase I made and glazed on the inside.

After painting the background I began decoupaging with paper and lace,

paint and marking pens.

It is not quite finished yet,

I am looking for small alphabet stamps to add along the ankle line

"you are loved" in walnut colored ink.

This is created for a sweet little girl in the hospital battling cancer.

{ Please keep her in your prayers }

( even better, I found a press on alphabet in chocolate by Fiskars! )

Homage to and inspiration from Julie Nutting's wonderful book!

Sweet heart graphics

Roxy Tee shirt found at T.J. Maxx yesterday with this cool graphic design

printed on the front

but looking like an unfinished pencil drawing without color,

finds its way home with me and ....

I pull out my fabric paints for a pick-me-up,

filling in the background to pop the design,

because I really need another painting project !

Knowing I would most likely be wearing it with jeans

I chose deep blue and began painting in the bottom of the heart design,

and taking creative license, chose to eliminate a few extra flowers

and web designs by painting the dark blue right over top of them.

Then I lightened the blue shade as I worked my way up the design

ending with a beautiful turquoise color at the top.

Sweet! & Valentine's Day is less than a month away!

Pink confections

.Pink confections created with clay

just in time for Valentines Day !

just having fun with ceramic clay

still time to decoupage, embellish

and continue to play

and it all started when my friend Cheryl came to visit Summerland Cottage

and gifted me with a set of Fiskars fun paper edger scissors

Thank you Cheryl !

♥.HAPPY HEART'S DAY . ♥

A little pink post...

work has been crazy busy

( Thank you God ! )

flying out of town to meet with clients

creating new sets of blueprints

overseeing some major remodeling jobs

It is so nice to be home for the day

and visit the garden

discovering new lovelies blossoming and calling out for attention

snipping and bringing in a few pink pretties

to grace the indoors of the cottage and inspire...

so here is a little pink post

( with Valentines just around the corner, and because I have always preferred pink to red )

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with a few of my ceramic creations mixed in for fun

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And a big thank you to my pilot, Mike B.

for saving me hours of driving time

so I can have today off to play !

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Missives from Paris

have arrived in this weeks post.

Using the front of envelopes, I continued to play with my new paints.

Then filling them with Paris paraphernalia I chose to mail them

to myself just for the fun of it.

I would have preferred pretty postage stamps, but having left them with the concierge to post I ended up with a Paris metered stamp over pictures of folded airplanes.

They are still fun and the folded plane images are clever.

Fortunately my adorable lover indulges me in my whimsy and creativity.

He surprises me with a ditty that makes me smile, and the necklace,

beautifully and meticulously handcrafted by a French woman,

his Valentine gift to me!

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Paris Valentines

I spotted the charming store front from across the street and was instantly drawn to it.

Upon closer inspection I viewed the perfect Paris Valentine display.

Happy hearts day,
and greetings from Paris,

with love,

XoX p