I shall not be moved

 This is a baby gift for baby Carmela. 

 I went to the hardware store and came home with this 2x2 piece of smooth wood in which I promptly fell in love with. It's thin, it's cheap and it's awesome to paint on....looks like I found a new medium! This is for Mallory for her kitchen. Cheers!!

 Cup of pure joy (there are musical notes in the coffee cups) $25

Wedding gift!!

What's for dinner?

 Small poppies ($60) 

I like to plan ahead for my meals by the week, this eliminates grocery trips and well as last minute headachces and the ever so popular question, "what's for dinner?!" This is a menu board with seven days (each birdie has a day of the week) and you write your meal across from it using a dry erase marker.  Couldn't be easier and couldn't be cuter. This one is a tad on the smudged side because it was out at the art show in the monsoon. $50

Lincoln Highway soggy fest

 This festival has always brought me luck....okay, so it's only my second year, but last year I did awesome. This year was a little COLD and RAINY.....and when I say COLD and RAINY....I mean COLD and RAINY. There was a river running down through my tent.  This photo is before the rain came.

 Let me tell you about this lady.  She rocks.  She let me borrow her van AND she sat with me to help AND she brought me hot coffee and cookies AND she helped me load back in the van in the cold rain.  She's working on sainthood for sure.

 Here is a shot of my ghetto tent.  Yup, it's ghetto alright. See the size and shape of the other vendor tents? HUGE and WHITE (kind of like my rear end) and my tent was small and navy.  I do have to say, there were a lot of people outside of my ghetto tent...because I'm cool like that.

I did make a few sales in the morning (Thank the Lord) and can't complain, but I would have loved an entire day devoted to dwindling my window collection.  It was great to see local people as well as people who came just to buy a window from me! Very honored.  The next event will be at Ed and Betty LaPointe's open house on December 4th in Mt.Vernon.  I highly recommend you mark your calendars for this.....they will have their amazingly awesome jewelry, a handmade purse lady, ceramic artist and myself.  A great place to buy Christmas presents for sure.

Friday Five: Creative websites to visit

Happy Friday! I hope this post finds you well and looking forward to the glorious (and hopefully non rain filled weekend!) It's been a few weeks since I posted the Friday Five and since my three year old, who decided to melt into a puddle of screaming boy on our way to school today, is FINALLY sleeping...I have some time (I should be doing laundry!) to be inspired by other creative blogs.  Check them out, enjoy and be inspired. 


1. http://ohhellofriend.blogspot.com/

2. http://melissaesplin.com/home/

3. http://inspiredbycharm.blogspot.com/

4. http://www.artfulparent.typepad.com/

5. http://tinywarbler.blogspot.com/

Lincoln Highway Arts Fest

This is a loooooooong canvas I did for a friend...actually a surprise for her birthday! Happy Birthday...shhhhhhh
One more smaller windows with five little yellow birdies (Party of Five, $60)

THIS SATURDAY (SEPT. 25th)

Lincoln Highway Arts Fest

on Main Street in Mt.Vernon, Iowa

from 9-4pm

over 40 artists

(including yours truly!)

You'll love it.

Shakespeare's 12th

Shakespeare's 12th....sonnet that is. Love it. ($75)

Another Flag (with the Battle Hymn of the republic on the back) $125 The window is sealed because it's so old, to cover any hint of lead paint. It's 125 years old from an old barn in the Amana Colonies.

Boards a plenty

This one has no name and no words, but I kind of like it that way. It's bigger than most of the boards I do. Those sweet little birdies are made out of vintage magazine. $35

Be Still ($30)

Serve the Lord ($30)

Not sure how I feel about this one yet, it was kind of a, "happy mistake"
My favorite of the day. Loving how the texture shows through the black paint. ($30)