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New art and Some shows!

I have been meaning to post this for a bit now. I have a few shows going and coming up.

First up This month my art has been hanging on Vashon Island at the Red Bicycle and it will be moving to Good Merchandise for the month of August. Both locations are curated by the lovely AnnaLisa LaFayette who owns Good Merchandise. I also have some prints and stuff in her shop for the duration of the art shows. I am also having another fun art show in August here in Renton at Common Ground Coffee and Cupcakes, it is of course a cupcake themed show! I am painting two new paintings for it, possibly a third if I have time and I will  also have a bunch of sweet framed prints to hang there. Then in September I am having an art show at Happy Delusions and I am painting some new BIG paintings for that, more on that show when the time gets closer. I need to update the shows/appearances section of the site here still. I also have a bunch of new art I need to add to the gallery section, I am a little behind at the moment :P

I am also going to be doing the Kitch N Stitch show on August 22nd in the SODO area of Seattle at Club Motor 12-5 pm.

I brought one of my newest paintings in to Twilight Artist Collective the other day. Powder Blue Pompadour, Acrylic on Wood Slice:

They have a really cool art show going on at Twilight right now to, if you are in the area you should stop in and check it out!

Well I better get back to work, so much painting to do....

Alex~xoxo

New art and a Mini Munny

So I haven't posted my "new" Paintings here yet. Got to get better about posting the new art here when it is actually brand new. So I have a few Alice in Wonderland paintings that I recently finished, they were in an art show a month or so ago at Rung Studio in Georgetown Wa (Seattle). They are now available in my Etsy Shop and clicking on the pics will take you to the individual listings there, prints are also available:

Alice Resting On A Mushroom

Little Golden Key

Drink Me Bottle

Little Cake

I also just finished my first custom painted Mini Munny! This was pretty fun to do so I may do more in the future :) Click the pic to see more shots of her!

Little Blue Eyes

So Ill have more new art to post really soon! Now though its time to go clean the house. I had a house guest over the weekend and a show- I heart Indie in Kirkland on Sunday so I need to get caught up on my chores so I can paint without distractions...

Etsys new Treasury East!

Well Etsy has made a new treasury that is open 24-7 for treasury making now, Treasury East. So I made these two treasuries yesterday :) The first is titled Blueberry Smoothie because I didn't get to have my blueberry smoothie because part of my blender broke the other day :/ I still don't know if Ill pay the $10 for the new part or just go buy a new cheap blender....

The next one I did is based on my husbands profession as a commercial electrician. He actually used to do more high voltage stuff than he has been doing lately which used to stress me out so bad...

I hope you like my treasuries :)

I cant wait

for summer

sun tea

hanging my laundry out in the sun and gardening.....

Photo credits:

http://www.socksoff.co.uk/walls07.html

http://ruralroot-store.stores.yahoo.net/drinjar.html

http://www.laundrylist.org/

Our hearts are breaking...

Geoff and I got the terrible news yesterday about the helicopter crash in Arizona. We knew these people for many years, my husband worked for Tom and we lived on his Vashon property for something like 7 years I think. All of the people on board including the pilot were kind, good people and this just breaks our hearts. We are thinking about their families and their close friends. Our hearts go out to you. I really dont know what else to say.

King 5 story

Dreaming in a dream...

Last night I dreamed that I dreamed I was a lute player. I have no idea where that came from. I always think its so strange when you dream that you are dreaming.

Images found searching "Lute" on ARC

Happy Delusions next week

happy delusions
924 S. 3rd St.
Renton, WA 98057 US

Thursday, February 11, 4:00PM   
Phone:     425-255-6078

Just in time for Valentine?s Day!  Share the debut of the awesome photographic images by Beverly Fletcher.  A gift from her ?Precious Moments in Life and Nature? images, for yourself or someone special, will be a lasting reminder of the sweetness of life!   Please come celebrate with us on February 11th from 4-7. Refreshments and personal signing provided.

Etsy Fairy Tale Treasury

Curated by me!

Next week at Twilight

I am going to see if I can make it out for at least a little while for the art walk. I do have to go hang my art that day for the Rung show to... If you are looking for something to do you should check it out!

Twilight in the Junction

We are excited to present the Featured Artist(s) of the month in the upstairs portion of our gallery.

Bad Words
Thursday, February 11th
from 6 to 9, during the West Seattle Art Walk.

What makes a word bad? After all, they're just words. It is the human imagination that generates a context in which certain words are frowned upon in common usage. These words vary from region to region, but every language seems to have some. There is really nothing wrong with a word. It can't harm anyone literally, but again, the human mind can take words very seriously at times and can create its own damage from them. Despite all that, they can come in handy and express things good words just can't.

This show is intended to be an examination of words that could be construed as "bad". I asked several artists to play with this concept of what makes BAD WORDS.

FEATURING: Nat Damm, Kevin McCarthy, Kelly Lyles, Kamala Dolphin Kingsley, Troy Gua, Molly Norris, Kristen Ramirez, Sara Lanzillotta, Lisa Geertsen, Shaun Kardinal, Warren Dykeman, Mary Enslow, Michael Alm, Aubrey Nehring, Gail Howard, Erin Frost, Andrew Drawbaugh, Sharon Arnold, Sierra Stinson and Michael Leavitt.
 
   

The Stables in Georgetown

What:  Comic release party:  Baked Potato by Blake Whitaker
Where:  The Georgetown Stables, located behind Full Throttle Bottles, 5909 Airport Way S (between Doris St & Nebraska St).
When: Saturday, February 13th

About: Baked Potato is a collection of short stories centered around friends Ronnie and Stevie. Despite being lazy, pot-smoking potatoes, the two main characters manage to get into loads of trouble.

More: The first four issues of Baked Potato will be available at the show. Blake Whitaker will also DJ and show two original films, which will be available on DVD.

2 quick little save the date's

Mourning Market Presents SWEET SORROW

When:

Sunday, February 07, 2010 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST

Where:

1950 1st Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134

Back by popular demand! Mourning Market is Seattle's Premier Dark Arts Event. Featuring the Northwests spookiest Vendors! Featuring Madame Talbot's Victorian Lowbrow Art Exhibition! Come join us before Valentine's Day for our SWEET SORROW Show! This will be our last show for a little while, so be sure to attend! There will be FREE "Body Bag" giveaways for the first 40 People full of goodies and coupons from Vendors! DON'T MISS OUT....these were a HUGE hit and went within the first 10 minutes!

Darkest Regards,
Mourning Market Widows

AND

What/When/Where:

Rung Studio Art Opening

- Saturday, February 13th, 6-9pm, 1136 S Albro Place, Seattle
(Georgetown's Artwalk night as well!)

February's featured artists at Rung Studio:
Anthony Hicks, steampunk artist, http://www.facebook.com/people/Anthony-Hicks/652027671
Alexandria (Alex) Sandlin, www.cherrybones.com
 
Let your friends know as well -- fabulous fun and funky art plus good food and drink and people and mingling, and the Georgetown artwalk too!

Hope to see you there

Browsing for inspiration

Im working on a set of four new paintings, the four seasons. I have the basic stuff figured out but I am in need of some inspiration for some of it like...well Im not exactly sure what I am really missing. Thats the trouble with this art thing, sometimes an image is totally solid and and I know exactly what I want or need to paint and other times its kind of fuzzy and I just have a general feeling Im working off of. I think I have found what I was looking for! Sometimes you see it and it just clicks and then you know...

So I found this seller on Etsy who looks like she no longer is selling which makes me really sad cause I want to buy something from her for my inspiration board in front of my computer. The seller is candyconnection22 and she used to sell such cute stuff like this! Oh my, I need those! So I went looking on the internets and I found this super cute blog Old Glory Cottage so many neat things there, and I havent read any of the posts yet I just looked at the pretty pictures :) Then I found this site: vintage holiday crafts where you can download some super cute vintage valentines, here are a couple so you can see how adorable:

I think I feel a new obsession coming on. I need to go to the thrift store soon to search for cute old cards to hoard ♥

A new blog, yes again...

Well I have been going back and forth about making a new website and what software I should use to make it, where to host, maybe just hand code it from scratch etc...I am done. I just dont have time right now to deal with it so here is where I landed. I really liked Wordpress but I was limited there with not being able to sell on my blog and I dont know that I ever will sell anything directly from my blog site but I want the freedom to do what I want here. Also I thought about hosting wordpress at my own host but Im through Yahoo hosting right now and for some super lame reason Yahoo stopped supporting updated versions of wordpress, not good :P So I will still be getting rid of Yahoo after all, in a few months it will go bye bye and both of my domain names will be here, yay!

Now I have to go paint!! I have two shows coming up very very soon and I need to prepare. I will post about the new shows very soon.

Alex~

These posts are from my old wordpress blog...

I backdated them on the last post date. Click to see them...