WHAT A DAY: September 7, 2015

Let the North Carolina Apple Festival festivities begin!! 

So many neat stores with such different items from Native American to Germany and European to the farmers of NC. Not to mention the cute beats all around downtown Hendersonville. 

Tony loves his muscadines. (Sp)

Apple Beignets. 

And we grabbed some delicious Fuji apples and candied/caramel apples to go. 

After lunch it was off to Burntshirt Vineyards for some yummy wine tasting. My first time doing this. So we opted for the full tasting of 14 wines. Eek! 

The Apple Wine and Villa Rosa were the winners and we grabbed a bottle to-go. However, I must admit, the Harvest Gold dessert wine was yummy but too sweet for a bottle. 

We, of course, were safe and waited before driving. And ventured around the property. 

Later that night, we watched theOhio  State/VTech game at our usual dinning spot when staying at the Clarion hotel. The Tavern Grille attached to the hotel is great food and service. A true Southern Belle. :)

DRAWING: Jen Osborn's Periscope Lesson

Jen Osborn of The Messy Nest has been posting lessons on her art style via Pericsope app. AND I couldn't be more THRILLED!!  Here is my result from the first lesson. 

PORTRAITS W/ KATE THOMPSON: 'Transforming" Face

Let me start off by saying "I adore spending time creating with other artists at all levels!"  It is that time and space that just feels so peaceful and serene...and yes at times frustrating to get something right.  But I am working on that last aspect trying to let my inner artist speak.

P.S> DO YOU SEE WYANNE......

I completely adore her and admire her and am in awe of her talent and strength!!

 

So this is what I am calling my transformation face as she took several different looks before...

I sort of just put her aside to rest my frustrations with getting a result I liked.

And this is where she is at now...

WATERCOLOR ART: Kal Barteski "Leo"

My friend completely adored Kal Barteski's "Leo" the Lion. (All her work is admirable & amazing!!)

  The design was created for a shirt through the company "Walk In Love".  However, the shirts tend to run on the way smaller side for us tall girls.  So for her birthday, I used my crafty skills and created a watercolor "Leo".

I printed out an image and used graphite paper to trace onto watercolor paper.

I then took masking fluid and painted it around the image, in the grey areas & let dried.

And then the fun began...used the Danielle Donaldson method to watercoloring.

process...

Then rubbed off the masking fluid for the
completed image!

LOVE LOVE LOVE....I foresee more of this artwork in my future!

CREATIVEgirl GOODNESS: layerGOODNESS

I'm still loving every element of Danielle's book!!!!

...here are a few looks of my "layerGOODNESS" projects.

I went big and small ...12"x12" and 6"x8"

This will go inside my Week In The Life album.

And I think this one will be a super cute scrapbooking page for a lil' one.

The last page was done by gessoing over a stencil versus tracing a pattern. However, the gesso didn't allow much room to move the watercolor as it absorbed it quicker. I still love the result.

 

Can't wait for the next activity... :)

WHAT A DAY: August 15, 2015

When your man kindly asks if you have a desire to go watch his FAVORITE football team scrimmage in a city that has Fazoli's Restaurants...you kindly oblige despite the 91* temps which cause part of your spray tan to rub off on your white shirt :).

Round 1 of Fazoli's - lunch.

This is Tony's "heaven on earth" locale.
 He was so in his element & I loved seeing him so happy to have the time to experience these moments. 
And I love being with him for it.

Round 2 - dinner before going back to Charlotte.

 

WHAT A DAY....&....WHAT FUN WE HAD!!!