MY FIRST POST ON MY OWN BLOG

Dear Friends, Well here I go...After coming back from a wonderful art retreat the end of February 2009, called ART NEST, I decided I was going to take more time to share my life, art, and myself with my art friends and family. It has been hard as so much everyday life gets in the way of my fun. But I want to try everyday to bring some FUN TIME to my life. And this is my beginning.

In March I had family, family, and more family for Spring Breaks in Texas. I had my Mother-in-law for 3 weeks, my husbands sister and niece for a week, my son and 2 grandchildren for a week but I ended the month with a 7 day cruise to the Caribbean. WOW! did my husband and I need that time to veg. It was beautiful weather and we eat, slept, and laid on the beach in Roatan, Honduras. I would move there in a minute if it was not for my grandkids. But I have lots of pictures to share when I can figure that out too. I took lots of pictures of the water. I love the water and I want to make a collage of inches of my water pictures.

When I arrived home I had a week visit from my cousin that I had not seen for years, she is 14 years older than me but I thought she was the most beautiful cousin anyone could have when I was a child and now I have found the most beautiful friend too. After all these years we bonded in so many ways so I am hoping to keep in touch with her through my art too. She used to paint and she will be my Guinna pig now. We had a wonderful week. They travel in the most beautiful motorhome and I am looking forward to when she can come back again for a visit.

In March I also moved my "everyday job" office into my house from our little house out the back door so that in the month of April I can work on my mission to organize my STUDIO D (for Debbie), to paint more, create, learn, explore, and be away from the everyday living that goes on in my house. I am almost 58 (April 19th this year) and I need quiet space to clear my head and explore my creativeness or see if I can dig any out. Hopefully I will have some pictures of my progress later in my blog too.

I bought a new camera, bigger and better than I have ever had before so I am taking lots of pictures for inspiration. I'll see what happens????

I am taking an Introduction to Encaustics class this Saturday to learn the basics. I love the look of the molten beeswax, they will be working with colored pigments and resin too. I am hoping this will add some layers to my mixed media art as well. So I should be in the mood when I get home from the class Saturday to start something.

Well, this is about it for now but I want to add something each week to make sure that I have done something FUN in the week to talk about.

Wishing all of you a Happy Easter and brain blossoms of art.

Love to you all,

Debbie