Nice News and An Important Update!

Hello Folks!

  Alright, after a week of thoughts on the matter of art, and through your mostly heartening words, I am encouraged enough to continue on this humble art path. You'll forgive me if I pulled the last posting, I've decided it's probably a bit too heavy for this little chapter of my life, so I'll focus on the news at hand, and there is plenty of  sweet news afoot!

I have to say, I've been buoyed by the happy faces of those who have received my art.  This little lady was given my wooden owl painting for her birthday. These sorts of pictures just make me happy:

Then, my good friend, and amazing artist Jen Traynor won one of my OWOH giveaways. The winning was technically one of my beeswax ornaments, but I sent a little Easter rabbit for her sweet daughter Zoe. Jen sent me the most lovely thank you, and sent this endearing picture of the little art bunny, hanging out with Jen's garden goddess!

You can probably guess how delighted I was!  By the way, you can visit Jen's gorgeous blog and view her spectacular art at Gypsy Mare Studios.


Speaking of OWOH giveaway,  a BIG belated THANK YOU to Robert Brawley, of HALLOWEEN FANATIC who sent me THIS lovely as a prize from  MY OWOH  winning! (yes, I know, that was quite some time ago!)

Isn't this the SWEETEST Snowman? He will definitely enjoy sharing the house with the other enchanted creatures!

I even love the cute little brown paper ENVELOPE he came in! Very decorative! If you don't know, Robert has the cutest pug named Twinkle, and he dedicates cute art dolls to her, in her likeness. Lucky dog! You can see the little stamps of her in the hand drawn outside of the envelope, above!

More hand-drawn goodness! I love it!

Robert does some amazing whimsical work so check out his website HERE!

THANK YOU ROBERT!

Now for some BIG NEWS!  *Ahem* the sweetheart FINALLY got ME a RING!!
It's a sweet ring, a little different than my other ring, with a lovely amethyst stone...

Can you tell I had a bit too much fun shooting photos for this?

No idea when a wedding might be! Too many projects seem to be coming at both of us fast and furious this year---for example:
 I am apparently going on a beekeeping/art/bellydance teaching adventure in IOWA (and possibly beyond) in late APRIL. I will explain more, but you are most likely to find this story on my OTHER site, BEYOND VAGABOND, within a day or so...


Speaking of which--and this is an issue I've brought up before--I am thinking of going back to the idea of simply keeping this strictly a sales blog, and continuing the doll-making/performing/nature/beekeeping/etc stories on the other site, simply because it's clearly becoming too much work to write two separate stories on these two blogs/maintain a professional farm site, apparently start a beekeeping blog...oh yeah, and do the 10 hr DAY job, and actually create art! Oh yeah, there's that "sleeping" rumor I keep hearing about, too. One day I'm gonna hafta try it!


So, even though I sort of dropped the ball in my original plans to do this--because I keep telling the stories of all the humble creations I make, I think it really is time to just update with a pictures and where to purchase Vagabondish items! In the meantime, feel free to hop over to the Beyond Vagabond site if you want to read more about my peculiar life!

Speaking of which, here are a few new fresh faces, you'll probably see them at my Etsy Shoppe in a day or two, once they're finally "tweeked" to perfection!

For some reason, foxen keep making their way onto the wood:

"The Messenger in the Wood"

Fox Bringing hearts through a labyrinth of leaves. This took a bit of time, and is probably my most elaborate pendant to date!

"Heart Hunter"

Here is a new technique I am using, where I'm using the pyrography tool to actually burn through the wood. So you *can* see through the wood where the hearts have been burned through. I hope you enjoy the new look!

And a few others might make it onto the scene, including an Easter themed art doll (you remember when I used to make THOSE!)....so stay tuned!

Feel free to buy them in order to help pay for the "wedding fund", "touring fund" or "rainy day money fund".  And thank you in advance!