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Santa Fe – Blessings for Home & Life

Posted by venita on August 4th, 2008 filed in Road Trips, Shows, collage, mixed media

Well I have an update on how my gallery visit went.  I arrived at The Blessing today at about lunch time and met with Jenni and her husband Doug.  They opened Blessing for Home & Life last October.  It is inside of Annapurna Restaurant.  They specialize in religious icons, statues, scents, teas and much more.  They [...]

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Santa Fe – 2nd Day of Girl’s Inc. Santa Fe Arts & Craft Show

Posted by venita on August 4th, 2008 filed in Road Trips, Shows, collage, mixed media

Many of the artists continued to say the show was much slower for them.  And it would be a few hours before I got my first sale of the day.  But, all in all it was an amazing day!!!  In the morning, a gentleman stopped by to show his friend my work.  He was there [...]

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Santa Fe – Set Up & 1st Day of Girl’s Inc. Santa Fe Arts & Craft Show

Posted by venita on August 4th, 2008 filed in Shows, collage, mixed media

Set up happened on Friday afternoon, you had a time slot to come in and do your set up.  I was on South Lincoln between San Francisco and East Palace Avenue in booth 134.  Nancy, Sara, & LeAnn helped put up the tent and then had to head out for a store visit.  So, I [...]

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Santa Fe - Road Trip

Posted by venita on July 31st, 2008 filed in Shows, collage

So, I have been quiet for a week on my blog!  All I have been focused on is getting through our company’s re-organizations and getting to Santa Fe.  Well yesterday was D-Day.  With that said I packed up the car yesterday morning, ran about a 1,000 errands, cleaned up the essentials at the house, dropped my [...]

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Girls Inc. Of Santa Fe 36th Annual Arts & Crafts Show – Aug. 2-3, 2008

Posted by venita on July 22nd, 2008 filed in Shows, collage, mixed media

Well it is almost here!  I think I mentioned in one of my earlier post, that I have been accepted into the Girls Inc. of Santa Fe 36th Annual Arts & Crafts Show.  It is the first weekend in August.  And there are 250 artists that will be in the show.  You had to be [...]

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Mixed Media Monday – A Cup of Tea with a Bit of Cold

Posted by venita on July 14th, 2008 filed in Mixed Media Monday, Photography, collage, mixed media

What a fascinating selection this week.  I have been working on a piece for submission to Cloth Paper Scissors.  The call is for pieces that represent “A Tea Party.”  And low and behold Mixed Media Monday selected “tea” for this week.  I think one might call that Serendipity.

The piece is for my mother-in-law who resides [...]

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Running for My Life

Posted by venita on July 12th, 2008 filed in Digital Collage, Health, Photography, collage

I got up this morning with an attitude change, a significant attitude change.  Like so many of us, I have a day job.  Though stressful, it is a very cool job.  However, with that said, like so many others, we are going through downsizing, restructuring, and “right-sizing.”  And being a stress eater coupled with the [...]

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Mixed Media Monday – Pretty in Pink

Posted by venita on July 7th, 2008 filed in Mixed Media Monday, collage, mixed media

Well I am a little late posting today.  But, I still want to share my Mixed Media Monday piece.  The theme this week is to use a singular color and all its variations.  So, I thought of my dear friend Kelly Kilmer and decided I would work in pink.  I have this great vintage image [...]

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Mixed Media Monday – The Dancing Librarian

Posted by venita on June 30th, 2008 filed in Mixed Media Monday, collage

Well it is Sunday and I am working on my Mixed Media Monday piece.  The theme this week is “dance.”  What to do?  What to do?  Well I knew I wanted some sort of a dancer and originally it was going to be a couple dancing.  Then I found this vintage image from Artchix Studio.  [...]

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Fort Collin’s Rocky Mountain Biennial Show Submission – Epilogue

Posted by venita on June 26th, 2008 filed in Shows, collage, mixed media

Well to my surprise the notice came in on Tuesday.  “It is with regret that we did not accept any of your work….”  I should have been really sad about it.  But, my response was quite different then when I received the rejection notice from the Emerging Artist submission.  I was oddly not really sad.  [...]

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