Dia de los Muertos

venita | October 11, 2008

This weekend, the town of Bellvue is celebrating its first Dia de los Muertos.  Bev Perina will be hosting a Dia de los Muertos Celebration:   Fine Art and Antique show (Bellvue, CO) -  Oct 10-12th, 2008, as well.  Bev owns the Bellvue store and host an event every second Friday of the month.    There [...]

Cool Artist Blog Sites

venita | October 7, 2008

Last month, I got tagged by lovely Sarah Fishburn.  And essentially what that means, is that you tag some of your favorite blogs.  So with that said, I wanted to tag some of the blogs that I love and get inspiration from:   Kelly Kilmer Karen Michel  Sarah Fishburn  Tiffini Elektra  Helga Strauss      These ladies are [...]

Castro Street Fair

venita | October 7, 2008

Tami and Marty met me at my booth.  Special Events, had set up my booth and left two tables for me (and they come and tear it down after the show).  We put out my wonderful linens from Santa Fe, my art, prints and t-shirts.  The booth looked great.    The show officially opened at [...]

Race to Craziness!!

venita | October 7, 2008

It is about time that I start blogging again.  You are probably wondering where I have been.  Well quite frankly, I have been on the Race to Craziness!!  Yes after my post about the accident, I hit a level of overload, I haven’t seen in quite some time.   To catch you up just a [...]

The Accident

venita | August 17, 2008

I call this image the Race to Craziness.  I love it because the canvas was covered in receipts, statistic book pages, music, tickets from everywhere that year, and more trashy novel pages. My goal was to cover the chaos of life and make it beautiful.  The piece is 24×36”.    I chose it for today’s [...]

Santa Fe – Blessings for Home & Life

venita | August 4, 2008

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 [...]

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

venita | August 4, 2008

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 [...]

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

venita | August 4, 2008

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 [...]

Santa Fe – Road Trip

venita | July 31, 2008

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 [...]

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

venita | July 22, 2008

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 [...]