Happy Birthday Jesus

We are moved and well on our way to being settled into our new home.  I'm so grateful we can celebrate Christmas dinner, here in our home with some of our family.  I created this card for the Gateway East Artist Guild Christmas card contest and it is sitting in my bottle brush creche.  It says it all for me this Joyous Christmas morning ....

A "Moving" Abstract!

My studio has been reduced to labeled cardboard boxes waiting to be transported this weekend on the U-Haul.    We should get possession of our new home on December 17th and as soon as I can, I'll unpack the boxes and work at organizing my new studio that is greatly reduced in size from what I've enjoyed here in this home.  It's good to have to go through and clean out what is superfluous and realizing that what I thought I couldn't part with, I actually could.  I look forward to a new beginning in my art along with our new life in new surroundings and discovering a new art world.

My last evening with the Gateway East Artist Guild in Belleville, Il, that has been a big part of my life for 9 years, was very special.  It was the annual Christmas Party,  My friends totally surprised me with a lovely framed collage of photos of the guild members and messages written on the matt that will hang in a special spot in my new studio.  I was also very surprised that that I was awarded with the Artist of the Year plaque. It was a great way to say good bye.

The house is all packed, so I had time to create a useful work of "art" - a layout of our new home, with scale to size pieces of paper that represent our furniture.  Hopefully this will make moving in easier!