Wonderful Christmas

Our Christmas Tree

Paw Paw's Tree Christmas Day

Mom and Dad's Tree Christmas Eve

Rosie (mom and dad's dog) in her new coat.
She is so funny, when you put her coat on she will not move.

Touring the town to see Christmas lights.

Living Artfully in November

Saturday, November 29th
Visited the Taubman Museum of Art


Sunday, November 16th

A Day Trip on the Blue Ridge Parkway to Chateau Morrisette.

Saturday, November 8th

Olin Gallery at Roanoke College featured paintings by Barbara Crawford.

Thursday, November 6th

As members of the new Taubman Museum of Art, we

were able to preview before the grand opening. Our favorite room

the Decorative arts/Early Modernism Gallery featured

17th Century Florentine Paintings

Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (1692-1768)Harlequin and his Lady(first half, 17th century)Oil on Canvas, 23.5 x 19.5 inchesCourtesy of the Haukohl Family Collection
Picked up canvas From The Market Gallery for the
annual Roanoke Valley SPCA Fund Raiser

Sunday, November 2nd

Friends Living Artfully
This rock wall was dry stacked by Mike Brunette.
My husband is dry stacking a rock wall like this for me.

 

Mike is an artist, his work is shown at the
Little Gallery at Smith Mountain Lake, VA

This is landscape painting by Mike is in my personal collection.

Saturday, November 1st

Attended my first Fiesta Party.

Enjoyed hitting at the Pinata.

Wonderful Giveaway by Indiexx.com

Iron and Wine - Boy with a Coin

Sunday - October 19

Bill White Open Studio

Bill paints wonderful landscapes.

Saturday - October 11

Sandi D'Alessandro

Demo at Signature 9

Eric Fitzpatrick

painting on the Roanoke City Market

Weekend of Art

Over the weekend I attended several art shows and a demo.

The first stop was to Signature 9 Gallery for a collage demo
and thru the month of October every Saturday
there will be an art demo.

Second stop The 29th Annual Roanoke City Art Show 2008

Walk Softly

Third stop at the Salem Fine Arts Commission Art Show 2008
we purchased the above collage painting by Linda Rae Russo.

Our God Kitties

CD our neighbors kitty.

Stray Kitty I named OC (Orange Cat)

A Long Weekend at Topsail Island

Topsail Island, NC is a wonderful place to vacation
and find treasures.
A little art.

Sea glass, sharks teeth, coral, and shells.

Beautiful Sunrises

Great Weather


Beautiful Sunsets

Hatteras, North Carolina

The ocean and sky is so blue Wednesday.

Frisco Pier

First treasures, a wooden heart

amber and
green sea glass.

Beautiful clear blue skys.

Murphy enjoying the ride to Hatteras.

Casa Show

CASA - KALEIDOSCOPE 2008 - CASA's Third Annual Art Fest

Carvins Cove 2008 Acrylic

My wonderful husband took me
to Carvins Cove to shot photos.
He got a little chilly.

KALEIDOSCOPE 2007 - CASA's Second Annual Art Fest

Angel to Watch Over the Children 2007 Acrylic

Kaleidoscope 2007 Acrylic
I used a photo of my niece for this painting.

Recent Work

Published in the first 2008 edition of Lifes Images

by Stampington and Company

Oil painting of White Branch Creek shown at

the 2007 Member Art Show of the

Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center .

Early Art

High School Artwork

This is a landscape made with tissue paper that

I created in Elementary School.

I won 2 - first place ribbons, one for the school 6th grade art class

and the County Reflection in Intermediate Visual Arts.

My Beautiful Girl

This is my sweet White Front Amazon Parrot named Murphy.

Her previous owner thought she was a male,

but the vet said no it is a girl.

She has a limited vocabulary, she laughs,

and says Murphy, mama, pretty bird.