Bird Painting on my Wall in Progress

For those of you that are new to my blog, a quick update...6 mo. ago we made the descision to move from Oregon to So. California. We love it here, the sun is shining...aaaaah.

Problem: there will more then likely be an earthquake, we dont know when or where...

If I'm in bed...I dont want to be hit by anything hanging above our heads...for 6 mo. I've been living with this delima. One idea, I was going to make one of those white coffee filter wreaths...but thats a bit foofie for me...I'm an artist (that is still so hard for me to say) I havent painted much for the last 8 mo. (exept for the spoons on my header)

I found a little rubber stamp...it gave us an idea...I love it when ideas land in my hands.!

I'm an apartment manager...so, I guess that gives me permission to paint on my walls....With the aid of my daughter...we painted this bird cage above our bed...what does my husband think you may ask...dont ask...ha ha, we've been married for 38 years, so, he has learned to just go with the flow...makes life easy!!!

This week I'm linking up with Frugal Friday at The Shabby Nest, and Romantic Home.

Happiness is....

This week Alphabe-Thursday...is the letter H...I love my H...Happiness!!! Here is what Happiness is to me...So. Calif. Blue Skys, gorgeous ocean, beautiful beaches
The abundunce of fresh veggies

More Blue Sky's

I'm in love with Palm Trees

Please check in with our teacher, Mrs. Matlock at

jennymatlock.blogspot.com

for more H's

My Day Off

Saw this cute little fence

Went to the Irvine Flea Market, the weather was fabulous...we got there just as folks were starting to pack up...thats when the best deals are made. I've been wanting an old stoneware

coffee cup, I couldn't pass up this "rootbeer" stoneware bottle. I've started collecting a FEW small things for the sake of "photography" thats what I keep telling myself...ha ha ha

I have just a couple of things I want to replace that had to stay behind when we moved...I wanted an old typewriter...she had $25 marked out on the tag with $15 written in...I asked her if she would take $10....Yeppie, it is now mine...Cant wait to use it in my photography!!
Have you looked at the price on ebay and etsy, wow, really expensive

I added a couple of textures...its to much, but I didn't have time to fiddle. Speaking of textures. Kim Klassen is having a class on making our textures...hands on, gettin' down and dirty textures. So, I'll be making my own soon! whoo hoo

Now for some sad news, I've been fighting with myself to keep up with Pink Saturday, Its been a chore for the last 6 mo because of my schedule. I pulled out, not going to do it anymore (right now anyway) Its amazing how much better I feel after making the decision, I've been doing it for years and years and it was sad to send the email to Beverly, but whew, I did it.

I feel bad my blog isn't the same as it use to be, I know I've lost some visitors, but we all change

and go different directions. At one point I thought I'd stop blogging, but, I love doing it, I love all the visitors and friends I've made. I love doing Jenny Matlocks Alphabe-Thursday

My daughter has had a rough time trying to get a job down here in So. Calif. She has an interview on Monday. It sounds perfect, we're praying it will be "the one" Life will change

again once she moves out, I will be able to create more...right now we are having the time of our lives visiting cities, antique shops, stores, beaches, mountian...

LIFE IS GOOD

Giddyness Alphabe-Thursday

So, I'm walking into Borders, went to thumb through the Somerset Studio Magazines....

And I see this photo....looks familiar...WHAT??!! Its mine. I knew they said it was going

to be published, but I didn't know which one, or when, so I was a little giddy....

Mrs Matlock...our Teacher for Alphabe-Thursday...has given us the letter G this week.

I think the word "Giddy" is a perfectly good use of the G letter.

Please check out out other G's at jennymatlock.blogspot.com

Foursome Pink Saturday Spoons

Our teacher Mrs. Matlock at Jennymatlock.blogspot.com has given us the letter F to blog about.

I wasnt ready... I looked through photos...nope, couldn't come up with a word for F

I got a special order request for some painted spoons...I got busy last night, the thought did go through my head...."can I still paint, its been 6 mo."

In honor of the letter F...I separated the spoons into foursomes. Its not a great word, I'll work on something better next week for G

Below is a family photo, I'll be listing a few of these on Etsy.

Please leave me a comment and tell me your Favorite...Hey! another F word!!!

I am going to leave these spoon up for Pink Saturday.

Beverly at How Sweet the Sound is our host

I even made my banner. I'm learning more and more about PSE

~~LOVE IT~~

Have you checked out Kim Klassens Cafe...wonderful stuff going on over there.

Playing with Photos

I'm taking a class from Kim Klassen, I added a couple of her textures to this photo.

Window Shopping Antique Shops

Went to Orange today. They have the BEST antiques shops. Heres what I fell in love with.

This screw and bolt were sooo large. The screw was about a foot high, Look at that spring!
These were all found at Country Roads

Love copper tea pots. I use to have a collection of them

Loved this booth, so much red goodness

Then this old typewriter...I want it sooo bad, look at those colored keys!

Birds

A neighboring town closed off all their street to have a street faire. It was wonderful. I've never seen one so big, AND the sun came out for awhile!! There was a group their that had these birds out where we could photograph them...so beautiful

This owl was so tiny,

This guy made the most wonderful noise.

There were people just holding these birds, birds we can never see up close in the wild.

Delightful

Pink Hollihocks, Pink Saturday

I had a post up, I went to make a change and the whole thing dissapeared. I'm crunched for time this morning, so I'll leave you with this.

I'm taking a class with Kim Klassen to learn more about PSE8, so I used her textures and ideas to this photo. I heard there is a new PSE9, oh how I want it!

Please visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound. Theres a lot of Pink going on.

Earth's Goodness

Alphabe-Thursday our letter for class today is " E" I'm going with earth's Goodness.
You can visit more students by going to
jennymatlock.blogspot.com


Beautiful peppers at the Farmers Market

Onions, What a beautiful Pink color

From this to That, photoshop play

I needed a book cover, so after taking it apart, I remembered seeing this around blogland, books with the spine, I'll add more to this stack, at a later time

adding a grunge layer and darkening it a bit, a touch of cropping. I like how it turned out.

LEMONS

Last night I decided to get out my water colors and paint some lemons. In the light of day,

I can see many imperfections, but it was fun. The top picture was done on reg. paper that had been coated with modeling paste. It beaded up a bit, but I kinda like how it turned out

This one was just done in my watercolor moleskin notebook

Have you seen my kitty???

My kitty is hidden, you cant see him...right? He stayed like that for about 15 min.

Mission in Ventura

The Mission in Ventura

On people watch, this guy was staying out of the drizzle in a closed store front, singin and making the world a better place.

My Saturday Trip

Are you anxious to hear how our day went??? We drove for hours, 15 min. North of Santa Barbara to go to this wonderful Lemon Festival...It was drizzly and foggy. Thats ok, We saw the tents and headed to this LEMON Festival...There were NO LEMONS!! Lemon nothing...it was horrible. A couple of booths with clothes that were getting wet. One booth of jewelry, one both with ugly purses...ok, we found the food...food???? One booth of Gyros, one booth with store bought lemonade, then we found it!!! Lemon Cotton Candy!!!

Is it looking a bit sad?? The one on the left she just gave to us...the one on the right..melted right before our eyes...the drizzle they just melted.

We were hungry, we kept going through towns looking for some place to eat. We went into Ventura...I had this "special" pizza. ummm the roasted tomatoes, just came out of the freezing cold cooler. As with the onions, cold...After the waitress explain (after it was served) that it was a cold pizza...It really was good, but it was like a big cracker. (still not sure why it took 20 min.)

Then we stopped at a couple of antique shops, they were soooo expensive, it kinda takes the fun out of looking

Did I mention it was a VERY GREY DAY. It made me realize that I DON'T miss the rain and drizzle and grey skys. We were glad to get home. We still had lots of laughs.

I forgot to put the picture of the Mission on, I'll do that tomorrow. It was so tiny, but it was pretty inside.