PAINT PARTY FRIDAY WEEK 47

Hi Everyone!

It is more difficult than I thought it would be to find my "normal" since my mom passed away.  I am trying to keep very busy with my brother taking care of my mom's affairs and my own. Thank goodness my brother and I are doing this together. Anyway I am just trying to stay light and as stress free as possible. I have managed to sell another painting and started a new one the other day. This is not quite finished but you get the idea.  Miss all of you fine people and your art. I look forward to seeing what you have been up to. 

Thank you to Eva and Kristen for hosting Paint Party Friday

Still on the easel in front of my abstract painted curtains LOL

Abstract in acrylics 16x20" gallery canvas

Nicole/Beadwright 

Honor and integrity in art, in life.

TIME

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I can't believe how fast time and this month has gone by.   Time..... If I had some I would look up the meaning of it. How it really works and why we are so dictated by it. 
Time is often referred to as the fourth dimension, the first three being the spatial dimensions. When you think about it, it is "man" who puts restraints on time. I would love to live in my old world, in the remote, where time doesn't matter and my days simply float by 
with no schedules or appointments. 

This is digital art by Flew Designs

  

Nicole/Beadwright

Honor and integrity in art, in life.

HAPPY SUNDAY

Hi Everyone!

Wishing all of you a very happy Sunday

photo from google

Nicole/Beadwright 

Honor and integrity in art, in life.

THANK YOU WITH LOVE

Hi Everyone!

First I would like to thank all of you for the most amazing love and caring comments, emails, post cards and letters. I may not be getting to all of your blogs right now but I want all of you to know how much it means to me and how much it is helping me get through this time. So Thank you with Love

 Photo by my daughter April

                              On a happy note all of the clay has been sold. Thanks Sue!

Nicole/Beadwright 

Honor and integrity in art, in life.

FINDING MY WAY

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I am finding my way in this life with out my mom. I can't tell you how difficult it really is. But I do know she would not want me sad or crying all the time. So I have started to "get on with it" Haaa the work never stopped LOL.  Part of getting on with it is getting my new web site up and going. I worked on it most of today. Got a new page up and hopefully tonight will have another page up. Yummy Ultrasuede. So be sure to check in at Beadwright.  Also mom's died quills are going fast so if you are interested please email me. 

The next big push is selling mom's polymer clays. Mom was a clay artist. She left a nice supply and I would love to sell it off in one fell swoop. Anyone interested I will price this sooo right!

Here are a few photos.

Nicole/Beadwright 

Honor and integrity in art, in life.

INTRODUCING LILLIAN ARENA TRULY BEAUTIFUL

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Last year a very nice lady, Priscilla, wrote to me about NBB and how she wanted some for her mom. No problem but when I found out "mom" was 95 years young I had to know what she was creating.  So Priscilla wrote a short bio and sent the most amazing photos. I am honored to introduce to you 

Lillian Arena and in Priscilla's words

You sent me an email about craft pictures that my 95 year old mother has been working on using your fine quality Nicole's BeadBacking.  Here are some of the pictures from the project.  My mother Lillian Arena was sitting in a bead store and Robin Atkin's book caught her interest and her wanting to start this craft project.  She purchased the book and started on the project.  She has been crafting all of her life being a doll collector and also making cloth dolls and their clothes.  Besides dolls her interests have been China painting, working with clay, sewing and participating in several

San Francisco area doll and teddy bear clubs.  She is a voracious reader too.  She is probably happiest when she is working on crafts.  She started her journey with crafting after she retired in her 60's.  She finds great pleasure in learning new crafts all the time.  When she learned how to

make Kumihimo braids several years ago she and I held a craft day for a small group of crafters near our home.  We had a blast.  I now have a large box of completed Kumihimo's waiting for me to bead embroider some cabochons to hang on them.  Shibori ribbon caught her eye and as

you will see she has incorporated the shibori ribbon in her small doll projects.  I fully think she will continue to craft and enjoy all things handmade for many years to come.  I am attaching several pictures of her latest project.  Thank you for your interest in my mother. 

 She truly is an amazing person.

 I agree Lillian is amazing

 Her easy elegance is in her natural beauty

 Using NBB for her dolls makes me proud

 Again elegance

 I really do love each and every one of these dolls.

 Thank you Priscilla and Lillian for sharing with us.

Nicole/Beadwright 

Honor and integrity in art, in life.