Photo Gallery 2

These are the full photos from the quick portrait pics:)

Just A Few Of My Finds

These are wood finials I found on my trip to the flea market before my last show. Now what will I do with these? Well believe it or not they will become hats once a hole is drilled to pass ribbon through! A real crowning glory.
The trunk is about3 by 4 inches so you can see the bottles are at largest 2 inches and the rest maybe 1 and1/2 inches. The ribbon in the other trunk is silk. Just some of my finds on my way to the Tampa show. I got up early just so I could attend the Stamp and Scrapbook Expo for two hours before driving to Tampa. It was well worth it!

Quick Portrait Pics

A new section with just partial portraits that hopefully make you want to see more:)

Tampa show 2009

The Tampa Show By Bright Star Productions this past Sunday was well attended. Saw a lot of my collectors and met new people. To all the former Bearly Spring and ABC show people who came, it was fun to see you again.
We had a great breakfast with the early bird collectors and there was a line waiting to get in at the regular time.
I was able to get some neat mohair from Dale of Bear Street. Always like to see the mohair in person when I can.
Photo is of my table at the show. Come join us next year.

Week Before a Show

This past week has been spent getting ready for the Bright Star Tampa Bear Show being held Sunday, February 22nd. Yet there is no work done. Oh, I have been working but it goes like this.Sewing body parts, painting boxes, oops that design won't work, ummm start over. Wait stop, the old sofa bed is dead, guys we need to move that one out of the work room and move in the sofa from the bedroom. So stop what I m working on ,clean stuff out and move that in, only takes a day. Rearrange, wait how did all this stuff fit in here before?! Well Cindy will have to sleep on the sofa bed in the living room after the show, with the Christmas tree I bought on sale off the display floor so it has no box to break it down into so it can be put up and who has time to look for a box so it is still in the living room where I plopped it.
My friends haven't seen me in weeks so I take off another day to go to the farmer's market and flea market.Find very little at the flea market but the vegetables are great and Keith(hubby) makes a great spaghetti sauce with the different peppers. Come on, I do not cook when I get ready for a show. I bought a new lasagna pan and when my son saw it he peeked in the workroom, me covered in excelsior and fabric and wanted to know when I was making lasagna. He got' the' look and said "I mean later, when later", and off he went.
So I keep working on two pieces that have to go out and get part of the piece for the show done, get part of a piece done that has a photo deadline and begin to see progress. But it is Friday, and I have not packed the bears or my clothes and have three pieces to finish today. This weekend is antique extravaganza at Rennigers in Mt. Dora and I will miss it, ugh! Tomorrow starts a huge scrapbook and stamp fair in Maitland. Why do all the fun things I love to do happen when I
have a show?!
What a week, See you in Tampa:) Me and the bears

This Valentines Day

This Valentines day give love to somebody very important, yourself. Don't wait for someone else to show you the love you deserve, it's not about getting flowers or candy, but remembering you are worth that and more. You are especially worthy of your own confidence in yourself and your abilities. Be the first to look at yourself and say I am beautiful and mean it. Because we are, just as we are, not after you lose weight or fix your nose or anything else.
This Valentines day give yourself a hug and permission to be happy, to be joyful and complete within. And if it makes you happy, pass some along to someone else. Unconditional love, as they are.

This is my bear hug to all of you. Happy Valentines Day.

Photo 1 details

Early owl is from an old illustration and poem of the same name. Bad Boys is 2nd in the Story Teller series, available from The Toy Shoppe in Richmond, Va. And the Bigger bear is a one of, so named because I made a smaller version who is named Little Bear.