Lesley Venable

Ice Resin® Creations and News!!!

Happy March Everyone!!

Tom and I are preparing for company this evening but I wanted to do a post to show you some of the wonderful happenings over at the Ice Resin® Blog.

These are some of the pieces recently made by a few my fellow Design Team Members.  To read about the products they used and what inspired each of their pieces just click on the image to be swept magically away to the blog and their post....

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Wow, amazingly beautiful!!!!!  Each and every time I look at a new creation on the Ice Resin® Blog I am inspired!!!  What else can you find on the blog??? Well, I'm glad you asked!!  How about tutorials but not just tutorials there are video how to's!!  Giveaways, new product announcements, Workshop Announcements, Ice Resin® E-Books and so much more!!!  You really should check it out....just click the banner image below.

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Now for some wonderful news!

Kristen Robinson's Romantic Bezels, A Cloth, Paper, Scissors Workshop is now available.  Love her beautiful works.  Learn all about it by click the image. 

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Have you ever been sitting at your studio table and thought to yourself...oh no!  I'm missing the perfect bezel, charm, chain or, heaven forbid, you are out of Ice Resin®?  Well, worry no more because  you can now find all of the above at your very own JoAnn  Fabrics!!  How wonderfully awesome is that!?!?!  I have a JoAnn's about 3 minutes from my driveway so I think this is just terrifically cool!!!

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I hope you have a wonderfully creative and inspired day everyone!!!

xoxoxo,

Lesley V

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Home Again, Home Again.....

We arrived home last Wednesday after traveling to Stamford, Connecticut for Art Is You.  What an amazing time, what an amazing retreat......I could say this a gazillion times and it would never be enough - if you have the opportunity to visit one of the Art Is You Retreats do it, Do It, DO IT.  You will not be disappointed - it really is as wonderful, awesome and phenomenal as everyone who attends says it is.  Yes, really.  :)

Yesterday found me unpacking, creating and listing items in my Etsy Shop, A Vintage Season.  Here are a few peeks with more to be listed today....

 

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More items will be listed today, as time allows, and more putting away, creating and I think some resting is in order as well.

Thanks for stopping  by my little space here in this Land O'Blog.

xo,

Lesley V.

 

It doesn't take much....

Hi Everyone!!

I hope your Monday morning is going well and that your weekend was a wonderful one.

Today as I was working blissfully at my desk I was totally unaware that a package was waiting for me.  In fact, I had no idea until Tom brought it to me along with my lunch.  When I saw him come through the door I began salivating, literally, but not for the lunch he had so graciously delivered to me....oh no, the only thing that could have started my heart racing was whatever was in that taped up pampers box.  I did not even remember what I had ordered but I knew, without a doubt, that it was something that would allow me to be creative and spontaneous and delightfully artistic....and it was.

 

Wrapped up inside this wonderful Pampers box was a hoard, dare I say collection, of beautiful plastic doilies in a rainbow of sherbert colors that would delight the most fanatical artist.

Artistic Lesson Learned:  It doesn't take much to set an artistic heart aflutter.

Happy, happy, joy, joy doesn't even cover it.  <smile> 

 

A Trip to Michaels and Dreams of Blog Posts....

Last night, among some pretty fearful nightmares, I had little dreams of blog posts.  I know I could not believe it either.  I was taking photographs to put in blog posts, rearranging and settling on the perfect little vignettes.

Isn't it funny how our daytime thoughts can take over our dreams?  So, to honor my dreams, I have a few images of some items I found at Michael's yesterday.  I had not been there in ages, literally, and I found some of the neatest little things.

Artist Trading Card Blanks

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Glitters......(you converted me Ann Denise)

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and some Glitter Mists....

 
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I found these close to the fine arts section by the canvases.  Going to play with them some today.  Then it is off to the Blues and BBQ Festival that is being held today.

 

A few musings....

This morning finds me ready to do more journaling.  When Kecia was visiting I have to say that she opened up a new door to me and truly inspired me to work with journaling.  What a fantastic way to get ideas and thoughts down on paper.....beautiful!!!  Here are a few of my new journaling tools....

The pencils to the left are water soluable and they are what made the dreamy colors on the page in the background.  You can find them at Barnes  & Noble which is also where I found my journal notebook.

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A corner of my studio working table....

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One of my favorite finds was this baby bed spring/bulletin board.  Don't you love it and the color????

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Need gem tintypes?  These will be coming soon to the shoppe on Etsy:

Be on the lookout for them here:  A Vintage Season

They will be priced between $4.50 and $5.00 each.....great for those altered art and jewelry projects.

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I  hope  this day brings you all blessings and creativity in abundance.