Lesley Venable

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.

 

Etsy Treasuries and The New Blog...

Hi Everyone,

I truly want this new blog to be about me, my art, my life, my friends, etc.  Included in that is my desire to promote other artists and their shoppes so twice a week I will be posting treasuries.  I am going to limit it two twice a week mainly because that is not what I want the main focus of the blog to be about.  I really want you to see more of me, what I am creating, what I am stumbling with and what is working for me. 

With that being said here is the first treasury that I will be sharing.  Just a gathering of some summertime items....

 

 

 

An Artful Gathering....

What happens when you put together two ambitious retreat planners, 6 weeks, 17 teachers and a gazillion internet connections????  A totally awesome online retreat that's what!!!

It's coming soon and I know you won't want to miss out on this spectacular inaugural online event!!!  I am totally stoked to be a part of Gail and Zinnia's dream retreat and I know you will be too when you read all about it.

I will be teaching a class on taking those bits and pieces you have collected over the years, you know that special stash of collectible goodness I am talking about, and creating a wonderful, one of a kind, mixed media neckalce with it.

Here's some of the things you will be learning in the class:

1. Resin pendants.
2. Resin links.
3. Using Old Hardware.
4. Creating Dangles
5. Paper Beads
6. Tube Beads
7. Intersting Links

Also, even after the last day of class you can still contact me with any questions you may have and we are in the process of working with making DVDs of the class. 

I hope you will join us.......

 

 

 

Today is the Day.....

Hi Everyone,

Sometimes we go  through periods of our lives where we feel we aren't good enough, creative enough, worthy enough or just ____________  (fill in the blank) enough.  We've had an emotional crisis, physical crisis, familial crisis or a __________ (fill in the blank) crisis. 

It's taken me a long time and the help of my "stick by you through thick and thin to the end" friends to set me on the path of belief.....belief in myself, my art, my love, my heart.  They've shown me that no matter how badly I want a relationship (family, friend, co-worker) to work out sometimes they are just toxic and I need to drop them.....they do more harm than good.  You can work months on building confidence and one word, one comment from them can tear it all down.

Kecia, one of my friends and chosen family members and a fellow artist, came and visited us this weekend and i have to say it was wonderful to have an Artist, my style of artist, here.  I had so much fun watching her paint, creating my first journal pages, talking to her about art, the good, bad and ugly of it, hitting the flea markets, garage sales and just going through the studio.  It was fun and Bennie loved it....he had slumber party time with Kecia every night and he even whimpered at the back door after she drove down the driveway this morning. 

Okay, I know I digress just a tad.  I've been wanting to lighten up several areas of my life.  I don't want to be in the dark corner trying to create with no natural light so we moved my studio upstairs where I have two windows with lite that flows in and brightens my world.  I didn't want to hide behind dark hair and try to be ordinary any longer so I lightened my hair in Texas and got a sassy cut that says look at me.  I didn't want to hide my words, feelings and art behind dark colors any longer so I created a new blog address and had Michelle create some magic to bring the words, art and feelings out into the light.

I hope those that followed me before will wish to do so again or continue to do so.  I hope that you will visit often and leave comments if there is something you like or would like to see more of.  I hope that the creations you see here will inspire you in your own creativity.

Thank you for being here for me and I hope you like the changes you see.

 

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