The Lowdown on Mermaid Love !!!!

I promised I would tell you all about my mermaid workshop and I am a girl of my word!  I am completely exhausted after all the excitement this weekend and hauling my booty to work this morning.

EVERYTHING WAS SIMPLY FABULOUS!  From the setting, to the food, the company, the

constant buzz of  abundant creativity, the weather, the TONS of glorious art supplies and even more STUNNING works of art, and most of all ...  my new BFF SUZI BLU herself! 
Here is my mermaid girl and I loved adding all the texture and glittery stuff.  Adding the final  beeswax layer was really scary, but fun!  I did not get any facetime with Diva Gigi because she was not loving all the people invading her space. She did finally warm up to a select few persistant doggie lovers. I love dogs as much as anyone,  but I am too lazy to work really hard

at winning them over!  I am going to have to post the group photo Suzi took so I can show you ALL the cool new friends I made.  I was so impressed with how well this large group meshed.

Everyone was friendly and fun and very generous in every way!  

Thank you Suzi and all the mermaids for a truly magical experience that I feel fortunate to have been blessed with!

Mermaid Love with Suzi Blu !!!!

Tomorrow I am driving down to Encinitas, which is very close to San Diego, to Suzi Blu's Mermaid Workshop.  The mermaids are coming from all over the country!  I live about 2 hours away and I assumed it would just be the So Ca girlsl  I am so excited to meet everyone and especially to meet Suzi.  I made these tags to give everyone as a little momento of the workshop.  I have not posted in a few weeks because I have been overwhelmed with family and work stuff.  I am really looking forward to an art filled weekend and meeting new friends. I will post photos and all the news when I come home.  My next post will also feature my art giveaway to celebrate my 100th post. THIS is post # 99.     My bags are packed and I have a half day at work tomorrow and then I am off to bask in mermaid love!!!!!

Sniffing out a new journal theme...

Have you heard that certain smells trigger your memory more than any other sensory stimulus?  I was thinking about that when I  decided to journal my top ten personal list of sensational scents.  I didn't have any trouble thinking of smells that triggered good feelings, but I edited a few that others might think are weird!  What smells just make you happy?  List the odors that remind you

of things and places and even people  you love.  The journaling on  my last two got cut off.   9 says "The mix of ocean breezes,salt-water and sunbathers at the beach.  Number 10 is chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven.  Of course, when I told my husband what I was listing he asked about my weird one first, LOL.  If you leave a comment here and want to know I'll let you in on my sniffing secret.

I finished my journal page for the personal symbols theme. I have been busy working on some magazine submissions and I have a RR page that I am trying to get done  a little early!  I wanted to  come up with a twist on the RR theme because I am in the middle of the rotation. ALL of the other pages are just gorgeous, so I wanted to take the theme in a different direction.  My stepdaughter,Sera, suggested Tree Nymphs and I was like ...HUH?  So, I relied on my fall back strategy," GOOGLE IT!!!" Now, I am madly sketching tree nymphs to see if I can come up with

a few that I like enough to make my RR page around.  I will post any semi-successful attempts!Stay tuned for the new theme! I will post it very soon. I noticed that I am coming up on my 100th post, so to celebrate I will be having a giveaway !!!