snow and icicles

This weeks Etsy treasury is themed on the white witch from narnia, seeing as my daughter is dressed as her for halloween, I hope you like it!!

I have added one of my favourite icy poems too :)

Have a wonderful Happy Halloween!!

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' The Frozen Heart' by Robert Herrick:

I freeze, I freeze, and nothing dwells

In me but snow, and icicles.

For pitties sake give your advice,

To melt this snow and thaw this ice;

I'll drink down flames, but if so be

Nothing but love can supple me;

I'll rather keep this frost, and snow,

Than to be thaw'd or heated so.

white witches and cute princesses

Here is the latest painting, done in small stages whilst my daughter was off from school :)

The title of this painting is something I always used to say to my daughter when she was teeny tiny.

Sleep tight little princess:

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Whilst my daughter was off from school yesterday I decided to do a little dress rehearsal for her halloween outfit (the white witch from narnia) she had lots of fun :)

She is back at school today and looking forward to her disco tonight, I think she looks adorable, but then I would, i'm her mum :)

Trying to look like a mean witch ;)

Hair and make up:

Showing off the sparkles on the ice crown I made for her:

is it a reindeer? is it a moose? is it a boy? is it a girl?.....

I don't know, I just painted it.... lol ;)

So do you know what it is?

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I have my daughter off from school, she had one day back at school after half term holidays and fell over in her lunch break, her knees are so bruised she can hardly walk poor girl, I was hoping she would go back for Thursday but it is not looking likely.

Friday is her school halloween disco day and i'm hoping she won't miss out as she was super poorly last year and missed out on all the halloween fun then too.

Just in case she is going, I have been making her a crown today as she will be going as 'The White Witch' from Narnia, I will show pictures when it is done, but I have to say a huge thank you to Cameron for sending me a pot of decoart snow-tex in my swap package the other month, it has come in fabulously handy for this little project :)

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Anyway here is my latest reindeer/moose/boy/girl/ painting ;)

Life is good:

Happy monday morning!!

Hello!!

I hope you all had a good weekend?

It was all snotty noses and lots of tissues again in my house, when will these colds leave us alone eh?

I did manage to get these few paintings done, through the bleary eyed mess that I was this weekend, I hope you like them :)

Micki x

Believe in yourself: size A5 on canvas board

My 4 newest ACEO cards

Forest feelings...this weeks etsy treasury

I love the woods and forests at this time of year, so here is the theme for this weeks treasury.....Forest feelings!!

I now have the 'Care Bear's' song in my head.... forest of feelings care a lot, la, la la la la, sing along if you know it ;)

Micki x

Follow your dreams

I am really loving painting all these little girlies with their banners and words of wisdom, this one has just gone into my etsy shop, although I was very tempted to keep her for a while though ;)

Micki x

New aceo cards in shop

I'm just popping in to show you the first group of Aceo/atc's that have been put in my etsy shop, I have lots more of these planned on aceo cards and in larger sized paintings too, I hope you like them ;0)

Micki x

Role up role up, get your free Rhino skin here:

No I haven't gone crazy (well no more than usual anyway)

I recently gave the gift of 'imaginary and invisible Rhino skin' to the wonderful Michele of pipi la la, when she wrote about having a not so nice comment about one of her pieces of art.

We've all been there, had a rubbish comment that made us feel like poop and sometimes you just have to pull on that Rhino skin and let the comments bounce off your back.

The other day I had started painting this painting below and I was sat all cozy like in my hermit cave when an unannounced and unwelcome comment flew over to my ears from an unexpected source (that would be from the usually wonderfully supportive hubby) he laughed and said

"Those pods look like a couple of bruised testicles!!!!!!"

Well I was a little shocked at his unusual outburst (admittedly he had been drinking wine when he said it) and I had completely forgotten to wear my rhino skin, after all I was at home and who needs it there right?

It took me a little while to recover from the unwanted comment, a few minutes of pouting and another glass of wine later and I was fine but from that moment on I have decided to wear my Rhino skin at ALL times, whether at home or not!

I now give you all, my lovely, thoughtful, artistic friends and followers the gift of the 'imaginary, invisible Rhino skin', to use on a regular daily basis to fend off all unwanted comments that are aimed towards you :o)

As soon as you have read this post the gift is yours for the keeping!

Here is my latest painting called: A long way from home (with the "bruised testicle" pods in the corner and all ;o)

Modern day cowgirl

Click on the pic to take you to this weeks Etsy treasury :)

Etsy shop update

I have spent quite a bit of time updating my Etsy shop today, i've changed some pictures around, re-done all my shop sections to hopefully make buying easier, taken out some old items that hadn't sold, lowered the prices on most of my items ready for Christmas buyers (hopefully buying anyway) and also added these 2 new paintings to the shop too :)

I would appreciate it if you could have a little look and let me know what you think?

Thanks

Micki x

The village where I was born:

Winter garden:

Thank you, thank you!!

Yes it's another Thank you post :)

First of all thank you to everyone who left get well soon messages for my son yesterday, he's still feeling sore and has to keep his arm in a sling for a couple of weeks but overall he is ok, he will be off from school the rest of this week and next week is half term week here anyway so he will get plenty of rest before having to go back to school again :)

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Thank you very much to the lovely people who have featured my work on their websites this past week:

Imaginative Bloom

and

Cuteable

Thanks heaps

Micki x

A country girl at heart

Well it's been one of those days again, you know the type that you start off with a huge list of things to do and then get none of them done!!

It started off ok then I had 3 phonecall interuptions to my art flow then a fourth one came through from my sons school saying he'd had an accident and needed to go to the hospital.....AAAAH!!

He had had a fall at school and after a few hours at the med centre and an xray later, he now has his arm in a lovely sling with a sprained wrist and a fractured elbow...kids eh? He's actually not feeling too bad now the painkillers have kicked in, but was pretty rough earlier poor kid!!

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Here is yesterdays painting seeing as I have nothing to show for today and also a piccie of some mini borderless prints I have listed in my Etsy shop too.

A country girl at heart, on a 12 x 6 inch wood box canvas with chunky 2 inch sides :)

Side view:

4x6 inch borderless prints

Chocolate orange

Thank you for all your well wishes again, I love you guys :)

I am feeling a bit better but still not 100%, I will be back at the painting table tomorrow but for now here is this weeks treasury, I hope you like it?

Micki x

Got the lurgy again!!

Can you believe it? I was really poorly again yesterday with a nasty cold, there are so many going around at the moment and I seem to be catching them all, I obviously need to look after myself more and learn to take timeout for myself, something I am really bad at!!

So I am following my own advice for once and i'm taking a few days off to be kind to myself, I will be back on Monday.

My etsy shop will still be open during this time and orders will be processed as normal :)

Be good to yourself

Micki x

Straight from the table

Well i've had a productive couple of days and got 3 new paintings in my Etsy shop today, (There was a fourth painting too but that sold before I even put it on Etsy lol)

Today is not so productive as I have my daughter at home with a sore throat and cold, poor thing :( Hopefully she will be better soon as she has a few things on at school this week and I wouldn't want her to miss out on all the fun, so fingers crossed for a quick recovery.

All the paintings in the photo below are now available in my etsy shop click on the pic to take you there :)

It's going to be a mean green halloween

This weeks Etsy treasury :)
Click on the pic to take you there!!

as the saying goes....2 come along at once!!

So just as the saying goes you wait for ages then 2 come along at once, no i'm not talking about buses, or boyfriends......i'm talking about Artist interviews :)

Yes in the space of one week I was asked to do not one but 2 interviews, the first one with Tam (willowing) that I posted about yesterday and the second one is for a lovely lady called Kristina Blasko whose website/blog is called:

House Of Many Hues

Kristina's website/blog as she describes it, is 'Blogging about Stylish Lifestyle & Decor, Beautiful Finds, Art, and Pieces of My Life.'

Very lovely indeed!!

Thank you for asking me to do the interview Kristina, it was a pleasure :)

Micki x