Pink Saturday

Happy Pink Saturday Friends!

Thank you Beverly for hosting every week!

Please click HERE to visit her and the other PS Participants.

I am having a GIVEAWAY! Please Scroll down to Tuesdays Post or see my sidebar on how to enter!

Now for my Pinky Shares!.....

You saw them here first!  These will be available in my eBay store by next week!

Thank you for letting me share!Everyone have a Great weekend!

Friday Show and Tell~ Our Bunny

Friday Show and Tell!

First off let me thank Romantic Home once again for Hosting!

Click HERE to visit them and see the other Show and Tells!

I'm having GIVEAWAY! Please scroll down to Tuesday's post or see my side bar for details!

Today my show and tell is~

Our Bunny, Penny

She has been in one of my other posts but you weren't "formally introduced".  LOL!

I want to show and tell her today because she is such an entertaining little thing.

I am told that when I paint I get into a "ZONE" and am not easily distracted. But, one thing pulls me out of it! Penny, the bunny frolicking on my living room!

Here is what I saw from my studio desk the other day and I thought it was so funny!

She was tired out after an energetic play session!

We call this her "Red Carpet" because it his "Her Royal Highness'" favorite place to sit!

Thank you for letting me share!

Violets and Grapes on Porcelain!

Happy Thursday!

I'm often asked.......

Don't you ever get sick and tired of painting PINK ROSES?

Dont you ever paint ANYTHING ELSE?

Well yes I do!

Here are some pics for you, these pieces are hot out of the kiln this week! 

Here are some violets......

And..... Here are some GRAPES!

Painting grapes drives me bonkers.

They are very tedious. But, I do them anyway! :)

If you are interested, these items have been listed and some of them will be listed very shortly in my eBay store.

Today I'm linking up with......

Many thanks to the hostesses of these parties!

If you havn't already, please be my guest and enter for my GIVEAWAY!

Teacup Giveaway And Tea Tuesday!

Blog Warming  and One Month Blog-iversary Giveaway!


I LOVE TEA TUESDAY!
 So to add some fun to this wonderful day today, and to thank all my new friends who so warmly welcomed me into "Blogland",  I am starting a giveaway that will run until 12:00 noon Aug 2, 2010 and will announce the winner in my Aug. 3rd Tea Tuesday post.
 I will be giving away the cup and saucer shown below.  Can you guess where I got the inspiration to paint it? :)

 How can you win this pretty? There are a few ways to enter, so there will be a chance for all of you to be part of the action! You will be given an entry for each thing you do on the list below~

1. Follow me- if you are already following me, remind me and you will be counted

2-Spread the word about my giveaway, and let me know

3-comment on this post  :)  (and tell me which of these things you have done so I know how many entries to give you)

4-Grab my button and let me know, if you already have it, remind me, you will be counted

5-and for an extra bonus, if you purchase from my ebay store, you will get 10 extra chances.

I want to thank all the hostesses and participants that make this such a fun day.

Please pay them a visit and see the lists of other "partiers"........

Tuesday Tea For Two

http://theplumedpen.blogspot.com/

Tea Time Tuesday

http://sandimyyellowdoor.blogspot.com/

http://ladykatherineteaparlor.blogspot.com/

Tea Pot and Tea Things Tuesday

http://breathoffreshair-paperbutterfly.blogspot.com/
http://silkenpurse.blogspot.com/

Tea Cup Tuesday

http://marthasfavorites.blogspot.com/

http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com/

Also, please pay my friend Gina @ 3 Ring Cottage a visit! She wrote a beautiful post about china painting, showed some of her mothers work and gave me the honor of featuring me on her blog today!
http://3ringcottage.blogspot.com/

Pink Saturday! 7/17/2010

Pink Saturday!

Thank you Beverly for Hosting!

Click HERE to see the other "Pinkies"!

Bears with pink Roses

A Maude Humphyey Repro I painted.....

Once again, thank you for stopping by and letting me share!

Show and Tell Friday~ ECS Summer Rose Swap

Show and Tell Friday~ Thank you to My Romantic Home for hosting!

For my Show and Tell, I would like to share what I recieved for my Summer Rose Swap,

hosted by Etsy Cottage Style

My swap partner was Virginia from Virginia's Vignettes

Whe the package arrived it felt like my birthday!  The package was beautifully packaged!  I wish I had thought to take a picture!  When I opened the box, the first thing i noticed was the wonderful delicate scent of roses......

When I dug further I found this.....

A BEAUTIFULLY decorated box, with porcelain doll head in a rose.....

There was also a carefully decorated and hand written note from her explaining the origin of the doll head.......

She said that the porcelain doll head is from Germany, and probably made circa 1800's. There is a man in Germany that digs these doll pieces out of the ground where the factories used to be!

Here is a link that Virginia shared on her blog with pictures of the man digging the doll heads out.....

http://lemoncholys.blogspot.com/2008/06/german-dolls.html

Also inside the box I discovered the lovely smell of roses was from handmade rose scented soap, and a pretty little book she made me.........

This is one of my favorite images, you will most likely find this recreated on some porcelain soon!

What a wonderful gift, I love the history behind the doll head, what a wonderful conversation piece in the home of a china painter!  I will cherish it!