Archives: June2009

  • California

    17″x 36″
    Click on the picture to see it bigger for more detail
    This piece is acrylic on wood. I used the bottom of an old weathered screen door

    The heart is made of old painted on newspaper. The cross is made of wine bottle foil
    This is made with a vintage California potato sack, plaster and bees wax

    I [...]

  • St. Helene Completed

    ~St. Helene~
    ~Grandmothers are just antique little girls~

    This is a piece I did in honor of my Grandmother Helene

    A weathered title “St. Helene” is at the bottom

  • A Gift for A Kindred Spirit

    ~To Have & To Hold~

    This was made for my kindred spirit ~Kristen~ who lives in Nashville now with her husband and two sweet girls. But I still need to send her things of love through the mail! When we were young we enjoyed sitting in old book stores in Solvang CA and reading poetry. We [...]

  • THE PLASTIC LADIES

    This is my collection of giant dolls! I have always collected dolls growing up and these are my grown up version…

    The blue corset that Old Faithful is wearing I wore to my husbands prom so many years ago and the medals around her neck are from his pole vaulting star days
    The Pretty ‘n’ Pink was [...]

  • McGroarty

    ~Friends~
    Friends are like rivers flowing to the sea;
    They come and go, yet ever constant be.
    And though we wander desert lands afar,
    Our hearts are ever where the rivers are.

    Friends are like the hills against a blended sky;
    Though mists may hide them, still we know them nigh.
    And though we journey far in sun and rain,
    The hills we [...]

  • Erase

    This is a piece about “erasing”…when you erase something there are always traces left behind of what was originally there. This is about turning stressful, painful, choices that didn’t yield good fruit..etc…into something transformed. Taking the memories of those times and erasing/transforming/overlaying into something more beautiful that can fly above all…
    ~ERASE~

    ~Sold~