Karen M Has Been Busy As A Bee!

It seems that Karen M has been a very busy person lately. In a flurry of activity, she has completed pages for five books, and they are each truly wonderful and so perfect for the book's owners. To read more about each page and Karen's creative process please visit her blog.

This page is for Suki of Paint, Poems and Ponderings. She calls this "Soul Drops" and the little quote is so perfect for Suki. I know she is going to simply love this page.

This page belongs to Karen Christensen of Threadstory. It is a mixed media painting on canvas.This is so delicate and sew right for Karen, who, as we all know is a magician with thread and a needle!


This page is for Lynn of Getting My Feet Wet and is titled "Sight". Through some complicated process, Karen has incorporated one of her actual photos of her beautiful eyes into this work of art. Amazing!

Next is a page for Babs of Off The Wall Art. This one is titled "Roots" and is another mixed media work with machine stitching and collage. Beautiful.

And last is a page for Joss's (Soulbrush) book. This page is based on a line from a lovely poem by Henry Ward Beecher: "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures." What a beautiful thought.

So much work and attention has been given to these pages and I know the owners of each of these books will love them. Great job, Karen!

Lynette Has Finished Karen M's Book!

In keeping with Karen M's bee theme, Lynette has completed her page for Karen's book, thus making Karen's book finished! How exciting! Lynnie, this is a fabulous page and I really love all the intricate work on your funky tree. What a fun page! I know Karen will be so thrilled to have her book back.
Great Job!

Hooray! Lynette Has Her Book Back!

This is exciting news!! Lynette Clay has received her finished book in our "Girlfriends" round of sketchbooks! Her book had traveled to New York State, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Chicago, Illinois, Ohio, then all the way across the ocean to jolly old England, back to California, then to Oklahoma, North Carolina, and finally home to Virginia! What an amazing ride it has taken and what wonderful stories it can tell!

I'm getting excited to see my own book back soon, aren't you?

At Last, We Have New Pages!

Cathie has been hard at work on a new page for Karen M's sketchbook, and boy, is it worth the wait! As you all know, Karen is fond of bees and honey, so can you Beelieve this stunning echinecea flower with a bee perched perfectly on top?

Cathie, you out-do yourself with each and every book. How I love the work you do!

BABS IS ON A ROLL!

When this Babs gets to painting, she just can't quit! She has been busy as a bee.......

two bees, actually! This is her busy bee page for Karen M's book. I love the suggestion of the bees buzzing around in the deep, dark, depths of a Van Gogh garden.

This is the exciting back page for Karen's book. You girls are all so good about giving us all two paintings for the price of one! Love this, Babs! The colors are so vibrant and rich.

This is half of her page for Lynette's book. Babs said she couldn't come up with a butterfly painting that suited her, so she colored outside the lines and painted Girlfriends instead.

This is the other half of the page......

....and this is the whole page! Babs and Lynnie, drinking coffee (until the wee hours of the morning) and painting. Although we live in different corners of the globe, we are all girlfriends connected by our love of art! Such a nice painting, Babs! You got it right!

"IMAGINATION" IS THE KEY WORD IN LYNETTE'S PAGE FOR KATE'S BOOK

Imagination abounds in this wonderfully creative page that Lynnette has made for my (Kate's) book. She has collaged some of her abstract art onto this page to make a beautiful picture and then she wrote backward the phrases she used to describe what she believes, which is the theme of my book.

If held up to a mirror, you can read that she believes in inspiration and dreams, the values that are at the very core of each and every one of us. Very well done, Lynnie, and I adore this and cannot wait to see it in person. Click HERE to read more.......

KAREN M'S BRILLIANT PAGE

I have to say, I almost missed this absolutely stunning page Karen M has made for Cathie's book! I briefly surfed her blog recently, and I'm ashamed to say that I didn't take the time to read the fine print! I thought she was showing some more of her fabulous and amazing photographic ability,- (that girl is something else with a camera! Go look!),-and so I totally missed this page. This is a self portrait drawing she did of a self-portrait photo! Did that make sense?

Here is what Karen has to say about the page. "Cathie's book stumped me as she wanted words or favorite quotes. What if you have 1000 favorite quotes?
I chose "Happiness is not in having or being—it is in the doing" which was Lillian Eichler Watson's definition of happiness. As it should be all of ours."

We couldn't have said it better, Karen. These are wonderful words of wisdom to compliment a lovely sketch.

LYNN'S SPECTACULAR PAGE FOR KAREN M'S BOOK

Well, once again Lynn has outdone herself with creativity and design ideas! Check out this marvelous page for Karen M's sketchbook. I'll let her describe it in her own words:

"My full page called "Quilting Bee".
Karen's book theme is Bees. She said we could do it any way we wanted even sneaking it in according to our own style. And that is what I did. This fabric is left over from some I used a two years ago that represented my grandmother's love of sewing. I turned the family group of sewing mother and daughters into a quilting bee something groups of women gathered to do in the past (and maybe they still do)."

Lynn, this is so like you; thoughtful and giving. What a treasure and a pleasure to behold.

Please click HERE to read more and see more photos.

LYNN HAS AN EXTITING NEW PAGE FOR LYNETTE'S BOOK

With her usual fun and creative style, Lynn has done this wonderful page to add to Lynette's sketchbook. Using dyed paper towels, dyed dryer sheets, and paint she has imagined a magical butterfly garden complete with a real butterfly charm! Click HERE to see lots more photos of her page, and all the pages so far in this wonderous book. Good job, Lynn!

CHECK OUT THESE EXCITING NEW PAGES FROM LYNNETTE!

Visiting Lynnette Clay's blog is always a treat. she does the most amazing things with paint and once again she has come through with flying colors for two new sketchbook pages.


For Suki's book, titled 'Fire and Ice', I collaged a painting on two pages and glued a really cool old button that I had found in my box of odds and ends......click HERE to read more!

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I titled Karen's book 'Grandma's Quilt Pieces'. I really had fun with her book too and I know she loves fabrics and sewing. I am a real fumble-fingers when it comes to sewing and then...aha, I remembered something I had sewn over 45 years ago.....click HERE to read the rest!