This is such an honor!

This is such an honor! The wonderful Indigene a Caribbean-American artist has nominated me for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award.
Her creative work reflects her unique style with a deep spiritual message of universal love.

Visit her at: https://indigeneart.com
Thank You! Thank You Indigene!

RULES for the VERY INSPIRING BLOG AWARD. PLEASE FOLLOW CAREFULLY:

1. Display the award logo on your blog.
2. Link back to the person who nominated you.
3. State 7 things about yourself. (see below)
4. Nominate 15 other bloggers for this award and link to them.
5. Notify those bloggers of the nomination and the award’s requirements.

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Seven Things About Me

a) I was raised in Caracas, Venezuela. I hold a dual citizenship.
b) I decorated Christmas Trees once professionally in Chicago. Largest tree was 2 stories high for Bank of America!
c) I was really, really messy once, had so many projects going it was disconcerting. Now I am almost a neat freak!
d) I painted on the floor for about 25 years, still very hyper-flexible.
e) I actually majored in Weaving in art school, my minor was Surface Design.
f) I never really studied Painting, I am a Self taught – intuitive painter.
g) I am a registered Court Interpreter for Spanish; will not do it today, I hate hearing cases – too traumatic.

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My nominees are the following for their wonderful inspiring blogs in the blogging arena!

1.- Naz a wonderful spirit with A Gentle Rebellion

2.- Sharon celebrating the culture of food with Culinary Eden

3.- Janine with artful creations at Art by Janine Whitling

4.- Carol with her fabulous studio journal Art by Carol Adamec

5.- Jude Hill with a soulful quilting story at Spirit Cloth

6.- Anna, full of energy at Messy Fish

7.- Jennifer with pretty and handmade at Pretty in Posies

8.- Tenia’s incredibly sensitive photographs at Snapping Twig

9.- Linda Sarah’s incredible imagination at Travel and Sing

10.- Connie’s humor cartoons at Drawing to an End

11.- Carla Kurt’s beautiful perceptions with Photography & Fine Art

12.- Juan Carlos’s fantastic creatures at Charló Arwin

13.- Virginia Njeri, a surface-pattern marvel at Njeri Designs

14.- Bella a super illustrator with Bella Sinclair Doodlespot

15.- Johanna & Mark with amazing graphic art at Happy Garage

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“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline,
no matter how many times it’s sent away.”  ― Sarah Kay

“Guanta next to The Ocean” by  © Lisa Rivas — 72″ x 72″ a variation of the original painting

“Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life,” murmured Niko.
“They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea.
They are the ocean’s pulse, and our own heartbeat.”
― Tamora Pierce, Sandry’s Book

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

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Tomorrow’s Blog-Hop!
Over 50 Surface Pattern Designers from all over the world (including myself) have created
wonderful collections inspired by

Pantone’s 2013 Color of the Year
EMERALD GREEN
and  organized to showcase them in an awesome bloghop
to celebrate New Year’s and our willingness to fly as professionals.
This event was curated by Rosie Martinez-Dekker from Believe Creative Studios

So what’s a Blog-Hop and how does it work? It is a nice way to promote not only the work and ideas of many, but also their blogs. The first person to start it writes a post on his/her blog and adds a link to the next blog at the end of the post. Everyone does it like this until you hop to the last blog of the list.

It will be awesome, inspirational and with lots of beautiful brand new work that we can’t wait to share with all of you.
Each designer will be creating a mini collection based on their own interpretation of the theme and showcasing each their own unique style.
Now save the date on your calendars, January 10th to 13th is the duration of the hop,
3 days of beautiful surface designs! So you don’t want to miss it…

 
Blog-hop Logo: Let’s Fly • designed by Majo Bautista V

 This blog-hop Let’s Fly will start on January 10, 2013 at https://www.patternaddict.blogspot.fr,
the blog of Gill Eggleston an enthusiastic British textile designer!

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I signed up to the e-course “Life Book, a celebration and honoring of YOU”,
a year-long mixed media art class organized by Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts.

Our first project was to create our Fairy God Parent. Here’s a glimpse…
I can see the fairy dust spreading around the studio. 
This is the most whimsical I have ever gotten… Let’s see where this leads me to! 

“You should treat a muse like a fairy.” ~Paulo Coelho