Goodbye Fall

Wow, where has the time gone?  Christmas is but days away.  Here is a glimpse of my Fall in pictures.

My little muffin at the park...

I went back home to NB to spend some time with my ailing grandmother, my lovely Mimi.  I took the girls to Daly's Point...

Here are the apple trees I use to love to climb at my grandmothers house...

I use to feel so adventurous being so high up in those trees hiding from the rest of the world (or more likely my brothers :) As I looked at them, all kinds of childhood memories came back from when I would spend the weekends with my grandmother.  She use to get up at the crack of dawn, bake fresh bread and make me this huge spread for breakfast (fit for a queen), including freshly squeezed orange juice.  Being the strong, hard working lady she was, her clothes were always hung out to dry, no matter what the weather...

(For some reason this picture will only post sideways)

This is the first of a series of clothes line pieces I am doing in honour of my Mimi.

**UPDATE** I have moved.  Come check out this post on my new blog http://peaberrydesigns.com/goodbye-fall-2/

A Lovely Day

I had a great afternoon with my little crouton.  I stopped by Bridgehead for a yummy vanilla latte and the barista delighted me with this beautiful creation.  It was hard to drink it as I didn't want it to disappear into the abyss of my stomach.


After feeding Amelia I headed to Flock Boutique, one of my absolute favourite stores.  It is always filled with amazing hand made local goodies.  They also have workshops in all different mediums such as jewellry and sewing (dresses/aprons), how fun.  I am super jealous of the owners Bridget and Christina as they get to be surrounded by such inspiring things every day.


Once I soaked up some of the creativity I headed next door to St. Vincent De Paul (second-hand store) to see if I could find any interesting things to paint on.  I found a couple plaques made of wood.  One of which was this little one, which I am hoping to alter tonight.  Stay tuned............

Inspired

I have been so incredibly inspired in the last few weeks. I attended The New Art Festival (formerly Art in the Park) in the Glebe and was amazed at all of the beautiful work and talented people that were there. I cannot believe that after all these years of having it that I hadn't made it down there. Boy was it worth the trip. There was an artist whose paintings I really liked, his name was Mark Jeremy Gleberzon. He was adorable and let me take a picture of one of his newer and different pieces. It is an old photograph blown up and mounted on metal. It was pretty cool in that it had a shimmery quality to it and was coated in resin so was also very glossy. I took the photograph with my phone so it is kind of hard to tell. You can see Mark is holding it up for me, haha. Needless to say, being there made me want to go home and paint, immediately. I did just that and I finished three little mixed media pieces, YEY ME!!! Pictures to follow shortly...

St. Elmos Fire

Well hello there, it has been a while hasn't it??? I have decided I need to post at least once a week, have to keep my peeps happy, haha. Just wanted to tell you about this amazing place I finally made it out to visit in Stittsville called St. Elmos Fire. A very quaint, log cabin type building filled with beautiful artwork, jewellery, clothing and all sorts of curiosities. All made from local artists. There was even a shed out back filled with garden and furniture items which were all on sale (my favourite, things on sale). If you are interested in visiting or attending a workshop check them out at www.st-elmosfire.com. It was definately worth the trip and gave me the urge to get home and create.

Great Find

Man I love second hand stores, especially little known ones under churches. Check out the very cool book I found rummaging through a little shop on Elgin. It is vintage cover art for music from the late 1800's. This is going to provide me with much inspiration and probably find its way into some of my art. I also found these cute vintage buttons which will no doubt end up on one of my coffee sleeves.

Boat Adventure

So, a couple week-ends ago was our first adventure out on the boat. Chris (my man) decided to take us out to this little island in the middle of the Ottawa River thinking the girls might enjoy an adventure. Once there, we discovered one lone lighthouse and a plethora of Canadian Geese. The girls began exploring and we followed suit until Chris came across a huge and highly agitated goose. So Chris, having had previous experience with angry geese, picked up a stick in preparation to defend his family. The stick had no effect and the goose started chasing him up a hill. As I stood there laughing and mildly frightened, I thoroughly regretted not having brought my camera. Once we reached the top of the hill we realized why the goose was so angry, there were a few egg-filled nests scattered around. As we looked around the island we noticed there were at least 8-10 nests with females sitting on them glaring at us with the males hovering around ready to pounce. Needless to say, we didn’t stay for very long. We managed to escape unscathed and the girls were quite thrilled with the experience. I considered it a success as it inspired me to finish my painting and it gave me a visual of Chris that will not soon be forgotten, haha.