AUGUSTA, MISSOURI 11TH PLEIN AIR PAINTING FESTIVAL

  Back again to the Weinstrasse Cabins, our 4th year!  Hope & I have got our banners up to say  the Artists are back again!.

Maurice my husband is our faithful chauffeur each year. He gets a lot of reading and walking in as well as enjoying the lavish socials the winery's provide!
   

We had hot air balloons to paint one morning!

Many artists were out at 6:00 A.M. to paint them! Not us!

While Hope and I painted Maurice enjoyed himself!

I painted this pot of pinks adding my own tablecloth idea!

I painted this couple at one of the Wineries. I called it "Hope Springs Eternal" I'm not quite finished with it so will show later.

We looked forward to a stop at this German Bakery on the way home.

Hope painting hanging flower baskets.

This is my painting inspired by a setting inside Stone Ledge Antiques.

Folks enjoying the sun for a change! 

We enjoyed beautiful slow jazz (My favorite) while enjoying a lovely meal.

 Our favorite place for morning coffee when it wasn't to cold that is!

Painting inside on one of our rainy days.

Got to make this sign to hang under my mail box!
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MY NEWEST GARDEN ADDITION

My weathered cross was made by a friend at church for our Easter Services. After finding out that it was available I made an agreement to contribute to a mission project he is involved in as payment. As I use the blue bottles in my garden I decided the blue and white drape suited it fine! I will probably change the drape from time to time with the seasons. There are white and green leaved hostas starting to come up in the rocked off area.

An inside project I'm working on at church in one of the nursery rooms. I'm doing a lot of praying on this one! It doesn't bother me when I only have myself to please, but much different here! Will keep you posted!

Isn't all this color beautiful!! I had seen other bloggers use some of this Sari ribbon and finally ask one where she got it! So to Etsy I went! Have lots of ideas for it's use! Will show you later.

STUDIO CEILING LIGHT DECORATION

Another stay at home snow day! so as I'd been thinking about "dollin" up the light fixture, this is what I came up with!

We even went to church in this but it had been cancelled!

I took these pictures in the afternoon after some of the snow had melted. Grandson Davey's Tree House looks so picturesque!

Before the magic!

Sometime back I had made a lot of these fabric "Bow Tie Pastas" as a blogger friend called them, so decided to string them. I had these hearts from another project. I like the way it turned out. I just painted white polka-dots on the fan blades

HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SPRING!

Look What I bought for me on our Spring Shopping Trip!

This is my First Day of Spring painting which is the bouquet of flowers on our kitchen table. Recognize the banner? I covered the "Be My Valentine" and have a greeting that is good all year! The patchwork runner found it's new home on top of my art file cabinet.

"The Girls" celebrated Spring with and outing  in Kansas City, Mo. and Lunch at Andreas Tea Room.

Great Grandson Eli and Grandpa at Fantastic Sams getting shaped up for Spring!

EASTER EGG DYEING ! MIXED MEDIA STYLE!

Was at the Dollar Tree last week, and there was my inspiration! I'd been wanting to try dyeing some ribbon, lace and fabrics and here was a dollar box just waiting for my next project!

I gathered enough fabrics, ribbons and lace to try in each of the colors of dye.

It was so fun to see how different the fabrics and laces looked in each color!

I think this rose color was my favorite!

This fuchsia color was the most striking!

Green fabrics drying in the sun on the enclosed back porch.

Here's what I used the fabrics and ribbons for! This months "Tag Trade" lead my Marilou Bain. The theme was Gypsies, Caravans or Fortune Tellers.

This is the one I am keeping for me!

Blue Gypsy Fairy.

I used as a back round for some of them, some paper towels that I brushed randomly with different colored watered down acrylic paint and let dry. Two other Gypsy Tags did not move over to this post , but you can see them in the group picture.  I also have 9 more of these tags about ready for our Sorority Cottage Party next week. The theme is" Italian " I  will do a post showing all the festivities soon!

FIRST PAGES IN MY NEW HOMEMADE ART JOURNAL

I decided to start the journal with pages showing the two sides of my personality, and writing a poem about each one. This is the " Folk Art " side. As you can see lots of bright primary colors!

I was inspired by Sandra Kaye's pages she did at a recent  "Art Romp" with teachers Teesha & Tracy Moore. Oh what fun they had!

The poem which describes My Folk Art Style.

You can guess I'm sure! My other personality side is "Victorian" .

I used a solid colored piece of paper as my base, then added scrap book scraps plus paper that I painted with a variety of colors. Then painted the profile on cut out pieces of hand painted paper.

The poem page. The Victorian side is featured first in the Journal.

I cut out a bunch of 3 7/8" squares then laid a solid color face down on a print one. Drew a line from one point to the other in the center. Then sewed down 1/4th inch on each side of the line, then cut along the center drawn line making 2 half square triangles.

My finished runner has 5 squares across and 17 down the length., note:  I made about half the squares one piece. I tied on the points with red embroidered thread.  My runner measures  16" wide and 52" long. I will use the runner  part of the time across the top of my Studio File Cabinet and sometimes on the kitchen table.

You Might Enjoy my Precious Cottage Blog to see what else I'm doing: www.preciouscottage.blogspot.com   and www.MarlynneSnareFolkArtist

MAKING INVITATIONS FOR LADIES TEA

The theme for this years Ladies Tea is  "Order My Steps" so of course we will have lots of shoes for the decorations as well as well as the Invitations and Programs which are my responsibility. I made 170 of these shoes to and out. They say: Order My Steps Ladies Tea  April13, 2013  Baptist Church 2:00P.M. and on the back an invitation to join in fellowship, food and fun. I forgot to take a picture of the 4 different colored program covers I turned  in for printing. 

"The artist is in Residence" almost every day! I've decided I would plug in my red lights that outline the entrance to my studio when "The Artist is in Residence"!

Everybody is interested when Grandpa is doing something with the stove. Tasha our part Corgi/Terrier  was left down by the bridge, just a tiny little bundle, 2 years ago this past December. Of course we couldn't leave her there for the coyotes to find! She is grandpas walking partner and lap sitter now.

Great Grandson, Eli is learning how to do Grandpas job too!

Isn't this just priceless?