Happy Belated.........

I had been without a computer for about a week so I didn't get to post last week about Valentine's Day or Mardi Gras.
  So I'm doing it now anyway - better late than never!  Here is our Valentine breakfast:

Lox and bagels and yummy cupcakes get a thumbs up from hubby!

Two days later was Fat Tuesday, so of course we had a King's Cake. 

Here it is before the baby was hidden inside.

Tradition says that finding the baby is good luck.  Bob got the baby with the very first slice.  Laissez les bons temps rouler - Let the good times roll!

Our youngest came home from college last weekend, so of course that was also a celebration!

             Bob and our darling daughters

Vintage Valentine

I've been going through old photos lately and came across this one of me as a little girl.  I've hardly changed a bit - lol! 

I found one of my mother that I especially love.  This is her high school graduation picture.  When I was a little girl my grandmother had this photo in her bedroom and I thought my mother looked so glamorous!

I have Mom's old charm bracelet, which is a collection of hearts.  When she was a girl all the girls had them and they would give each other heart charms with their names or initials engraved on the back, as a token of friendship.  I thought it would be fun to wear it as a necklace this Valentine's Day, so I added some ribbon to the clasps so lengthen it.

I also decorated the house this weekend for Valentine's Day.  I put a couple of paper dolls on the bookshelf.

"Love Mermaid"

             "Secret Sky Angel"     

        

"Heart of My Heart" on the side table

"Love Unmasked" on the mantle

"Valentina" and the Valentine tree

                                

Photos of my Darling Daughters

.....and the front door.

Galveston

I just got back from another weekend in Galveston.  I entered another show there at the Galveston Art League and had two pieces accepted..... and won second place in the 3-d category!

  Here I am at the reception. :)

The piece that won second place is "Forest Canticle".  My other piece in the show is "Living Waters", the reclining figure next to it.

"Masquerade"

I just got back from a few days in Galveston, Texas where the Texas Association of Original Doll Artists (TAODA) is having a show titled “Masquerade”. In keeping with the “Masquerade” theme, and since the show will continue through February & the Mardi Gras festivities in Galveston, I brought “The Belle of Mardi Gras” (which is on my website)

and .......

"Mardi Gras Minx", which hangs on the wall.

Our show is at J. Bangle’s Silk Stocking Gallery, on 25th Street at Avenue L. This is an interesting gallery. It was originally built c. 1912 as a grocery store. It’s in the Silk Stocking Historical District, so named because it was home to Galveston’s prominent families at the turn of the last century. The homes are grand old Victorians, with gingerbread trim. 

Here are a few shots of the opening reception.....

As you can see from these two photos, many of the pieces are hanging.  Art dolls are usually meant to stand on pedestals, but we've found that pedestals are sometimes in short supply at galleries so we have begun creating work designed to hang on the wall, in addition to our pedestal pieces. 

This one is looking from the outside through one of the front windows.

to be continued......

Janet