Art & Craft

By Annie Holland / May 5, 2010

I was pleasantly surprised when my husband told me today that he nominated me for Michael’s most creative mom competition!!! If you think that what I do is worth a vote, you can vote for me and invite your friends to vote for me here: My husband surprised me with an early Mother’s Day present-…

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Summer?

By Annie Holland / May 3, 2010

Yes, summer! The hot and humid thing that happens immediately after the snow disappears or at least that’s what happened this year. Four days ago we had the heat on, this weekend  we couldn’t breath because it was almost 90F. So, in this weather what else can a person do than to start redecorating and…

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Cards, cards on the way!

By Annie Holland / April 26, 2010

I started my week at 6.30 am with a hell of a schedule, so before I continue going through with it, I wanted to show you 3 cards I made last week! I added the glitter effect of the branches on the card and I love how it came out. It’s very simple, but I…

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Notes from the sketchbook: Part 2

By Annie Holland / April 22, 2010

Here is my second favorite sketchbook- a Barnes and Noble 8.5×5.5 sketchbook with white acid free paper! Yeah, by the look at the water stain on top you can’t say I’m not using it 😉 So, here we go! Study of hand movement Hand movement again( as you can see I didn’t get to finish…

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Notes from the sketchbook: Part 1

By Annie Holland / April 21, 2010

I was thinking about what I said the other day, how I won’t show you the sketches I am working on. I thought it would be boring for people to see, but I got 5 e-mails where people were asking me to actually show them what’s in my sketchbook. So, I thought about it and…

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“Outside the Matrix”

By Annie Holland / April 20, 2010

This is the title I chose for the last pyrographed piece I made. Well, among other things, I was watching the Matrix 1, 2 and 3 while I was making it. :-))) It seemed different from the others I thought that it would be a good title, because it doesn’t “fit” with the other pieces…

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Food for the soul or food for the mouth?

By Annie Holland / April 13, 2010

– “Food in the Art and Craft section?! She must be going mad!” No, my dears, I simply had a dilemma what to post first, because I have tons of pictures and stuff that needs to be uploaded and I ….well I don’t have the time to do it, honestly. Sometimes I dream of an…

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Some cards and some good news!

By Annie Holland / April 11, 2010

You know how regularly I post on my blog so you are probably wondering what happened the last week! Well, a couple of things happened actually! First of all I am working really hard on my anatomy sketches, I am learning things about drawing and painting, reading a lot of  art books, but I wasn’t…

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2nd day at the art show!

By Annie Holland / March 28, 2010

I might be busy, but you know that whenever I can find a minute, I’m here and write for you to enjoy! I hope my previous post on the first 2 days of the art show were interesting for you, here is the second part:  When I went home after the first day at the…

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The art show – days 0 and 1

By Annie Holland / March 23, 2010

I had such an amazing week that I don’t even know where to  begin with telling the story behind the scenes of the art show! You all know how excited I was ( and a little scared too) with showing my work and having all these talented people around me… All kinds of questions ran…

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