Art & Craft

Wish me luck!!!

By Annie Holland / March 20, 2010

Here it is, the day of my first art show! I just came back from City Hall, finished setting my artwork up and still cannot believe it! It just doesn’t seem real to me! Me? An Art Show? How did this happen?! I want to sincerely thank my friend Linn, without whom I wouldn’t even…

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Turn off your TV night!

By Annie Holland / March 18, 2010

At my son’s school there is an event called ” Turn off your TV ” night, where there are so much fun things for the kids to do, to get out of the house and some time with their parents and friends. This year one of the crafts that were chosen for the event was…

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High!

By Annie Holland / March 15, 2010

That is the name of the drawing I am about to show you.  You are probably wondering why am I not posting as often this week, well I am trying to prepare myself for the art show and a couple of other events an I am extremely busy with all the things I have to…

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Let’s get some color going!

By Annie Holland / March 12, 2010

I bet you got tired of mine white on black drawings! So, I decided to do some watercolor mandalas! 1. Fairy Dance- don’t you think so, when you look at it? I apologize for I couldn’t take a very good picture of this one but it was in the middle of the night and I…

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A house for hermit crab

By Annie Holland / March 10, 2010

You probably have read this awesome story ” A house for hermit crab” and if you are like me, you probably liked the little guy looking for a home. I have seen real hermit crabs last summer when we were in Boston, and i wen took a picture of a curious little one: Amazing creatures!…

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Bookmark- usefull or useless?

By Annie Holland / March 9, 2010

I love books.  I’ve written many times about my reading passion and how I love to devour the books I read, how I crave the aura they create around me that changes my present into a magical place where I can forget everything except the present of my imagination. I can compare this only to…

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My First Art Show!

By Annie Holland / March 8, 2010

Well, the time came and I can finally advertise the event! 🙂 if you like my work and you want to see it and meet me in person, on 20th and 21st of March I’ll be at Schenectady City Hall showing my paintings, pyrographed pieces, white on black drawings, watercolors and cards! SEE YOU THERE!…

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Mandalas for a challenge

By Annie Holland / March 5, 2010

My friends from the Crazy Challenge this week have an awesome theme- NO THEME AT ALL! 🙂 So, since they said that whatever we make this week, we can show, here I go! These are the 3 new mandalas that I made this week and I wanted to share them with you! 1. This one…

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3 March Mandalas

By Annie Holland / March 4, 2010

Here are 3 of the mandalas I made this month and I haven’t showed you. It has been a really busy month and with everything that happened to my family I wasn’t really in a mood for art at all. But I still managed to make these, I hope you like them! 1. I decided…

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Annie’s Art Book pictures published in German magazine!

By Annie Holland / March 4, 2010

I have really exciting news!!! My picture of from last year’s Martenici post was published in an article about the red and white tradition, written by Anne Kundts from the German magazine Leben.Audena.de ! Take a look: http://leben.audena.de/rot-weiss-in-den-fruehling-471.html Thank you Anne, for the nice article and for asking a permission to publish the pictures! Annie

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