Art & Craft

I need your help!

By Annie Holland / January 16, 2010

I am totally going bonkers today! I am trying to figure out which one of the paintings should I have for the art show…and can’t decide. I want to have for sure 1 with flowers and one landscape. Overall I have to show 3 ( or 4 if Don is so good to let me)…

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Watercolors II

By Annie Holland / January 14, 2010

Here are 5 more watercolors that I wanted to show you. I am looking at them and thinking they look like they are so different in style. I still can’t find my style and I am just experimenting. Which is not a bad thing of course, you never know. As with the pyrography and the…

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Watercolors II

By Annie Holland / January 14, 2010

Here are 5 more watercolors that I wanted to show you. I am looking at them and thinking they look like they are so different in style. I still can’t find my style and I am just experimenting. Which is not a bad thing of course, you never know. As with the pyrography and the…

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Watercolors I

By Annie Holland / January 13, 2010

I have mentioned before that when I make cards I usually make 13. It seems rather odd and I am not sure why exactly that number. Well, recently I found out that I do the same with watercolors ( the small ones I mean).I can do up to 13, no more, no less in one…

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Oil paintings from couple of months ago

By Annie Holland / January 12, 2010

As I anticipated before, I had a very busy weekend! Between October and December 2009 I have made 34 watercolors and about 15 oil paintings but I didn’t have the time to frame them so I can show them to you in all their glory. 🙂 So,this weekend apart from not being able to move…

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What is a Survachka and how to make one in the US?

By Annie Holland / December 27, 2009

Maybe a month ago I was trying to come up with ideas on how to present Bulgaria for the Cultural days in my little guy’s school. One thing I was sure nobody would have heard of is the so called Survachka. So I started googling what I can find as pictures etc to show the…

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Rudolf, the red nose ….woolly bear caterpillar!

By Annie Holland / December 9, 2009

When we moved to NY state one of these guys was waiting on the steps of our house: http://www.coldspringschool.org/Mill/wooly.html They are called Woolly Bears and are the cutest caterpillars you ever saw! I mean usually I am very ” insects=ugh-yuck” person, but even I had to admit that my kids are right and this is…

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Christmas ornaments galore!

By Annie Holland / December 4, 2009

Hi all, more than a week ago I made couple of ornaments that I didn’t manage to post earlier, so here they are. These two are very similar. I had a great idea for couple of ball ornaments but unfortunately I can’t work on it right now, so it will have to wait. This one…

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My very own stamp collection and a contest to the side!

By Annie Holland / December 2, 2009

Well, I am reminiscing on the idea how many things I could have done with all this free time after I had to drop everything due to health issues, but it’s not over until it’s over you know. 🙂 You know how sometimes when you do a card and you wish you had just the…

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Cards with inspiration

By Annie Holland / November 25, 2009

I have no idea what is with the number 13 but it seams that I have inspiration for only 13 cards a day. If I make more than that…I’m pushing it, if I make less…well, it’s not enough. 🙂 So, here are the 13 cards I made this Sunday. 🙂 1. I enjoyed making these…

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