blop hoppin day

Our Next Artist is Up for the Artful Gathering Blog Hop!

Celebrating Artful Gathering 2012 Online Art Retreat,

Open for Registration!

Blog Hop your way for chance to win!

From June to August 2012, ArtfulGathering.com will be presenting TWO exciting semesters of premiere online video workshops offered by fabulous artists who are known nationally and internationally. We are all very excited to share out knowledge, skill, and creativity with you, and we hope that you will join us for this AMAZING annual online event.

Blog Hop with us for a chance to win a prizes from Jerry's Artarama!

Each week the faculty of Artful Gathering will be announcing a featured blog to visit.

You can hop along with us until the final destination blog is reached, and where ONE Grand Prize winner will be chosen at Random for a chance to win a $200.00 e-gift card from Jerry's Artarama!!!Two Runner Up winners will also be chosen at random for a chance to win a $25.00 e-gift card from Jerrys.

Each week I will announce the next featured blog for you to visit, and there you will find a new secret word or words that you will need to collect along your way from blog to blog. Once you have collected all the words from each blog you visit, they will work out to say a very artsy phrase. Here are the rules:

For your chance to win, you must collect all the secret code words and submit them upon the final destination blog in May. A random drawing will be conducted from those contestants who have submitted the complete collection of secret words!
Three winners will be randomly drawn. One for the $200.00 e-card to Jerry's, and two runner's up for the 25.00 e-card to Jerrys.



Remember to collect all the secret words. These words will work out to say ahttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif very artful phrase, and you'll need all the pieces to be eligible for the final prize drawings!

Please HOP over and visit the Amazing
Cristina Zinnia Galliher
http://zinniasart.blogspot.com

(Pick Up the Next Secret Word)

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stay tuned for tomorrow! I begin my cross country journey tomorrow and will have a post to start off the trip...............

A very special bear

Many years ago, this sweet little teddy bear was given to me because I was sad. All I was told was that someday the time would come for me to pass him on. In the meantime, he was there to help me grieve.
The time has come to pass on my little bear. There is a sweet, little family who needs him more. I know he will be good to them. I will miss my buddy.

sweet reminders

Sometimes it's nice to be hear that you mean something to someone else. does the heart good. got this note from my friend, Kim, today.




(with permission from kim to share):

kecia~

I just adore you and after reading the post about Avas drawing I thought how envy you and your life.

I know it isn't easy but you are a such an inspiration to so many people and I cherish our friendship and do not take it for granted...When I tell people about you and the faerie cottage. I tell them about your family too andI always say tucker is a prince that a wicked wizard put a evil spell on him.(Jeff is the woodsman, ha). Your house is full of magic and light that radiates from you!You are lucky..love you my friend! xoxo

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in other news, I am leaving on Monday, for my big trip, driving across the US. I hope you'll stay tune to my updates.

Hoppin on Easter

we are getting close to the end of our blog hop. just a few more to go before the big winner is announced and class registration begins on May 3rd.

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Our Next Artist is Up for the Artful Gathering Blog Hop!

Celebrating Artful Gathering 2012 Online Art Retreat,

Open for Registration!

Blog Hop your way for chance to win!

From June to August 2012, ArtfulGathering.com will be presenting TWO exciting semesters of premiere online video workshops offered by fabulous artists who are known nationally and internationally. We are all very excited to share out knowledge, skill, and creativity with you, and we hope that you will join us for this AMAZING annual online event.

Blog Hop with us for a chance to win a prizes from Jerry's Artarama!

Each week the faculty of Artful Gathering will be announcing a featured blog to visit.

You can hop along with us until the final destination blog is reached, and where ONE Grand Prize winner will be chosen at Random for a chance to win a $200.00 e-gift card from Jerry's Artarama!!!Two Runner Up winners will also be chosen at random for a chance to win a $25.00 e-gift card from Jerrys.

Each week I will announce the next featured blog for you to visit, and there you will find a new secret word or words that you will need to collect along your way from blog to blog. Once you have collected all the words from each blog you visit, they will work out to say a very artsy phrase. Here are the rules:

1. For your chance to win, you must collect all the secret code words and submit them upon the final destination blog in May. A random drawing will be conducted from those contestants who have submitted the complete collection of secret words!
2. Three winners will be randomly drawn. One for the $200.00 e-card to Jerry's, and two runner's up for the 25.00 e-card to Jerrys.

Remember to collect all the secret words. These words will work out to say a very artful phrase, and you'll need all the pieces to be eligible for the final prize drawings!

Please HOP over and visit the Amazing

Monica Zuniga

http://monicazuniga.blogspot.mx/

(Pick Up the Next Secret Word)

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Michael deMeng - back in the house 9/29 & 9/30 2012

Michael will be back again to honor us with more creativity, wit and a bit of his deMented personality. Here's a little blurb from Michael about this years class.

Dement-triloquism-

in case you were wondering, the fear of ventriloquist's dummies is called, automatonophobic (which by the way includes the fear of wax dummies and automatons like Zoltar the fortune teller). I can understand how ventriloquist dolls could illicit terror and trepidation; typically they are a bit creepy looking.

Remember Anthony Hopkins in the film, Magic, whose dummy seemed to have a villainous will of its own? Well in this class, I'm not sure you'll walk away with a self-aware dummy, but you will learn how to make deMented dolls that are capable of flapping their jaws.

You start with a mannequin head, doll head, bust, taxidermy item, etc and then using various found objects, you will adorn and transform them into something rich and strange. Most importantly, your bizarre creation will be rigged so that it has the power to speak.... hopefully not on its own.

Want a bit of phobic inducing inspiration? here are a few films in which dummies come to life:
"Magic", "Dead of Night", "Devil Doll", "Dead Silence" and Twilight Zone episodes: "Caesar and Me" and "The Dummy".

here are the details:

class is Sept. 29 & 30th
fee: $200
location: 1606 oxford lane, Wall, NJ

limited seating:
first come, first serve.
no seats will be held. seats are reserved upon receipt of payment

email inquiries to: keeshagirl4@aol.com


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here's a little video that Michael sent along to enjoy: