New inspiration wire

I set up a new inspiration wire
in the studio this weekend
and "borrowed" that flat file drawer chest
from Manuel.

I put little notes over these photos
at my Flickr page
where you can get more info on all the prints
I have on my wire.

More notes on this little wall display here.

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Books

Floating shelf designed
by Manolo for some of our books...
Took this photo early morning,
the light was so warm and beautiful.
It's cloudy now and about to rain...

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Three little birds

My hands were itching to paint something today,
and these little birds were born.
Watercolor & acrylic ink on paper.
6 x 8 inches

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Soccer bird

My 5 year old buddy Mikel is graduating

from pre-school next week, 

so I made him this embroidered linen folder cover

so he can show off all of his work in style

on graduation day :)

He is a big soccer fan.

I did the lettering with my alphabet hand carved stamps

and a white ink pad and embroidered the rest.

And I used natural linen 

and a striped cotton fabric to do the cover.

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Juggling blocks

I made three sets of juggling blocks the other night...
one for Israel, one for Daniel, and one for me :)
We're practicing every day and maybe
we'll have our own circus act in the future!
I made them using the pattern
in Denyse Schmidt "Quilts" book,
with linen, cotton fabric
and filled them up with rice.

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Rockin'

There are more fun things to do
with rocks on a rainy day!
Learn how to cover rocks with crochet in this
wonderful tutorial by Margaret.

Or cover one with felt with this great tutorial
found at Stephanie's blog

Note: Those beautiful ceramic pebbles are from
Karin Eriksson's Manos shop

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Happy Father's Day!!!

My daddy & me.

Manolo & the boys.

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For Teresita

I recently reconnected after fourteen years

with my best friend from school, 

her name is Ximena and she lives in Chile 

with her beautiful family. 

She's got the sweetest 9 year old 

daughter named Teresa, she loves dogs 

& one of her favorite colors is orange :)

I hope she likes it!

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Daniel's gift

Daniel is into making paper models 

of everything these days.

He made me this beautiful little flower pot 

with paper (colored with Sharpies), Elmer's glue 

& his amazing imagination :)

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It was raining again so...

I painted a bowl full o'rocks.

The beauty of the acrylic ink
is that it's water resistant.
I use this kind of acrylic ink.

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Drawing on rocks

...it's what I like to do on rainy afternoons.

Painted with acrylic ink and a very fine round brush.

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Illustration Friday: BABY

Watercolor, acrylic ink & collage on paper.

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