Holiday Artists Market at Guero's...

Guero's Taco Bar parking lot

Saturday & Sunday, December 11th & 12th

Saturday & Sunday, December 18th & 19th

11am to 7pm

Wells Fargo Holiday

Holiday Shopping at the Wells Fargo Tower Building in downtown - 400 West 15th, 3rd Floor Auditorium, Friday, December 10th at 9am to 3pm.

One of the two big shows coming up this weekend! Yeh!!!

"Jingle Bell House"
201 N. Frontier
Cedar Park, TX
Ranch at Brushy Creek Sub-Division
Thursday, Nov. 11th - 9:30am to 9pm
Friday, Nov. 12th - 9:30am to 7pm
Saturday, Nov. 13th - 9:30am to 4pm

Big holiday show this weekend!!! Yippee!!!

"Sleigh Bell Lane"
Greenridge Subdivision Model Home
19500 and 19504 Cheyenne Valley Drive

Round Rock, TX 78664

Thursday, Nov. 11th - 9am to 8pm
Friday, Nov. 12th - 9am to 9pm
Saturday, Nov. 13th - 9am to 6pm

Big Weekend - First Thursday AND ACL Market at Guero's!!!

Come visit our fabulous Austin Artisans at Guero's Taco Bar parking lot. There will be live music in the Beer Garden as well to enjoy... Get in the spirit of ACL... Brings friends, bring family, bring everyone!!!

Vendors include:

* Adaptive Reuse
* aikumee / Aimee DeGroff
* Black and Bluebird Studios
* Carianne Schulte
* Chaos Cor Co. / Terror Dist.
* Cuddlestar
* E Street
* Hammer It Out
* Holli Brown Mosaics
* Jim Beckett Photo
* Kalei Doscope Aromacare
* Meline Collection
* Merchant Ship Collective
* Nepenthe's Bathtime
* Third Coast Art Glass

LoneStar Country Dance Weekend

LoneStar Country Dance by Uptown Dance Studio all weekend long starting Friday, August 13, 2010 through Sunday, August 15, 2010 at Omni Southpark Hotel located at 4140 Governor's Row, Austin, TX 78744. Numerous fun dance competitions, dance classes, dinner show, awards, etc... and of-course vendors! I'll be there with my wraps!

Check out http://www.lonestarcountrydance.com/ for a detailed schedule.

More birthday presents...

Made new earrings for birthday presents...

Wrapped Gift...

Newest wrapped birthday gift.... once again, fresh flowers from my yard, paper grocery bag turned inside out and painted, candle wax melted to keep the flowers in place with little droppings for decoration...

Photography prints now available at Lapis Lane Beads

I now have some of my photography prints available for sale at Lapis Lane, a Beads Boutique on 4520 Burnet Road., Austin, TX 78758. I will soon have some of my handpainted wish boxes for sale as well once I get enough painted that I can take over! Very exciting!!! Go check out my friend's store, Lapis Lane... wonderful vibe and cozy feeling... beautiful beads and jewelry... fun classes and craft sessions with jewelry as well as mosaics with The Art Pad!!!

Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf - Artisan Market

New monthly artisan market launching this May 1, 2010 at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (yum!). They'll have local artists at each of their locations. I'll be set up with my photography and hand painted wooden boxes at the S. Lamar location. Great excuse to come and get Mother's Day gifts!!!

Another birthday present & its wrapping paper...

I made these earrings for a friend's birthday present and I wrapped her gift by using roses from my yard... added some pop, color and even more texture than it already started with!

Reggae Fest 2010, Auditorium Shores - Wonderful compliment

The customer that bought this print of Montreal, Canada told me that she felt "honored" to own a print of my photography. Very sweet. Many others gave me amazing compliments on my photography which was surprising at this venue since most of the kids were looking for 'reggae' type photography. No matter how many times you hear these wonderful compliments, they always feel like the first time and always makes me feel great!!!

Reggae Fest 2010, Auditorium Shores - Funny moment...

I've never seen more kids/fans dedicated to a festival... It started pouring, I mean p-o-u-r-i-n-g rain when the kids were already in line to get into the festival. They didn't complain, just remained in line until the gates opened and they were let inside. This picture is from later on that day when it started to rain again (had great sunshine all afternoon in between the morning and evening rainstorms) and I saw a tarp with feet sticking out the bottom. I ran after this 'walking tarp' and took this quick picture before me and my camera got wet. You get the visual of this funny scnene... :)

Reggae Fest 2010, Auditorium Shores

A couple of more happy customers...

Her friend said this girl used to model... you can tell, look at her pose! Awesome!
This girl came back to change into the wrap after she purchased it. She had on sneakers, t-shirt and pants before... came back with the tank top and flip flops and asked me to dress her so she can wear out her new wrap!

Turq set...

Just a quick set of necklace and earring drops I made this morning to match my shirt today before going out to lunch... Love this color...

Love for colors and various patterns...

SXSW - happy customers

Meet little Azula... such a beautiful child... came into my booth and knew right away she wanted a wrap for herself... picked this out and asked me to dress her so she can wear it immediately. I found out the day after her visit that a friend of mine knows her and her parents... and apparently, Azula and her mom went inside Guero's and the owner of Guero's took pics of her since they're friends and Azula looked for pretty!

More happy customers...

SXSW Handmade Market - 2010

The SXSW Market at Guero's for Saturday, March 20, 2010 has been cancelled due to the weather but we'll be out there on Sunday, March 21st from 11am to 6pm. Hope everyone's having a wonderful SXSW weekend!

SXSW Handmade Market - 2010

Once again, I'll be set-up in the parking lot of Guero's Taco Bar on South Congress and Elizabeth Street for this year's SXSW festivities! We will have many vendors for your shopping pleasure and of-course live music to enjoy! We'll be there from noon to 9pm each day starting Thursday, March 18th through Saturday, March 20th.

Homemade wrapping paper

This is a wrapping job I did for my friend's birthday gift. I've been doing this wrapping style for years and years, more than I can count... I use paper grocery bags, turn them inside out, and then paint it whichever color/s I feel like... and use that as the wrapping paper. I top it off with dried flowers or some type of greenery (this was leaves/branches from my backyard) and use candle wax to keep the pretties together in place and to add the accent. It's like every wrapping is a work of art!

These are the earrings I made for my friend as her birthday gift. She LOVES fleur-de-lis and all of her jewelry that she wears are simple and classy so I made these to fit her taste and style. She LOVED them and put them on immediately upon opening!!!

Valentine's Day!!!

Quick wrapping job I did for my hubby's Love Day gift... just some construction paper I had laying around...

Black Heritage Festival - February 6, 2010

This was one of the cutest little girls I'd ever seen, especially eating her roasted corn, taking huge bites and then trying to take more bites while pieces of the kernels taken in previous bites were still in her mouth... she was soooooo cute so I had to take a quick snap shot of her. Overall, the Black Heritage Festival was really great. Such nice people, really caring about their community and all coming together as a team... the line up of events throughout the day was inspiring and just a joy to watch. Being a vendor set up right in the middle of the lot gave me a great view of the stage from their Preacher's speech to the award shows to the "prayer dancers" to the teenager kids putting together freestyle rhymes, R&B songs, spoken word and the awesome dj who also performed his own thing! Just a really fun event! So glad I was part of it!