I am very excited to be a vendor at the 17^th annual May Day Faerie Festival at Spoutwood Farm, Glen Rock, PA. Pay a visit to this magical festival and stop by my booth in Frodo's Eye and say Hello. Hope to see you there!

 http://www.fairiefestival.net/

I am so happy to announce that my artwork is now licensed with Mystical Art on Fabric Squares. Mystical Art fabric squares are the finest art prints manufactured for crafters to date. They are printed on pre-treated, 200 thread count, permanent press, 100% premium cotton fabric, using thermal inkjet technology.

I am also so pleased to be involved with Mystical Arts "Faeries for a Cause" project. On select items, 5% of the proceeds will go to "Kids for Kids". "Kids for Kids" is an organisation created to help children struggling to survive in remote villages in Darfur, Sudan.

Visit: Mystical Art

I am so happy to announce that I am a featured artist in the debut issue of "9 of Swords Magazine". Please check out this online magazine dedicated to up and coming musicians, writers and artists.

9 of Swords Magazine

I completed a new painting over the weekend called "Baby Waiting for Baby". This is a sentimental piece for me b/c it reminds me of when I was pregnant with my son (now almost 2) and my daughter (now 4) anxiously awaited his arrival.

We have a wonderful room above our garage that is unfinished. It has a floor (sub flooring) and no heat or finished walls. It was partially used by the original owners that built the house about 11 years ago. He was a carpenter, so the room has some great work benches and some cabinets in it. 2 owners later the room was still never finished b/c both couples went through divorces. Well, I finally figured out that I have next to no room in my current art room. It is a spare room in our house. I refuse to get rid of the big cozy couch in it. I have no room to buy large paper or mats. No room to store them and no room to cut them down. And I will be getting all my products and supplies for the upcoming festivals I will be doing this year....where's it all going to go? It is obvious that I am running out of room b/c my little art hobby is now a real business. So, we are going to try and get the room above the garage finished so that I can be in it  by the summer. 

Ok so here is the challenge. My wonderful and handy husband takes be up to the room last night to decide how I want to set things up, what cabinets and shelving I want to keep and what should go. Then he tells me "forget about what is in there now and picture the room completely empty. Now picture your ideal studio set up exactly how you want it. Don't think of the money right now!" :D :D :D Now, my hubby can build just about anything with wood. Built in bookcases, shelves and I showed him this and he thought that it would be pretty easy to build as well (trying not to think of money, but building it would sure save a lot of money). 

Anyway, now that I can shoot for the moon in designing my studio ( I am sure we will scale back when we find out how much everything costs). I have some ideas, but am finding it difficult to pinpoint what would make for a great, comfy studio. 

So, I figured I would ask all of you. What is your ideal art studio?