Dare To Dream...

Discover the possibilities... Dare to Dream!!!

I got inspired and painted this cute little fairy with acrylic paints on a canvas. She will be soon on my etsy shop.

I hope you all had a great weekend!!

Hugs,
Doris

GROW...

I have been neglecting my poor blog and my Etsy shop for about two months but I have good reasons: vacation... new studio... new academic year... But I am back and with renovated energies!!!



First, I want to show you this beautiful print "Grow" (isn't it cute?) from great artist Lisa Lectura. I ordered this print last July and now is ready to be hanged in my new studio.

Lisa Lectura is a self-taught artist that has always enjoyed making some type of arts and crafts projects since she was a little girl. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. You can visit her Etsy shop here and her Ebay listings to see more of her sensational art.

The words in the print say: "Give yourself room to learn and grow". I know that I need to learn and grow and this wonderful print in my studio will help me. This cute Fairy will be my inspiration. Thank you Lisa for your art. I always follow your blog. You can visit her at: http://llcreations.blogspot.com


I have been away for two months but I continuously follow all your blogs, I enjoy them very much and learn. You all make my days with your comments and your arts.

Second, I will be updating my Esy shop during this week (at last!) so, please visit me soon.

Blessings and Love,

Doris

Preparing for the Etsy Shop Update!

I thought you may want to peek at some of my new jewelry that will be in my Etsy shop by the end of June.

As I wanted to find a way of wearing my illustrations I made pendants, necklace, and brooches with some of them. I'm not a professional illustrator but they all look very sweet anyhow!

Have a nice week!
Doris

Paper Beads and Art Pendants

I few months ago I found this wonderful shop at Etsy that sells paper beads. The owner is friend Karen and her shop is RunswithScissors. She also sells beautiful custom map bracelets. Please take a look at her shop and at her blog http://www.runswithscissors4.blogspot.com/ where she recently shows two of my new necklaces using green dots paper beads from her shop. I already sold those necklaces in my last show but, there will be new designs with paper beads at my etsy shop soon. Paper beads are beautiful and ecofriendly.

With these necklaces I began my art print pendant collection.

The first necklace has a gorgeous antique illustration of a dancing goddess with rich orange tonalities. This illustration was printed on high quality artistic photo paper, set in an antique bronze filigree cameo, and it is protected with layers of artists' varnish gloss that is non yellowing.




I'm very happy and proud to show you my next necklace that was made with paper and seed beads and it has one of my own illustrations "Musical Girl".


The technique used for the pendant is the same as the one that I used with the first necklace, the only difference is that the illustration is a print of my mixed media illustration. I hope you like it cause I'll be making more pendants with some of my illustrations. Photos are not too good, just wanted to give and idea.

Hi, Everyone!!

It has been a long time since my last post... more than four months! Wonderful things have happened since then. I have been creating new designs and using new materials like paper beads (from my friend Karen aka runswithscissors4 at Etsy), fabric flowers (my new line of corsage necklaces), and a lot of filigree that I just love. I have been experimenting with mixed media art and have created some new art pendants that I'll show in my next post.

I will have an important jewelry show next Saturday (April 18) with my friend and jewelry designer Adela Rosa aka Yarid'atabex and that's the reason why I'm not posting new items in my Etsy Shop for this last month. On Sunday I'll be adding to my shop the jewelry that I don´t sell at the show.

Here is a preview of some of my new designs:

At home, everything is fantastic. We are adding a small studio to the house that is going to be my jewelry studio! and next, we will be remodeling some of the windows. I 'll have pictures of my new studio as soon as it is finished (about one month).

My dear lovely son Rauli (Luisra) is in Houston with his classmates and professor Ana Georas visiting Rice University. They'll be sharing experiences with other architect students and having and exposition of their latest designs. We miss him...

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Desde hace aproximadamente cuatro meses no escribo nada en este blog. He estado bien ocupada con mi joyería y nuevos diseños. Experimentando con beads de papel (de mi amiga Karen de runswithscissors4), flores de tela (para mi línea de collares corsage) y filigree (filigrana) en metal en especial bronce antiguo. También he estado experimentando con "mixed media art" y he desarrollado una línea de pendants con mis propias ilustraciones que estaré mostrando en mi próximo Post.

El próximo sábado 18 de abril tengo un importante show con mi amiga diseñadora de joyería, Adela Rosa, también conocida como Yari D'atabex y por esa razón no he estado actualizando mi tienda desde hace como un mes. Lo que no venda es este show lo estaré incluyendo en mi tienda desde el próximo domingo.

En casa, todo fantástico. Estamos añadiendo lo que será un pequeño estudio para mi joyería, al fin! (próximamente fotos) que estará terminado como en un mes y luego estaremos remodelando algunas ventanas de la casa.

Mi amado hijo Rauli, de nuevo de viaje, se encuentra en Houston con sus compañeros de clase y la Profesora Ana Georas. Están visitando Rice University y compartiendo con otros estudiantes de arquitectura y exhibiendo sus últimos diseños. lo extrañamos mucho...