autumn

We tend to stay pretty busy over here, just like the rest of you I'm sure.

I'm going to spare you all the detailed chit chat and share some

photos of what I've been up to with 

just a little play by play in between...

we went to the apple orchard a couple of weeks ago.

we are already out of apples and we need to get some 

this weekend at the Eastern Market.

this guy turned 12!

so him and his buddies do what they love to do best.

play a little airsoft wars in our backyard.  

They aren't just shooting at eachother like I thought it was,

nope they strategize these games and play a physical 

game of Stratego.

I just stay out of the way of oncoming pellets!

we made it to Art Prize and here is a pic

of Hannah and Max playing in the room with the winning piece.

we are still going to shows and the farmers market most every week.

If you are in the area and get the chance, 

the Detroit Eastern Market is a great 

place to shop, have some lunch and meet wonderful people!

I am now in the midst of adding lots of soldered pieces to the baubles

just in time for Christmas shopping!

As I cleaning my workroom I came across a few

soldered story bottles that needed some tweeking, 

so I added those to the work pile.  

these were a big hit last year, so I am creating more

little snow storms in the bottles for this year.

something very new to the booth are my

MIlove charms.  I will be putting them on key chains also!

I love the organic look that happens when I press into the 

molten lava hot solder.

I think setting up for the show is 1/2 the fun :)

in between all the work and fun, I also try to keep us healthy

with good meals... thank goodness for pinterest!

This is my new favorite salad...

kale, (this time I mixed in romaine because I used all the kale in our smoothies)

roasted butternut squash, apples, craisins,  and sunflower seeds with a 

maple vinaigrette dressing... yum!

actually you can find it in my pin board titled just that - YUM

I also continue to 'play' on my phone with

Rhonna Designs and Photofy

to create marketing pics and thank you notes-

even Max's bday party invites.

(and I really DO start each day with a grateful heart)

xoxo

well there you have it... my life in a nutshell!

I am supposed to be sewing sachets so I better get to it,

soon they will also get a touch of Christmas spirit with

some Christmas stamps on them.

I hope that you are having a fabulous day and

enjoying every bit of your autumn!

love, 

t. xoxo

Art Prize is back!

Our booth changes with every show.  

When I suggested to Duane that we start taking the china cabinet with us,

the look on his face said it all.

"whaaaaaaaaat?"

It only took a little persuasion for him to 'see' the vision.

I don't think it's coming back into the house any time soon!

Plus we have the sweetest friends,

Denise and Don found this fabulous old, huge ironing board

at a garage sale and not only picked it up for us but

fixed it up to make it sturdy again!

Thanks again you two... you are awesome!

So where are we next?

Last year I told you about Art Prize in Grand Rapids,

here are some photos that I took to give you a small idea of 

the fabulousness of Art Prize...

this is made with paper pulp!

incredible mosaic detail for her skirt...

cowboy...nuff said ;)

needle felted by design students...

so what does any of this have to do with us?

The Old White House will be vendors at 

Art -2- Art

I am giddy,

 GIDDY,

I tell you!

We will be there every day from Oct.1-6

from 12pm until 10pm

don't have it all figured out on how we will pull that off,

but I think with all of the entertainment

that they have planned in the space we will be having so much fun

that the hours will fly by!

They are having a vaudeville/circus theme,

with live acts on every floor every day all day!

We will be on the second floor with

music and other entertainment every night from 6-10.

GIDDY

can you blame me?

The booth will be full of our natural laundry and cleaning provisions

plus new pumpkins, lots of new pumpkins!

(this one is sold but I have a few grain sacks left...)

I hope you can make it!

Art Prize is an amazing collection

of super talented artists from around the world,

all competing for the grand prize of 

$100,000

YOU

get to vote for the winner!

I will tell you, it's a difficult task to find

just one winner though, 

the talent is over the top!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

love,

Theresa

xoxoxooxoxo

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Primp Your Stuff

art prize ~ round two

Here are a few more of my favorite pieces from our field trip to

Art Prize...

This piece was called Mother Earth.

Each of the dresses are hand felted wool.

truly amazing.

crazy cool.

I was mesmerized.

loved watching him work, he spun his canvas around and painted from every angle.

so cool.

This man created sand art... a new piece everyday of the contest.

We first saw him sweeping up from the day before and then

before we left we checked in on him and this is what we saw.

amazing.

This entire piece was created with a splatter paint technique.

crazy amazing.

OK I better stop now, I have overused the word AMAZING

enough for one post!

Seriously, there is so much talent all in one city until the 9th and we only

saw a fraction of it and we were there for 7 hours walking through venue after venue.

So we are talking about going back!

I was talking to a friend of mine today and she went over the weekend,

and as we were comparing notes, we didn't even see the same artwork!

I hope you enjoyed your visit to Art Prize

as much as I enjoyed sharing it with you...

love,

Theresa xoxo



art prize...

Grand Rapids holds an amazing event called

Art Prize

Thousands of artists come from all over the world to compete.

Duane and I took the kids today for a family field trip.

(meaning we took them out of school for an important addition to their education)

I am so glad we did, it was incredible!

I'm just going to show a few of the pics that I took today.

I still need to go through the over 200 that I took.

ball point pen drawing



paper pulp sculpture

wool felted gown... mother earth ~ more of these to come

who doesn't love a cowboy?

gorgeous polar bear oil painting

gorgeous sculpture and mosaic piece

amazing hand made paper sculpture.

So many pieces were indoors so the lighting was a challenge

but I really thought you should see

the incredible talent that I got a peek at today!

If you live anywhere nearby, you really, really must go to G.R.

before this ends on Oct. 9th

you will be so glad that you did.

I just shared a few of the mostly white pieces that I loved,

wait until I show you some of the other pieces that blew my mind!

love,

Theresa xoxo

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