Dott's Corner with Fun Artsy Stuff

Best Barn of our US & Canada trip.

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ATC's Artist Trading Cards

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These are 2 1/2"X3 1/2" and are used as trading cards. Glass on glass, grouted, foiled edges and soldered.

Camp

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Avenue 9 Gallery, Chico, CA

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Mt.Shasta, textures, lichen, blooms and more

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This free slideshow design personalized with Smilebox

Golden Gate in Glass

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This digital greeting card customized with Smilebox

Cross Window

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dom's forum: Welcome to My Forum

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dom's forum: Welcome to My Forum

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My Newest Window

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Just finished this on today. It is a gift.

18 Tips to Be the Artist of Your Dreams

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1. Choose a family that nurtures or challenges your artistic spirit and talent.
2. Read great literature every day. The works of literary masters can unlock the creative potential in your being in a way that nothing
else can.
3. Listen to classical music while you work – especially Mozart. Classical music will help you to open the creative centers of your being
in a way that other music styles cannot.
4. Exercise your body and spend time in nature every week. You are a whole person – spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical. All of
you needs to be exercised and integrated for optimum success as an artist. Be a renaissance person.
5. Don’t watch television. You can maybe watch your favorite program for an hour but nothing more than that. Television can break
down your connection to your creativity and individuality.
6. Don’t spend a lot of time on the internet. The internet can affect you in much the same way as television and it can also be a huge
time-waster.
7. Study with masters and become a great artist. A great artist has inspiration, talent, uniqueness of vision, and absolute mastery of
their medium. It’s not about pretty – its about originality and a way of seeing life.
8. Be honest with yourself. You need to assess if you really have the talent and persistence to be a commercially successful artist – big
dreams alone cannot take you there.
9. Make a deal with your spouse or partner or family to give you 5 years to focus 100% on your art.
10. Work on your art as hard as Michelangelo did. Paint or sculpt or photograph – do whatever you do for at least 4 hours every day.
11. Have a stunning online gallery of your work. This is what everyone in the universe is going to see when they get their first impression
of you and your art.
12. Attend a major art event every week, speak with at least 10 people, and give each one of them your business card with your website
address. Invite them all to your next open studio or show.
13. Hold an Open Studio every month. Advertise in local publications. Invite local arts professionals and send out email invitations to
all your email list – even if they are thousands of miles away. Nothing compares with a physical showing of your work involving real
people! A little food and some nice wine together with your art will create an environment for selling your work.
14. Every year, buy a copy of the Art In America Gallery Guide and make a list of 600 galleries that appear to show work similar in style
to yours.
15. Every month, send out 50 letters of introduction to galleries with a postcard of a very strong piece of your work and an invitation
to visit and review your website.
16. Commit to a major gallery or art-center showing of your work twice a year and make it happen no matter what. Plan 6 months in
advance for each show and make it perfect – curating, framing, catering, assistance, etc.
17. Answer every request for information, every email, every response to your mailouts, every phonecall to your artist studio – as if the
sender or caller might be wanting to spend $25 Million on your art.
18. Like Buzz Lightyear once said, “Never give up, Never surrender!”

Be sure to check out our December special

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http://wrightspecialties.blogspot.com/

Camp

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Finishing up my Backsplash

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That I started back in March! About time wouldn't you say?

Friend's New Business

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Be sure to check out my friend's new business. It is at: www.measurememommie.com

The Nail Fly

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Dragonflies are reminders that we are light and can reflect the light in powerful ways if we choose to do so. "Let there be light" is the divine prompting to use the creative imagination as a force within your life.

Vintage Button Eyes

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All of the dragonflies will have a black patina on the solder. It will make them look better.

Today's Dragonflies have vintage button eyes

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Today's dragonfly is on a spoon!

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Today's dragonfly

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Break A Leg

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Dragonflies

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I have been having fun learning how to do stained glass. These are my first projects. The clear glass as you can see is made with a old silver spoon. The cobalt blue glass one is made with an old square nail.

Canada

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Just got back from seven glorious weeks in Canada!

Welcome Isabel

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Old Montreal

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Montreal Botanical Gardens

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Camp

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First Airplane part finished

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3rd and final airplane part mosaiced.

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Memorial Day Weekend

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More on Airplaned part planters...

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View from top.

Airplane part mosaic

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This is one of my newly acquired airplane parts that I am mosaicing.

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Photo collages are of photos I took while on vacation.

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Geocashe

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Make a Smilebox greeting

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East of the Sierras

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In Search of Wildflowers

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Todays Smilebox

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Bench Seat

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It just needs to dry and be grouted.

Bench Seat

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This is what I worked on today. It is a bench seat that sits between two planter boxes. I like the way it turned out. This is the up close peek.

Little Teapot finished

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My Little Teapot

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Mosaiced this today, needs grout...

Full View

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Full view

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The end of backsplash...

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Big Corner Section done today!

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I am so loving this backsplash...it's just so vibrant and so my colors!!! One more section and behind the oven, then ready for grout!

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Well here is the 2nd section of backsplash...ready for grout.

Backsplash!!

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Here we go with the first section of backslpash done and ready for grout. Will wait to grout until all of it is done.

My new beginnings of backsplash!

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Nothing is adhered yet.. still figuring out the layout...might change it up a bit...meanwhile, enjoy my daffodils!!!

Snowing In Magalia

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Ahhh More of those great columns...love em

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Some Columns finished!

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I love my ladder, looks a little naked in the winter!

Column for plant stand

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Started this tonight and now it's ready for grout. Possibly tomorrow.

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Well it is finally finished! And, Eli and I played the first game tonight of checkers.

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Here's my Bella...don't cha love her eyes?

It's like spring in California

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With temps in the 70's ! We need the rain and snow...

Just about done.

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The checkerboard table is almost finished. Ran out of grout and will have to get more, but here you can get the gist of how it will look.

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Well I hope it looks better with grout than it does without...my cuts aren't so great around the edges..

Here is my latest WIP

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This table was headed for yardsale by my DD... so I snagged it... and just lookie at what can happen to an ugly old table!!! Up for a game of checkers anyone? Or chess?

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Happy January 2nd, 2009! Did I say I love mosaiced bowling balls? Just a few of some I've mosaiced.

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Happy New Year!
We welcome the new year and thank the Lord for a great 2008! Here's to a new year of fabulous junking and wonderful treasures!

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I love bowling balls in their mosaic form!!!

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OK, bear with me, I am so new at this blogging thing. Still trying to grasp it and get it right...

Greetings from Magalia, a step above Paradise

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Here in sunny California it is cold and cloudy...we've had about 9 inches of snow, it's about melted now. We enjoy many things and junking is high on the list of fun! We create lots of garden art and rusty welded stuff for the garden.