The softer side of fall

Hello!

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I am kind of super busy today, getting ready for my

BIG CRAFT SALE at the Adams County Fairground,

FALL FESTIVAL CRAFT FAIR

Saturday, October 1,

9am - 4pm

I need to run to XPedX to pick up some packaging for my items,

cut another 100 at least business cards,

help my son pack up as he is moving tomorrow,

finish at least one beaded bracelet before Saturday

get my display set up at home, to make sure all fits,

and hopefully get a few more 'ribbons' finished.

These are made from an Art Nouveau Alphabet that I have tweaked, resized, tweaked some more and printed, then hand colored each letter.

Yeah, really.

 These are NOT decals, rub ons, etc. I have hand colored each one with art pens! 

I have the sets ready to go, I "just" need to put them on ribbons, add the ribbon embellishments, and back them with cardstock!!!

I do really like how they look however.

any-who-how,

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I would like to share with you today an Etsy Treasury that I have put together.

"The softer side of fall"

I have to say, this might be the 'most favorite' treasury I have ever done.

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The colors are just soothing to my creative spirit.

I am sorry I don't have time to list each item individually.

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You can see the treasury here:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTc2MTA5M3w2ODUzNTMwMzI/the-softer-side-of-fall

You should be able to just click on the link above,

and your computer will whisk you away to the treasury!

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All of my photos today are from this treasury,

with the exception of the bottlecap ribbons that I have made.

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Take a peek, and enjoy!

(with a nice cup of Maxwell House International cafe - hazelnut is a perfect !)

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Getting ready for a Craft Fair

Hi y'all!
Today I am trying to take hold of and be in control concerning my upcoming Craft Fair. It is at a county fairgrounds (Adams, for those of you in the area) with 250 booths. WHAT!!!
This will be the largest venture I have tried.

Adams County Fairgrounds 22nd Annual Fall Festival Bazaar

Saturday, October 1
9 - 4

sponsored by the Adams County Historical Society

This is a picture of what the table looks like when I make recycled bottlecap magnets, using all junk mail for the pictures and phrases.

Michael has a short tolerance for messes,

so I have to clean up every day or two if I'm lucky!

What? It's a kitchen table and that's where we have to eat?

Nah.

We can be couch potatoes and eat in the family room!

Okay,

maybe that's not very family-like!

one of my recycled junk mail bottlecaps, with a very sturdy magnet on the back

I have pretty much organized all my bottlecap magnets

and all my domino handpainted/stamped magnets.

This is a photo from last year's Senior Center Craft Fair, Brighton, Colorado.

I sold many santa stockings with hand made yoyo embellishments.

On the bottom Left corner of the first photo -those are word sets of my magnets

made from an Art Nouveau alphabet,

resized, tweaked, resized some more, spoken stern words to;

then I print them out, and hand color each letter with art pens mostly.

Very detailed work, and I just love doing the coloring!

I have posted several of these magnets, so I will just do one or two today:

It's nice to have one part for the Craft Fair ready to go.

I also do bottlecap ribbons that spell out words.

I finish with more ribbons, and if I do say so myself, they look really pretty.

Tell me what you think!

Latin for 'peace'

No, I have no idea why blogspot has turned this one on it's side.

sigh.

I really need to finish up many more.

I have the sets all gathered, I just need to do the ribbon/bow part.

Oh!

and I'm having a little jewerly party at my house Friday.

WAIT A MINUTE...

that's tomorrow.

EEK!!!

Edvard Munch's 'The Scream'

c.1896

so there's finish the blog, check back with teamcac for an answer to questions submitted, let the dog in, drop off a check at the Adams County Historical building,

figure out a menu for the party, buy food for the party, let the dog out, COMPLETELY clean the family room, kitchen area, eating area, and probably the bathroom too. Oh, and the floor and the carpet.

I need to finish up bottlecap ribbons, finish up with some bottlecap magnets, go to XPedX to buy plastic bags, let the dog in, figure out some way to hang the papel picado banners I want to sell, get out my 3panel display board and get it all set up with jewelry and Collage Altered Dolls, let the dog out, get the $$ for my money box, make sure my calculator has the right paper in it, give Tanner his pills, let the dog in, get out my display forms and figure out what jewelry goes where, put price tags on everything, print and cut out more business cards, make sure my help is in place, check to see if I need more help, arrange lunch for the day,

oh dang, I better just get to it!

You know, lists can be very helpful to get organized.

Or they can be so crushing that it's time to go to Dairy Queen

for a Pecan Mudslide.

That's DQ ice cream, caramel sauce, hot fudge sauce and lots of pecans.

My favorite.

Guess I better close for today and go do some things on my list!

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A Bright Easter

Hallelujah!

c. 1901

He is not here!

"....and here's the rest of the story...."

When some of Jesus' followers went to the tomb as soon as they could  to clean the body and annoint it and do the final preparations for burial,

(according to Jewish laws and traditions)

 the tomb's huge rock across the front was rolled to the side!

They needed to do these burial rituals, but the tomb was empty!

A bright shining angel was at the entrance, and announced:

"He is not here!"

Of course, being humans, they had to make sure themselves....

and there in the tomb were the hastily scrambled together clothing that they had wrapped Jesus' body in,

only there was no body.

This is Easter.

Death could not hold Jesus.

He rose from the dead,

and with His new Resurrected body,

He was reunited with His Father.

He came to earth in this new body so His disciples could believe, and so there was no doubt that His body had not been stolen or disposed of. It just was no longer in the tomb....dead.

He also showed Himself risen,

as he had last minute preparations and instructions to His disciples.



So we color bright Easter eggs to symbol new life,

we celebrate with Easter lilies as they look like angels' trumpets,

we go to church to hear the Good News again,

We cluster with our families for Easter special foods,

We dress in our fancy best....

Because this is the one HUMONGOUS celebration of the year!

vintage Art Nouveau art

 

German Easter Greetings, vintage

and that's the rest of the story....



Blessing to all, and with a spirit of great joy,

I wish you a Blessed Easter.

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Relationship with contemporary styles and movements

As an art movement, Art Nouveau has affinities with the Pre-Raphaelites and the Symbolist movement, and artists like Aubrey Beardsley, Alphonse Mucha, Edward Burne-Jones, Gustav Klimt and Jan Toorop could be classed in more than one of these styles. Unlike Symbolist painting, however, Art Nouveau has a distinctive visual look; and unlike the artisan-oriented Arts and Crafts Movement, Art Nouveau artists readily used new materials, machined surfaces and abstraction in the service of pure design.

Art Nouveau did not negate the machine as the Arts and Crafts Movement did, but used it to its advantage. For sculpture, the principal materials employed were glass and wrought iron, leading to sculptural qualities even in architecture. Ceramics were also employed in creating editions of sculptures by artists such as Auguste Rodin.^[40]

Art Nouveau architecture made use of many technological innovations of the late 19th century, especially the broad use of exposed iron and large, irregularly shaped pieces of glass in architecture. By the start of the First World War, however, the highly stylised nature of Art Nouveau design—which itself was expensive to produce—began to be dropped in favour of more streamlined, rectilinear modernism, which was cheaper and thought to be more faithful to the rough, plain, industrial aesthetic that became Art Deco.

Vase by Daum (c. 1900).

Chair designed by Henry Van de Velde for his house "Bloemenwerf" in Brussels.

"Majolikahaus" (det.) 1898 by Otto Wagner[41]

Bechstein Art Nouveau grand piano 1902 made for Julius Gütermann

Gallery

Building in Riga by Mikhail Eisenstein	Hôtel Ciamberlani in Brussels by Paul Hankar	House of the architect Peter Behrens on the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt	Building in Łódź by Gustaw Landau Gutenteger
The House with Chimaeras in Kiev by Vladislav Gorodetsky.	Casas del cuito building in Oviedo	Hungarian art nouveau: Palatul Prefecturii, 1907 (Târgu Mureş, Romania)	Cifrapalota, 1902 (Kecskemét, Hungary)
The centre of Ålesund, Norway, was rebuilt after a fire in 1904, much of it in Art Nouveau style.	Gresham Palace, in Budapest, Hungary	Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary	Kecskemét
Budapest	Varna, Bulgaria	Katajanokka area (Helsinki, Finland)	Lucerna passage Prague
The Macca-Vilacrosse passage, Bucharest, Romania	Entrance door detail of the Villino Lampredi by Giovanni Michelazzi, Florence	Gümüşsu Palas in Istanbul, Turkey	Prešeren Square, Ljubljana (Slovenia)