Painkiller After a Long Week

School started this week, its still hot outside, and you've spent all week hard at work waiting for Friday. Sound familiar? Maybe you need a Painkiller.

Painkiller

In a rocks double glass with ice, pour in:

2 oz Pusser's Rum

2 oz cream of coconut

equal parts pineapple and orange juice to fill

garnish with a dash of nutmeg and a maraschino cherry

Enjoy! While you're sipping your pain away, check out my newly revamped website. Yeah insomnia!! The photos on the gallery page are improved and easier to see, the look is different, and hopefully everything is easier to use. Check it out and let me know what you think! Thanks! Enjoy the weekend~xoxo

Kitschy Pendants and Earrings

My new pendants and earrings feature vintage/ retro photos printed on super durable and lightweight plastic. I have everything from squirrels (of course!) to guns to these fun jukeboxes:

Check back to see my flowery and paisley patterned pendants! Coming in the next week! I love paisley more than I love squirrels, believe it or not. xoxo

Inventory Clean Out Sale!!

I have spent the last few days hard at work taking inventory of everything I have made in the past two years. In doing so, I have found things I have forgotten all about!! All of this hard work is in preparation for the craft shows I have coming up- the KWW's 33rd Annual Arts and Crafts Show on Labor Day weekend, the Paducah BBQ on the River Festival September 25th ,26th and 27th and Hunter's Moon Festival October 10th. Check out this little pretty:

To celebrate cleaning and organizing all my inventory (no small feat, if you have seen my studio!), I lowered all my prices in my Etsy shop!! So even if you have been there before, go back and look again! Almost everything is 25% to 50% lower than before!!

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Shout Outs

I spent all day Saturday at Green Turtle Bay for Marina Day doing facepainting and launching my new line of graphic design and photo pendants. I probably gave 150 kids and even adults painted "tattoos" and bedecked cheeks with turtles, hearts, anchors and sailboats, and got great reception on my jewelry as well. The weather was gorgeous, the food was wonderful, and a great time was ad by all! In addition, I recieved a shout out on the blog, Laura K Finds Her Way, a clever, funny, and well written account of life and current happenings here in Western Kentucky.

In looking at this whole shout out phenomenon, I also discovered this fun little blog dedicated to art made in the round-robin style, where the same thing travels all of the world to a circle of crafters and artists who all add something before sending it on. Flory's Crafts is a little peek into a wonderful concept! In addition, the multi-talented Flory has a poetry blog with lovely musings and prose. Check it out!!

Drink of the Week

In honor of Marina Day tomorrow at Green Turtle Bay, I present to you, the Green Turtle Madness Cocktail!

In a rocks double glass with ice, mix:
1 oz vodka
1 oz Malibu Rum
1 oz Midori
Pineapple juice to fill

Enjoy!! Remember to come see me at Marina Day, tomorrow from 1 to 5 at Green Turtle Bay! Have a fabulous, fun, refreshing weekend! xoxo

Marina Day this Saturday

This Saturday I will be facepainting and having a demonstration and display booth at Green Turtle Bay to celebrate Marina Day. Marina Day is a national event to celebrate the importance boating has on communities across the country, and in our village between the lakes where there are more than twice as many slips as houses, Marina Day is a big event! Featuring a full day of free fun for the whole family, be sure to come down and enjoy everything from free sailboat rides and children's activities to the street dance at night ending with a fireworks display on the water. Learn more by visiting the Grand Rivers website. I will be there from noon till 5 pm Saturday painting faces and answering questions about my art and jewelry. So stop on by and say hello!!

xoxo

Blog of the Week: Have you checked out Skwiggazine?

Have you checked out Skwiggazine yet? Part online interactive magazine and part social networking site for artists, Missy Skwiggler started this site as a constant source of information and new art by artists, for artists. I was even featured all July with my paintings on Wednesdays! I also write the Interview Me! column on Saturdays, interviewing a different up and coming artist every week. Check it out!

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