Out in the Blue...

 Hello Friends!


My artful journeys have kept me traveling the last few months!  I have much to catch up with on my blog!  Here are a few more photos of the Bliss at my Beauty in Blue event!




We did a shoe swap...embellish a shoe and fill it with treasures!  This was mine!  It was a 1912 wedding shoe. So Beautiful!  Sherry now owns it!  I saved the other for me...  I will embellish it and display it in my art studio!

There were three projects for the weekend all boasting shades of blue!  This was called the "Beautiful Blue Vignette" taught by Fabulous Molly Knox

This is the "Bountiful Bucket of Blue" taught by the delightful and wonderful Jennifer Hayslip!

                   And this was the project I taught, The "Belle in the     Bluebonnets" Statement necklace!      

Stacy from The Whitworth Ranch Retreat was truly the greatest hostess ever!  I wanted to make something for her to remember the event by, so I created this "Moment in Time" piece.  It was a clock that didn't work anymore so I took out the face and embellished it with a frozen charlotte.  All of our names are on the back!

                                             More moments in blue!

                   Stacy is an incredible chef who prepared all of our meals.  I was CRAVING tomatoes and she made this beautiful salad!

        A Tex-Mex speciality!  Stuffed Poblano Pepper!  YUMMMMMMY!!!

I took the ladies to all kinds of vintage and antique shops and we shopped until

we dropped at the Canton Market!

DREAMS CAME TRUE AT BEAUTY IN BLUE!!!!!!

   I simply must give a sneak peek into the bliss of my Beauty in Blue event in Texas!  

  The photographs I SHOT ARE ENDLESS!  The Beauty is beyond imagination..a dream came true for me!  Here is a quick  look..many more postings to follow!

                              
                                The gift bags that awaited my beauties!!

                           Miss Molly!   Major Beauty "KICKED IT  UP" in the 
                 Blue Bonnets!

    
My camera found a fairy queen in the blue bonnets!  My friend Jennifer Hayslip!...DIVINE!!!!

       The BEAUTIES IN BLUE..we shopped, created, laughed 
       and had a major party all weekend!!

                        


                        As a photographer, it was a dream for me to capture images in the blue bonnets..I stayed on for 4 days after my event for scheduled photo sessions. The Blue bonnet is the  Texas state flower...after my photo sessions, I just sat in the field until the sun went down...there is peace and magic within the blue bonnets!!

  
My friend Sherry took the camera and captured my moments among the "BLUE!!"  

                          Everything was about the beauty of the color
                                              BLUE!!!

                 A dream like subject...Ali.. my camera LOVED her!

           We had our own little artist cottage at Whitworth Ranch Retreat and our projects all boasted the tranquil colors of blue and white..  Posting more photos soon!

 
Captured these best friends in the blue bonnets...what could be more wonderful???


         

           


 This is the signature cocktail I served my girls in the blue bonnet field along with wine and cheese after our visit and photo sessions! It was DIVINE!!

OHH the food we were served by Stacy at the retreat was AMAZING!  It was one wonderful meal after another!!

           


   Molly's sweet Easter bunny boxes!  

Chocolate chip scones Stacy made us!  (complete with her  home made marmalade!!!!!! YUMMY!!)

                                I was in heaven in the blue bonnets!!!

                  The first stop we made once all the girls arrived was at The Red Shed Antiques who hosted us with sweets and wine!  I was blessed with hospitality all over Texas!!!  More postings to follow my friends..so many amazing photos of this weekend to come!
And by the way..it is official...the retreat is booked for next year for BEAUTY IN BLUE 2! OH I CAN HARDLY WAIT!!

Countdown to Beauty in Blue!!

 I can't believe it is a little more than a week until I get to Texas to host my "Beauty Queens" for a weekend of BLISS!!  It looks like I am right on track to photograph among the DIVINE Texas state flower, the Blue Bonnets! They are starting to bloom!  I simply can't wait!!!  Here are a few photos of some creations for the weekend including the little pink and blue flats I embellished that will tip toe through the blue bonnets!!!


Love to everyone!

A

Queen's of Art FABULOUSNESS!

  I could keep posting and posting about my Queens event!  Just had to share a few more photos of the bliss!  I wish I could share every single photo!  The food, the projects, the friends...the love! Memories to last  me each and every Valentine's Day for the rest of my years! xoxo

More Queens of Art Bliss!