Busy in the studio
It has been quite busy in the studio lately! I worked hard and long (and I mean really long!) to get a commission done. My friend, Cyndy Kempken, asked me to create a handbag for her with special pockets to meet her needs. The main challenges were using earthtones (not usually my thing) and working [...]
New Website Address and Fountain Hills Artists’ Gallery
Welcome to my blog! There have been some changes since I last blogged! First, we’ve changed the primary address of this blog from artsyfran.com to fransaperstein.com! Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds. Artsyfran.com will forward to the new address, but if you have a link to me, please change it to fransaperstein.com. Now that [...]
And the winners are
The winners of the OWOH Giveaway are as follows: Pincushion Doll to #84, Ria Nirwana! Congratulations, Ria! Arty doll to #111, Alice Stropel. Congratulations, Alice! Ladies, please send me an email with your address so I can get these off to you! Thanks to everyone for visiting. I hope you’ll visit again soon!
One World One Heart Giveaway 2010
Hello weary readers! I’m back! Once again, I am participating in the annual One World One Heart event. This is an international blog event that started back in 2007. It’s HUGE! For some background on the event, I’m posting exactly what Lisa, the fabulous organizer of the event has to say: WHAT IS ONE WORLD [...]
so much for posting more…
Well, it didn’t take long for me to fail miserably at posting more frequently. But I’ve felt a need to just be quiet and to focus on my health, my home, and well, not share. I’m trying to get out of that funk, writing in my personal journal, but it’s a process, as many of [...]
Something different
I interrupted my painting progress for a bit. I’ve been taking an online class with Susan Sorrell on Personal Symbols. I have always been intrigued by her work and I’ve also always found embroidery a very relaxing and healing thing to do. So, when I saw about her class, I decided to take it. Six [...]
Milan, Italy
Let’s wrap this trip up, shall we? Before we get to Milan itself, we have to talk about the drive from Florence. It was supposed to be three hours. But we got into a traffic jam. on the Autostrade on the way there. It took an hour for us to get through it. While we [...]
Has it really been so long?
I’ve been so bad about blogging this year. It’s mid-March and so much is going on! First, an update on the wrist. I’m weaning off of the wrist splint and doing some strengthening exercises. As I type this, I have no splint on. It makes typing MUCH easier! I am able to write better, draw [...]
Landscape quilt completed
Yesterday, while I watched MSNBC and listened to the 9/11 memorials, I needed some sort of creative distraction to balance out some of the horrors that were being relived on my television. I didn’t want to hide from it, I just wanted to be present, but not without a way to work through it. I’m [...]
Art in the studio
I realized that I haven’t been updating much other than with the CreativeTherapy catalyst responses. But I’ve been doing so much more. For the past few weeks, I’ve been doing lots of journaling and collage “just because”. I often do this just because I have a lot on my mind that I just need to [...]
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