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"SNOW DAY"
2-inch x 2.75-inch painting on canvas
ACT FAST! I can send either of these direct to your special someone - giftwrapped! FREE USA48 regular shipping - add $2 for Priority Mail. There is STILL time to get this under their tree!
joyfully, katey D
ACORNAMENTS - handpainted Acorn ornaments
Hand Painted Greeting Cards - from the SANTA CLAWS series
Original Paintings on book pages - The Miracle on 34th Street
Altered Game Dominoes (necklaces/pendants) - Retro Cameras for the photographer in your life
Vintage Kris Kringle Domino Necklaces / Ornaments
Look at the Fairy Tales ... brought back to life on these very old book pages...where their stories have been locked away behind a cover for too long. Look at the original paintings I created directly onto pages from an antique storybook ~ there is new life in these old familiar stories as you look at my interpretations of these charming characters.
My previous posts pertaining to VETERAN’S DAY/WW II can be seen by visiting this post in honor of my Dad
My Dad. My Veteran
Meanwhile - thank you for allowing me a break in my "normal" art posting. Please look around my blog and be sure to enter my ART Give-Away contest a couple of posts below :)
~Katey
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I was a consultant on a reclamation project in Willoughby, Ohio several years back - where a pathetic old building was being given new life and now serves as a Bed and Breakfast. A few of the walls had to be moved/removed and I was able to reclaim some original 1884 framing lumber. Remember when 2x4 actually meant 2” x 4” ? (me neither ha ha) - At one time dimensional lumber was actually the dimension it was referred to! I have taken a few actual 2x4 boards that were unable to be used any other way in the lengths at hand - and I salvaged them into chubby chunks to paint on. Some of them still reveal ghosts of where the plaster and lathe attached to them.They are rough, have nail holes, scars, and fabulous character. Check them out in my ETSY shop!
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~katey
Be sure to visit my previous blog post for a chance to win ...
" She keeps Moet et Chandon in a pretty cabinet 
For altered art, paintings, funky jewelry includings gobs of domino pendants - visit BLUEYEDUCKSTUDIOS
For one of a kind amazing photogrpahy (great Christmas giftees for the men in your life) - visit DRIFTSTUDIOS
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"Memories" ~ Within Temptation
(Press PLAY while you visit here today)
Together in all these memories,
I see your smile.
All of the memories I hold dear.
Darling you know I'll love you,
Till the end of time.
All of my memories keep you near
In silent moments,
Imagining you here.
All of my memories keep you near,
In silent whispers, silent tears.
Title: Pink Confetti - a celebration of recovery
Available in my etsy shop here
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MY MOM IS A SURVIVOR!!!
For more inforamtion about early detection - visit
nationalbreastcancerawarenessmonth
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS ITEM IN MY SHOP
“Charmed, I’m sure…”
(a new series)
Introducing a new series (otherwise known, in my case, as a rabbit trail) - of charmed jewelry. These necklaces are assemblages of found pieces and what-nots - mostly 'new', but sometimes 'old' mixed in as well.
I always wanted a charm bracelet as a little girl so now I find myself making charm necklaces - ala a little more luxurious :) The various price ranges within the series reflects the varying ingredients, weight, time, and aesthetic. I use new and vintage pieces, but be assured the pieces are silver plated, gold plated, non-lead, and even non-nickel. If, however, you have metal allergies and require pure, precious metals be cautious of these please. I often treat the pieces with stained glass solvents to add patina and age. They are endearing!
I hope you enjoy each and every one.
May they bless your eyes and all who behold you.
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Title: Moving Out
Measurements and Details: 1.75" tall cage (has a sliding door, swinging perch with a tiny bird inside)... 18" chain with barrel clasp closure plus a 3" section of metal branch with two little birds and their nest with one precious blue/teal glass bead egg inside...also crystal centered flower charms along the chain. Sterling Plated and Metal. An Organza gift bag included!
Christmas
It is with this in mind (along with the great gas savings you could enjoy and the bonus of avoiding any crowd wrangling in chain stores and big box stores) I have decided that I will be holding my own OnLine Art Festivals this autumn… right in my shop.
Please come back often - and visit our family of Etsy Shops...
THANK YOU ....
CreativeFlutter, Pressed Ink, nic2415, Poetic Artist, Melanie, Bridget, Bit of Art, Valeriote Design. and Lynn Stevens for taking part!!!
(See my DOMINO GIVE AWAY POST for details)
Drum Roll...
Melissa Valeriote is THE holiday queen!!!
And she is the winner of my altered domino give away!
Thank you all for posting!
Visit Melissa at her gorgeous blog: HERE
And get her fantastical art on ETSY: HERE
xo - katey
DOMINO ART PENDANT / NECKLACE
Measurements: 1" x 2" pendant on an 24" chain (gold plated)
Type: Exceptional DOMINO ART PENDANT NECKLACE ...
mixed media (painting, collage, glaze effects)
Color Theme: gold, tan, chocolate, caramel, and beige
Title: City on Our Knees
Ingredients: domino, acrylic paints (many many many layers), antique crackle medium, glazes, collage image, ric rac ribbon, findings, metallic paint, and love
I have taken an actual game piece domino (not a bead or craft store domino) and created a very lush finish with multiple paint layers, crackle medium and various glazes. There is a rich and glorious textural depth to my handpainting. The collaged image is from a collection created by Debrina Pratt (an amazing artist!). I have added details along the edges and all the dots are painted with metallic leaf. The back side is as pretty as the front - so the pendant is reversible!
City on Our Knees - Toby Mac
If you gotta start somewhere why not here? If you gotta start sometime why not now? If we gotta start somewhere I say here. If we gotta start sometime I say now. Through the fog there is hope in the distance. From cathedrals to third world missions - Love will fall to the earth like a crashing wave...
~~~~~ GIVE - A - WAY ~~~~~
Just post a comment here. In two weeks (September 15th-ish) I will randomly pick a 'post~er' from a 'hat' and announce the winner here (at which time I will need said winner's mailing address). I hope you'll listen to Toby Mac's song while you're here. I have met him on three occasions - he is genuine.
Please take a lookie loo at all the new domino
pendants in my ETSY STORE - :)
MORE MORE MORE coming THIS week!
~joy! Katey
The last of our original Duck Family, Splash, gone away May 14, 2009
I Won't Back Down ~ Tom Petty with George Harrison, Jeff Lynn (ELO), Ringo
Well I wont back down, no I wont back down.
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I wont back down.
Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around.
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down.
Gonna stand my ground and I wont back down.
This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus. ~Revelation 14:12
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out.
Hey, uh huh, I will stand my ground.
And I wont back down.
Well I know what's right, I got just one life.
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around,
But I'll stand my ground and I wont back down.
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out.
I will stand my ground and I wont back down.
No, I wont back down.
Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. ~ Hebrews 9:27-28
Another Work-in-progress from my series
TOM PETTY
25" square / acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas
BiG Heads (introduction to the BiG HEAD series)
Want a face of your own? Yourself? Your Auntie Mame? Uncle Bud? I can create a custom portrait in this same style ~ convo me at blueyeduckstudios@gmail.com
joy in the journey,
katey~D
www.blueyeduckstudios.etsy.com
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