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"art created to bring you simple joy" by Katey DuckBLUEYEDUCKstudioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.comBlogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38726176.post-37346951722403730012016-07-13T20:32:00.001-04:002016-07-13T20:32:12.105-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey there stranger.<br />The trouble (it seems) with running about willy-nilly and leaving digital footprints everywhere (it seems) is that it is possible to lose track of where you've been. Despite my mad-scientist approach to ciphering my mountain of encrypted passwords and addresses and places, IT SEEMS I've lost touch with parts of myself anyway. This blog was, for example, locked out of my reach for the longest time (or so it seemed)!<br /><br />I could see it - and I could meanwhile and instead access and blog on all my <i>other </i>platforms (as some of you know) ... but this one just dangled there - out of reach.... <i>it seemed</i> ...frozen ... and it was. <br /><br />Meanwhile, I have been otherwise engaged in leaving actual footprints over the world - and I have so much to share from Scotland to France to my own back yard here in the Great Lakes region of the USA. <br /><br />So, I am back as you see and I have much to fix and reconfigure. I've been over on WordPress --which challenged me until I understood it -- but now I am back here feeling challenged by this format! So, pardon the dust (for those of you who were once faithful followers)... I am culling and cleaning and thinking deeply about art and life.<br /><br />If you go up to the top of this page and click the TAB "Collaborating with Van Gogh (again)" - you should remember the sideboard (buffet) I worked on, <i>Hare-y Hare-y Night</i>. Since then the top portion has been re-imagined many times over as a banner in my various online places ... nifty. <br /><br /><br />The making never stopped - I'll share it soon (ish). <br /><br />Joy in this journey,<br />xo Katey <br /><br /><br /><br />BLUEYEDUCKstudioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38726176.post-59823476397612444132015-10-17T21:20:00.000-04:002015-10-17T21:26:22.792-04:00Autumn with Vincent<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Collaborating with Vincent" - continued. <br />
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This latest series of my Van Gogh homage is called AUTUMN with VINCENT.<br />
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These photos provide a brief snapshot of the painting process (after the drying/preserving process is complete).<br />
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In order to continue to share this joy with as many buyers as possible I am still offering painted leaves in my Etsy shop at amazingly affordable prices. <br />
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Enjoy! (And do check the shop often as these leaves blow in and out quickly!)<br />
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<a href="http://www.blueyeduckstudios.etsy.com/">www.blueyeduckstudios.etsy.com</a> <br />
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<strong></strong>BLUEYEDUCKstudioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38726176.post-31935895515846558622014-01-01T12:17:00.000-05:002014-01-01T12:18:08.557-05:002014<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">I cannot add any more to what was already said in this post -- please read it and be encouraged. I have been.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><a href="http://blueyeduckstudios.blogspot.com/2011/12/planning-new-year.html" target="_blank">WISE WORDS</a></span></span><br />
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<br />BLUEYEDUCKstudioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38726176.post-82185298206608883492013-08-07T22:02:00.000-04:002013-08-07T22:02:03.347-04:00SUMMER SCHOOL of FIsh<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I did it again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Handmade </span><span style="color: orange;">UPcycled</span><span style="color: red;">, REclaimed, </span><span style="color: #f6b26b;">REpurposed</span><span style="color: red;">... </span></b></span><br />
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BLUEYEDUCKstudioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38726176.post-10704832906751711922013-07-02T14:16:00.000-04:002013-07-02T23:35:21.994-04:00Medieval History—an iconic view …<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recently
I was thoroughly immersed in a class on <i>Medieval
European History</i> when I finally got a bug to paint again (such a 'creative bug' went
missing after my numerous surgeries in 2010-2011). </span></span><br />
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canvas angel icons in mixed media. I textured my black canvases with kraft
paper, plaster, and silk. I used acrylic on the portraits along with paper
mosaics, vintage sari silks, and upholstery tacks.<br /><br />Visit the tab located under the blog header (above) titled: BYZANTINE BOHEMIAN to see the works-in-progress!</span></span>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>BLUEYEDUCKstudioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38726176.post-23783333798025242932013-07-01T22:55:00.000-04:002013-07-02T23:37:49.846-04:00New "TAB" added - this fish is a WHOPPER!<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Under the header (above) you will find various tabs that will take you to other pages on this blog.<br />The first such page shows you some of my artist trading cards. The second tab <b>"BiG FiSH" </b>will show you various "work-in-progress" pictures of a giant wood sculpture I stained <i>in situ</i> (outdoors).<br /><br />Here is the "studio" I worked in during the project...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">During the project (which I worked on for several weeks) the weather remained fabulous. I was recovering from a serious surgery, but was still able to climb around the scaffolding - although I lost count how many times I konked my head when working on the lower portion of the fish!<br /><br />"count it all joy"<br />~Katey</span><br />
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Hello!</b> It has been a very long while since I have been here in blog-land with
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There have been so many of you out there in the art show & art festival
world that have asked to <b>see additional art from me and even art from the past</b>.
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">WISE OLD BIRDS</b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">" ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I created a series of acrylic on canvas folk art paintings - on which I have applied wise words from wise men: <span style="color: blue;"><b>John Calvin</b></span> (French Theologian and pastor during the Reformation, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> , <span style="color: blue;"><b>GK Chesterton</b></span> (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">English writer, Christian apologist, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">, <span style="color: blue;"><b>CH Spurgeon</b></span> (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">British </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-origin: initial; line-height: 20px;">Particular Baptist</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">preacher, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892), </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>William Gurnal</b>l</span> (English author and clergyman, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">1617</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;"> – 12 October 1679)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and <span style="color: blue;"><b>John Newton</b></span> (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">British sailor and </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anglican </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">clergyman, writer of "Amazing Grace", 24 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">July 1725 – 21 December 1807)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>What is an authentic GICLEE?</b></span> <span style="line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">I offer a limited number of fine art reproductions labeled "Giclee" in my etsy shop. These are NOT home-printer reproductions! These are professionally printed on a commercial printer by an authorized Epson Giclee master and are printed to heirloom/museum/archival standards on highest quality archival artist paper. </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">They are brighter and more vivid than even the best home prints could ever be and they are, dare I say, better than the originals in intensity and saturation! </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">When I use the term "Giclee" in my shop - I mean it. (Watermarks do not appear on final giclee prints). Each giclee is signed and dated.</span></div>
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I put this quote up in my "cover photo" space face book has newly created for us in the so-called "timeline" format. With 2012 racing this direction at the usual speed, I found great wisdom and comfort in what Spurgeon said. He also said this: "Do much, very much, all you can do, and a little more. “How is that?” says one. I do not think a man is doing all he can do if he is not attempting more than he will complete." <br />
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He continued: "But, young friend, there is a difference, and more than a slight one, between intentions and accomplishments. We do not always perform what we think we shall, nor do we always reach where we hope to arrive. Failures are as numerous as successes, and even the most successful have failures to mourn over. Good intentions are not so rare that you may begin to crow about them; there is a road which is paved with them, but I would not have you travel it."<br />
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I have never been one to proclaim a list of resolutions -- I just never have been able to place any value on it. Let your yes be yes and your no be no... do it or don't do it. Better still "Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil." (Matthew 5:37 ESV)<br />
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Spurgeon said plenty about this topic. "A bushelful of resolutions is of small value; a single grain of practice, is worth the whole" and "You had great conceptions, and if they had but been embodied in action something good would have come of them; but where are the ideas now? Were they not smothered in their birth? You resolved to do great things, the plan was thoroughly arranged, and your whole heart was eager to carry it out, but delay chilled the goodly purpose till it died of cold, and it lies buried in forgetfulness. You dreamed well, but there you stopped. As for actual work for the Lord, you had other fish to fry, and therefore you cast out your net for him. You suffered the season for activity to go by, and so your excellent ideas and resolutions melted into thin air, and they are gone."<br />
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So where is the encouragement as 2012 continues to race towards us this very second? Spurgeon again answers us: "Hope as much as ever a man can hope; for when your hope is in God you cannot hope too much" .... "Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from to-morrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next."<br />
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<strong>Just for Fun... HISTORY.COM asks and answers these burning questions:</strong><br />
What does “Auld Lang Syne” mean, and why do we sing the song at midnight on New Year’s Eve?<br />
Who were the first to make resolutions for the new year?<br />
When was the first New Year’s Eve ball dropped in New York’s Times Square?<br />
Who made January 1 the first of the year?<br />
What are some traditional New Year’s foods?<br />
What do Paul Revere, J. Edgar Hoover, Lorenzo de Medici, Betsy Ross and Pope Alexander VI have in common?<br />
~~Find the <a href="http://www.history.com/news/2011/12/27/new-years-history-festive-facts/?cmpid=Social_facebook_HITH_12292011_1" target="_blank">ANSWERS HERE</a>!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We had another glorious out-of-place weather week. It reached 70(F) and since we live in a micro-climate along Lake Erie the leaves are still on the trees here in November. My son and I knew it would be a great day at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, so off we went. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The winding drive down MLK Boulevard from the lake shore is always interesting, but yesterday the leaves were falling and it was like a confetti parade. This area of Cleveland (between University Hospitals/Cleveland Clinic) - the area called <em>University Circle</em> - is just such a beautiful place. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Upon arrival at Lake View my son headed straight for an area that has a small grove of thread leaf Japanese Maples. He has photographed them through the years and today we expected them to be ablaze… and they were. I wondered off to read headstones, but without much deliberation. I recognized one family right away; I had figured out some of their story a couple of years ago on a similar day. I could see that Harold lost his wife while she was only 28, and she left him a newborn. I wondered if she died giving birth; it was the late 1800’s. With no specific date other than the year it was impossible to tell if his birth date and her death date were the same (since his headstone was also there). Harold remarried and Edith also gave him a son. Harold died only 5 years later. Edith had her own son and this other son to raise alone (or so it seemed, she was, after all, buried on Harold‘s right, his first wife on his left, and no other man around that could be matched to her). Both of those boys died a year apart 9 and 10 years later. Edith lived until 1941; apparently unmarried and without any other children.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Another family, <em>Carabelli</em> I think it read, have a huge family monument with smaller stones surrounding it. It speaks of wealth and standing. They perhaps had money, but tragedy visited them often. On one end of the family monument flush to the ground is a stone with the names of 3 children. On the opposite end is another stone with 3 <em>more</em> children. Each child died between the ages of one and four, but not at the same time. Some terrible thing visited them; a genetic issue? an accident? or worse? In this day and age the immediate thought was that <em>Children’s Services</em> would have been all over that household, but such judgment needs to be put aside for we just don’t know. Heartbreak was no stranger to them; that we can be sure.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">A short distance across a roadway I saw the names of two little girls on one stone, ages 3 and 6, who died together on December 14. Next to their stone was a brother who died 3 days later on the 17th; he was 4. It was the 1870’s - were they all sick and he lingered? Were they all in a fire or an accident and they thought the little guy was going to pull though? The stones never tell anything other than the cold hard facts; they died.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Walking through this enormous place does not make me sad. Perhaps because it is feels distant and historic, so antique. The newer section doesn’t have the grandeur or monumental architecture and we never walk through there; I suppose that would feel different anyway. The older sections have a notable amount of (Biblical) scripture on the stones; verses that look ahead to heaven and a promise to thjose still here that the Words are true. Occasionally there are new graves in the older sections. I came across a 2011 fresh date for a woman (almost 100!) who died this year and her shell was placed in this old family plot. Her ancestors went back to the mid 1800’s. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">When I visit the modern cemetery where my parents' shells remain it is such a different experience. It is a vast open space covered in plastic flowers and artificial wreaths (nearly all the stones are flush to the ground for ease of mowing). It is situated on a slightly rolling hill with very few trees. It sits in stark contrast to the arboretum and architectural aspects of Lake View which is filled with color and texture - it is full of life - strangely. The residents lie in quiet repose with no message except for what their monuments have to say; they are no longer there having gone on to one of two places.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.</em></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hebrews 9:27-28</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>BLUEYEDUCKstudioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38726176.post-84833879965864095092011-06-19T16:23:00.000-04:002011-06-19T16:23:19.119-04:00They're Back! Flippin' Flyin' FiSH!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Created with driftwood and wood slats -- a bit of wire and some paint whimsically applied... Oh What FUN!<br />
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<span style="color: red;">HoTSPoTS ~ 27.5"</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsDuQZIeurUbUrG3KpWJ2OjWsz0XmfsuW4wmOVNRepbjJ6go3e-PtTkteKx7qZy5gpVtqnB-9j2knUP0SBlHTZnIEnpIAZBoLnOjg69jGz2K4380073RxQNWHdnJ_eZlPjWCGe/s1600/DWFShotspot2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsDuQZIeurUbUrG3KpWJ2OjWsz0XmfsuW4wmOVNRepbjJ6go3e-PtTkteKx7qZy5gpVtqnB-9j2knUP0SBlHTZnIEnpIAZBoLnOjg69jGz2K4380073RxQNWHdnJ_eZlPjWCGe/s320/DWFShotspot2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">Green Meanie ~ 21"</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj20Sl_KcmTHkqQoJ9WyQNOtvu88aFR9n8Y3hnXIL7YlGePCc_CAAM5lxPNC_9eRPLk3lHLRsOpfuJr1u7uAyaFAL3Ta_iYAQnQQd5rwn7n8Szi-jKDhoza_bIqGkEzGDIcy1Zl/s1600/DWFSmeanie2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj20Sl_KcmTHkqQoJ9WyQNOtvu88aFR9n8Y3hnXIL7YlGePCc_CAAM5lxPNC_9eRPLk3lHLRsOpfuJr1u7uAyaFAL3Ta_iYAQnQQd5rwn7n8Szi-jKDhoza_bIqGkEzGDIcy1Zl/s320/DWFSmeanie2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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As many of you know the last couple or so years have been plenty rough with so many funerals (three in my own family), hospitals, surgeries, and <em>oh-so-many</em> changes... and as a result my art slipped behind the curtain a tiny little bit as I focused on commissions and small-format projects. If there is one thing that remains constant throughout my life it is that I am adaptable; I shift into whatever zone I need to and go forward where I am at. Right now I am rather alert and a bit stunned after all that has transpired. I might even look that way ~~ deer-eyes in headlights ~~ but I am happily standing still for this moment because there have been no major traumas or necessary adjustments needed in the last few months or so. It feels a little strange after the long journey of the last few years... kind of like being thrown from the back of a farm truck after getting used to being in said farm truck. I can't yell "I'm back!" because I was never gone. I was just occupied with several other callings some of which are complete. I guess I'll yell "I'm done!" since several of those callings are retired, and "I'm ready!" as new ones rush in to give me more to adapt to... thrive in... </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhux3Tws8S77_Z6zFmaCDXBHlCh8nMbYqjVDb9Ay3s9ZKG_K8xKqj6n1xRhUyJHXEiOy3cVIAFIHqTZNRup91QK9bjiBJVHGhVN3JIkYZsYZ5ak4Ctui07C5bPaTw4IzM8QRcbv/s1600/BLOG611+A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhux3Tws8S77_Z6zFmaCDXBHlCh8nMbYqjVDb9Ay3s9ZKG_K8xKqj6n1xRhUyJHXEiOy3cVIAFIHqTZNRup91QK9bjiBJVHGhVN3JIkYZsYZ5ak4Ctui07C5bPaTw4IzM8QRcbv/s320/BLOG611+A.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a>I struggled briefly ~~ a tiny bit ~~ getting back into making larger, long-term art messes and looking too far ahead (or so I thought). That didn't last long though and when my son went looking for something in the attic just last week he unearthed my last great beach combing box of super-dried driftwood from the summer of 2008. I immediately recognized fish bodies and potential signs --- all my previous intentions and ideas came flooding back like there had been no loss, or cancer, or death, or hospitals. Here are some pieces of driftwood that will become FISH (and a sign <span style="font-size: x-small;">[sold]</span> tossed in at the same time - by special request for an ETSY customer). <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Here I have added wood FINS and TAILS ~~ you can see them <span style="color: magenta;">GETTING THEIR WHIMSY ON</span> already!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I will be "playing" with them all week - making them seriously <span style="color: magenta;">FUN</span>... painted details will cover them as the shapes and textures direct...<br />
The largest ones in this group are over <span style="color: #38761d;">THREE FEET</span> long!<br />
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... and when they are finished there are more waiting to be born ...<br />
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It is already shaping up to be a fabulous summer!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Remembering my Dad here: </span><a href="http://blueyeduckstudios.blogspot.com/2010/06/waitin-on-woman.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Waitin' on a woman</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> ... <br />
and here: </span><a href="http://blueyeduckstudios.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-dad-my-veteran.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sam</span></a></div>BLUEYEDUCKstudioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38726176.post-26739265376428419342011-06-03T12:05:00.000-04:002011-06-03T12:05:22.108-04:00stash your cash in whimsical style ~~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwBPpgwUZr4hQ1zmevcTIC3OyxvUV4fSw242phqzMK04YzniAJPcODLz2-OtoHjMt31zDDitY4QCM9fsVlZNsZbdutzsYe1ulGibX0phLsXhREpNMATGjLaDO_McPIvBny7ti7/s1600/NFclutch2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwBPpgwUZr4hQ1zmevcTIC3OyxvUV4fSw242phqzMK04YzniAJPcODLz2-OtoHjMt31zDDitY4QCM9fsVlZNsZbdutzsYe1ulGibX0phLsXhREpNMATGjLaDO_McPIvBny7ti7/s320/NFclutch2.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/67603772/whimsical-flower-needle-felted-teal?ref=v1_other_1">yellow on teal</a></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">what a cutie ... a needle felted wallet / clutch </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">with a wool applique (needle felted) flower & leaf</div><div style="text-align: center;">measuring 6.5" x 4.25" - and lined (black cloth) ~~ closes with a zipper</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">... a tiny bit of beading on the center of the flower and a wool ball dangle on the zipper completes the cute factor!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>And for a discussion on THIS blog about how I create my needle felted critters - go to this post: </em><a href="http://blueyeduckstudios.blogspot.com/2011/02/poke-poke-poke-adventure-in-needle.html"><span style="color: #669922;">Poke Poke Poke - an adventure in needle felting</span></a> as well as <a href="http://blueyeduckstudios.blogspot.com/2011/02/leaving-99.html"><span style="color: #669922;">Leaving 99 ...</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: orange;">Free Gift Wrapping all of JUNE on NEEDLE FELTED items ~upon request~ when you mention this blog :)</span></strong></div>BLUEYEDUCKstudioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38726176.post-71636762887404305802011-05-04T12:46:00.001-04:002011-05-04T12:47:35.056-04:00I love New York<div style="text-align: center;">I love New York -- it is true.<br />
I'm hooked. After a quick visit last October I am headed back to move slower and absorb more.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Inspired, I painted three folk art pieces on cherry wood - whimsical, happy city skylines...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Approx 8 " x 5-7/8" ( 1/2" thick) reclaimed CHERRY hardwood </div><div style="text-align: center;">Original acrylic painting. </div><div style="text-align: center;">WILDY WHIMSICAL !!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Painted BLACK edges - do not frame! :D</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lovely! Fun! Highly HAPPY!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSl5UMakw7oGkKzRhYqbd7IAhT-SqxKwyX-tBbBFfpVdvjlwX_1-LNUqLMUUyBEF8VjnMM9w39C1ZzA8l1CvvWHm7USYcUrqCaJ8deo0J2FKEA7Y69HcmJMiKwZN58arL1ggRa/s1600/clownfishP4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="302" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSl5UMakw7oGkKzRhYqbd7IAhT-SqxKwyX-tBbBFfpVdvjlwX_1-LNUqLMUUyBEF8VjnMM9w39C1ZzA8l1CvvWHm7USYcUrqCaJ8deo0J2FKEA7Y69HcmJMiKwZN58arL1ggRa/s400/clownfishP4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"<strong><span style="color: #674ea7;">Chillin' in a Purple Sea"</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Approx 8" x 5" ( 3/4" thick) reclaimed (mahoghany or cherry) hardwood</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sit it on a shelf or hang on the wall - (hanging hardware furnished upon request)</div><div style="text-align: center;">Check out the ADORABLE Painted edge - do not frame! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCUJbf7oUdHbFITOSl5SA8o9bmZxcZZ0sRopBfWQGA1Wl6AoTG5BtFax1I0m8Q6hRXxSGyv_Rokth8671S1-Of8uqGG29FZvQARCKPanqFrhqmIMt7yecYuZ2nwM4RA3HrUtJg/s1600/clownfishP2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="287" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCUJbf7oUdHbFITOSl5SA8o9bmZxcZZ0sRopBfWQGA1Wl6AoTG5BtFax1I0m8Q6hRXxSGyv_Rokth8671S1-Of8uqGG29FZvQARCKPanqFrhqmIMt7yecYuZ2nwM4RA3HrUtJg/s400/clownfishP2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Approx 13" x 5 1/4" ( 3/4" thick) reclaimed (mahoghany or cherry) hardwood</div><div style="text-align: center;">~~~~~~~ </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blueyeduckstudios.etsy.com/"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">www.blueyeduckstudios.etsy.com</span></strong></a></div>BLUEYEDUCKstudioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38726176.post-90468895901685830772011-04-05T15:04:00.000-04:002011-04-05T15:04:56.150-04:00Hypo-Allergenic CATS<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><strong>These funny little guys will not make your eyes water nor will you sneeze!</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>BLUEYEDUCKstudioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38726176.post-7734500679937143542011-02-26T22:03:00.001-05:002011-03-23T13:51:30.851-04:00Leaving 99 ...<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... to find you</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6tnYACixNOjh9AwscpUinVGyoL5XUSIGGTW1m0OsjBC4uqv41tnDc4Re0HJLS1I8eLYuXCKU6BsjsVJ8eFSlB4UNJdqBEiluCtHb_0vagRnI7rbxckv687i0VXrdX-Ct0OpPK/s1600/NFlevi1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6tnYACixNOjh9AwscpUinVGyoL5XUSIGGTW1m0OsjBC4uqv41tnDc4Re0HJLS1I8eLYuXCKU6BsjsVJ8eFSlB4UNJdqBEiluCtHb_0vagRnI7rbxckv687i0VXrdX-Ct0OpPK/s320/NFlevi1.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm lost and broken - All alone on this road... </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wheels keep turnin', but the feelin' is gone.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I fear I'm on my own You remind me </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not alone...When You said... </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'd leave ninety-nine... Leave them all behind </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To find you - For you alone I'd leave ninety-nine </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Leave them all behind to find you</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's dark and lonely and the path is unclear </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can't move my feet because I'm frozen with fear </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then you say, "My child, my child I am always here, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm by your side" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd leave ninety-nine... Leave them all behind </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To find you - For you alone I'd leave ninety-nine </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leave them all behind to find you</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You're never too far down </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I promise you'll be found </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll reach into the mud and mirely clay </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...Pursue you to the end like a faithful friend </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing in this world can keep me away</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To read more about my needle felting adventures click </span><a href="http://blueyeduckstudios.blogspot.com/2011/02/poke-poke-poke-adventure-in-needle.html"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HERE</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The very thing that makes wool feel itchy to some of us - little micro 'barbs' (scales) on the fibers - are what makes this all possible. The poky needles used in the process also have barbs -- and poking the wool causes it to mat (entangle) together. As the driver of the needle it helps to have a vision in mind as to where the needle is poking and why -- what the desired shape will be, etc... I "see" what I want in 3D (in my mind) so it comes naturally for me to turn cotton candy fluff into an animal. I don't find it that different from putting paint where I want it to go when I am working with acrylic on canvas or wood. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSo2LP4_ymjSE6ihTI7anLgY127RtJt-Cc0tCUFvmhbDPARo4Eaj5S1_Xg7HJWa-BA3BDXx6GgnDnfhI0WZQo1qaNEOp_Sca4Lw-K34Onx4bR8ioJbd8PgzlXcyxi22NMr1j8/s1600/pndck1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSo2LP4_ymjSE6ihTI7anLgY127RtJt-Cc0tCUFvmhbDPARo4Eaj5S1_Xg7HJWa-BA3BDXx6GgnDnfhI0WZQo1qaNEOp_Sca4Lw-K34Onx4bR8ioJbd8PgzlXcyxi22NMr1j8/s400/pndck1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">I often begin with a big glob of the cotton candy stuff that I gentle curl into a ball of sorts (left alone it would unfurl and remain a wispy pile of fluff) - I, however, hold onto that loosely formed ball of fluff and begin poking it to smithereens (trying so hard NOT to poke myself - the needles are wicked wicked nasty sharp). I sometimes "poke" up in the air and I sometimes "poke" with the fluff against a foam cushion. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMUWicJNSyBCXtWvFDJ7v5gNZOm-pyQSDMz1U1eOZIsN8DS2DDScp06e7Mfh9fX_fFsBcVCPWNNKsteBx4B0R0Tnk328MEOsGMVO9-QylpCYS0deLTmXqUxnEnOu3pYGNjx0z/s1600/pndck2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMUWicJNSyBCXtWvFDJ7v5gNZOm-pyQSDMz1U1eOZIsN8DS2DDScp06e7Mfh9fX_fFsBcVCPWNNKsteBx4B0R0Tnk328MEOsGMVO9-QylpCYS0deLTmXqUxnEnOu3pYGNjx0z/s400/pndck2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">I am self taught and use my own designs with only one exception* ... I make up all my own animals (usually as I go). I start with an initial "ball" or oval shape and then decide what (or who) it will become. When I first tried this whole needle felting thing I looked at a pattern for a *duck -- (<em>of course</em>, a duck) and not one to follow instructions easily or obediently I altered it to fit my own ability and the duck became my own duck (though I won't call him an original like I do my other creations since his genealogy is traceable to a pattern).</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gM6EodGVxFrM2vobFHATcALRXJap0j-Sk6cDta0o9cuQlsPROB1wB7SRVB1AE9w_nEwX10kTZXR7t_hElYZL9LG3LgfCgKZo6HvQYOQXed3j6G0jJnocE6eoW_sGguv6rIBG/s1600/pndck4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gM6EodGVxFrM2vobFHATcALRXJap0j-Sk6cDta0o9cuQlsPROB1wB7SRVB1AE9w_nEwX10kTZXR7t_hElYZL9LG3LgfCgKZo6HvQYOQXed3j6G0jJnocE6eoW_sGguv6rIBG/s400/pndck4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A reminder of where he came from - or as I like to say "pictured with his parents")</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/67605165/miniature-sheep-needle-felted-baby-lamb">Simon</a> (a teeny baby lamb)</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/67658583/angel-bunny-needle-felted-flying-rabbit?ref=v1_other_2">Sweet Dreams</a> (smaller winged baby bunny)</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/67719992/looking-for-alice-soft-sculpture-art?ref=v1_other_1">Looking for Alice</a> (larger winged rabbit)</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/67718321/tiny-dancer-angel-bunny-rabbit-soft?ref=v1_other_1">Tiny Dancer</a> (smaller winged baby bunny)</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/67659465/hershey-dark-chocolate-flying-rabbit">Hershey</a> (brown winged winged rabbit)</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: magenta;">~...~</span></strong></div>BLUEYEDUCKstudioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38726176.post-12574987893959259132011-01-15T11:50:00.002-05:002011-01-23T15:41:22.589-05:00Marcy Has a Visitor<div style="text-align: center;">I found an old 1800's book with the most perfectly browned pages - very dark around the edges and in solid condition (but of no collector-value). The pages were thick and strong enough for paint and so was born the series My Funny Valentine. I love how the page headers (chapter titles) have ironically fit each character.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Also on my blog are two more sets for sale in my ETSY shop: <a href="http://www.blueyeduckstudios.etsy.com/">BLUEYEDUCKSTUDIOS</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">SET OF TWO - HIS & HER xo xo</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">ORiGINAL PAINTINGS!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>2 Acrylic Paintings</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">1800's antique book pages - naturally aged/brown</div><div style="text-align: center;">Page Size 4 3/4" x 7 3/8" </div><div style="text-align: center;">(irregular/torn edge on left)</div><div style="text-align: center;">Title (his)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>"Marcy Has a Visitor"</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">Title (hers)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>"Beardsley Betrays Himself"</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange;">To see the others in the series </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange;">(listed for sale on this blog) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange;">CLICK on these Titles</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="http://blueyeduckstudios.blogspot.com/2011/01/clowning-around-in-love.html">CLOWNING AROUND IN LOVE</a></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>or</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="http://blueyeduckstudios.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-funny-valentine-for-your-funny.html">My Funny Valentine for Your Funny Valentine</a></strong></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">XO</span></div>BLUEYEDUCKstudioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38726176.post-38817359680891516112011-01-13T17:30:00.002-05:002011-01-23T15:43:18.531-05:00Clowning Around in LoVE<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">For Sale</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">on <a href="http://www.blueyeduckstudios.etsy.com/">ETSY</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8V-yY-ErlOlJeSJT_V0qapwc2aOBIhoCf1F_btkNoxbbJ609c3lFECMSJ0pKUea_MvO-8DyKknM0KB0FeS7GT6Bi90Plp90Ml-fkeYKQ3muXDNWBNygU5a5goMNjkwSlp5KJT/s1600/VAlentinescan2+BLOG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8V-yY-ErlOlJeSJT_V0qapwc2aOBIhoCf1F_btkNoxbbJ609c3lFECMSJ0pKUea_MvO-8DyKknM0KB0FeS7GT6Bi90Plp90Ml-fkeYKQ3muXDNWBNygU5a5goMNjkwSlp5KJT/s320/VAlentinescan2+BLOG.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong>2 Acrylic Paintings</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">1800's antique book pages - naturally aged/brown</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Page Size 4 3/4" x 7 3/8" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">(irregular/torn edge on left)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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