The door is always open here at Soul Food Cafe, and that’s what I love about this place.

Sometimes (ok, alot of the time), I am lost, hidden behind the high fortress walls and fortified doors but at least I know that Lemuria is just behind those doors, waiting for me, always.

This one’s a new technique I’m working on - a combination of a few that I have slowly but surely been making my own. It’s not a finished piece, just a snapshot of the larger picture that I’ll post sometime when it’s done.

Samm

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xo

I made these 3 bookmarks in response to a request posted in another group for bookmarks. Each person was asked to make 3 bookmarks which will be sent to a school in the Bahamas which was destroyed by a recent hurricane. Apparently the children love books and these bookmarks may bring a spot of happiness to their lives. If anyone wants more details of this project please contact me privately.

The base supports are ordinary luggage labels covered with handmade paper on which I have glued postage stamps. The tags are old Pokemon gaming counters which have been given a new lease of life.

A new challenge blog started up this week, called Fluffy Flatbottom’s Twisted Tuesday and the first challenge was to make a postcard sized piece of art on the theme of Fish out of Water.

In the second half of the eighteenth century the hair of the fashionable world in England soared to new heights and some truly preposterous hair-do’s were seen out and about. This is my tongue-in-cheek version of an aquarian-themed hairdo.

Here are all the raven ATCs

They have now been posted to the participants and should arrive within 7-10 days. Thank you to everyone who partipated - they are all wonderful

Here are my cards for the Magic Garden swap.  I printed rose pictures and a small rose border onto blue and beige card stock.  Then I used watercolor to paint over the pictures, to highlight and accent.  I mailed them on Sept. 26th so they are on their way to Australia!

Mari Mann 2007

well Ravens actually….

 Samm

xo

When the Raven’s began talking about doing an ATC swap, I was intrigued and headed out into the web-o-sphere to learn about this new (to me) artistic form.  I was directed (by google, bien sur) to ATCards, and quickly found a swap that appealed to me.  It was called Pagan Celebrations and participants were to depict, in any medium, any aspect of a pagan celebration of their choice.  I ended up doing two of Ostara, one of Beltane and one of Mabon, all watercolor on card stock. 

Ostara is the Vernal or Spring Equinox, and is the source of Easter’s two main symbols: dyed eggs and bunnies.  Beltane or May Eve is a fertility festival celebrating the burgeoning plant world, the regeneration of new life, and abundance of all kinds.  I chose to represent it with an overflowing basket.  Mabon is the Autumnal Equinox, also called Harvest Home, in which we are gathering in all our harvests and thanking the Goddess for it all.  I painted the Mayan maize (corn) god, as an ear of corn.

Mari Mann 2007

Here are my raven themed ATCs

and a close-up