Brooke

It’s Mail Art Time again

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Mar 092012

So I really enjoyed doing my first ever mail art swap with the talented and gorgeous Mindy Lacefield a little while back as you may know. (see this post here if you missed it) When I saw that the amazingly wonderful Micki Wilde from The Secret Hermit was embarking on a mail art extravaganza of her own I knew immediately I wanted in. I absolutely adore Micki’s art. From the very first moment I saw her quirky little characters and lovely ladies pop up on the Willowing picture gallery I was drawn to them like no other. You know how sometimes [tell me more, tell me more]

A wrap up of The Sketchbook Project

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Mar 062012

One totally awesomeballs thing I’ve done in the past 12 months was to participate in The Sketchbook Project. “What’s that all about?” I hear you ask. Well in a nutshell the lovely folk at The Arthouse Co-op send you out a blank sketchbook to fill with whatever takes your fancy then you send it back to them and they catalogue it into a big fat travelling art library. The sketchbooks then head off like good little rock stars on a boozy world tour so people everywhere can check them out. Once they recover it’s back to The Brooklyn Art Library [tell me more, tell me more]

Evolution of The Blue Belles

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Feb 272012

Once again I’ve been a bit slack with the old blog posts. Life is busy. What can I say? Here is a quick little post about my last painting for 2011. As usual I didn’t have a title so I put it out to my peeps on Facebook and the lovely Mel from Meliesque Art suggested I call them The Blue Belles. I loved it so that became the title. In my mind these girls were upset with their lives so decided to become runaways, sisters who were willing to escape to anywhere as long as they were together. So [tell me more, tell me more]

My “Word” for 2012 (sounds a bit wanky but it’s not really)

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Jan 132012

Oh my goodness I really, truly suck at blogging. I’ve been ever so slack over the holidays but hey what do you expect? It’s not like I have a great track record for regular blog posts or anything. :) So I had a lovely break over Christmas hanging out with all of my extended family. Trips to the beach, drinks with old friends and WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY too much food. I’m kicking off 2012 by jumping on a couple of bandwagons. The first is to hopefully get rid of the extra pounds that snuck up on me over Xmas by having a [tell me more, tell me more]

Guitar Chicks ROCK!!

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Nov 112011

I’ve been a bit quiet lately. Life is busy with 2 little ones to chase after and I’ve been suffering from a bit of a creative block unfortunately (creative blocks suck btw). Good news is I think the block has lifted and I will have some new art to share very soon. Yay!! In the meantime I can finally share my finished Rock Chick painting that I did as a commission for a very dear friend of mine. This little piece was created as a gift for a Bona Fide Rock Chick from Singapore who just had a little baby rock [tell me more, tell me more]

Thank you Mr Postman!!

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Oct 242011

Oh My!!!! So if you read my last post you would know I took part in a mail art exchange recently. Well my return mail art from the fantabulous Mindy Lacefield has arrived and boy do I LOVE it. I just can’t tell you how exciting it was to see the beautifully decorated envelope sitting in my letter box. I knew instantly my little treasure had arrived (this little burst of sunshine literally leapt out from amongst boring old bills in their boring white envelopes). I couldn’t wait to open it. I’ve been a huge admirer of Mindy’s amazing work [tell me more, tell me more]

Spotted throughout the blogosphere

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Oct 092011

Hi there. It’s me again. You know the chick that’s really slack when it comes to blogging. Did you miss me? What, you didn’t even notice I was gone!! Oh yeah that’s right because I hardly ever blog anyway hehehe. So it’s been a big couple of weeks in cyberland for Run Away Violet. Let me elaborate. First of all the lovely Kristine over at Living in The Moment wrote a lovely blog post about my ‘Fairy Lovesong’ painting as part of her Whimsical Wednesdays. How cool is that? I think that’s the first time anyone has ever blogged about me. [tell me more, tell me more]

Hoping to see some Mermaids

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Sep 252011

Well that would be expected when staying somewhere called Mermaid Beach wouldn’t it? Just a quick note to let you all know I am off on a mini holiday this week with my beautiful Mum and lovely Sister and our kidlets. Can’t wait to get to the beach and soak up all the beautiful sights and sounds of the ocean. My little nephew is a crazy mad surfer and I love watching him get out there to do his thing. There’s just something so magical and rejuvenating about the sea isn’t there? I can’t wait to shake the winter blues [tell me more, tell me more]

I Heart Willowing!!

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Sep 182011

So I thought today I might track back a little to tell you about how I got started on this artful journey I’m currently on. You see I was innocently doing a Google image search for a whimsical painting of a girl to gather ideas for a T-shirt transfer I was going to make for my daughter and this image just screamed out at me. I clicked on it to have a closer look and I found myself on the website of a lovely young lady called Iris. I thought her girl was just so beautiful and she really spoke [tell me more, tell me more]

A Mauvelous Treasury!!!

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Sep 172011

A Cute little Etsy treasury my “Gypsy Landslide” was in recently. Love the punny name :) ‘Darling, You Look Mauvelous!’ by beadenchanting A treasury featuring exquisite works from the v ery talented artists of the Alexandria Team! Beach Photography, Blue, Tur… beachbumchix $10.00 Vintage Baroque Oddly Shaped… TUTreasures $3.50 Lilac Dream Garden ArtBeadwork $165.00 Waterfall / Morning Falls / … RayMcMullen $25.00 Slouchy Lacy Crochet Tam Hat… LoveFuzz $36.00 Flying Witch Treat Box ljc3 $1.50 Lavender and white iris RobertPLangdon… $3.50 wedding patchwork wall hangi… tribalvintageb… $109.00 Set of 6 hang tags with Twin… ThePaperPrairi… $3.00 Heather CairineMacGill… $22.99 Recycled [tell me more, tell me more]