Artistic Affaire L'Automne, Los Angeles, CA, Part Four!
The Party is not over yet, some of the gals headed over to the flea market, while Kim and I decided to sleep a bit and head over to the next event at the Vintage Emporium
Okay This store is now one of my favorites, not only does the Vintage Emporium have amazing vintage wares including jewelry, dolls, wares and fab hats, accessories and unique oddities, but amazing artworks from artists such as Denise Hahn and beautiful upcycled jewelry, I loved the vintage earring bracelets, which I must buy soon or just fly back to LA and visit, plus the owner Julie is so nice, she put out a spread of the most amazing gourmet tea goodies such as scrumptious coconut cupcakes w/these cute pink picks on them, tea sandwiches, raspberry water w/real raspberries floating whimsically around the glass jar, apps and more. I sampled it all, soooo good. The girls who went to the flea market joined the party as well, you should see what they bought, my friend Sherry picked up the best vintage corsettes ever, they reminded me of carnival ones w/jewels, feathers, trim, vintage chic, and very delicate. At Vintage Emporium I bought a bunch of the cutest tiny dolls w/outfits on them, a gorgeous vintage necklace w/crystals and sweet pumpkin color beads most likely 1950s, a victorian style necklace w/porcelain locket for my mom, a vintage porcelain storybook doll, ballerina painting, cabinet card, and other fabulous wares.
Annette and Earleen bought some amazing goodies at the Vintage Emporium, Annette bought a jar filled of flowers, gorgeous. Priscilla brought her wonderful mom, those two girls are super nice, can't wait to meet w/Priscilla again..
I'm in the mood for Hats, simply beacause I worn one....LOL! Okay after Bryanna tried on the cutest vintage millinery hat complete with an array of vintage flowers, I knew I had to try one on, the one I choose was reminiscent of a cupcake chic sunday in the garden style hat, soon some of the girls were wearing them, Holly, Danielle, and Sandy, it was like the Chic Hat Tea Society, LOL. Well you know I couldn't leave without my hat, so Miss Primrose Garden which is the new name for my hat, headed home with me and my other goodies all the way back to NJ, awaiting to sit regally on my new dress form that Suze gave me when I came back to NJ.
All the girls were having a fabulous time, shopping and chatting, a perfect day of girlie fun. Stay tuned for my final post of Artistic Affaire L'Automne 2009, with the final destination of the day, Santa Monica, Ca and shopping at Shabby ChicIf you are in the LA area or looking for wonderful items visit the Vintage Emporium in Long Beach at: http://www.vintageemporium.com/they also have events and classes, one coming up w/Denise Hahn. Julie, the owner is amazing, I promise you'll love Vintage Emporium.

Art Opera 2010, Red Bank, NJ!
Here is a slide show of the many workshops being offered at Art Opera from the many talented and well known artists:
Ruth Rae, Traci Bautista, Pam Huntington, Suze Weinberg, Terri Ventura, Ann Denise Anderson, Jenny Heid/Aaron Nieradka, Kecia Deveney, Heidi Wallingford, Linda Hahola, Joan Kettell and ME!

More photos of the workshop examples to be added as they come in from the artist.
Stay tuned for the mini workshop photos, free demo's at the Vendor Faire, Vendor List, Supply and Store Sponsors and Guest Speakers, Hotel Highlights, Art Opera Activities and tours, etc.

The music I choose for this slide show, represents the magic within this event anmd throughout our entire art community!

To register visit:
http://moonfairesworld.com/the_art_opera.htm

To Visit the Art Opera Blog for the latest updates:
http://artoperanj.blogspot.com/

To visit the Art Opera Ning Group for 24 hour updates from Art Opera, Art Opera Attendees, Instructors, Info on other art retreats, workshops and events:

http://www.artopera.ning.com/

Magic and Joy!
Lisa!

Memorial Day Weekend, My Book Signing in Allentown, PA!
Hello All,
I am sorry for the delay in blogging and visiting your fabulous sites, but this past month has been really busy, but that's good, LOL!
I wanted to share some photos and my experience at the Book Signing and Demo I did at the Grand Opening of ACMoore in Allentown, PA, a huge thank you to Catherine and Candy at Quarry Books, and Indee and (Here is a photo of Robin and Me)Robin from ACMoore who all put this event together, each of them did a tremendous job, Robin Beam is the director of Education for ACMoore and made my experience at the event that much more enjoyable as did the entire staff, if in Allentown, you have to visit this ACMoore its the biggest I've ever been in, LOL, lots of fabulous stuff to buy!Here are a few photos of me signing!In this picture I can be seen demonstrating one of the projects in the book with a new twist, I was making jar fairies, but this version was more vintage in tones, using gold corse glitter, vintage doll images and distressed papers, while creating opera style scenes inside the jar and out!This is Robin's JarThis is Sarah's and Robin's Jar:
Tiffany's Jar:Here is Tiffany, her mom and her Jar!Tiffany, Elizabeth and Emily:Miss Samantha and her jar:Samantha is my step niece, isn't she just the cutest, she's my little buddy!Here is Josh, Elizabeth, Little Josh, Emily and Me!Sara, her jar and her book! Sara was amazing, she was so much fun to hang out with will I was at the event, she added to the joy!Glenny, Sandra and Glenny's Dad!And here I am with Crayola Crayon in person, a perfect ending to a perfect day. I hope you all enjoyed my adventure and signing, Thank you for your continued support!
Magic and Joy!
Lisa!

An eventful weekend in May: Earth Angel Toys, Gingerbread Castle and Workshop!
My whole month of May has been booked with events, workshops and adventures, this coming weekend I will be appearing at the Grand Opening of the AC Moore in Allentown, PA, promoting the book and doing a project demo from it, come on by May 24and visit.

This past weekend, My mom and I headed over to Charlotte's Tea Room in Warwick, NY about 45minutes from my house for the Earth Angel Toys Event hosted at the tea room by the amazing Jen O'Connor http://www.earthangelstoys.com/ http://earthangelstoys.blogspot.com/ the event was filled with the most beautiful artful eye candy I have ever seen in one place, you just wanted to buy a piece from every artist on hand. some of the artists and work on hand were: Jo Packham http://www.jopackham.com/ Letty Worley, Jody Battaglia, Dara DiMagno, Kitty Babendreier and Debbee Thibault http://www.debbeethibault.com/ everyone of the artists I met couldn't be more talented and sweet, each making you feel right at home as you viewed their works.Here is a picture of Me, Kitty and Debbee!Debbee and Me!Debbee and My Mom!Debbee's dolls have always been a fave of mine, each one telling their own story and sharing their own magic. After visiting Pleasanton, Ca, a few weeks back, I had wanted to go to American Harvest and buy one of her dolls, but didn't have the chance, then an art friend surprised me with one, just making my day. Now in Warwick, what did I forget to do?, why bring the dollie of course, LOL! Next time!Here is a photo of Jo and Me!
Not only were there loads of artwork to buy, but also books and magazines which were located at Jo Packham's Spot!http://www.jopackham.com/ Jo is the publisher/creator behind "Where Woman Create" which is available in book form and magazines, each one I recommend for an array of artful inspiration which you can bring into your own studio, home or life. I've been wanting to buy the hard cover book edition and I did, plus Jo personalize/sign it, I also picked up the book: Crowns and Tiara's by Kerri Judd and I just love it, another must have book. All I can say is that once you meet Jo, you will meet some one beyond works nice and multi-talented.Here is the Charlotte Dollie I made for her called: Queen Elizabeth Ann, these dolls are part of my handmade charlotte doll line! Stay tuned I have 83 of these to embellish, here they are sitting in my studio right now:
Another fabulous woman I met was Kitty Babendreier, she is so sweet and talented, we must have hung out the whole time I was there, chatting and sharing laughter and artful ideas. Kitty lives in NY a few hours away and makes wonderful shadow box assemblages, I bought one named Gus, lol, I just love him, my mom bought one too which was tea and victorian in tones. Here is Kitty with Gus and Me! LOL!Kitty, Debbee, Me, Letty and Susan!
Jen O'Connor and Me!Sue and Me!Me and Mom!The following are photographs of the quaint and picturesque Warwick, NY, just over the NJ border, filled with Victorian and Romantic Charm!If you are ever in town, you must visit Charlotte's Tea Room located at 15 Oakland Avenue, Warwick, NY!
After we left the event, I drove mom and I to the Gingerbread Castle which is located in Hamburg, NJ about a half hour from my house: More on our adventure at Gingerbread Castle, Along with the history, folklore and photos tommorrow!

Have a magical night!
XO!
Lisa!