Tiara Chronicles Meeting!
The day after the Ranger Warehouse sale, My mom and I trekked back down to South Jersey just outside Tinton Falls in Ocean, NJ to Suze's fabulous studio for the next installment of Tiara Chronicles. It was Suze's turn to create a project and boy did she, we did encaustic wax layering using the melting pot and creme brulee torches.Okay one time using a creme brulee torch and you will go out and buy an army of them, they are so easy to use, love them and the melting pot, well that has got to e one of my favorite tools I use it for melting wax, utee, and anything that can be safely melted in it, sometimes I have 3 melting pots going at once, lol.For this project we coated a thick wood square w/a resin base wax, using a wax brush, then layered colored encaustic wax over it, followed by more base wax, then another layers, etc., we detailed the pieces with poured wax molds from Suze's molds, added more wax and colored in using the wonderful Pan Pastel chalks, these chalks are so rich and brilliant, a must have for any artist.The result 3-d and detailed encaustic wax paintings, for mine I used my doll mold which I colored in w/pan pastels chalks and added some stickles too, of course it would be a dollie, lol!For today's meeting, Patti came by for a bit and the rest of the group was: Suze, Joan, Bonnie, Michelle, Debbie, Teresa, Linda and Me. Each of the finished pieces were the result of everyone's character and ideas. I mean you couldn't pick a favorite, I fell in love with each of the girls piece. After seeing Suze's new bird wax pieces, I became instantly hooked on birds again, just like I was last year, lol.

Suze will be teaching a similar style class at the Art Opera 2010, held in Red Bank, NJ April 7-10, 2010, Linda will be teaching 2 classes, as will Joan, plenty of surprises to come.Before I left Suze gave me a beautiful dress form which I have been wanting forever, my old one broke which is now used for table top display, but now I have a new and beautiful free standing one, I am sooooo happy.

Afterwards Mom and I headed over to Shrewsbury to Anthropolgy and neighboring stores for some sales and finds, completing our day, I bought a cute tank top long dress shirt and a cute paperdoll pattern book, my mom picked up her fave perfume next door. What a fabulous way to end the day!
shhhhh, its a secret, another edition of the Tiara Chronicles await to unveil its adventure to you....

Ranger Warehouse Sale!

It doesn't get any better then this a mix of: Sale, Ranger and an art day among friends, oh and did I mention encaustic wax too!

The friday after I came back from LA my mom and I headed down to south Jersey in Tinton Falls for the Ranger Ink http://www.rangerink.com/ Warehouse Sale. Pick from stickles to inks, ink pads, embossing powders, UTEE, paints, foam pads, and loads more. I stocked up on stickles, inks, ink pads and embossing powders and some paints, many are going to be brought to Tinsel Wonderland Dec.5, 2009 and to the Art Opera supply table in April 7-10, 2010.
I'm extremely excited that I am Ranger certified from a company of excellence and supreme products, their staff is AMAZING in every sense and the owners AMAZING as well, each of them welcome you with warmth and joy, I'm so glad they are in NJ.... After meeting up with the girls at the sale, Suze came by, then she, Mom and I headed for lunch at Red Heads, fab restaurant near Ranger. We chatted and dined on wonderful food, sharing stories and fun, gearing up for our next installment of the Tiara Chronicles being held the next day on saturday at Suze's studio.Stay tuned for my next post of the Tiara Chronicles Meeting, a day of artful fun!