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I have been so busy since spring could barely catch my breath! I was accepted into a fine art gourd show at the Kerrville Arts and Cultural Center in Kerrville, TX where I won a second place ribbon for my Weather Vane Whale and honorable mention for my Nautical Ocean Drum. I have also been juried into the Lubbock Arts Alliance Studio Tour in November, 2011. This is a big show here where several artists show in private home studios and some stand alone studios. I am very excited about this, but also concerned about having enough stock. I am going to be soooo busy!

               I also decided to reopen one of my Etsy pages and have posted a couple gourd doll  http://www.etsy.com/shop/melissaleejones

 

I hope to add more to the etsy page in the next week or so.

Tangled Cats

I wanted to try a larger piece and this is the end product. The design is all wood burned,
                                                                   $250

Last Gourds of 2010

These are my final gourds of 2010

 

Four views of an apple gourd with woodburned doodles which they now call zentangles. It has a removable lid.

 This one is also done with pyrography.

 Four views of my red dragons and castle. This one was done with watercolor pencils, regular colored pencils and permanant markers

This one also was done with colored pencils and markers and the lid is removable.

Another Santa!

I had hoped to get three Santas finished tonight, but only managed one. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

Santas

We're going to be at the arts & craft sale at the Science Spectrum Nov 20 and these Santa will be part of my new stuff. I hope to have a couple more Santas or Reindeer, but not sure I'll have time.

I've made two more of these, but no pics yet. One large and one small.

Mother and Baby Spirit Dolls

I saw these two little gourds and thought since they were so much alike they'd be great as mother & baby. Her headdress is beetle wings and the baby had turquoise pieces headdress.

My Gourd Art

Here are some of my latest gourd pieces. I plan to have my whales on display at Tornado Gallery Friday, Nov 5th for the First Friday Art Trail. I may display some of my other new pieces, but will have to see how much space I have. The prices shown here are online prices only. 

Black Whale Pod $45 USD online price only

Small Black Whale on Starfish $25 USD online price

19" Blue Whale SOLD

Killer Whale Pod $45 USD online price

Small Killer Whale $20 USD online price.

Ammonite $35 USD online price only

Fall Leaves $45 USD SALE! $25

Reworking my blog

Well, I finally got back to my blog and saw it had been over a year since I posted anything, so decided to delete all the old stuff and start fresh. I plan to use this more as my business site than before so I can post prices here instead of on facebook, or if I put something on Etsy or Artfire, I will post here.