This very beautiful selection of work is a small sample of the art created by Strawberry in her wonderful etsy shop,  rivermoonblossom. In her profile she states;

"I am a ceramic and jewelry artist living in upstate NY. I am also a travelling gypsy. I am inspired by the many beautiful places I have lived, including New Mexico, The California Coast, the Pacific North West, Key West, the Adirondacks, Mexico, and the Caribbean . Strawberry Angela Curls AKA Fancy Feet the Wind Dancer, throws beautiful colors up into the air, making sure the wind is the perfect speed and from the ideal direction. She then waves a square of earth that has previously interacted with fire to catch the liquified colors. Thus she cooperates with the four elements to create ceramics of exquisite beauty and inspiring content. I love bright colors in my home, on my body and in my art work. I hope you enjoy looking at my artwork as much as I enjoy making it.
I am inspired by bright colors, mexican art, day of the dead, guadalupe, goddess myths, tattoos, rockabilly, art nouveau, nature spirits, flowers, sun and shadow, the moon."

I love the colours that Stawberry uses and the somewhat, folk art feel to her work. She contacted me regarding a trade and we ended up trading for two pieces, one of which i look forward to giving a my friend as a gift. 

Feel free to check out her shop and her two  blogs,  both are equally fantastic.   ( thank you Strawberry for the interview and promotion on the creativevoices blog  : ) 

1. Jennifer, 2. polka dot tea set, 3. Pan v Hook, 4. bird-petal, 5. Hawes/Glenister: unknown photographer, 6. Why, Yes...I Do Have Shoes To Match, 7. West Coast of Scotland 1992, 8. Yearning for Spring, 9. Call of the Raven (formerly Nature's Special Effects), 10. llibreria - bookstore - Amsterdam, 11. panal, 12. A Little Bird

This is a really fun game i discovered on The Shetland Trader's blog

 The rules are as follows:

• Type the answers to the following questions into Flickr search. 
  
• Using only the first page, pick one image.
  
• Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fds mosaic maker.
  

what is your first name?   Jennifer

what is your favourite food?   cakes

where did you go to high school?   Kirriemuir

what is your favourite colour?  Prussian blue

who is your celebrity crush?  Philip Glenister

Favourite drink? Red wine

dream destination?   West coast Scotland

favourite dessert?   Tablet

what you want to be when you grow up?  happy

what do you love most in life?  stories

one word to describe you?  impatient

your Flickr name? a little bird

Some of the images are quite directly related to the questions but some are not at all.

have a go, it's fun

and please send me  the link so i can view your mosaics : )

I find myself in not one, not two, not even three but 4 treasuries this morning. What Joy : )

women, letters, silver and soap  by the wonderful kankalinhats

etsy party by the inventive juliepeach

creative Scots by the charming thebayattic

and finally let them eat cake by  VoodooQueen

I've been playing around with shrinkable plastic for a wee while now, (well it's something to do!). Anyway this is what i have come up with, a series of little brooches featuring the charactors and objects from my prints, little wearable pieces of art. They have sold quite well in a local gift shop and i thought i would try them in my etsy store.  Here goes : )

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

This morning i was fortunate enough to have attained tickets to hear Vivienne Westwood talk about her manifesto. She was eccentric and beautiful and peculair and colourful and a wee bit bonkers : D

It was lovely and i was in the front row so had a fantastic view of her, (i was only about 5 feet away) here are some of my drawings of her, hopefully they will give you a taste of the experience.

YIP YIPEEEEE

my treasury made the front page!

I missed it of course but still YAY

It has been warm and sunny here but also wet and rainy,  not at the same time i hasten to add, but perfect weather for growing gardens : )