PRINT - COLOUR - WIN

Only 3 more...well 2 really, until our Mamas and Chicks Show...oh my, it always creeps up on me WAY too fast.
WIN WIN WIN...if you have little ones...OR if YOU would like to enter...I would LOVE to see what you come up with.
I will be colouring mine too...and the WINNER will WIN either one of these or their own custom Once Upon a Time watercolour...where YOU can choose the animal...etc.


HAVE FUN with it...and post the picture on my BlueshineArt Facebook Page with a link to where I can contact you :-) If you don't have a FB page...email me your coloured page.


Have fun with the colouring pages...I can't wait to see what YOU and your kids get up to :-)
HUGS
Char.x

WIN WIN WIN

I was interviewd over at  EARTH MAMA  this week...it's being featured today...she is also hosting a GIVEAWAY this weekend... 2 winners will each choose 2 prints from my ETSY Shop.

Please go and enter HERE...I would LOVE if one of our readers won this...so head over there sometime this weekend and enter!!

Have a great Saturday...and GOOD LUCK!!
hugs
Char.x

Illustration in progress...

  

Good morning...working on a book with Shelly...VERY excited but I can't show you too much! :-) as it would spoil the surprice...these are all macro shots of the images so far.
This little girl learns some important lessons in this book...it's a book of rythm and reason...did I tell you I was EXCITED?
We have about 6 books written so far which are waiting to be illustrated...and then the fun begins when we have to fight off publishing houses...lol...

Hope you have a LOVELY day...

Have you entered my January Giveaway?
If not you have 24 hours to enter....QUICK QUICK...go HERE.

HUGS
Char.x

ART 4 YOU **GIVEAWAY**- custom portrait...

HAPPY Monday!

I'm feeling GOOD today, and I want to celebrate the fact by creating something special for one lucky reader...so...

**THE WINNER** (who will be picked by random) will receive the choice of either a family portrait "A Mother's Load" of you and up to 4 children...(if you have more we can chat)

OR a portrait of your pet...

Above are examples of finished portraits which I have made for friends and family...

ALL you have to do...is vote on our recent banners...and tell us why the one you picked is your favourite.

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YOU can earn upto 4 entries by:

1. voting (you must be a FABULOUS reader of our blog to enter)
2. posting about our Giveaway on your blog
3. chatting about it on Facebook
4. or Tweeting about it

Make sure each if your entries are individual comments...and that you include the link back from your posts.

GOOD LUCK...the contest will run until Friday morning at 8am.

I'm painting today...cleaning...baking and planning...
What do you have planned?

-18 degree HUGS
Char.x

Frantic Friday...with a little surprise GIVEAWAY:-)

WHY do I always leave things to the last minute? Do you?

I have ridiculous amounts of tasks which need to be completed by next week...and I probably could have had them finished and out of the way...but no, I leave them to the last minute.

I am so pleased that I have all my PINS ready...it's been really very theraputic...sitting in the evening painting teeny faces...and cats,owls and birds...

I'm excited about how they will be received. Then SUPER happy I'll have new product to add to my ETSY store which has become a little stale this year. I know this is NOT the way to keep business and sales ticking over...so I will try harder to update and make my store a little fresher.

55 PINS in total...each one unique and hand painted with love and care...

I love organising this Show...and love meeting all our vendors...they're a fantastic group of women.
If ONLY all of you guys could come shopping at our Show!!! Then I'd get to meet you too!!!
I would love to host an Etsy Show here in Toronto...kind of like the Renegade...I know there are a tonne of craft Shows here...but one JUST for ETSY Artisans...hmmm,brain ticking.
I am going to get on with my FRANTIC Friday...

BUT 1st::
                        Tell me which PIN is YOUR FAVE (click on the above image to view larger) and I will pick a winner on Monday morning. (you must be a fabulous reader to qualify-sorry...I'm very loyal to our readers!)

Have a FABULOUS weekend all of you.
HUGS
Char.x

in MY mail

HAPPY SATURDAY everyone...

SO pleased my recent subscription to Katie Green's "The Green Bean" Zine arrived at the begining of the week...I LOVE her work...if you've never taken a ride over to her Blog, then please do!

Her Zine is full of goodness, recipes,contests,ALL hand-drawn...she has even added a few of her "What I wore Today" drawings, which you can also find linked from her blog to the FLICKR group...

I love it...and it stays close to me in my purse at ALL times!!!

Can't WAIT to get June's issue!!!

Do you read or subscribe to any Zines?

I received my winning package from Andrea who has the wonderful and creative blog "Andrea Creates". THANKS Andrea...I LOVE my little pouch and the stepping out jacket pattern!!!

It all came so beautifully wrapped and with a lovely Monet card.

just signed up to Artful Penpals and am SO excited...I used to enjoy having panpals as a teenager and would write letters to teens who became friends over the years...I have since lost touch with some of them...but others are still dear in my life.

Artful Penpals ran last year too but I found out about it after it had begun.

This year, dear Shelagh Duffet from the blog "Alice in Paris loves Art and Tea" remembered how gutted I was that I didn't make it last year and contacted me to remind me about this one. THANKS Shelagh!!!

If anyone of you are interested in reading more about it...you can click HERE.

I found GOOP online today by Gweneth Paltrow- and subscribed to her weekly newsletter...I had NO idea she offered such an interesting read...LOVE IT!

We've had a busy DANCE day...miss A did a dance workshop (hiphop) after her regular ballet class and really enjoyed it...she's totally bezonked though and is ready for dreamland.

I'm in the midst of finishing a little painting. Will show you tomorrow.

I hope you're enjoying your Saturday...

Which NEW online blog/site did you find this week??

Until tomorrow.

HUGS

Char,ON

a super Sunday winnings...

YAY! YIPPY!

I woke up this morning to check my Esty Store and what did I find?

A lovely little note from the Esty Store *The Time is Now*(love that title)telling me I had WON her Giveaway!

Not sure when it was...but I entered a draw for these beautiful cards (hand cut) in the photo above by Naomi Shiek.

Now...the contest had been posted by Amy at Pikaland...and there was also a special to the first 3 who contacted Naomi about buying anything from her store and receiving free shipping...I jumped at the chance and bought myself *the deer in the bear*- it's a beautiful etching of hers...I love deer.

You can see more of her work either at her STORE or on her BLOG.

It's been raining ALL day here,so I have been doing a tonne of Internet marketing for our Mamas and Chicks Show which is creeping up soon.

I forget every time the Show comes around how much work is actually involved...

I have to create some more prints...and may be asking for your help soon...brain storming for ideas...

My to do list is becoming WAY too long for my liking.

If only we could buy more time...that *time vendor* would be one RICH man!

Have a lovely rest of the Day.

Until tomorrow.

Char,On