8-Step Plan For The Best-Yet-Holiday-Season-Ever!

Quick, before the flurried frenzy begins, 8-Step Plan For The Best-Yet-Holiday-Season-Ever! It’s here! The holiday countdown! ‘Tis the season of high hopes, high expectations and high energy drain. This 8-step plan offers a strategy for increased strength and stamina so you can make 2011 your best-yet-holiday-season ever. Make a list. Not another to-do list, and [...]

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Alcohol Ink Beginnings

I’d like you to meet the instructor that introduced me to alcohol inks, Karen Walker. Here we are on August 24, 2009 during that initial workshop at Artists League of the Sandhills in Aberdeen, NC, an hour from where I live. I remember feeling like a kid in a candy store:) The morning session of our [...]

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All About Iris

All About Iris is the name of the current series I’ve been working on the past several months.  Even after completing Iris No. 11 & 12 (shown left & below), these bearded beauties continue to captivate me. All About Iris I didn’t plan on falling in love with Iris. It all started last summer, while looking [...]

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Wishing For Autumn?

Anybody out there wishing for autumn besides me? During September and October visit, www.yadkinvalleyliving.com and click on June Rollins to read why I’m ready for summer to end. After October 2010, read below: Autumn Already? Maybe I’m crazy, but I love this time of year. Love the cool days and cooler evenings, love the slowly increasing [...]

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Trumpets of Hope

It’s the season of daffodils and listed below is a link to a column I’ve written that’s in the Mar/Apr issue of Yadkin Valley Living Magazine about these spring harbingers. Here, I’ll share the “before” and “after” images of “Trumpets of Hope.” The “before” image shows a definite strong contrast between foreground and background in value and use of [...]

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