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The last stop was just wonderful. The hostess was so enthusiastic about planting and growing, and sharing what she has learned in the ten years she has lived in this house and fought with the severe growing conditions. The house sits slightly higher than others nearby, is surrounded by prairie and is a vision as you approach it. This is from the road. You can see there is no real division

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Not wanting to make an additional trip to Pueblo on Sunday, I decided to go on to Pueblo West and scout out the private gardens there. Two hosts were home and graciously allowed me to look over their gardens a day early. This one is only five years old and is adjacent to the Desert Hawk golf course. This is what the tour guide says about it: "Because the homeowners wanted time to devote to

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This was a nice garden around a modular home, very neat and tidy. This is what the tour guide says about it: "Designing and creating a garden that challenges traditional garden practices and implementing water saving techniques has been a priority for these homeowners since its imception in 2000. This 'user friendly garden' is routinely re-mulched to decrease evaporation and to discourage weeds.

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This was a very interesting garden, and I probably do not have enough photos to do it justice. This was probably the most exciting plant to see on the whole tour...artichokes! The owner said they are not supposed to grow here, but she wanted to try anyway. And it has been a struggle because they do not over winter. She starts seeds in February in order to have chokes by fall! Seeds are from Park

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Second stop on the Pueblo Xeriscape Garden Tour was probably my least favorite, simply because all the garden was in front of the house so there was not so much to see. Tour guide says this about the stop: "This garden was planted to create a long succession of blooms and texture. The homeowners have resided here four years and have installed a lawn and fruit trees in the backyard. The

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On June 6, 2009 I went on the Xeriscape Garden Tour hosted by master gardners in Pueblo. The tour was a two day affair, with gardens in Pueblo on Saturday, and gardens in Pueblo West on Sunday. There were four personal gardens and one demonstration garden scheduled each day. I visited the personal ones, because I knew I could visit the demo gardens at any other time. Here are photos of each

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I belong to the Dollstreet Dreamers (great group by the way). Judi asked if we would be interested in doing a swap of dotees. She gave us a link to flickr to see what dotees are and I was hooked. These are the three that I am going to send. i really like how they turned out...they were kind of hard to part with. But, I will be receiving new dotees and will look forward to them. I'll post the

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A week or so ago I joined the "I Heart Faces" list (because faces are my favorite thing!) and this is my first entry into their weekly challenge। It is a picture of my little Jack Russell Terrorist that was hit by a car and killed. Broke my heart...

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Just got an interesting item from PhotoJo this morning. www.photojo.com They suggest using jelly and canning jars as photo frames! Here is a photo to show what they are suggesting: I particularly like the short jar near the left...on their site they even show using Coke bottles, but to me they are not as attractive.

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This all started from the beginning of a new painting. I loved how the angel wing turned out, so photographed it knowing I could "do something with it". This is one thing I've done with it...The wings, which were printed on Sheer Heaven are lifted off the background, then the image of the woman is lifted even higher. She holds a sign that says, "Here are your wings, now fly." Bars of music were

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There is a movement starting to promote individual giving. I think it is a good idea, and something I need to work at. The information is available at 29gifts.org. Check it out...you might enjoy it too.

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It is always so hard to come up with a meaningful birthday present for my grandkids. But I was inspired this year to make a book for the first grader. Here is a picture of the cover. The book is made from coasters and bound with a Bind-it-all. The elephant's ears are three dimensional. The Empress's crown is glittery. An embellished evergreen... Escargot and empty egg shells... And an

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We are ready for the Art Walk we are having here in La Junta. I hope YOU can join us. This is the second annual event and last year it was just wonderful...perfect weather, beautiful art, and wonderful visitors. What a blast! We are keeping our fingers crossed for the same magical atmosphere we had last year. Here is a poster that shows all the events that will be going on. Here is what the

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I have just been introduced to Sunday Postcard Art thru a link from Nancy Ward's blog at: http://paperfriendly.blogspot.com/ Sorry, I don't see how to make that a clickable link right now. Anyway, here is an image I had made recently that shows my granddaughter checking out the plane she and her family were about to board for a trip to Disneyland. She looks excited, doesn't she? Nancy

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Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18250158041596831762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650985474400543419.post-35093203745265893082007-11-17T23:03:00.000-07:002007-11-17T23:10:45.255-07:00

Pat really went to town on Charlotte's book. You would never know it was her first experience of altering a book...and she said it was really a hard thing to do! The theme is HOPE.

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This is the cover of Charlotte's book, done by Pat. Didn't she do a super job?

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Here is Barb's page in Mary's book, which is a loose leaf how-to book with slick pages. Mary's theme is "Home Improvement". Mary lives in an old school house. Three floors, red brick, big. And needs a lot of work--hence her choice of themes. Barb has met the challenge admirably and will be a hard act to follow.

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http://www.zentangle.com/index.php This is an interesting website. You will love all the designs that are shown. It is great therapy for a dull meeting you have to attend. But an original idea? I don't think so. But go take a look.

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Members of the Artistic Expressions! group have started a round robin altered book exchange. We are doing our first pages now. The images above are the three pages I did in Cheryl's book. The first is a single page, the bottom two are a double page spread. We are changing books every three weeks. Several in our group have never done an altered book before so this is quite a stretch for them

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This video may not be exactly artistic, but it is definitely creative! Received from theartgarden list on yahoo and posted by redleafpinequilter. Thanks! I bet you will find it as funny as I do! http://www.maniacworld.com:80/squirrel-obstacle-course.html

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This is a colored pencil drawing entitled 'Pretty Bird' entered in the Monday Morning Challange by Cheryl

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Here is an ACEO of a man with a bird beak on his face. I am entering it in the mixed media Monday challenge mentioned two entries ago.

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http://www.joggles.com/shoe-challenge.htm Here is another interesting challenge, but it is ending SOON, that we might like to participate in. There is even a photo at the end of the notice to show the scope of the possiblilities! Let's get those thinking caps on, girls!

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I just discovered a NEW challenge site on the web for mixed media artists and I think we will all be interested in participating. Maybe some of our altered book pages will qualify for it too! Address is: http://mixedmediamonday.wordpress.com/ It seems to have just started within the last couple of weeks. This week's (10-29-07) theme has to do with birds so pull out all your bird ideas (Barb

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San Juan on the opening night of our recent art show during the Octoberfest Art Walk. It was the first art walk in our town and it went VERY well! Here is a picture of the front door of the studio at Somewhere on

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Invitations have been sent to the other members of Artistic Expressions! so they can also post messages on this blog. You all will have to have a gmail account but it is easy to get. And we can post pictures of the altered books once we start working on them, which will be exciting, don't you think?

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Some of the artists from Artistic Expressions! are interested in starting a blog so we can share our individual projects with you. At this point, this is an experiment. When we know what we are doing, we will make this more public.

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