ART ON THE FARM

Monday, May 6, 2013

Here comes Brimfield!

Just a week until ...

Brimfield Antique Mart!

Don't be deceived, it's so much more than that...there's fabulous flea finds, funky, hip decor, vintage and artisan designs......oh! as far as the eyes can see.

I've always been a shopper, but this is my first time as a vendor along with my partners in crime Melody Elizabeth and Marie Pendley.

This show is for the early birds...hubby and I used to drag ourselves, sleepy eyed and not so bushy tailed to Brimfield in the wee morning hours...

watching the sun rise on our drive...only, to our dismay, to feel like we were last to the party at 7 a.m.!

Please stop by and say hi to us girls and see the wares we are trucking in.

Paintings, jewelry, textile accessories and more!

The New England Motel Field

Wed. May15 6am-5pm

Thurs-Sat May 16-18th 8:30am-5pm

p.s. I have the American Farmland Trust paintings boxed and ready to go!

Partial proceeds to be donated to this worthy cause.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Yet another post of pillows. I know, I've been down this road before. However, in my defense I have already disclaimed that I have a pillow problem.
I.just.love.pillows.
So naturally I am adding to my problem by creating more pillows.
Handpainted, hand distressed, hand waxed. If it can't get up and run away from me, I will paint it.
So please indulge my obsession and collectively oooh and ahhhh as you scroll down. It would make me feel sooo much better!

reds and pinks together *sigh

more hand painted Euros

vintage screen printed pillow

vintage screen printed and taffeta ruffles!

crazy quilt salvaged pieces

hand painted flowers, and hand stitched "Forrest" ...yes, the spelling is correct it was the name of my favorite black kitty. Also, in the background is a Melody Elizabeth purse stuffed with a pillow!

redwork, redwork redwork!

pillow fashioned from a vintage wedding gown...by Melody Elizabeth

small hand painted pillow

hand painted pillow on burlap sack

hand painted burlap sacks waiting to be stuffed

stuffed!

Oh yes, and the new hand painted pillows on linen and burlap by moi will be available this coming May along with the American Farmland Trust landscapes (see previous post)

at the Brimfield Antique Show

Brimfield, Mass

May 15-19th

You can find me in the New England Motel Field

#P22

just drop me a line for more details...

jdlanne@aol.com

Sunday, March 24, 2013

wide open spaces

I'll admit it.
It takes a lot for me to do something...so if I get up off my rear it is
either something I am really passionate about or something so very tempting...like that double-dark chocolate brownie I hid from myself
in the back of the freezer. Did I really think the freezer door made some
sort of impenetrable force field or that it would give me some sort of chocolate amnesia?

Well, in this instance what I am passionate about is farmland.
Scenic vistas, bucolic scapes, undeveloped land.
It is so sad for me to see farmland sold off and disappear forever.

I've been wanting to do something with/for the American Farmland Trust
for some time now. (click on the link to learn about what they do!)
I am currently working in a painting series titled "Open Spaces"
....simple, serene landscapes. With part of the proceeds from
each painting to be donated to the American Farmland Trust.
Each painting is done on chuncky 12x12x4" ...on wood, distressed
and waxed.
These should be ready for May 2013...in hopes to debut them at the
Brimfield Antiques show (more on that to follow).

Now, what to do about that brownie...I still haven't forgotten about you my sweet dark one.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

they got me

I kinda, sorta feel duped.

I think we can all collectively agree on is the over commercialization of Holidays. Christmas merchandise making way too early appearances stores by October and so on.

I know this is a marketing ploy to make me spend money.

I know this.

So I just fell for the oldest trick in the book. I totally feel out smarted by the marketing gurus of today.

No, I didn't fall for the quarter-glued-to-the-floor trick.
( I didn't see any )

Worse.

I just bought a Valentine's day card.

Why? Because there is was as soon as I stepped foot in my local drugstore.
That's all it took.
There is was...a cheap trick...all pink and red with 2 cute squirrels on the front.

I was bested, I was sucked in.

A whole rack of sweetsie-pie cards.

All gushing with sicky sweet sentiments.

Ok, I tell myself maybe this isn't as dire as it sounds...Maybe I'm not that much of a sucker.
Valentine's day IS less than a month away...and HEY, I do have to give myself kudos for having enough will power to NOT buy that Cadbury egg.
(it looked really good...shiny foil package and all)

So since maybe it is a dose of color and sweetsie that's what we all really need in this bleak January landscape.
So here it is...

Thursday, December 6, 2012

dressin' the old gal

It's the time of year to make things shinier...time to throw a little glitter in the air and see where it lands.
Time for sparkly wares, barn glam and farmhouse thrills and frills.

They say you can put a dress on a pig, but it's still a pig.
I sure hope so and I hope that holds true for barns as well!

Here's some snipets of some of the old house and barn holiday decor...
MERRY!