My Thoughts today

I am so tickled to be able to write here ! We worked so hard to make our Art, Mom and I and even harder still to find away to talk about our experiences! Mom and I have done a lot of shows together over the years some good, some bad! I am looking forward to our next one together In Copperas Cove Texas on the 4 of July!
Mom read about a place that helps artist get seen, The Frames and Things in Copperas Cove has First Fridays, where they display and toast an Artist once a month! We went there the last time I was there to visit to find out about it and show some of our items and were promptly asked to do a Mother, Daughter Show! We were thrilled ! I am working on some brochures for that and so much more! If your in the Killeen Fort Hood area of Texas feel free to ask by email to be put on a remind email list ! We also will be doing a show in the fall down on the coast, in Corpus Christi not sure of that date but its still in the plans!
Mom's Doing a Lot of Gardening right now !She turned her above ground pool into a garden, isn't that a neat idea! I thought So ! I going to take photos of it next time I go visit mean while I on the hunt for statues to put in it for her! You have a great Day and I will be writing again soon!P.S. the photo is part of a 3 dimensional mom did a few years back a bit of the garden to show here!

Introduction to our Blog and the Mother Daughter Team of Artists!

I am the Daughter Artist of this Blog, the writer who will be doing any thing computer related ! My name Is Victoria ! My Mother' s name Is Maria who is the Painter! Mom is 73 and isn't a computer person, but very active in her Art and also in life ! Why have a Blog for us both you ask? Well primarily to promote our Art,but also to express what else is going on in our life's and to allow me the writer to write, something my mother is always encouraging me to do!
My mothers art has feed mine, my desire to let others see hers better has inspired my Love of photography ! I started when my husband and I would take trips across the country and mom who couldn't go because of her extended animal family, would beg me to take photos for her art! I did tons of photos most of them useless, which she would peer at, take only a few, more to please me then to inspire her work in landscapes! My photos where not very good then, and frankly I believe they were a waste of film! I glad I use a digital camera now! We both have grown in our Art together She does use some of my photos to inspire her work and I take photos of her finish pieces to create our stationary and prints that I now am beginning to sell on line!

I found a wonderful place to do that where every thing is hand made its called Etsy I open my shop last year Victoria's Creations http://VictoriaB2007.etsy.com I do more then Photos My first love I have to say is jewelry, though I make many other things, hand stitched beaded book marks, hand stitched Barbie clothes , wine charms, magnets and the stationary with both Mom's art and mine on it! I just open Mothers Shop and will begin listing her paintings soon and also her prints and stationary sets that's are at Mermaid Gallery http://MermaidGallery.etsy.com She isn't painting to many landscapes any more, having gotten into mythical creatures and woman figures to include nudes now a days, but I will be listing some her older paintings as well as the new ones! I have to say she gets better with her piece and Wows me, she is a muse in her own right and I am glad she is healthy and so very active!
I will write more on my mother soon!

Our Other Love is animals, we both have just joined a group that working together as artist for animals http://etsyforanimals.com/ W e will be Donating something to their and our animal Charities each month! I will post here when we do. This month You can buy one of my Photo graphic prints called Spring Joy listed here http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10464792 and all proceeds minus shipping and the etsy fee will go to World Society for the Protection of Animals our Charity this month! We feel very strongly about animals and hope to open more eyes to that effect!
So I hope you will take a look! I also hope you save this blog as well for further reading because Mom and I have some crazy adventures and I plan on writing about them! Do feel free to comment and email us! Thank you Victoria B