MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BLESSED ARTFUL NEW YEAR

This wonderful time of the year is here again. Hopefully, if you aren't finished, you are wrapping it all up for plans for Christmas. Remember, those of you who waited until the last minute that many of the stores are open late on Tuesday the 23rd in Plymouth, WI. Seranya Studios Art Boutique has that "perfect" gift for that hard to buy for person. What could be better than a piece of art for Christmas.
Yours truly is going to take a couple of weeks off during this blessed time to try to spend time with family and friends. I will return the first week of the new year. Gosh, doesn't it seem like we just started writing 2014 and soon it will be 2015?
Have a very Merry Christmas and may the New Year bring everything you are dreaming of--perhaps that new tool that you need for your creative life will appear under the tree this year.
Until then--------------keep those creative vibes going.


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Finished or just starting?

For so many years at the beginning of each new year I think, this year is going to be different. I am not going to rush around at the middle of December finishing up all the artwork that I plan to give as gifts. I will be sure to do one a month and then as Christmas draws near there won't be this mad rush to complete the thought-out gifts I had planned for family and friends.
Now, in theory doesn't this seem like the perfect solution? If one starts in January and does just one per month you would have twelve lovely gifts to present when Christmas rolls around. Ah, but just theory it is. Never once have I achieved this goal. When my kids were little December found me up half the night finishing the knitting of Barbie doll clothes and putting the finishing touch on that mouse I crocheted for my son.
This year (as in every other year) I promised myself it would be different. I did complete four items that I wanted to give as gifts last month and as things happened in my life this year, am so thankful that I did, but-------------those were the only four gifts that I completed.
Now as the middle of December is here I find myself with that familiar frantic panic of activity trying to accomplish the impossible. Not wanting to be part of the mad rush in the stores leads to panic thinking I might have to go out and actually purchase a gift? Horror of horror's.
Ah, the light bulb just went on--why don't I hurry on over to Seranya Studio Art Boutique in Plymouth and select the perfect piece of art for everyone on my list?
The few that I absolutely have to give a piece of "my art" to will inspire me once again burn the midnight oil in the frantic race to the finish.
Perhaps this is all a part of Christmas that makes it Christmas to me.
How do you approach your gift giving?


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Art as a Gift

What lovelier gift could you present to someone than a piece of Art.  Everyone that I know, would love a gift that was once in someone's imagination, then brought to life by the artist's own hands.
That brings me to a thought of all the artists out there that besides getting all their pieces finished for the gifts they want to give, are also busy finishing up all the commissioned work that others gave to them for their presents for others. That makes a very stressful time of the year for all the working a artists.
If you haven't already commissioned an artist to do something for you, I would suggest that for this year go to a studio and purchase something that they have already accomplished and think about that commissioned piece for next year. Seranya Studios Art Boutique would be the perfect place to find that one of a kind piece of art for that special person in your life. In fact, their grand Candle-lit Christmas open house is tonight (Friday, Dec. 5th) from 4PM to 8PM and again tomorrow from 10AM to 4PM. You are sure to find that "just right" gift as there are many artists displaying and selling their work there.
Even though, I for one, can not believe we are into December already this year, doesn't change the fact that indeed we are. Take a little "time" to also make this time special for you.
Recharge your own batteries, take a deep breath, and even though you perhaps might not feel like it, partake in some of the festivities in your home town. That just  might be the piece of the pie that makes the spirit bright.
Happy Artful shopping.


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