Cemetary Angel

This is for my friend Margaret, who loves cemetary angels. It's collage on canvas board, watercolors, image transfer, Golden light texture paint stamped into for texture, Treasure Gold rubbed on top. The "hope" plaque may seem weird, since she's in a cemetary, but my take is that these angels exist to give those left behind hope that their loved ones are taken care of, watched over. Margaret, hope you like it!

California's Gold Country

Thanks to our great friend KC, my DH and I recently had a mini-getaway sans kids (delayed 15th anniversary trip) to the southern part of CA's Gold Country. He laughs at me whenever we travel because I take so many pictures of the sides of old buildings--I am a fiend for texture! :)

Had a lovely time. Top to bottom: Sutter Creek Inn, a lovely inn dating from the 1850s, where we stayed; an interior shot from Black Chasm National Monument, was just incredible; metal sculptures from Bellgarden Gifts, a truly charming gift shop in Amador City; sign from the Cowboy Church in Fiddletown; some walls that caught my eye in Sutter Creek.