New items in Store!

Please stop by Dolci on S. Westnedge and see my new items at the store...

Messenger Bags, Pillows, Magnets, T-Shirts, Gift Bags... Soon to be Cards and Prints!!!

Placing my pieces in a new store on S. Westnedge!

Stop by the New Store Dolci at 824 S. Westnedge - Kalamazoo MI. Just south of Vine Street on the right side of the road. Will be placing items at store tomorrow evening. Watch for photos of store front and display coming tomorrow... ! Please stop by and check it out... Thank you!

Will currently put in pillows, messenger bags, magnets and small gift bags. Working on a sling bag. And new bag colors to follow soon.

Items will be rotated so stop by often to see what is there...!

Barn Series

Pulled out my watercolors the other day. Decided to do a series of barn and country landscape paintings. I love the look of the old barns. I wonder what they looked like in their earlier years the purpose they held and the things they could say if they could talk.. In a way they do talk to you - if you just look. Stop and take in the weathered wood, the missing pieces the rusty hinges.. the silence.. it is a place of peace and a time when things were so much simpler. A time when value was on more than money... It was family - it was a time when families, friends towns pitched in to help each other... what changed what made greed take over, where people don't care about each other, their family, their friends their town... and morals went right along with it. Marriage use to mean somethings vows were taken and honored... Now its like a revolving door - no one cares ... just looking for the next version - fling.. -Jobs - companies use to care about their employees if you worked hard did your job the company appreciated it...and usually your family had or did work for the same company.. NOW... we have employers who treat their employees like robots... they work you many hours past forty, belittle you, to make them feel important - don't expect to pay you for the extra time you put in- you give up holidays, weekends - just to have many years of giving up your family life for work to have them eliminate your job or let you go to hire someone for much much less.. it is these things I see when I look at old barns, buildings, abandon homes... because they are much like us ... they stood strong gave it their all.. and were discarded for something new, something more exciting...I hope some day we learn to listen and see that just because something is worn it doesn't make it worthless.. it makes it priceless... we need to listen more with our hearts and love the precious things around us... And hope that corporations learn to realize the value of someone who has sacrificed family to do a job - so in turn they can provide for their family. I hope when you drive by an old barn, fence post, building or home ... you think back - and think about what family, honesty and love really is all about...

new design_Dolphin!

A new design I have been working on. With the thought of it being placed on a T-shirt.

New design finished!

Just finished a Dolphin design. Will post soon. Also working on a series of watercolor paintings - Old country barns I have driven by. Along with wild flowers that are so beautiful this time of year. Will post progress shortly.

New design! Sea Turtle

My new design.. which I have placed on a pillow with swarovski crystals... I am excited to see it in glass for a pendant... going to try some designs on T-shirts... also looking for messenger bags to put them on.. but, haven't found the one I want yet...

Thank you Corporate AMERICA!!!

Well here I am again unemployed due to re-structuring of a job.. Employers would rather have computers working for them (cold and un-feeling) then pay for a human. Working for a company for 10 -plus years gets you nothing but kicked out the door. So they can bring in an automated system or someone they can pay a lot less. That is the thanks you get for dedicating yourself to them. Maybe it's the push I need to get me to focus on my God given talent and design! If I would have invested the amount of time I did to help someone else grow and expand their company.. Just think where I would be with mine....

And another thing ... Where in the world have all the truthful people gone... because finding one - is like being on a scavanger hunt for a needle in the middle of a corn field...