<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22472171</id><updated>2012-02-02T15:37:44.785-05:00</updated><category term='INK BOTTLES AND WELLS'/><title type='text'>TheArtsAnnex</title><subtitle type='html'>I'm showing things here that mean something to me.  Sometimes I think I have too many interests and am like a Jack of all trades, then at other times I feel there is so much more out there that I need to know. This blog is somewhere inbetween. . .</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theartsannex.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22472171/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theartsannex.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>TheArtsAnnex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18114057492135934891</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22472171.post-1950091097717229204</id><published>2011-07-16T11:52:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-07-16T12:09:30.668-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#663333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lZmSwgwVa6U/TiG2p6aWr-I/AAAAAAAAAaA/DzhvtGkBnfg/s1600/100_0586.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629981840360517602" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lZmSwgwVa6U/TiG2p6aWr-I/AAAAAAAAAaA/DzhvtGkBnfg/s400/100_0586.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color:#663333;"&gt;"BROWN PAPER BAG" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663333;"&gt;Mounted in a shadowbox, I encourage people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663333;"&gt;to run their fingers through the papers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663333;"&gt;feels good!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22472171-1950091097717229204?l=theartsannex.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theartsannex.blogspot.com/feeds/1950091097717229204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22472171&amp;postID=1950091097717229204' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22472171/posts/default/1950091097717229204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22472171/posts/default/1950091097717229204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theartsannex.blogspot.com/2011/07/this-piece-is-mounted-in-shadowbox.html' title=''/><author><name>TheArtsAnnex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18114057492135934891</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lZmSwgwVa6U/TiG2p6aWr-I/AAAAAAAAAaA/DzhvtGkBnfg/s72-c/100_0586.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22472171.post-7669382513192453909</id><published>2011-07-16T11:17:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-07-16T11:25:57.320-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>This is one of my larger pieces recently finished. My Godchild was in a show of third graders and did this RAP song. It inspired me to create "Recycle Now". The lettering is done with silver pencil. The letters are covered with shreddings. For the frame I used recycled wood. &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9WwVs-GubAM/TiGsHwU4bUI/AAAAAAAAAZY/hx4qmE0qBNM/s1600/100_0660.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629970258421378370" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9WwVs-GubAM/TiGsHwU4bUI/AAAAAAAAAZY/hx4qmE0qBNM/s320/100_0660.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yvGcnf_eOYM/TiGr-dp42uI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/YNO-gRJpznI/s1600/100_0659.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629970098790390498" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yvGcnf_eOYM/TiGr-dp42uI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/YNO-gRJpznI/s320/100_0659.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xhk_tv1TY8U/TiGruaTnIEI/AAAAAAAAAZI/TzhXDvspopg/s1600/100_0658.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629969823013740610" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xhk_tv1TY8U/TiGruaTnIEI/AAAAAAAAAZI/TzhXDvspopg/s320/100_0658.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22472171-7669382513192453909?l=theartsannex.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theartsannex.blogspot.com/feeds/7669382513192453909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22472171&amp;postID=7669382513192453909' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22472171/posts/default/7669382513192453909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22472171/posts/default/7669382513192453909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theartsannex.blogspot.com/2011/07/this-is-one-of-my-larger-pieces.html' title=''/><author><name>TheArtsAnnex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18114057492135934891</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9WwVs-GubAM/TiGsHwU4bUI/AAAAAAAAAZY/hx4qmE0qBNM/s72-c/100_0660.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22472171.post-7938905094777461088</id><published>2010-08-07T14:14:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-07T14:23:35.607-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='INK BOTTLES AND WELLS'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M244Um0cNJg/TF2iptFwlDI/AAAAAAAAANE/v6QWYHdugmY/s1600/100_0607.JPG"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M244Um0cNJg/TF2iptFwlDI/AAAAAAAAANE/v6QWYHdugmY/s160/100_0607.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M244Um0cNJg/TF2ip2DnMVI/AAAAAAAAANM/v7CP2boRVeU/s1600/100_0608.JPG"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M244Um0cNJg/TF2ip2DnMVI/AAAAAAAAANM/v7CP2boRVeU/s160/100_0608.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Sterling Silver over crystal ink well. Black Star and Frost. approximately&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;the size of a soft ball. It gives me joy just to look at it! &lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M244Um0cNJg/TF2iqaP-_3I/AAAAAAAAANU/bH0hOQEbyl0/s1600/100_0609.JPG"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M244Um0cNJg/TF2iqaP-_3I/AAAAAAAAANU/bH0hOQEbyl0/s160/100_0609.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a removal small silver insert for ink&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M244Um0cNJg/TF2iqjDJBLI/AAAAAAAAANc/52d8QEutNwE/s1600/100_0610.JPG"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M244Um0cNJg/TF2iqjDJBLI/AAAAAAAAANc/52d8QEutNwE/s160/100_0610.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; pre-Civil War era, pen holder on each side of the bottle. &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" border="0" alt="Posted by Picasa" align="middle" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22472171-7938905094777461088?l=theartsannex.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theartsannex.blogspot.com/feeds/7938905094777461088/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22472171&amp;postID=7938905094777461088' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22472171/posts/default/7938905094777461088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22472171/posts/default/7938905094777461088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theartsannex.blogspot.com/2010/08/sterling-silver-over-crystal-ink-well.html' title=''/><author><name>TheArtsAnnex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18114057492135934891</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M244Um0cNJg/TF2iptFwlDI/AAAAAAAAANE/v6QWYHdugmY/s72-c/100_0607.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22472171.post-450885727580502718</id><published>2008-09-28T11:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T11:30:45.903-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;This is an over view of the Herb Garden that I'm taking care of at the County Extension Service offices. It is hard work but very rewarding. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M244Um0cNJg/SN-iMSHJCnI/AAAAAAAAABA/-sSztmXcPkA/s1600-h/H0021959-P.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251094022441208434" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M244Um0cNJg/SN-iMSHJCnI/AAAAAAAAABA/-sSztmXcPkA/s320/H0021959-P.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;click on the photo to enlarge it&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22472171-450885727580502718?l=theartsannex.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theartsannex.blogspot.com/feeds/450885727580502718/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22472171&amp;postID=450885727580502718' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22472171/posts/default/450885727580502718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22472171/posts/default/450885727580502718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theartsannex.blogspot.com/2008/09/this-is-over-view-of-herb-garden-that.html' title=''/><author><name>TheArtsAnnex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18114057492135934891</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M244Um0cNJg/SN-iMSHJCnI/AAAAAAAAABA/-sSztmXcPkA/s72-c/H0021959-P.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22472171.post-114281728718262640</id><published>2006-03-19T20:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-19T20:14:47.193-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#006600;"&gt;When I'm not working in my studio, I get to play Mina Edison,  at the Edison/Ford winter estates here in Fort Myers, Fl.  My husband Don, is a guide at the estates and is Thomas Edison in their living history program. He gets paid, and I volunteer my services. In Ft Myers, you can see why we call it our little paradise here on the planet. The sunsets are just beautiful.   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6085/2285/640/HPIM0794.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6085/2285/320/HPIM0794.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6085/2285/640/HPIM0798.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6085/2285/320/HPIM0798.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6085/2285/640/HPIM0796.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6085/2285/320/HPIM0796.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6085/2285/640/HPIM0795.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6085/2285/320/HPIM0795.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22472171-114281728718262640?l=theartsannex.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theartsannex.blogspot.com/feeds/114281728718262640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22472171&amp;postID=114281728718262640' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22472171/posts/default/114281728718262640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22472171/posts/default/114281728718262640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theartsannex.blogspot.com/2006/03/when-im-not-working-in-my-studio-i-get.html' title=''/><author><name>TheArtsAnnex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18114057492135934891</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
