3 French Hens Holiday Market...

One more day and counting down until the Holiday Market...
I am so excited, I look forward to it every year. This year my sis and I are going to browse the market and I will sure come back and blog what neat items I find for my Christmas collection this year.

If your in the area, please attend. There are two show dates this year.

*** 3 French Hens HoLiDaY Market ***

Morris, Illinois

~ You Are Cordially Invited to Attend ~

PREVIEW NITE PARTY

Friday, November 16th

5pm - 10pm

($10. Admission)

Saturday 9 am - 5 pm

($5. Admission)

Grundy County Fairgrounds

8890 N. Route 47

Vintage Christmas Ornaments...

I'ts almost that time year again to set up the tree and get to trimming. I am not ready yet, I am still packing away Halloween decorations. You don't realize how many you have until you have to pack them up.
Here are two new collections of ornaments I have completed this past week. I went with traditional Christmas colors rather than the teals and pinks.

A Jade / Lime Green

Traditional Christmas Red

Here Ye... Here Ye... The Halloween Art Guild

The guild is now getting established on etsy. All of us who sell on etsy and belong to the Halloween art guild please come over and join us! We are going to have a great year!
Here is a link to the team, please feel free to ask questions if you have them, introduce yourself, make a treasury whatever!
No pressure, just a fun group helping each other artist in selling, promoting, and listing our work.

I truly hope to see you all there!
Heather

As our group grows ~ Our first treasury heart, click and love it!
I did one bright and early....help ... need coffee ... lol

Here is our first treasury for the guild 
now heart and click away on them!

"Moonlight Sonata" ***SOLD***

"Moonlight Sonata" with Jack & Sally!

11 x 14 Acrylic and Watercolor

The Witches Dance...

The story of the witches' gathering in North Berwick is that a
 group of East Lothian men and women most well respected 
members of society had been gathering in at various locations
 in the country. Many of them interested in herbal medicine, 
and others most likely meeting for social reasons. After 
gathering in North Berwick, on Halloween 1590 they were
 accused as usual of conspiring against King James VI and his
 Queen Anne.

I have created my interpretation in this 8x10 gallery wrapped canvas painting in acrylics. Check it out on etsy  HERE

A Little Vintage Halloween...

This is what I have been working on:
A Brand new set of festive Vintage looking Halloween Candy Cone Ornaments. Just listed on etsy. I have the rest of the morning set aside for finishing my new painting, and Tomorrow its off to the French Country market! I look forward to the market every year, so many new artists to meet!

Check my Ornamets out on etsy Here

Attend the French Country Market This Weekend!
All along the Canal Port in Historic Downtown Morris, IL

Dapper Top Cat

Top Cat is now listed on ebay! Click HERE to check him out.

Halloween is almost here...

Boo Boo Kitty is getting in the spirit of the season as well!

Pink Slime? My kids arent eating that garbage...

Start packing your kids lunch so you know what they are eating...

Seven Million Pounds of “Pink Slime” Beef Destined for National School Lunch Program

By Sarah B. Weir, Yahoo! blogger

McDonald's and Taco Bell have banned it, but now the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is buying 7 million pounds of beef containing ammonium hydroxide-treated ground connective tissue and meat scraps and serving it up to America's school kids. If you thought cafeteria food was gross before….


Related: What You Need to Know About the New Meat and Poultry Labels



According to TheDaily.com, the term "pink slime" was coined by microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein, formerly of the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service. He first saw it being mixed into burger meat when he was touring a Beef Products Inc (BPI) facility in 2002 after an outbreak of salmonella. "Scientists in D.C. were pressured to approve this stuff with minimal safety approval," Zirnstein told The Daily.



"Pink slime," which is officially called "Lean Beef Trimmings," is banned for human consumption in the United Kingdom. It is commonly used in dog and chicken food. Celebrity chef and safe food advocate Jamie Oliver featured the substance and called for its ban on the April 12, 2011 episode of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, which may have influenced McDonald's to stop using beef patties containing the filler.



Reportedly, Zirnstein and his colleague Carl Custer studied the substance and classified it as a "high risk product." Custer, who worked at the Food Safety Inspection service for 35 years, says, "We looked at the product and we objected to it because it used connective tissues instead of muscle. It was simply not nutritionally equivalent [to ground beef]. My main objection was that it was not meat."



Another issue is the ammonium hydroxide, a chemical that is used to kill pathogens such as E. coli. The FDA considers it safe for human consumption but a 2009 expose by the New York Times questioned its safety and efficacy. Some food advocates are asking for meat containing "pink slime" to be labeled. It's used in about 70% of ground beef in the US. "We don't know which districts are receiving what meat, and this meat isn't labeled to show pink slime. They don't have to under federal law," Bettina Siegal, a writer and mother of two who created TheLunchTray.com told NBC. Siegel has started a petition to demand the USDA stop using the product in the National School Lunch Program.



Would you allow your kids to eat ground beef mixed with "pink slime?"