Studio Before and After

I've been working in the evenings to find some kind of order in the space now known as Shelly's Studio. I used to have about three art spaces (some of which even had windows {sigh}), but now it's all shoved into one area in the basement. It has taken a while to recover from all that shoving and sadness over losing my real windows.

I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who can see any difference between the "before" and the "after", but I'm still happy with the progress.

The "Before" (AKA total and completely unusable chaos)The "After" (somewhat less chaos and fairly usable)

Harper even has a space to work (the dark table on the left), and eventually there's even space (further to the left) that already has some work tables where I might (if I can find people who are interested around here) even teach small classes someday. There's a little kitchen (ok, only a bar, sink and little fridge, but still cute for refreshments) and a nice bathroom over there too. We'll see... :)

More Exciting News!

I am so thrilled to announce that I'll be teaching at Paper Cowgirl in June this year! The event is in Waxahachie, TX just outside of Dallas and is put on by the fabulous Cindy Mayfield. Cindy and her friend Tina Wright started the event, but sadly Tina passed away in early 2010 after a battle with cancer. Tina's family and friends encouraged Cindy to continue with retreat, so Cindy is carrying the creative torch.

I'm teaching a new class called Journaling Jump Start. Class details will be posted on the Paper Cowgirl site soon, but there are awesome collages of all of the classes.

Head over HERE to see!

SO EXCITED!!!

Hey, where's the art, lady?

Here it is!!!

I've been trying to pull together some 3-hour classes for a while now so that I could propose for CREATE Mixed Media Art Retreat in Chicago. (I have to send at least two 6-hour classes and two 3-hour classes.)

This weekend I worked up an idea that's been bubbling on a back burner for a while... I call it my Don't Be Blue Bouquet workshop. Just one little hang up though... the online application for the retreat disappeared! So, we'll see if I get to propose all my classes after all. I hope so!!!

And, I came up with another 3-hour workshop to teach about lettering -- Love Your Letters There are more images that go along with this one, but you get the idea (I hope). :)

Have a great week!

More about me?

Ok, ok... so you might be getting tired of the me, me, me stuff going on around here.

(Hey, where's the art, lady?) :)

BUT...

I was just featured on the Art Is blog in the Artist Spotlight. If you can stand to read just a little bit more about me, here's the link to my interview. LINK

Be sure to click on the Art Is blog heading so you can read about all of the other artists in their spotlights! I find reading the spotlights so fascinating and somehow reassuring. Or, I'm just an artist stalker. You decide.

Hello One World One Heart!

Welcome to my blog, One World One Heart neighbors!

Thanks for stopping by!

My name is Shelly Massey, and I'm excited to be participating in this event for the first time.

I currently live in Middletown, Ohio, but as an adult, I've also called South Carolina, Kansas and Washington (state) my home. I'm an artist, but also a workshop instructor, a wife, a mama to a two and a half year old daughter, and a manager and senior analyst for a software company based in Washington state.

In 2011, I'm realizing some big dreams. I'll be teaching at at least three art retreats - Artfest, Art Unravelled, and Art Is. And I'm even working on setting up a couple more for this year! It's been quite an adventure so far... one that has stretched me quite a bit, but it's been worth it.

I hope you'll leave a comment to let me know you were here. At the end of the fifth and final One World One Heart party, I'll be giving away the following package to THREE people randomly selected who comment on this post.

The prize package:

• An art print of my original collage
• A collage paper pack of vintage papers
• A copy of my original coloring book of doodles (fun for all ages!)
• Two of my original greeting cards

Here are two of the art prints I'm giving away. (The other one is at the top of this post.)

Thanks so much again for stopping by! I plan to make it around to all of your blogs to say hi too!

Happy One World One Heart Party to you!

P.S. Here's a link to the One World One Heart blog links --> LINK (I'm #415 on the list.)

Happy exploring!

One World One Heart Party Starts Tomorrow!

Hi! There's a great event that starts tomorrow called One World One Heart. Between now and mid February, bloggers from around the world send in blog post links to Lisa of A Whimsical Bohemian. She collects them into a big list so we can all visit and get to know each other. Participants put giveaways on their blogs and everyone leaves comments on the giveaway post to say "HI, nice to meet you" and for a chance to win the giveaway.

Check back tomorrow for my "HELLO One World One Heart" and giveaway post. Looking forward to visiting as many of the participants as I can to say hi. (This is my first year participating, but last year there were around 1,000 participants I think!)

Whiny Doodle

Fair warning: Today's doodle is a wee bit whiny. I moved all my art stuff to our basement so that (in theory) I could continue making art while the remodeling stuff is going on. What happened is that ten zillion other things ended up down there too - and it's all stacked up in piles that cannot be ignored very easily. So, I guess only more doodles until I get some time to clean up down there.