ANNOUNCING .... NEW BLOGS

Okay... so maybe I love making blogs... but the truth of the matter is that I love sharing what I create with everyone... I have some blogs up right now...

The first Link... or area that you can go to, to see some of my work, is at my publisher.. LULU... and I have a storefront there, where you can click on the book you desire and it is sent to you..
I have published 18 books... I am very proud of them all.. I have doodled most of my life.. .and after much nagging from a lot of friends, family and others... I put them into books... I also published a book of poems that my maternal Grandfather wrote... Also a few books on how to fold Tea Bag Medallions... and then a few cook books.. which are really a combination of Art books and cook books... more on that later... but you can visit and shop at Lulu... and they will ship the books directly to your home... or you can order any of my books on line, at any book store... Amazon.com or anyother book site you love... the choice is yours...

The second one after this was Pretties by Bonnie...
A place where my images can be sold to people that would like to use them... I love to layer flowers... so this is a place where you can find flowers to layer, leaves in wreaths, holly wreaths for the holidays... and also a pretty poinsettia... so take a visit there... I also have a few of my doodles... but maybe more will be up and coming... I have had a lot of requests... just not enough time???

Then I wanted to share our Farm with you... Sunshine Valley Organic Farm... Where did the name come from... I have been called Sunshine by a lot of people... and Glenn means Valley... so Sunshine Valley... a combination of the two of us... a place where we live, and grow... and try to become more self sustaining every week... slowly but surely...


Well now can I have a place where I put just SOME of my art..???? So I had to add a place to show my books... and also others that partake in a group that we call the Fat Book Group.. This can all be found at Art Between The Pages... I do have a lot of things there... also a book group that started just a few months ago... and we call ourselves the Pearly Girls... hope we can do another group..

Okay... so I am on a roll now... I need to share some TOYs... so I start to offer a few items that are sold in my studio store... and I add TOYZ 4 PAPER... a fun place to shop... and buy your toyz at below retail price... So take a tour and see what I have there... you actually can shop on line... and tell me what you desire to have... and a letter via E-mail will get you all the new TOYZ you desire... (bongem@earthlink.net)

Which brings us to the two new BLOGS that I am going to share with you today... One of the many things that I love to do is COOK...about 3o years ago, we became vegans...I really didn't know what to make...so I started to look for ways to create delicious meals from foods that I really didn't know anything about... WHOLE FOODS... I was one of those people who would open the freezer door... take out a veggie, a meat... and then decide which starch to have with it.. Standard American Diet... (SAD) so... I had to take control of my life... and my families and create gourmet dishes... that tasted good... that were good for us... and were cost effective... YIKES... Over the years, I had quite a collection of recipes... so when we moved here in 2002, I decided to put my recipes and my art together... and create a collaged cookbook.. I made over 300 collaged pages... and put 300 recipes.. one on each page... pictures of family and friends also were added to the pages.... and I was done.. two years of hard work... and then it took another year to figure out the computer programs so I could publish them!!!! WOW ... I did it... and 18 books later... I am now learning the Blogging world... so much fun..

So that brings me to my next BLOG... Good Eating ... I eat a little bit differently today... we do eat some flesh products... not many... but some.. We eat chicken once in a blue moon... Organic Bison... and Raw Jersey Cheese... and if we can find organic raw milk that also... butter from Ireland... and we just added locally grown organic bacon.. oh my goodness... what a list..
And of course all our veggies that are grown on the FARM... There are so many things that I want to share... and the other day our chiropractor... Gina Barros... located in Landrum, SC... (If you want a good Chiropractor... let me know.. .I will give you her number... very good... gets all the pains out... ) Who is vegan... asked if I had a good cheese cake recipe... and I said yes... so I started this blog... oh dear me... another blog.. but a blog that I will add recipes that I create and want to share with you and everyone else... so go there when you have some nice fresh produce... and see what I have done with it... I do eat in season... so you will have to take that into consideration too.. but there will be time, when I can add other recipes like the cheese cake one.. . I personally don't eat tofu today... but alot of people do... so enjoy this one... it is DELICIOUS... Good Eating..

Okay... as a lot of you know... I started this blog... because I wanted to share my cards with friends... and not have to lug them all around with me... I am very obsessive about playing with my paper... I love it... I have a nice studio.. which I might just take some pictures one of these days and share that space with you.. .????

Another one of my loves in paper art is Medallion Art... or Tea Bag Folding... I love it.. I joined a group of gals from all over the world on Yahoo... called Card Making Friends... and I loved each and everyone of them... I still connect with a lot of them... I formed a trading group of ATC's with some of them... we had a group in the USA and one in UK... that also had some gals from the Netherlands and other places... it was so much fun... and I truly miss them all.. I also joined another group... called the Tea Bag folding group... and there I met Penny Wessenauer... and we became daily friends... making tiles, cards... and both of our daughters became pregnant at the same time... so we became grandmothers togehter too.. so much fun... I started to make CD's to share and sell tea bag tiles and card ideas to some of these gals... I published about 30 or so... and the last one I made was with Penny... where she and I both created cards and tiles... and ideas of other things to make also.. .a fun CD... but that is about the time that I really felt the need to do my cookbooks.. so I pulled away from the Yahoo groups... and tea bag folding... and started down a different road... Which brings me to the next BLOG...Medallion Art another blog... all about Tea Bag folding... YEAH... I have come full circle... On this blog... you will hopefully see a lot of things... one it will be a place where I have taken a lot of my CD's.. .combined them... and will be selling them... I took three CD's... and have put them all together... the card examples are funny in them... I can see how much I have grown in card making... the purpose of the CD's is not to see how I have grown... but how to make Medallions... pretty medallions... and this YOU can do with the help of these CD's... on each CD there are over 50 different ways to create a medallion... direcitons on how to print tiles,... and also 100's of tiles... pictures that will match the tiles... and fun galore... I know that you will be amazed at all that I have on on one CD... but that is the fun of it all.. I also would love to have some of the gals that I am still in touch with who love to make tea Bag Medallions send me a SMALL card... (no larger than 500kb) and I will share them with you... another circle completed... so come Susan from Australia, and Sandra from NH.. and Nancy from Virginia... and Jane and Jean... and all you other gals that have bought CD's and have been playing with them for over 8 years now... help me to share these talents with others...

I do hope that I haven't been that long winded... as I know I can be... but hopefully you have been interested enough to read this... I love you all and want to share as much as I can of myself with each one of you... right down to the way I think... and even though you might not agree... you will get to know me... and also Glenn... who right now is making Kombucha... a fermented tea that is very healing... google it... find it in health food stores... and try it... it is delicious... we are making Ginger mint tonight... love it... it is my favorite...

So hope you will enjoy the opening of these two newest blogs.. check them out from time to time... and thank you so very much for visiting me...

I live, I create..... I am Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
e-mail me at .... bongem@earthlink.net