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Hi Kim! I love your contests! And, of course, your art!

You are amazing!

Kim- I love your blog- I'm going to post a link to you from my blog if you don't mind... i'm glad you have a photo on your page too- now i have a face with the avatar on etsy...

Hello~
I will go one further, I don't even know what a randomizer is!!!
I would love to have a chance at your art, count me in.
I am so glad to have met you.
Fun to see your photo too, and your work space looks so nice! Pretty lamp and all...

~Kathy

Love your art and enjoyed your blog. Homer and Junior are mighty cute. : )

Hi Kimmers

Thanks for luring me back to your blog - it is always a treat to visit!

joy,
katey-D
blueyeduckstudios.com

Ahh, that doggie-girl is so cute! Have you enjoyed this spring-time weather this week, or what!!? I bet the hills down there in Corona are so beautiful with green loveliness!!
(I hope I win!!!)
-saffron

This piece is wonderful. What an imagination. Lovely. I hope I win. LOL

very lovable indeed! im reminded of the wizard of oz, and also a sort of curious prairie pg wodehouse story!

it's the striped stockings that do it every time!

youve given me an idea for a contest now!

thanks for your recent encouragement, and all the best to you and yours:)
lou x

Hi I love your work too !

Thanks for the heads up on the ACEO forum. I love your work!

I'm probably far too late, but I do love Fiona! Looking forward to my package from you! It will be so lovely to have some of your live right here in my home. Just wonderful!
Marie
http://journals.aol.co.uk/mariealicejoan/MariesMuses/

Thanks for letting me know about the contest, Kim!
Of course I'm in...Fiona is one of my favorites!!!

xo
Di

LOVE THIS! Count me in!

Oh and now I'm singing that Lyle Lovett Fiona song...! What a great contest...can you make it any easier?! You're a doll!

I'm in:)

Wheeeee!
I really like Fiona as well. She's a great Ava for you too, because she's soooo cheerful!
You both make me smile!


-Gypsy

Did you know I'm a sucker for bulldogs, Bostons, frenchies and boxers? Is this meant for me or what? (Is it cheating on my boxer?) Good luck everyone....
Carol of CrowBiz

Kim,
Ya KNOW I love ya, and your art!

Your work is beautiful and very interesting.
Just reading about your contest. Hope not to late.

Oooh...comment comment COMMENT! Thanks for letting me know Kim...I love this one.

Give Junior a kissie on the ear for me...poor baby.

G'day Kim,

I am somewhat clueless about blogs ...and have been resisting doing one for that reason ...and where do you find the time ...LOL

That said ...it is a pleasure to read your blog ...and an even greater pleasure to view your artwork.

Regards,
Belinda :-)

PS. bellsakabin is my username on Etsy ...will just leave this as anonymous comment ...LOL or so the system will think!

Waiting to see the full curtsey or a twirl! This cute doggie in the pink dress is enjoying your garden it looks lovely. I've been reading the ACEO forum threads on etsy and waiting to sign up. I can't decide on a name. Good luck with your new name, whatever it may be. P.S. If you pick me, how will you know to contact me? I haven't a clue how these things work. Signed, Gloria B.

That piece cracks me up,too cute!

Your work is very unique! Good idea for a contest - hope I win. hehe..

Well of course I missed this but had to tell you I loooove it!

i love your art...every one of them...someday i will have a piece of yours...have fun in the studio...hugs, rebecca

I absolutely adore the rabbit Kim!!!! Is there any way you could hold it for me until the end of the month? Please pretty please??? I'll understand if you can't, but I so would love to have that in my home.
Marie
http://journals.aol.co.uk/mariealicejoan/MariesMuses/

I must say that I think I love Bertie nearly as much as Fiona!

xo
Di

I can't believe how you used the hand in your collage. Very cleaver. inabit.etsy

Karen Lange's fine book, however, begs the question of Jamestown’s lasting effects on our American nation and culture. Like most commentators, she failed to show its relevancy for subsequent generations of Americans and us today.

Of what long-term importance is Jamestown as a transformational event in our nation’s history? What legacies has it left us? Why is Jamestown relevant for us in 2007?

The proliferation of new books and articles on Jamestown’s 400th anniversary have been reacquainting us with the mid-May 1607 landing and tribulations of the first permanent and enduring English colony in America. They relate new evidence of the settlers’ lives, attitudes, habits and possessions from the treasure trove of 17th century artifacts that have been unearthed from the archeological digs of the first James Fort and nearby Algonquian settlements.

They have begun to dispel the myths of Jamestown’s lazy and self-indulgent “gentlemen” playing in the colony’s streets and far-fetched, romantic legends about Indian princesses. They also put a new light on the native Algonquians’ culture and mores and offer sound reasons for their unexpected hostility when the English landed.

We also must appreciate the desperate societal conditions in England that drove the colonists to risk affliction, famine and strife in the New World. Their ambition for relief from rigid class systems, economic deprivation and dislocation and tedious years of war was the engine that drove them to establish what were then new and alien concepts of opportunity and self-determination, and would become called the seedbed of the American nation and its first experiment in democracy.

It is true that the antecedents of some our nation’s most shameful chapters, such as institutionalized slavery and the devastation of Indian tribes, had their genesis at Jamestown. But, whatever other issues that some may want to put a glare on, the major fact remains that it is where the taproot was planted for several of our most cherished rights and privileges; the things for which we fought our Revolution and since have defended for 231 years.

By 1620, or within thirteen years of their landing, the Jamestowne’s early had cultivated some of our most important and enduring legacies that never seem to part of what we teach students of its history.

While they generally are taught that Jamestowne was the site of the first elected representative legislature and self-rule, the free enterprise system became the form of our American economy; and, English was to be the established common language of the new American nation, we usually fail to instruct that it is where the settlers also created the common citizen’s right to ownership of private property (and its importance to us since and today); the principle of common law as the foundation of our legal system; civilian control of the military; and new freedoms from European traditions that had bound many generations to their ancestors’ trades, classes and economic conditions.

Another legacy was that of the experiences, losses and mistakes learned in establishing Jamestown that then served to give all succeeding English and British colonization efforts, at Plymouth and then around the world, more realistic direction, instructions and expectations that had better results.

However, the most important of their legacies was their determination to succeed – or the American “can do” spirit. With that determination, the descendants of those Jamestown pioneers also forged the unique element of our American culture: a persistent striving for the freedom to better ourselves with property, innovation and enterprise.

This is the legacy that has become our American Dream. Its first seeds were planted at Jamestown 400 years ago and today all Americans enjoy its fruits.

This is why Jamestown is meaningful for each and every one of us and why we should forever remember it as the seminal incident that introduced the opportunities for the economic and political innovations and enterprise that have made our nation what it is.