go visit FUN TOWN soon!

...here it is...the moment you've all been waiting for...
FUNTOWN has been moved AND reconstructed ...

Here's the link to Jody's NEW (and imporved!!!) BLOG....She's called it "Postcards from Funtown" and it is too cute to miss.

Now don't say I didn't encourage you to make the trip, click the link and pay her a visit...it's pure happiness with a side order of childlike charm and wonder. We can all use a dose of that!

Thanks Jody for being you - and for the umpteenth time - to all who are listening, if it wasn't for Jody...Earth Angels would not exist, and I would not be doing what I am doing today...

xxoo Jen
Earth Angels

take note...it's next week!

Yes, it's next week...amazing to think this is the 10th time we have done this and yet, I get more and more thrilled as we approach the newest iteration of the event. (Hey, if you come to Saratoga next week, be sure to ask Ro to tell you about the first event in 2002 when we had tables under the apple trees on my front lawn and just a handful of artful spirits...)

Hope you can make it...we are putting the final touches on the layout, event plans and the art is arriving from the artists on an almost hourly basis!

Full details are on the site...
Click this link and refer to the postcard we have plastered everywhere!!!




You can see the Schuyler Pond site for directions...

It's gonna be great and I want you to be a part of it...
xxoo Jen
Earth Angels

...painting food

Who knew she could cook too?
Talented painter Jennifer Lanne is also a great cook...I never knew she attended cooking school before she took up her brushes...

What a treat it was to visit the talented Ms. Lanne and photograph her at work...in her kitchen for the December 2011 issue of "Where Women Cook". She takes the same artful approach to cooking as she does painting, decorating and dressing...layering color and style with pure abandon and exquisite results.

Look at these cookies...almost too pretty to eat except that that taste so good.



Can you tell it was a great photo shoot?


Here's a few great shots of the artist at work:



As ever, Kathy came along to help...she really is the best assistant with a keen eye and a great sense of detail and mood.



Here are some image of her farmhouse kitchen...



Stay tuned...her obsession with Spencerian calligraphy extends to recent painting projects...she is cooking up a new batch of work for the May event that tops the charts and tips the scales on style...more on these new pieces soon...stay tuned to the BLOG!

xxoo Jen
www.EarthAngelsToys.com

...a shout out and a last call...

Hey there...

This is a last call on some in-house copies of our fave magazines…just a few of each are still here and some of you have emailed that your "Borders" and "Barnes & Noble" etc are sold out SOOO..

ISSUE #2 - Where Women Cook...shown above...featuring Molly of "Orangette" and my pal Sarabeth Levine...

ISSUE #3 of PRIMS...featuring Earth Angels' artists "Cart Before the Horse" and Stacey Bear...the creator of "Momentoes"...


ISSUE #10 – Where Women Create

…love this issue…it features Earth Angels’ special friend, artist Magda Trzaski…

AND
ISSUE #1 - Where Women Cook

…oh la la, what a great inaugural issue! Featuring Earth Angels’ pals Serena Thompson, Mama Agata (hi Chiara!!!), Elizabeth Maxson and so many more talented gals…

Give a jingle 8-8 NY time (845) 986-8720 or send an email to me at Jen@EarthAngelsToys.com if you need either one…

YES THEY ARE $15 A PIECE + SHIPPING...

Happy Reading
Xxoo Jen
Earth Angels

Why can't I be in two places at once...aka 2011's "The Creative Connection"

There's a "Good News Bad News" kinda thing going on here..

The Creative Connection is set for September 15-17, 2011!!! This amazing event will be held in St. Paul, MN and will be sponsored by Sterling Publishing and Blog Her. (can you say WOO HOO!) Word is, it is going to be the networking event of the season with four attendee tracks being offered in: Food, Handmade, Social Media and Business.

This utterly amazing event was founded by two of my friends, Jo Packham and Nancy Soriano...(I will never forget the day the two of them got together here in Warwick on the porch of Charlotte's Tea Room and the plan for the event was hatched...but I digress) I love both of these women, and I am so very proud that they have created this wondrous convention-style event for artful women who are passionate about their businesses, their lives, learning and so much more.

So what's the bad news you ask? Well, I cannot be there this year.

By the time the dates were announced for TCC I had already made a commitment to once again be among the featured vendors at The Country Living Fair in Columbus where Earth Angels is a big part of the event and as such, I had made commitments to artists for their work that I will of course keep -- it's always my honor to show the work of the Earth Angels' artists.

Big sigh...

So, next time you hear they are handing out super-powers, please get me an order of "able to be in 2 places at once", OK?

It is with true regret, Nancy and Jo that I will miss being there, I know I will miss out on so much...but I sure do hope some of you out there will go and tell me all about it...AND I will do my best to be there in 2012!

xxoo Jen
Earth Angels

...so, are you a "Rebel" girl?

...with a rebel yell, more more more...

Actually for talented Gina Riley of "Rebel Designs" it's about style, texture and everyday fabulousness...


Her bracelets and cuffs are a study in scale and sparkle. Each wonderful piece is made in NY with fine materials including harness leather, cast metal and the renown Swarovski brand crystals. I hope you love their elegant forms and playful proportions as much as I do.

And, a big thanks to our friend and style maven, Phyllis of "The Paula Shop" in Tustin, CA and artist Jennifer Lanne for turning us on to "Rebel Designs".

Look at Jennifer Lanne modeling her fave on a "Where Women Cook" photo shoot...

xxoo

And, take a peek at some of my favorites from the first order we received from her Manhattan studio...it's tough to choose a favorite but I am completely smitten with the "chunky squares" and of course, how can I resist the "magic donuts"?!









These and more are now posted to the site...thanks to our amazing webmaster PAUL!!! for setting up her page...I keep looking at it and drooling...which one do I "need"..

xxoo Jen O'Connor
Earth Angels

...chocolate obsession continued..

This is Part #38 in the confessions of various obsessions, alas they are too numerous to confess at one sitting and sadly, or goodly, more are added on regular basis due to a natural enthusiasm for trying new things and a willingness to surrender my palate, my cash stash, and more, as I absorb another passion.

Chocolate (...umm sorry only Dark Chocolate) served straight up and unimpaired with candy-like accouterments has long been a love...so dare I say it may be dethroned by the the drinkable "Bru"???

My gal pal Kathy -- of prior BLOG fame -- showed up with this new product one day as a gift and apologized as she gave it to me. I thought it odd until she warned me about what was inside...



"Bru"...that's 100% brewable cacao...


Yes, straight up in the French Press or even better, adorned with sugar and half and half it makes the meanest, big-girl hot chocolate drink you might find out there. I was no less captivated than then King of France when the Spanish monks presented him with bricks of chocolate several centuries back.

But cacao and its benefits are ancient (note to self to research Aztecs and chocolate), and I so do love old things...

This is being marketed as the new thing coming for true antioxidant fans...it’s like almost calorie and carb free pure chocolate and ironically, as if just for me, it’s being distributed from my town of Warwick, NY!!!

It's nice that it has those fringe benefits, but I am in it for the taste...like thin hot cocoa or a really strong chocolate tea (if you know Harney & Sons Chocolate Teas, that's good too but I digress...)

SO WATCH FOR THIS, hunt it down, you just gottta try it...
but be warned, it's addicting. "Thanks" Kath!

xxoo Jen
Earth Angels