Artist Against ALS

The Arts community here in Peoria Illinois
have really come together to show their love and
support for our family since we have been diagnosed.
Artists Against ALS
is a group of wonderfully generous creative souls
who have donated their time,
talents and art work to help Tracy and I out.
To learn more than you might want to
know about Tracy's journey through ALS
go to this site
http://als-whaticantellyou.blogspot.com/
if you dare!

Clubs at River City • Peoria IL

Here are just a few of the beautiful artworks
that are available for purchase through
The Clubs at River City.

You can make a bid and hope that you win
or
you can pay full price and take it home now!
Below see Mike Shular's Maple Leaf Gourd.
Hand cut and painted this work of art is truly unique!

Okay- the eyes have it!
Woman in the Water
painted by David Webster
is absolutely incredible!

I might have to buy this for myself
for my hypnosis office!
Wouldn't it LOOK great there?
oh...wait...it's a fund raiser for us....
huh....
Well, please give this painting a good home.
I love it soooooo much.
Here is another powerful work of Art
Gold in Light
This canvas is about 30" x 40"
painted with acrylic and has metallic paint
swept through, giving it
this glow about it.
Suzette Boulais
head of Arts Partners
http://www.artspartners.net/
Contact Suzette
for her graphic designs, note cards
and custom paintings Here
http://www.suzetteboulais.com/Contact%20Suzette.htm


What a great friend and artist!
The folk art paintings here
are by
Pam Miller.
http://www.thumbtack.com/il/peoria/jewelry-making-classes/painting-jewelry-polymer-clay-lessons
I am lucky enough to have
friends who teach art classes
as well as painting charming still life!
Pam works at our local
Michael's
and teaches jewelry making,
painting and polymer clay sculpting
to name just a few.
Eric and Nicole Cooney
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1529327565
Donated all sorts of beautiful paintings and photographs
at a great price so they would sell right away!


This is just a small sample of the fantastic art
that will be available at the
Clubs at River City.
Doug Leunig, Tom Gross, Leslie Schenkel and
many more artists will have art
for you to enjoy!
A special thank you to
Julie Vonachen at Moon Dancer
and her crew
for their love and support.

So- we've had Kick ALS at Luthy Botanical Garden,
Artists Against ALS at The River Front Art Market
and
Rock ALS at the Silver Dollar in Peoria Heights so far.
Look forward to other fun creative events for
you to enjoy!

Artist Against ALS

So- by now you have noticed that I have been away from my blog site a while.
March 15th, 2011,
my husband Tracy Boettcher,
was diagnosed with ALS- Lou Gehrigs Disease.

This has turned our world upside down:(
It's taken months for us to try to wash all the negativity from the doctor's death sentence
out of our heads and get back to living life and looking for new ways to heal this
terrible situation.

One of those ways is to engage the community to try to help us come up with creative healing ideas and help do research for us,
so if any of you out there have
knowledge on holistic healing we are open and waiting
to hear from you.

Since my husband is a builder
of beautiful homes
ALS has put a real crimp in our style to say the least.
I will be changing from a full time artist
who does hypnosis on the side
- to a full time hypnotist who does art on the side.
I will be putting together a website
for Hypnosis for Health
soon and maybe throw a blog in there too.

As a hypnotist for almost 20 years I have seen miracles created through the power of the mind.

I will be actively working on "changing my husband's mind" back to before it chose ALS as a path for his future. Those with knowledge or interest in Mind/Body work can contact me to discuss ideas any time.

I am lucky enough to have made many friends in the art world who want to help us, so look forward to opportunities to participate in Artists Against ALS as a way to help financially support our family during this rough time as well as learn some fun new art skills to share with the public.

Thank you all for your love and support.
Those who would like to make donations can do so through PayPal at susbyme@gmail.com.

Educational End Table

Educational, Useful and Beautiful
This is the first of in a series
of educational art that
could be a wonderful addition
to a classroom, game room or
bedroom
for adults or children.


End Table or Checkerboard?
With important messages.
Words of Wisdom
Patterns, shapes and colors
to encourage creative design skills.
Improve Math and Dexterity skills.

Encourages curiosity.
Blank sides on the blocks
give your eye a rest
or
room to decorate them yourself
and
decorate your room.

Surprises inside and out and upside down.
Notice the hand painted ceramic knob.
Oh! The Rainbow Game!
with special dice.
Colors AND numbers on the dice to make the game
easy enough for the very young
or harder for older children
and even harder for adults.


Do you go farther using the number first or color first?
Two colors could come up.
Which color you choose first changes the outcome.

And just when you think you've seen it all.


Here is another game on the bottom.
The Go For It Game.
Playful painting for a relaxed playful attitude.

~Hearts~
Don't ya just LOVE a FREE turn!?
~Stars~
STARt you over.
Play with one or two dice.
Extend the game by having to reach
your pretty petal potential
by having to get the exact number.
No matter which way you look at this
It's all good.

I hope you take the time to
enjoy.

I'd love to hear what new games or
uses you come up with for this
Educational Art.
Contact me to have me design your
custom art furniture.
momboe630@aol.com

My Husband's New Love

Meet my husband's NEW love.
The custom made by
Cyber Power
Super Duper Deluxe
Computer.
There are all sorts of numbers
and letters that go along with this
lightning fast
gaming computer
that you can find out all about
on my husband's new website
he is having designed
to brag about her.

I hope Boettcher Design Services
and
Chief Architect Drawing System
will be very happy together.

This gamer computer is so fast
he has time to Play-
Oh...I mean work
on 2 screens at the same time!

Now it might sound like I'm a little jealous
of this new techno babe but the truth is...

I am actually the one that encouraged this
cyber relationship.
My husband Tracy Boettcher
has been an amazing builder and draftsman
for over 30 years and is a very hands on guy.

But I thought it was time for old dogs to learn new tricks.
By now you are probably aware of my efforts
to become friendly with the Social Media World
and misery really does love company.
Being the exceptionally quick learner he is
it took him no time to learn this system.
He can create the most amazing
house plans and room additions within
days!
Even better he can build them too!
I can't tell you how many house plans he's
gotten from some big firms that look pretty but
can't be built!
With 30 years of experience in building and drawing
he knows what will actually work.

So, I will happily support this polygamist relationship
because Tracy is so so happy
creating new beautiful homes
just like I am creating my art.
I'll be posting examples of his beauties soon!
Contact Tracy at boettcherdesignservices@gmail.com
to let him know what you think of his
new love!

Magnetic Personality

These could be words to live by.
What are yours?

In my endeavor for
world domination through art
I've now moved in to the
cyber world
by starting an
ETSY shop.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/susbyme
This is a way to run a hand made
arts and or crafts store
without having to get dressed or do your hair.

Now working on these new fangeled machines
has been a bit of a challange for me (surprise, gasp!),
so I haven't figured out how to put
my {SIC} Greeting Cards
in downloadable, self printable form just yet
on my SUSBYME,
sooooo,

I decided to help you all express yourselves freely
through my magnet line!


Rarely at a loss for words,
this series of magnets
allows you and me BOTH
to express ourselves freely.
Magnets can be customized to say just want you want
to express without having to say it a million times.
Great for office desks, fridges or kids magnetic boards,
these can say it all.
These make great hostess gifts
and fit in greeting cards
easily.

Now, if a picture is worth a thousand words
but the pictures have words on them
how many is that worth?
Is that like...words2 squared?



I'll be making wedding reminders and birthday party favors
in magnetic form soon,
so you have that to look forward to.
If you have ideas or suggestions for magnets sayings or designs
just let me know.
momboe630@aol.com
I give discounts for quantity orders so give me a jingle
to find out how much you can save.
I would love for you to heart or favorite me ETSY site!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/susbyme

Let's get personal

Being new to the whole social media world
I have been repeatedly cautioned to
not mix my personal world with my professional world
if I want to be taken seriously.
Well, I want to be taken
joyously, enthusiastically, playfully.

I am hoping people come to my site
to get inspired!!!
This should do it.

My family really does inspire me on so many levels
that there is no way I can't share this!!

I've always taught my children to
follow their dreams.

My daughter Rachel is a professional photographer

who has spent the last 3 years in Colorado Springs, Co.
working for the photo company DenMar Services that has
a contract with the
U. S. Air Force Academy.
I KNOW!!!

She has been living the photographers dream.
She spent her days running from shoots of the
President and Vice President of the USA
to a General's retirements, to a swim meet
to a basketball game, gymnastics, volleyball, football,
forensics (yuck), parties at officials homes....
I am so proud of her:)

She moved her way up from managing the
studio for sit down/stand up formal pictures
to photog III to photog II.

But...huh...that wasn't enough for my
overachiever.
You may ask, "what did Rachel do BEFORE
coming to the U.S. Air Force Academy?"

My gypsy daughter sailed the high seas and rivers on
more than one cruise ship nationally and internationally
and river paddle boats
taking pictures and managing to make
friends all along the way.

Well, the seas have called her back and her
heart really wants to experience Europe.
Now, most people would take a vacation.
Rachel isn't most people as you are beginning to see.

She has chosen to leave the land to
take on a new adventure with
the
Norwegian Cruise Line!!

The U. S. Air Force Academy
was sad that she was leaving
but happy that she was going on
a great new adventure.

In the military the highest honor an officer can
give is their personal coin.
It is a rare and impressive feat to
"get coined"
if you are IN the military.
To have that honor bestowed upon you
when you are not and never have been
part of the US armed services
is an outstanding achievement.
Each coin is an amazingly beautiful personal
work of art
designed by each ranking official.
(You knew I would get the art connection in there of course:)
They are two sided and each is unique.
This one below even spins in the center
to show the other side!!

See this giant pile of compliments pictured below?
These coins stand for excellence in service.
Going above and beyond the call of duty.
Being inspirational personally and professionally.
These coins represent that these officials
would instantly enthusiastically endorse
someone with confidence.

Yes. Those are ALL Rachel's!
She had the honor of being
personally presented
by each and every one
of these officials
with their coin.
Many of them did so publicly,
proudly announcing
what an amazing person Rachel is.

I want to thank the entire staff at the
US Air Force Academy
for appreciating
Rachel Boettcher
for the wonderful person
she is.
You can keep up with
the
Adventures of Rachel
through her blog at
Life Sketch Photography.
Or
You know I'll be bragging
about her again soon!

Personlize it

Spring is in the air...okay not really.
But it's in my art studio.

I've been painting all sorts of
bright colored personalized art
to cheer up those winter blues.

Easter will be right around the corner
before you know it.
That means new life!
These canvases make wonderful
baby gifts.
You can include that date of birth or even
have me write the "Monday's Child" verse.
Use your imagination to create
the perfect timeless gift.
These can be painted in custom
colors to coordinate with your decor.
These charming little children's stools
are just the right height to help
little ones step up to wash their
hands or help you in the kitchen.

Contact me to order yours now!
Enjoy!