OWOH 2011 is HERE!!

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog. My name is Rosanna Pereyra and I am an artist and art doll maker. I live in sunny South Florida with my hubby and kids as well as two pugs and a nutty german shepherd. I am so happy that you decided to visit my blog for the final OWOH event!

The One World One Heart event is a great way to meet & greet bloggers from all over! There is a bonus for visiting each participant, a gift or door prize for one winner! All you have to do is have an active blogging account, leave a comment & you'll have the opportunity to win my one of a kind pixie fairy art doll.

The winner will be chosen through an online random number generator on February 17th.

My gift to you is a 5.5 inch one of a kind art doll. I only create these dolls for very special occasions such as this. The head is hand sculpted from a blend of polymer clays then baked over an armature. It is then painted with oil paints and acrylic washes to give it a natural muddied baby skin tone. Hand dyed tibetan lambs wool is then applied lock by lock for the hair. The body is soft cotton that has been weighted and swathed in different layers of cotton and gauze that I have dyed. The doll is not removable from the blanket. It can be displayed as is or hung from its blue cord from a hook or a little branch.

It will arrive with its certificate.

*The winner can request that little flowers be added onto the side of the head to make it look like a little girl.

Have a look around, stay a while and thank you again for visiting me.

I hope you come back often.

Good Luck and God Bless,

Rosanna Pereyra

MY FIRST TINY COTTAGE (1/4 scale)

Heres a picture of the miniature cottage I built this past weekend at a Miniatures event.

I have some experience in 1/12th scale but this 1/4 scale is the smallest I have ever worked in.

Because of the size, I really thought it was going to be 10 times more difficult but as it turns out its almost the same and its FASTER!!

I also wanted to see if it was possible for me to get some good detail in and I am happy to

say that it is. I am in love with this new diminutive size and I will be working in it alot more now! The whole piece is around 5.5 inches tall, including the base. I still have some details to add (leaves, plants, nest and swag) but I couldn't wait to share

ALSO::I will be announcing my giveaway for the final OWOH event on

January 30th so come back soon!

I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST FOR 2011!

Thankful this Thanksgiving!

I hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving this year.

I know how difficult this year has been for so many. I am grateful for things like being able to have my family over my house to share in this holiday and Thankful for those of you that read and follow my blog. Thank you for the constant encouragement, I truly feel blessed!

My sincerest THANKS to all of you!

Blessings,

Rosanna

SMALL STUFF 4 coming soon!!

Heres a first look at what I made for the upcoming

Small Stuff 4 show and some of the process pics.

Its a mixed media illustration of my girls in a Nouveau inspired style. I made the circular background in photoshop and then colored it in ink and prismacolor pencils. The girls are made of cardstock as well as the hair that has been cut out, colored and shaded with prismacolor pencils. The whole piece was sprayed to seal the colored pencil. Then it is all glued onto an ivory mat on an 8x8 frame with a glass front.

All work comes with certificate of authenticity.

I was really getting into the holiday spirit as I made these and to my delight they ended up looking like angels.

I hope everyone is getting in the mood for Thanksgiving, I know I am!!

I love this time of year. I hope you all have a great week!

Best wishes,

Rosanna

New Show info! SMALL STUFF 4!!

Oh, the weather outside is....still hot.

I hope the weather is starting to get nicer for all of you. Its finally down to the high 80's here in South Fla. Halloween is this weekend and the Farmers Market begins next week!! Love it!!

I wanted to share with you the next show I am participating in.

It's called Small Stuff 4 and it will have a lot of wonderful artists selling small works of art at very reasonable prices to give art admirers the opportunity to begin collecting or to purchase unique gifts for the Holidays!

I have made 2 mixed media illustrations that I will be happy to show you next week.

The show will run from November 21-January 8th 2011, so there is plenty of time to buy someone you love, including yourself, a great gift!!

I will post more details next week

Have a Safe and Happy Halloween!!!!-Rosanna

a Heartfelt THANK YOU!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!

As some of you probably know already, I love making pixie/fairy babies as

special gifts because to me they represent so many of the good things in the world.

This past Thursday I had the pleasure of donating 3 of them to a great cause,

Breathe and Believe, the Christopher Ricardo Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

You can visit the site and learn more about little Christopher and what his

non profit organization is doing to help find a cure

for Cystic Fibrosis or what some kids call "sixty-five roses".

www.breatheandbelieve.org/

So again I say, Thank You so much, to the person or people that purchased all of my little ones at the silent auction. Many blessings to you and yours!!

Here are some really bad Iphone pics but I just had to share

Have a great weekend!!

Rosanna