Michelle Legler

Piece of Peace

So I've been busy for the past week working on the mosaic below. It is for an art auction in Tucson that is taking place today...right now....while I'm writing this blog post. I wish I could be there, but I have family coming in from out of town today so I'm unable to make it. The art auction which is called Piece of Peace is sponsored by Bohemia and Borealis Arts and this is what they posted:

Tucson is an art-creating and art-loving community. There are many individuals at the epicenter of the tragedy that occurred on 1.8. We wish to show love and support to those whom have suffered most, while providing a venue for Tucson's art community to express their grief, love, and desire for peace. Proceeds from this art auction will benefit the Tucson Tragedy Victim's Fund (through Homicide Survivors), the Gabe Zimmerman ...Memorial Fund (through Child and Family Resources), and the Christina-Taylor Green Memorial Fund (through the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona).

I hope my donated piece brings much piece, joy and funds to help those in need. It's called IMAGINE

 

 
 
 
 

I also dropped these off at Bohemia. Get them while you can

 

 

I had daughter #2 and my granddaughter with me when I traveled to Tucson to deliver my art. Me and my granddaughter LOVE this chair and we wish we could afford the $1000 price tag. LOVE IT!! (and the munchkin!) :-)

 

This is all I have time to post today. In the next  couple of days I will post about GLITTERFEST!!! So Excited!!! Can you tell??? I am making some freakin' AWESOME goodies for Glitterfest, so I hope you have the date on your calendar (3/19/2011) as it's gonna ROCK!! I also owe you some pics of the garden district in New Orleans, so I'll try to combine. Sometimes I wish I could clone myself to keep with my to~do lists. Sheesh.

Peace!!

Michelle

A Beautiful DREAM

I have a dream that one day, all people, will live in a nation, where they will  not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. When all of God's children, Black men and White men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro Spiritual, "Free at last! Thank God Almightly, we are Free at last!"

A Beautiful Dream indeed! Thank you Martin Luther King Jr.!

This pic is of me and my younger siblings in around 1972-1973 (youngest to oldest)

 
 
I wish you a day of Peace!

xoxo!!

Michelle 

Xico Show "Eye Candy" Tonight

Please come out and support the Xico "Eye Candy" show tonight in downtown Chandler. I'll be there and I'd Love to see you!! 5:30-8:00 p.m. tonight 1/14/2011

 

xoxo!!!

Michelle

p.s. Please join me in keeping the Tucson families who have suffered an unspeakable tragedy in your prayers and thoughts. What the World needs now is LOVE

Catchin' Up!

I've been busy with the holidays and ORGANIZING my studio! I know, don't faint, it's a miracle :-) I can actually find stuff in there! I still need to build a few different shelf pieces in order to organize my broken china better, but I'm getting there. So now to catch up a little bit on what's been happening here at the Mosaic Cottage...

First, I've got to give a big shout out and Thank You to Romantic Country Homes for surprising me with a pic of my cupcakes and a nice little write-up. So AWESOME!!

 

 

Next, I promised that I would share some mosaic art from my New Orleans trip last month.

This is a bar on Bourbon street. We only walked down this street once and that was enough. Kinda felt like we needed a shower afterwards....if you know what I mean, but the mosaic is AWESOME!

 
 

Check out this babe in a gallery in the Quarter! I need one just like her for my garden!! Yes??!!!

 
 

This next mosaic sculpture is Fabulous!! It is called Still Standing and the artist is Shannon Landis Hansen. I had specifically gone looking for this piece after seeing it on Facebook. It said it was located in City Park, but after an hour and a half search of not finding it, we asked someone and they said it had been moved 2 days before. What are the odds of that when it had been in City Park for over 2 years? Well, I got on Facebook and contacted the artist and she directed me to it's new location. I LOVE Facebook!! Another cool story about Facebook is that my friend Chris from Chicago saw that I was in New Orleans at the same time he was visiting, so we were able to get together for a bit and catch up!:-)

 
 
 
 
 

Here's a floor in a shop

 

Like I said before, I'm still working on The Wall. I've been cutting a gazillion...yes a gazillion small purple and lavendar circles. I still have SEVERAL more to cut. This is what I'm doing with them..

 

I also just finished up this piece and it will be at Xico Gallery on 1/14/11 for the show called Eye Candy. Come out and visit me at the opening :-)

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Christmas was GREAT! Here is a pic of our annual seafood fest on Christmas Eve. Missed not having daughter #1 and her family here

 
 

Watching my granddaughter on Christmas morning was all I needed for Christmas :-)

 
 
 
 

Sorry such a lengthy post, but I have been slackin' lately.

Here's wishing you the BEST NEW YEAR EVER!!! (until next year that is ;-)

See ya soon!

xoxo!

Michelle

p.s. Some of the above I had already shared on Facebook. I seem to be a little better at checking in there. I'm working on trying to figure out how to put my Facebook Link in the sidebar :-)