The Damaged Artwork Shipped for Repair Today

April 4, 2025 After carefully packing the entire four panels of the damaged artwork, we packed it into the large art moving box from U-Haul. We used bubble wrap and U-Haul styrofoam corner proctors, along with bubble wrap corner protectors. We used a lot of tape to keep everything in place. The styrofoam corner proctors […]

Update on Repairing Our DeRubeis Artwork

March 25, 2025 I received another email from DeRubeis’s office. “I spoke with the artist and he does believe that scratch is repairable. The cost for repair is $200, plus shipping. He does want to note that if you send back just the panel that needs to be repaired, it will be shinier than the […]

Return Contact from DeRubeis’s Office on Scratch

March 20, 2025 I received an email from DeRubeis’s office manager about the scratch on one of the artwork’s panels. she wrote back: “Hello Julia Thank you for reaching out. It is usually possible for a panel to be repaired but to look into it further, would it be possible to have you take a […]

A Gift from Jeanne

March 1, 2025 While in Colorado, my lovely friend Jeanne from ajeanneinthekitchen.com, presented me with a beautiful vase that she made. I was thrilled and look forward to having a place to display it with some silk flowers. (Water will cause the buttons to come off.) The vase was the first item I unpacked from […]

Hanging Up the Sailing Ship Mobile

November 25, 2024 I decided to use a hanging Command Strip to hang up the Danish Flensted Dinghy Regatta 5 mobile in my office/studio. The sunlight was streaming in from my window. I was very pleased with the effect. The effect didn’t last for long. Here is the mobile from the door. We’ve had the […]

Picture for Jeanne

October 4, 2024 My friend Jeanne from ajeanneinthekitchen.com said she would love a piece of art from me. I decided to make it a collaboration and used a picture Jeanne took as my starting point. Jeanne’s picture was of white Irises edged with a beautiful dark purple. I worked on her picture for several days. […]

River North (RiNo) Art District in Denver, CO

June 18, 2023 On June 15 (Thursday), we met Larry and Jeanne (ajeanneinthekitchen.com) at the Barcelona Wine Bar in the River North Art District in Denver, CO. We had a marvelous meal of tapas and then we walked around RiNo to see the art murals. After enjoying the art for a while, we walked backed […]

Decorations in My RV

July 16, 2022 While I was back in Colorado being a party animal (https://retirementrvdream.com/2022/06/05/party-animal/), one of my friends wanted to know what I had done with all of my art. Most of our art is in storage, but I brought some of it with us. There was a piece of art I did for Bruce […]