Re: Kim -- Artist of the Month, The Art List

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CONGRATULATIONS KIM

I am absolutely thrilled for you hun, you deserve it, your art is amazing.

Nice one!

Love x

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>Subject: Kim -- Artist of the Month, The

>Art List

>Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 17:19:04 -0400

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>Dear List Members,

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> Our very own Kim has been named Artist of the Month by The

>Art

>List, America's leading newsletter of art competitions. This is quite an

>honor for Kim who has been a pastel artist for slightly less than a year

>(you'd never guess this from looking at her paintings)!

>

>

> Please go take a look at Kim's interview with The Art List and see her

>featured paintings.

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> http://www.theartlist.com/aom606.html

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> You can see more of Kim's work at her website www.kimdenise.com .

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> Most of Kim's paintings are available for purchase. If the budget

>doesn't allow for this right now, Kim also has other ways you can bring her

>art into your life. Prints, wall clocks, coffee mugs, tee shirts, tank

>tops, sweatshirts and jackets, note cards, tote bags, even mouse pads, and

>more are available at

>

>http://www.cafepress.com/kimdenise

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>

> These also make excellent gifts for the discerning gift giver who

>enjoys

>giving unique and attractive gifts that are affordable.

>

>

> Congratulations, Kim!

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> Regards,

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Congratulations Kim... Your work is amazing and absolutely delightful!!

Rose

Dear List Members, Our very own Kim has been named Artist of the Month by The Art List, America's leading newsletter of art competitions. This is quite an honor for Kim who has been a pastel artist for slightly less than a year (you'd never guess this from looking at her paintings)! Please go take a look at Kim's interview with The Art List and see her featured paintings.

http://www.theartlist.com/aom606.htmlYou can see more of Kim's work at her website www.kimdenise.com

. Most of Kim's paintings are available for purchase. If the budget doesn't allow for this right now, Kim also has other ways you can bring her art into your life. Prints, wall clocks, coffee mugs, tee shirts, tank tops, sweatshirts and jackets, note cards, tote bags, even mouse pads, and more are available at

http://www.cafepress.com/kimdenise These also make excellent gifts for the discerning gift giver who enjoys giving unique and attractive gifts that are affordable. Congratulations, Kim!

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Thanks, and Rose--your support means a lot!

Someone forgot to tell me she was posting that....

Congratulations Kim... Your work is amazing and absolutely delightful!!

Rose

On 6/2/06, C Creel <catherine.creel@...

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Dear List Members, Our very own Kim has been named Artist of the Month by The Art List, America's leading newsletter of art competitions. This is quite an honor for Kim who has been a pastel artist for slightly less than a year (you'd never guess this from looking at her paintings)! Please go take a look at Kim's interview with The Art List and see her featured paintings.

http://www.theartlist.com/aom606.htmlYou can see more of Kim's work at her website www.kimdenise.com . Most of Kim's paintings are available for purchase. If the budget doesn't allow for this right now, Kim also has other ways you can bring her art into your life. Prints, wall clocks, coffee mugs, tee shirts, tank tops, sweatshirts and jackets, note cards, tote bags, even mouse pads, and more are available at

http://www.cafepress.com/kimdenise These also make excellent gifts for the discerning gift giver who enjoys giving unique and attractive gifts that are affordable. Congratulations, Kim! Regards,

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Kim, I'm so happy for you! You rock! You know I absolutely love your work! Love, __________________________________________________

[Guest guest]

thanks, !-- KIM DENISE FINE ARTwww.Kim.comFine Art Giftswww.CafePress.com/Kim

[Guest guest]

I think you should have told us yourself It is a good job

is about to tell us all the mischeif you get up to!!!

Love ya

Shellx

> >

> > > Dear List Members,

> > >

> > >

> > > Our very own Kim has been named Artist of the

Month by The

> > > Art

> > > List, America's leading newsletter of art competitions. This

is quite

> > > an

> > > honor for Kim who has been a pastel artist for slightly less

than a year

> > >

> > > (you'd never guess this from looking at her paintings)!

> > >

> > >

> > > Please go take a look at Kim's interview with The Art List

and see

> > > her

> > > featured paintings.

> > >

> > >

> > > http://www.theartlist.com/aom606.html

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > You can see more of Kim's work at her website

www.kimdenise.com .

> > >

> > >

> > > Most of Kim's paintings are available for purchase. If the

budget

> > > doesn't allow for this right now, Kim also has other ways you

can bring

> > > her

> > > art into your life. Prints, wall clocks, coffee mugs, tee

shirts, tank

> > > tops, sweatshirts and jackets, note cards, tote bags, even

mouse pads,

> > > and

> > > more are available at

> > >

> > > http://www.cafepress.com/kimdenise

> > >

> > >

> > > These also make excellent gifts for the discerning gift

giver who

> > > enjoys

> > > giving unique and attractive gifts that are affordable.

> > >

> > >

> > > Congratulations, Kim!

> > >

> > >

> > > Regards,

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > To subscribe to our off-topic Social list go to:

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> > >

> > > To subscribe to our Truth-in-Health list go to:

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> > > http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/truth-in-health

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> > >

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> > >

> > >

[Guest guest]

Kim! Wow, congratulations. I just read the article. I love the

way you paint light and shadow.

Love,

>

> Dear List Members,

>

>

> Our very own Kim has been named Artist of the Month

by The Art

> List, America's leading newsletter of art competitions. This is

quite an

> honor for Kim who has been a pastel artist for slightly less than

a year

> (you'd never guess this from looking at her paintings)!

>

>

> Please go take a look at Kim's interview with The Art List and

see her

> featured paintings.

>

>

> http://www.theartlist.com/aom606.html

>

>

>

> You can see more of Kim's work at her website www.kimdenise.com .

>

>

> Most of Kim's paintings are available for purchase. If the

budget

> doesn't allow for this right now, Kim also has other ways you can

bring her

> art into your life. Prints, wall clocks, coffee mugs, tee shirts,

tank

> tops, sweatshirts and jackets, note cards, tote bags, even mouse

pads, and

> more are available at

>

> http://www.cafepress.com/kimdenise

>

>

> These also make excellent gifts for the discerning gift giver

who enjoys

> giving unique and attractive gifts that are affordable.

>

>

> Congratulations, Kim!

>

>

> Regards,

>

>

[Guest guest]

Kim, So cool! I couldn't be more happy for you. I'd really like to check the links listed below in order to purchase some of your work in some fashion. You're work is totally amazing and so beautiful. You are very talented. I love the richness of your use of colors, lights, and shadows. Your are an inspiration to me not to give up on my known and even the possibility of hidden talents inside me. It's encouraging to know that one can truely survive coming off psych drugs and still be able to function and do amazing things with their lives - like what you are experiencing. I started picking my flute back up 1 month ago and will starting playing on my church music team in July. The desire and motivation has finally returned after laying it down for approx. 8 months. One of the hardest things I've ever had to do, but the withdrawals were really

wiping me out at the time. I do realize now that this was because I was moving too quicky with my tapers with the Geodon. Now that I've slowed down a great deal, life is looking up again and I'm gradually becoming more involved with life around me again. Anyway, this post is really about you and I am truely amazed over the beautiful work that I see coming from your paintings and art work. Congratualtions, It couldn't have happened to a more special, compassionate, and giving person such as yourself. I believe your beauty is coming through and being expressed in your artwork. Hugs, V. emmaryllis wrote: Kim! Wow, congratulations. I just read the article. I love

the way you paint light and shadow.Love,>> Dear List Members,> > > Our very own Kim has been named Artist of the Month by The Art > List, America's leading newsletter of art competitions. This is quite an > honor for Kim who has been a pastel artist for slightly less than a year > (you'd never guess this from looking at her paintings)!> > > Please go take a look at Kim's interview with The Art List and see her > featured paintings.> > > http://www.theartlist.com/aom606.html> > > > You can see more of Kim's work at her website www.kimdenise.com .>

> > Most of Kim's paintings are available for purchase. If the budget > doesn't allow for this right now, Kim also has other ways you can bring her > art into your life. Prints, wall clocks, coffee mugs, tee shirts, tank > tops, sweatshirts and jackets, note cards, tote bags, even mouse pads, and > more are available at> > http://www.cafepress.com/kimdenise> > > These also make excellent gifts for the discerning gift giver who enjoys > giving unique and attractive gifts that are affordable.> > > Congratulations, Kim!> > > Regards,> >

[Guest guest]

, thanks so much. I'm so glad to hear you're playing the flute again!-- KIM DENISE FINE ARTwww.Kim.comFine Art Gifts

www.CafePress.com/Kim

[Guest guest]

" I started picking my flute back up 1 month ago and will starting

playing on my church music team in July. "

, this is wonderful, I am so pleased for you. Do put the Mozart

Flute concerto's on your list of things to play, especially the slow

movements, I find them so healing.

Love

[Guest guest]

, Thanks for the vote of encouragement. I love Mozart too! I'm touched that you picked up on what I said in one of my posts. You are so loving and kind, . Hugs back to you. I find that when I'm feeling any negative moods like fatigue, irritable, moody, restless, even brain fog and I make myself pick up the flute to play, that after I've played 2 or 3 songs that I feel better and my mood has picked up. It's almost like playing my flute medicates my emotions and moods. The trick is to motivate myself to play it even when I don't feel like it. However, when I do, I always find myself more at peace and calm in mind and body. I also feel more alert. I also feel better about myself that I am actually working on something I enjoy and reap the benefits of practice

that makes "not perfect", but better. I'm learning to take perfect out of my vocabulary, because I struggle with being obsessed with perfectionism. I love my flute. It's great, much better than drugs or caffiene. Hugs, V.

[Guest guest]

Kim, Thanks for the encouragement! Everyone in this group amazes me with all their sensitivity, love, and care for one another. It really is therapeutic for me when I practice and helps improve my mood. When I'm upset and get myself to pick up the flute and play it, I feel so much better mentally and emotionally. There must be some kind of positive/safe mind altering connection to music and our emotions. Much better than any psychiatric drug that's for sure! I did record a CD at a professional recording studio of my flute playing back a few years ago and sent them to friends and family in memory of the death of my mom. I got many responses back saying how much the music touched and soothed them. They told me that when they were feeling bad and would play my CD the music

would perk them up and they would start feeling better. You could almost say that at one time in my life my flute playing was my world. I "ate, drank, and breathed" to practice, teach, and play my flute. I was also very active in playing for a variety of occassions from weddings, receptions, afternoon teas, evening events, banquets, parties, once even for a ballroom dancing event, also once for an open ceremony to cut the ribbon, as well as being a part of flute choirs, orchestras and concerts. When I started my psych. drug journey eventually my flute playing got robbed from me and I couldn't play very well. As a side note, as all of us here know, just how damaging these psych. drugs can be, when I was placed on the Effexor I was unable to use the muscles of my mouth and face to form the necessary embouchure required to play the flute properly. I was

devastated when my music director pulled me aside and told me that my playing was now becoming more of a liability to the music team. That crushed me and I eventually gave up playing the flute for awhile until I came off the Effexor. Now, however, I am determined this will not be the case for me currently or in the future. I hope at some point in the future to be able to teach flute lessons again. I loved doing this so much. Kim, thanks for caring. However,I am so very excited for you! Hugs, V.www.CafePress.com/Kim

[Guest guest]

Music will always heal your soul, I am so glad you are playing again. xx

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