Janet's Beautiful Gourd Art

Janet's Beautiful Gourd Art Unique, hand-painted, carved and wood-burned gourds to bring beauty into your life. Buy most of my items at
www.etsy.com/shop/BeautifulGourdArt

Lately 've been experimenting with using unnatural colors for flowers and adding ball chain also in unexpected colors. S...
03/08/2026

Lately 've been experimenting with using unnatural colors for flowers and adding ball chain also in unexpected colors. Still working on them. I have mixed feelings about the results. What do you all think?

This cute little gourd snowman has been adopted into a home in Kentucky. He will get a hook attached to his hat and will...
11/26/2025

This cute little gourd snowman has been adopted into a home in Kentucky. He will get a hook attached to his hat and will soon become an ornament on his new mom's Christmas tree. Lucky little guy.
He is the sixth snowman adopted this month. If you would like to adopt a snowman into your life, go to my Etsy shop at etsy.com/shop/BeautifulGourdArt

I began playing with polymer clay earlier this year. I'm starting to get the hang of it. Here are some of the earrings I...
10/30/2025

I began playing with polymer clay earlier this year. I'm starting to get the hang of it. Here are some of the earrings I have made.

One month ago today, I had a mastectomy for bilateral breast cancer. Because of family history, I knew it would happen, ...
10/29/2025

One month ago today, I had a mastectomy for bilateral breast cancer. Because of family history, I knew it would happen, I just wasn’t ready for it to be now.
It started with one palpable lump. Mammography found a second lump. MRI found a third lump. Why have just one lump when you can have three! Only 1-3% of women get cancer in both breasts at the same time. Yay! I’m at the top of my class.
After seeing six different specialists, and having more tests than you can imagine, surgery day came and involved two separate surgeons. The first surgeon chopped off my b***s and took out two lymph nodes under each arm and sent them to pathology. The second surgeon inserted two tissue expanders to stretch my pec muscles and remaining skin so I can get some brand new b***s down the road. These expanders are the most annoying things ever. They feel like heavy, hard plastic rectangles in my chest that just won’t go away.
After the pathologist wrote an eight-page report detailing every aspect of my b***s, I hope he threw them into the nearest dumpster. Not only did I have three established lumps, the rest of my b***s were filled with early cancer cells just waiting to multiply and flourish.
Here we are one month into recovery and this is what I know: cancer really is silent, it is expensive to test for and treat, it is painful to recover from, it is frustrating, it is humbling, and it is life-changing.
Because I had cancer cells in two of my lymph nodes, I had more tests today to determine if the cancer has spread to anywhere else in my body. Radiation therapy is scheduled to start in December.
I have learned more about breasts, cancer, genetics, genomes, DNA, and diagnostic tests than I ever thought I would. I hope you never have to go through this but just to be on the safe side, ya’ll go check your b***s right now.

Gourd Snowmen Creations - completed!
10/23/2025

Gourd Snowmen Creations - completed!

Gourd Snowman Creation, part 2 - faces to bells and bling
10/21/2025

Gourd Snowman Creation, part 2 - faces to bells and bling

Gourd Snowman Creation, part 1 - from selection to scarf and hat fitting.
10/19/2025

Gourd Snowman Creation, part 1 - from selection to scarf and hat fitting.

At the North Texas Gourd Festival this afternoon I learned how to use Kwikwood sculpting clay on a gourd to turn it from...
04/05/2025

At the North Texas Gourd Festival this afternoon I learned how to use Kwikwood sculpting clay on a gourd to turn it from plain into a fun owl. My instructor Barb Stewart did a fantastic job.

This morning at the North Texas Gourd Festival, I learned how to use resin, bubbles and mica powders to make a really co...
04/05/2025

This morning at the North Texas Gourd Festival, I learned how to use resin, bubbles and mica powders to make a really cool Gourd. Thanks Marla Garber for teaching me!

Yesterday I headed to Granbury, Texas to the North Texas Gourd Festival for three days of classes and inspiration. First...
04/04/2025

Yesterday I headed to Granbury, Texas to the North Texas Gourd Festival for three days of classes and inspiration. First up was weaving and adding beads to make a turtle. I Iearned a lot and weaving became just a bit less stressful.

While attending the Lone Star Gourd Texas Gourd Festival in Dripping Springs this weekend, I had the opportunity to take...
10/06/2024

While attending the Lone Star Gourd Texas Gourd Festival in Dripping Springs this weekend, I had the opportunity to take three classes with great instructors. Thursday was a leather-tooled wood burning class. Even though I've wood burned for 10+ years, I've never done shading so this was fun to learn. Friday and Saturday were classes on using ball-chain on gourds. That was super fun and I can't wait to create my own designs. Here are pictures even though none of them are completely finished yet.

Sometimes you just have to brag. So here I go.... I just attended the Lone Star Gourd Festival in Dripping Springs this ...
10/06/2024

Sometimes you just have to brag. So here I go.... I just attended the Lone Star Gourd Festival in Dripping Springs this weekend. This is the first time I have entered gourds into competition since moving to Texas, so I was definitely apprehensive. I shouldn't have worried. I've still got it. Five gourds entered; six ribbons awarded, including Best of Division. They have informed me that next time I enter the competition, I will have to compete at the Masters Level. Now that scares me.

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