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The Title Journey 1. Contract Receipted

2. Escrow Team Opens Order

Once the escrow team receives the contract the escrow team will receipt for the earnest money and send the receipted contract out to all parties in the contract.

The escrow team opens the new order and requests the tax certificate in their system and the examination process begins. The earnest money is also deposited into a new escrow account for the transaction.

5. Commitment for Title Insurance Issued Once the initial title commitment is issued, the curative work begins. Curative work is the process to “cure” defects in chains of title, such as correcting instruments that are inaccurate or unclear. If these items are not removed or released before closing, the title examiner will list as exceptions on the final title policy and will not be covered. Our intent is to clear any title issues as soon as possible in order to transfer the property title to the new owner.

6. All Agree To Close Once title is clear and all agree to close, the mortgage company sends the escrow team their closing instructions and closing documents needed for closing.

3. Escrow Team Requests Documents Needed

4. Title Examiner Researches Property

The escrow team reaches out to all parties in the contract to request information needed for closing. This can include payoff information, ss#, DOB, marital status, forwarding address, and citizenship status.

The title examiner reviews recorded documents relating to the property’s past ownership and location. This can include deeds, judgments, liens, HOA documents, and restrictions. If any issues appear from the searches that need to be addressed before closing the transaction they will be included in the initial title commitment.

7. Preparation of Documents During document-preparation, the appropriate forms are prepared by the escrow team. If applicable, the buyer’s lender sends the escrow team their closing documents to have executed at closing. The escrow team prepares a final settlement statement for the buyer and seller that discloses all funds being disbursed and to whom.

8. Closing At the closing, the escrow officer will ensure the closing or signing of the transaction meets all the requirements. After all signatures are obtained and funds have been collected, the escrow officer will complete the remaining steps necessary to finalize the transaction and disburse monies. Once these steps have been completed and, if applicable, the buyer’s lender has authorized funding, the escrow officer will let all parties know the file has funded and all funds will be disbursed.

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LIFESTYLE LETTER

FEBRUARY 2021 PUBLISHER

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Community Creativity

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INSPIRATION IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER, BOERNE. This month is all

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about incredible artists and creatives whose beautiful work contributes to our

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cultural community.

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We have rounded up some of the amazing makers and artists in Boerne. From sculptors and paintings to glass creations, each work of art encourages expression. Whether it be a representation of values, or the community itself, there is a story to be told in each and every piece. It’s easy to get caught up in our day-to-day obligations, especially now. As we learn to navigate our way in this new and challenging world, we can all use a moment to appreciate the timeless art that lies within our community itself. We truly have talented people in our midst.

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FEATURES 10 Glass Artist Nancy Yarbrough Fused Glass Hearts Perfect For Valentine’s Day

20 Gallery 195 Artists Share Their Talents From Acrylics to Encaustic to Knife Painting

24 Sculptor Erik Christianson Creates Magnificient LifeSize Bronzes

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26 From Interior Designer to Ceramic Artist Linda Manning Shares Her Favorite Creations

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DIY

Nancy Yarbrough in her studio

FUSED GLASS HEARTS PERFECT FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

ARTICLE NANCY YARBROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY KATE COOLEY/ COOLEY PORTRAITS

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FUSED GLASS HEARTS ARE A FUN AND SUCCESS-

heated and cooled very slowly. This helps even out the

FUL WAY TO ENTER THE WORLD OF KILN FORMED

internal heat of the glass and prevents thermal shock or

GLASS. My glass is “tested compatible” to have the same

breakage. The wait is long but the rewards are great when

rate of expansion and contraction and is already pig-

viewing the cooled pieces.

mented and textured. The color is not painted on but is

There are several ways to display these hearts. They

made at a factory in Oregon by combining elements and

can be placed on a shelf or table. A hook or D ring can

minerals to make a huge array of glass colors.

be epoxied on the back to hang on a wall. My favorite

There are a variety of embellishments that can be used in fused glass art: + Glass chips: flat irregular shapes made from sheets of glass and tile nippers + Stringers: spaghetti-like pieces of glass in various sizes + Frits: small chunks of ground glass in various sizes to sprinkle or add contrast or texture The kiln is where the magic happens. These small pieces are very forgiving but in general, glass needs to be

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way is to display in square picture frames with glass. I cut a mat or decorative paper and place it behind the glass where a photo might go. Using two-part epoxy the heart is glued to the surface of the glass in the frame. Hold it in place until the epoxy sets. Nancy's work can be found at Carriage House Gallery in Boerne.

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F I N A L S T E P A T T H E K I L N

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Step 1 - Choose a color pallet of 3 to 5 contrasting coaxing into slight curves.

Step 2 - Creativity can go wild in this step. Cut Break with running pliers or grozzers. Cut strips to fit on the heart base and stack or crisscross.

Step 3 - Carefully place the stacked piece into the kiln. The heat is increased very slowly to 1435 degrees for 3 minutes. The kiln then is cooled quickly to 900 degrees for 45 minutes. It slowly cools down to room temperature.

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THE HEART OF T H E M AT T E R

Step 1: Prepare the heart for both pain and joy. Simply stated, remain open to the human experience. Note: We know hearts come with deeply embedded sorrow and joy alike. That is what makes them beautiful. Just make sure the heart is tender and receptive to giving and receiving love. Step 2: Add a generous amount of grace and forgiveness (this is needed to embrace love fully and give it in return). Step 3: Dole out several expressions of love: this is where you add your own flavor to the recipe. You can choose between hugs, kisses, or simple acts of kindness for your loved ones or for complete strangers. Continue to revisit this idea: Love comes in many forms. Note: You cannot add enough gestures of love to this recipe. The more love, the sweeter your creation. Step 4: Sprinkle in some laughter, tears, and warm embraces. Step 5: Let your mixture sit (time varies) and watch as your heart expands and becomes fuller, bursting with sensational hues as every ounce of human emotion finds it’s truest, most vulnerable form. Step 6: Share your recipe with someone very special to you and seek his/her input. Always be welcome to feedback. MORE love from those whom you trust will enhance this recipe over time, adding more vibrancy, texture, beauty, and of course, more love.

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DESSERTS ARTICLE AND PHOTOGRAPHY CONNIE MCFALL CLARK

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ARTICLE VIRGINIA FLOYD, GUY JACKSON, SHARON WHISNAND PHOTOGRAPHY KATE COOLEY/COOLEY PORTRAITS

FROM ACRYLICS TO ENCAUSTICS TO KNIFE PAINTINGS

GUY JACKSON I find painting with knife in oils to be a very expressive, powerful and enjoyable experience. The unique marks and texture left with the knife help me produce bold, clean color and mysterious, dramatic effects. I enjoy the three-dimensional and sculptural quality. And there is a certain delightful surprise I experience with each knife stroke — you never know for certain just exactly what is going to be deposited by the knife on the canvas! Painting with a knife is a very natural, intuitive technique. I picked up a knife and started doing “what felt right.” I want to create an emotion and impression, something more powerful than just the literal. I want “to deepen the mystery” ... allow the viewer to engage and “fill in the blanks.” For the first art competition I entered, I submitted a knife painting from a photo I had taken in Savannah of the interior of a coffee bar. I had no idea if I had any talent, and whether I was “painting the right way” or not. I almost fainted when the judge announced I won first place by stating, “I love, love, love this painting!”

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Gallery 195 Artists Share Their Ta l e n t s

SHARON WHISNAND I am an intuitive abstract artist and work in three mediums - acrylic, mixed media and encaustic. As an intuitive artist, I begin with no preconceived idea and I play around with lines, asemic writing, areas of color and constantly turn the canvas 45 degrees to work on different areas. By painting this way, I do not become “wedded” to an idea, but let things evolve in abstract. At some point, after looking at the canvas from all four directions, something starts to take shape for me and I will develop the painting from there, taking things out, adding other things. I often leave a suggestion of footprints or bridges - different ways that connect the parts of the painting. Mixed media is usually not quite as unstructured. I can add elements to suggest a landscape or strictly use balance and color to create abstract patterns. I use hand-painted papers and other items such as drywall tape, string, gesso, and even strings made from hot glue. Encaustic paintings are done with a melted beeswax/damar combination maintained at 200 degrees. Encaustic paintings are intriguing because of the layering and fusing of the wax, giving a luminosity unachievable with other mediums. I embed a lot of different elements into encaustic paintings: handpainted papers, old letters, or any natural fiber.

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GALLERY 195 ARTISTS SHARE THEIR TALENTS (CONTINUED)

VIRGINIA FLOYD I’ve been painting regularly since I retired — about ten years. I continue to go to a class with Sidney Sinclair, a local artist. Sometimes I compare painting to learning to play the piano — there are skills that you can learn, but it takes practice, practice, practice. Since my retirement, I also have taken many workshops to study with different artists to hone my skills. I wanted to learn to paint in a more impressionist style, so I bought books by Kevin Macpherson, and painted my way through those books. Copying a master’s paintings is one of the oldest techniques in art and helpful because he had already solved the problems — where to put highlights, shadows, even color choices. Nancy Bush has been the most influential in the techniques I use. She is an internationally renowned artist living in Fredericksburg. She introduced me to a style of painting called Tonalism - a style popular in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscapes with colored atmosphere or mist. These paintings were generally of a simplified subject matter, were misty or vaporous, and quiet and minimal. They evoked emotions rather than reality. I have gradually incorporated this method into my own voice using the color of warmer hues, evoking a peaceful mood. I believe artists develop a recognizable style; however, I occasionally paint a bright, impressionistic painting.

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ARTICLE ERIK CHRISTIANSON

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Ghost Rider

ERIK CHRISTIANSON GREW UP IN OAHU, HAWAII

Cultural Center in downtown San Antonio and parishes

WHERE HE FIRST DEVELOPED AN INTEREST IN

in Dallas, Austin, and Missouri. He sculpted a 10-foot

SCULPTURE. While still in high school, he received

monumental bronze of Col. Juan Seguin, for the city that

a scholarship to attend the Hawaiian Academy of Art

bears his name. He also sculpted the Texas A&M Bonfire

and was accepted for membership in the Waimea Art

Memorial where he created the portraits of the twelve

Council. In 1979 he moved to San Antonio where he was

students who lost their lives in that tragedy. Erik and his

honored with two scholarships to study sculpture at

sculpture of the Bonfire Memorial have been added in

the McNay Art Institute and was enrolled as a member

the Library of Congress. Other works are the life-size

of the Artists Alliance. He has studied every aspect of

relief of ‘Our Lady of Flowers’ at San Fernando Cathedral,

creating and manufacturing bronze sculptures. While

in honor of Archbishop Patrick Flores of San Antonio, a

working in an art foundry for ten years, he learned what

life-size of the prophet Elijah, along with a baptismal

few schools could teach, specializing in all aspects of the

fountain of Mount Carmel for the ‘National Shrine of the

foundry process to insure maximum quality in his work.

Little Flower Basilica’ in San Antonio, a life-size figure of

Over the years he received many important com-

Saint Paul at ‘St. Paul the Apostle Chapel’ at Horseshoe

missions from prestigious organizations: the United

Bay, and “Wild Bill Hickok” life-size monument, Town

States Horse Cavalry, the Vaqueros Association, the

Square Plaza Boerne. Between 2014-2015 Erik placed

First Cavalry Division, the United States Naval Academy,

four bronzes in the permanent collection of the Former

the United States Air Force Academy, and Brook Army

Texas Rangers Heritage Museum in Fredericksburg.

Medical Center. The scope of these sculptures has

His work reflects a deep interest in creating his-

ranged from bas-reliefs, portraits, and full-length figures,

torically accurate figures while breathing life into his

to 150% life-size figures. Other commissions include: the

work. Those who have seen his creations agree that

‘Don & Linda Carter Community Spirit Award’ where the

he has succeeded on both accounts. Erik lives in the

sculpture depicts a Dallas Mavericks point guard. The

Texas hill country with his wife Elena who is also

first recipient of the award was the 1996 Olympic Gold

an artist and teaches art for the NBISD, and his son

Medal sprinter Michael Johnson.

Kai who hopes to design cars when he grows up. Erik

Erik has created several life-sizes of ‘Our Lady of Guadalupe’ and St. Juan Diego for the Mexican American

looks forward to spending many years doing what he loves best, sculpting.

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ARTIST’S PALETTE

LINDA MANNING SHARES HER FAVORITE CREATIONS

from interior designer to ceramic artist Linda Manning With An Unnamed Project

flood waters and the visible water line, I knew how to

and commercial Interior Designer. In 2019, I retired to

finish the piece. The bottom half of the sculpture had

focus full time on being a studio potter/ceramic artist.

a cold finish technique I learned in Taos. Using stained

With the expansion of my studio space, I began teach-

tea bags, oil paints, metallic powders, graphite and cold

ing hand building in clay in 2016.

wax I created the “muddy waters”. I glazed the top half

Being an artist gives one freedom to use their medium

with a crystalline glaze that created a beautiful blue/

to convey a message, start a conversation, and to tap

green finish. It represents the courage and strength

into the viewer’s own story. The drive in my work the

it took to rise out of those muddy waters better and

last three years has been in narrative figurative sculp-

stronger. That piece is called, "The Water Line".

ture, using the human and sometimes animal form. So,

Another favorite I completed in early 2020 is titled,

whether I’m creating the whimsical creatures of The Red

“The Keeper”. It is a figurative sculpture of a woman

Lip Society or The Towers of Women series, my aim is to

with a raven on her shoulder whose wing is stretched

tell a story with the hope that you find yours as well.

out as if to comfort her. Behind the woman, tucked

One of my favorite pieces is an abstract that sat on a shelf in my studio unfinished. In 2017 Hurricane Harvey devasted the Houston area with

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into the wing is a space where I keep a small sculpture created by my late son. Linda's studio is in Boerne; she is a partner in Gallery 195.

ARTICLE LINDA MANNING

unprecedented flooding. Looking at the dirty muddy

For 22 years my professional career was as a residential

PHOTOGRAPHY KATE COOLEY/COOLEY PORTRAITS

I’VE BEEN CREATING IN CERAMICS FOR 13 YEARS.

Linda Manning With Students Bruce Tingle and Debbie Russell

Linda Manning With Her Latest Project

Lilly of The Red Lip Society

The Keeper

The Water Line

Linda Manning placing items in kiln

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ARTICLE AND PHOTOGRAPHY AUDREY KUETHER

Before I made these cute gold leaf dishes, my jewelry was a tangled mess. Now I actually enjoy keeping it organized and displayed! Don’t let gold leaf intimidate you – it’s a game changer. Check out the tutorial to learn how to make some of these pretties for yourself or for gift giving.

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I turned these toys into some fun photo holders, but they are also super fun used as table place settings at a kid’s birthday party. They double as a party favor!

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P R E T T Y

P O M

It doesn’t get more fun than yarn pom poms – ok maybe I need to get a life, but nonetheless .... In this tutorial , I show you just how easy it is to make your own pom poms and pull them together to make the cutest wall hangings.

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BLUEGRASS JAM

Many grasslands in the Texas Hill

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The AgriCultural Museum (Formerly

Country are badly degraded by poor

Collectors from all over the state find

the Agricultural Heritage Museum)

stewardship. There are land resto-

real antiques - no reproductions or

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ration strategies that can be applied to

imports - to add to their collections or

Every second and fourth Saturdays of

increase the diversity and abundance

decorate their homes. Fine antiques

the month, bring your instrument and

of wildlife on the land. This workshop

add a touch of elegance to any home.

play along, or just come to listen to the

will cover land stewardship practices,

The show also features country furni-

Bluegrass Jam at The AgriCultural!

preparation of old fields for resto-

ture, baskets, stoneware, glassware,

(formerly the Agricultural Heritage

ration, selecting and sourcing native

jewelry, textiles, early paper, toys,

Museum). This event is free and open

seeds, and grants and programs to

silver, quilts, pewter, American oak,

to the public.

assist with land restoration.

southwestern and so much more!

*Some of these events may change due to COVID restrictions.

Patrick Heath Public Library

Kendall County Fairgrounds

ditions of the Texas Hill Country with the creations of today’s culture.

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Cibolo Nature Center

Kendall County Fairgrounds

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S TA R TI N G F R O M S C R AT C H WE ALL WISH WE COULD BE THAT PERSON WHO CAN

COOKING 101: LET’S BRING IT

WHIP UP A GOURMET PLATE AT THE SNAP OF OUR FINGERS. But let’s be real: we’re not all Martha Stewart, and that’s

BACK TO THE BASICS.

OK! Sometimes, the most delightful meals are the ones that are homemade with the freshest (and simplest!) of ingredients. Here, I’ve compiled a list of the most important things to start you on your cooking journey. Don’t stop here if you’re intimidated by the kitchen, I promise you’ll master dishes worthy of a chef’s kiss in no time, a lot quicker and easier than you think.

S TA R T S I M P L E

You have to walk before you run, folks! Start to replace processed food with fresh produce, plan to prepare one full meal a week, and encourage your family members to do the same.

M A S T E R YO U R TECHNIQUE

Now that you have an action plan, you have to learn the ropes. Learn to mix drinks, acknowledge that simmering and steaming are not the same thing, and that there is more than one cutting technique.

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EXECUTE YO U R P L A N S

You have scheduled your cooking day, you have learned the basics, and now you’re ready to execute your plan. Don’t go all out the first time. Boil dried pasta, but perfect your sauce. Pair it with a classic drink that goes well with your dish.

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LE SS IS MORE

You will soon realize that you don’t need every elaborate tool or pot to make a delicious dish. The best ones are usually made with the simplest ingredients. It’s all about learning to combine them in a flavorful way.

MAKE IT FUN

Cooking shouldn’t feel like a job. Set aside that special time each week and make it fun! Turn on music, taste as you go, and appreciate each and every meal you make.

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