All My Children.....

Oh my, aren't they just the sweetest things? What a fun exchange and everyone does the best work. Our Art Group met Saturday, we had our "monthly" exchange.  It was Nancy's turn to pick, she wanted "Paper Dolls".

We had an outline, it had to be a child, mounted on a wood block, and have a back-drop. The rest was up to us.

I can say this is one of the best groups I have been in. If you check out the "shutterfly" in my blog list you can view some of the other works we have done, along with many of Nancy's personal work.

(I am trying to get her to open an etsy shop, so be sure to send her words of encouragement!) Vicky used a photo of her daughter Natalie, and Kim's was our only boy. Terri's girl had beautiful iridescent wings, while Nancy gave each of hers a name. As for me I think I will sit back a little while and enjoy my little works of art.

A Friday with Terri...

As I mentioned in the previous post, my friend Terri Gauthier, and I sometimes get together on a Friday to "play" as she puts it.

This week Terri sent me an e-mail with a piece she saw, and said, why don't we try something like this? I in turn surprised her with the small canvas project you see here (the image was from the "Mind Wide Open" challenge).

Inspired by the book of Kelly Rae Roberts, we played with brayers, paint, stamps, and ink! I love how they came out. 

And here is the piece we did similar to the one that inspired Terri......... don't you just love it??? I do.

This picture does not do justice to it, but I did not have the stamina to get out all the "props" and since it was late the lighting was bad.

I really liked using my brayer to paint and layering it with paper and ink. Another fun afternoon! Thanks  again Terri!

Friday's with Terri....

So my friend Terri (Blooming Ideas) posted a little item we made one day, and "suggested" that I might post a picture of mine. Terri will often invite me on Friday's to come over and "play". She really keeps me on my toes, her mind is always going. When I am with her I become charged by her energy and creativity. Which may be why I made myself crazy for the last two hours trying to get the right shot of this piece.......

I could not decide which photo so here is one more. Gosh I love this iPhoto program that came on my Mac, it took me long enough to learn how to use it, but it has some nice effects. One of which is making my crappy photos look a little better.....

I would like to mention here that I surrounded the crystal ornament with other projects we have done together, the stationary box, the soldered items, and the shadow box.  Mitch Album had "Tuesdays with Maury", and I am lucky to have had "Fridays with Terri". 

A Lovely Find.....

I found this lovely lady at the Flea Market. It is hard to tell here with my lousy photographic dis-abilities, but she is not "shiny" but rather has a soft matte sheen to her. She  is supposed to be a Madonna, hmmmm, hard to say really. She is marked underneath but I don't care about such things I just like her....

Her she is in full, it is just a bust (which is ironic because it doesn't look like she has one) .

Craft Supply Closet a.k.a. I Had A Vision...

Okay, I may have a problem. This is a picture of my closet in the bedroom I converted into a craft room. If it scares you, well let me tell you I literally had a panic attack after I finished it. Yeah I knew I had supplies, but I had packed, shoved, and truly did not realize how bad it was until I did this. This is a very deep closet, now filled floor to ceiling .....

This is another shot looking "into" the closet. Seriously I had a hard time breathing at this point.

Now you may be saying "Why Deb it's only one closet". I wanted to do this for two reasons, 1: I wanted to be able to get to things without having to move stuff around, etc. 2: I wanted to remove the shelves in the room and open it up for more "space". Seemed like a good idea at the time. I had visions of all the room I would have once I moved a lot of my stuff to these shelves. (I should mention here I also packed up three boxes, two with just stamps, I plan to sell) So are the shelves down? How did the whole "space" thing work?

Hmmmmm, not really my vision. Maybe I just need a bigger room?