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?

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Dear Lord, as long as the President is going to print up billions of dollars to bail out all those nice RICH bankers, could you please have him print up a few for me. It will make all the taxes I, my children, my grandchildren, great grandchildren will have pay back for them, doing any minimum wage work left in this country a little easier to take. Sure Lord, I know it's nothing but paper backed by lies, debt and promises, but perhaps we could use it to buy a loaf of bread, or burn for heat.  Just a billion or so, a mere trifle by "Bankers and Wall Street" standards. Oh, and lord don't worry that by just "bailing" me out that I might start acting responsible and pay it back with interest, I will let those less fortunate pay it back, just like those nice RICH bankers or Wall Street Big Shots.  I am sure with homeland security the President knows my account number so feel free to have him direct deposit the money to my account, in Euro's if possible. Thank You.

The Ties That Bind

So you see here two charms I recently contributed to the "Ties That Bind" project. For those not familiar with this, it is an Altered Art colaboration to raise money for Ovarian Cancer Research. I did not know that September was Ovarian Cancer Awareness month. I just stumbled upon the banner in a blog and thought I would check it out. I then decided maybe I could help. I have made "charms". So I contacted Kris Henderson and asked. She replied right away, yes, "if" I could have it there before the September 30th deadline. I mailed them out yesterday. I also told a few friends about it, and I see that Terri (Blooming Ideas) has also decided to participate. These altered ties and charms are being used to decorate an Art Doll form, which will be auctioned off. So many wonderful and talented people have donated their time to this project. Check out the site, and if you can help, here is your chance:

I Just Needed a Laugh

I just couldn't help myself, this was just too funny. I was in need of a laugh. So I wandered the Internet looking for things to inspire my work in Vicky's journal. It may sound strange, but I think I could do a whole page of these quirky, satirical things and she would love it (not what I plan though).

This isn't getting my page done and I should stop here and get busy. I foolishly tore my craft room apart last week, and while the closet project turned out great, it created a state of chaos in the room. So I have to work and finish up the page. Thank goodness I was able to have a "bird" intervention last week. Terri was witness to me tearing them apart and doing them over. Now I am happy with them, yet I have one more thing to add before I proclaim I am done there too.

Right now Vicky is at Crittenton Hospital waiting for the birth of her first grandchild! She has been waiting since Megan started labor yesterday afternoon. Let's all wish them the best.

I need to get the meal coordinated for the Art Weekend at Nancy's yet too! So no playing this weekend! Which is hard because I have my new toy (my computer), but I am going to be good and work on Vicky's journal page first.......yes that first......I mean it this time