Together We Can

Fun stuff - I finished my "Kitty Love Shrine" for Fancy Feast and Friskies, and shipped it off on Holy Saturday.  Evidently it made it - I found it in their gallery here.  Click the link and I'm the first on the left on the 4th page.  Woot!  Since I am such a brat, I'm including my way better picture with this post.  Since it's online I don't think I'll get in trouble, right?  Too late to worry about that now!

I will say it was a lot of fun doing it, but wow was it a lot of WORK.  And stinky!  I apologize to the person who opened the FedEx box on April 7th - I used some powerful adhesives to keep all those cans together!

Speaking of togetherness, my good church friends and I have been working on a fun get-together for women on Friday night.  You can read all about it on my friend Dipsydoodle's blog!  Dipsy & I have spent a lot of time making gorgeous crafty goodies for the chicks who are coming - last count was 50 people!  We will be doing this 4 times a year - next one will be in July and I hope we get even more women next time.

Shameless Pimping

Well life moves along and I'm trying not to get bowled over by it. What's new? I have a few things going on. First, I am the new Kansas City Craft Shop Examiner on Examiner.com. So far I've published two articles and it's pretty much a lot of fun although a bit harder than writing a blog - in a blog there are no rules, really. Now I have to knuckle down and play by the rules. So far I've made 14 cents - woot! Click here to see the site - and if you'd like to follow me I'd sure appreciate it! Also, please email me if you'd like to write for them as well - again, shameless pimping for moolah here! I do what I can!

Speaking of cans, I've been selected to submit some art for the Together We Can art show by Friskies & Fancy Feast - making art from cans. Cat food cans, of course! They are everywhere in the house. I teased the Deacon that we would all have to eat cat food for awhile - I don't know if he really believed me, but Mrs. Deacon has been cooking a lot lately - hmmmm.

Well it's Holy Week, I'm tired and ready for bed! I'll leave with a couple ATCs I made for Katilady's Virgin Mary Swap last year. Hand drawn; prismacolors on watercolor paper.

What Did You Make Today?

Well kids, I am at work (hey not like they're going to fire me, huh? - kinda like you can't get more pregnant). So I have some pictures for y'all's perusal - things I've made over the weekend and up through yesterday.

At left are some dangles I made for the May "Not Just Charms" swap on Latest Trends (my very favoritist group) and as I said in my last post, I made these completely out of things laying around on my beadspace.

See - like the Fimo beads on top, when you buy things for no apparent reason or project, you always have something out of which to make a pair of earring dangles! That sentence sounds weird but I would rather cut my tongue out with pinking shears (dull ones) than end a sentence with a preposition.

The hot pink beads are a gift from my art soul sister Mary - so I don't know where they came from. The green ones at the bottom are probably blue moon beads - and the sparkly rondelles on there came from Fire Mountain gems (love that place!).

These keychains I made with some fun tecniques. I got the idea for these here. These are formica samples that I coated with gesso in the technique that totally rocks by Lori Roberts on her blog at Altered Arts Magazine I'll let her explain it because she does a much better job than I do at explaining it. I kind of think it's because I get too excited and start babbling about oil pastels and gel medium and well I usually tell people who really don't care and I know it so then I talk faster and get it all mixed up and their eyes glaze over and I'm like Nooooo it's really cool you'll see. I coat them with diamond glaze in case you're wondering. That stuff rocks!

Finally, here's a mixed media painting I finally finished, "She Dreams of Art." The cool thing is, I dreamed the whole thing, woke up and scribbled it on the sketch pad by my bed and actually did it. Magick!

It's watercolor, acrylic paint, water-soluble oil pastels (I'm sayin! I love these things! I want to marry them!), collage of my ATCs and magick marker. Probably some glitter on there too, or there will be before I frame it. You know, I really enjoy this - that's all that matters, right?

More later...

Cheeka