My friend Hope is having a blog giveaway!

It's adorable give away and she has two of them, you don't want to miss this chance go see!
http://pixiesponderings1966blogspot.com

Some new fabric atcs and my heart for Cindy.

So here are 14 of my latest fabric atc's. Made em for my fab group and they were way overdo for some!!!! I love the talent ion that group of friends! It's such a tame site too. Never stress or meaness always gentle and kind like a seewing circle should be! This first one is titled
"Orange Sunshine"

next is"She Sews Madly"

Then "Travel with Love"

and
"The Wind Doth Blow"

Here's "Little Bird, Little Girl"
and "Laughter in Her Stars"

"Kittens Play"

"Honorable Woman"

"Halloween Drauma"
"Grumps in the Garden"





"Pink Confetti Moon" I ALWAYS LOVE PINK!

"Bearded Bird Man"

"Chain of Skulls"
"Asian Red"

Here are Cindys heart back and fronts. You can't really see all the work that went into them on a scan but it was a lot!

This front part has many Stars on it Like Johnny Dep and Sallie Jessica Parker and that cute guy from LA law I think plus a poodle dog and a nother ugly black dog just to be funny! I gussied em all up with stars and rosie cheeks and netting, gold leaf, crytal glitter bobbles, and all. I am not really a glam girl I don't think so this started out as diufficult but then soon became fun to see just how gaudy I could make it! The words are lamenated and hung with some string I bought from stampin up it's all sparkly. That was the hardest part threading that string through all the holes.

This is the back! I used modelling paste and acrylic black paint and then carved into it with a palet knife to give her a real lit up glam affect! Some tinselled mesh all around her and some nifty glam 60's B&W FLOWERS! The front was way more complicated and the back was more fun! All around I put

words like "The Little Black Dress" , "Glamor", "Trend","Prada". "Star", "Crystal" oh and I hung a real crytal direct;ly from the bottom as well as a nifty black gemed heart and a similar crown!

Two additions to the blog today.A note from Pam and my lucky no. 13.

First about Pam's note... I got this really nice letter from Pam M. today. I am posting it not to brag although it did make me feel really warm and fuzzy inside, but the main reason I am posting is to let all you artists out there know...
How much one little piece of art can really make a difference in another persons life. Not just the art alone but the kind gestures that go along with many of the pieces we make. I really love you my on line artists friends. Never under estimate the power of kindness. The essence of love!

Ever since I was young I didn't believe in superstitions so to disprove another one I made Friday the thirteenth my lucky day. To commemorate this number many of us feel somehow connected to I created a creepy card! Enjoy, MOOOOOHAHA!!!

Oh and as usual I am a day late but still creepy just the same.

I made a few more twinchies for the winner on one of my sites.

Here below are Daddy and Garrett playing with lego's. Garrett said to Daddy.. " I am having so much fun and I am not bored at all and the TV isn't even on!"

Over on the upper right there's my wee one being a picture ham!

Here below are Garrett and his best cat Grayson who absolutely loves the boy!

On the other side are the family players of Halloween. Featuring my brother as the Cat in the Hat, his wife Marcia as the spooky Ghost, their son Drew as the transformer bumblebee, and my son as "The Ups guy"! I was too sick to trick or treat this year so they all went with my dad and Ron!

A few atcs!

This set of four twinchies was made special for Cynthia Stenquist.

The winner of my twinchies is BK!

Halloween is fun! I love the children!

I went to random .org and put in 16 numbers and no.4 came up so that is: Brenda!! Congrats Brenda! Just for some further Halloween entertainment here are a few picture of the kids! Mine is the UPS WORKER!

Halloween Midnight Giveaway!

Here are nine twinchies I am going to giveaway at midnight/ all you have to do is leave a messages with your email address and you could win spooktacular! This is the little kids song about "Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Fence", oh and one Party Pumpkin for good luck! If you are wondering what a twinchie is it's a 2x2 inch card hand made by me!

Happy Halloween Everybody!!!

I will choose a lucky winner at midnight on Halloween EST!

Here's the amagazine and pattern collage I made for Helga's latest art assignment... once again

Here's one image enhanced, the rest are true to color.

I loved putting the retro ladies with the song birds, two of m,y favorite themes.

To me it resembles a quilt.

I was late! Hard to art and fight N1H1. Hard to do anything and fight N1H1! Here's my collage attempt hope you all enjoy it ad please leave an honest comment if you have the time!

Here's a grid assignment I did from Helga's site on her ArtChix Blog!

I hope the kitty picks me Helga!

It was a lot of fun even if I did cheat a little by painting some squares and triangles.! See Helga they are mostly circles. In my credit though I did have oral surgery yesterday and the florescant colors maybe partly due to the pain medications!

A few friends wanted to see a current photo of me so here I am,

Me!

Me!

Me!

Here they are my Calendar pages finally!

These seemed to have taken forever and a day to finish up.

I experimented with each one so they are all slightly different from each other, decreases my boredom when I am making multiples. I made 20 of these although I only needed 14 for the swap.

I started by taking a photograph of my kinder gardener with his bus driver. I made her one too so she can hang it in the bus.

Then I proceeded to use what little digital I have knowledge and access to, through my coral. I cartooned and made coloring book pages out of some then I alternately cut and pasted so each one has a bit of both in it. Then I painted and colored in the images. Bright yellow for the bus of coarse and people colors for the bus driver hugging the kiddo!

The base card is red basil a nice thick lined red. Then I found some chalk board designed papers at Micheal's with all kind of school words written on them. I cut them to fit on top of the red basil. I stitched them onto the base so as to give a neat altered appearance. Then I added a few different types of bases to the altered photo. The reason you can't really make out the child or bus driver image was done that way on purpose because it isn't about the individuals that I know it's just supposed to remind you of when you were a child riding the bus. Except for one my mother is getting for her refrigerator! Happy thoughts of September and all those new school jazzy feelings we all got!

I then added some punched out leaves made with the same background paper as I already used, the red Basil's and other background I used behind the photo, this way they all melded nicely. I stitched over some of these as well, kind of getting a messy kid drawing effect. I found the cutest apple stamp. I used the red basil paper once again as I had plenty of leftovers and embossed the stamp image onto them and cut closely around it's edges before gluing it to random places on each of the cards. Again each one is quite differently placed to give each a different calendar page original.

I took an old pair of my sons overall jeans from when he was four. Cut em into shorts so they can still be used and then I used my nifty Genome sewing machine. I programmed the word September into it and sewed out 20 Septembers. I attached them by stitching around their edges as well. With a jean like golden thread. Then I purposefully pulled out the fibers to give the edges on the word September a frayed appearance! Coolio eh?

Some of the calendar pages have number Gaffer tape from the Somerset store and others have ribbons with School days written across them each of these is sewed upon as well!

I then used my word program and typed out different fonts of "ENJOY THE RIDE". Made the words various sizes for various effects, Then did the red basil behind them to give a neat layered somewhat professional feel to the words.

The final touches are the embellishments.. the brad leaves and the metallic old fashioned looking flowers. These were a labor of love so I sure hope the recipients Enjoy The Heck out of em! LOL! Now all I have to do is sign and date em and they are off to the post tomorrow. Hope they aren't too scrapbooky for ya all!