Sneaking in some art time

Snuck in some art time yesterday, yahooooOOOooooooooo!

and saw the male Oriole.

Kiln is cooling as I type.  Can't wait to see the goodies inside later on.

Enjoy your day.

hectic days

Good Gravy...where does the time slip to.  I wish I could say I have been bird watching.

Well I have been to some degree, enough to notice some exciting new visitors.  I am in awe of the beautiful Orioles that I have lured to our yard.  I was worried our massive back birds would not be too friendly, but....we have two sweet Orioles!

The substitute teaching business is booming as the school year comes to an end.  I can't really pass up the jobs, as I know once school gets out....I will have much more time.  Time to get back to Artistic Mother projects and other projects that I have brewing in the brain.  Weekends don't seem to count anymore.  Kids and their sports are ruling supreme.  I love the kids activities, but man oh man...they take a chunk of time out of your schedule.

So as promised, some updates.  I was able to deliver beautiful Mother's Day projects to a couple of classes that I worked with this past year the week before Mother's Day.  Oh the smiles.  I think mine was the biggest.  The kids were so surprised to see their little creations turned into shiny smooth glazed pendants strung onto colorful cord necklaces.  You can see some of the serious artists at workk below.  Yes indeedy, they took this project very seriously!  It was something for Mom afterall!

Hopefully I will have more updates soon.  Which...... means I have managed more balance in my life (BIG SMILE!).

Sumptious squares leads to Dreams!

Oh those darn sumptious squares started something for me.  As if I needed another distraction.  But maybe I did?  This was fun to create.  I learned about a small Works art show at Dennos Art Museum that anyone can enter, as long as the piece is no larger than 5x7x1.  So........I started playing and dreaming.

Hope you are having fun dreaming too!

Dennos Fun

Oh yes......we had fun!

Sunday was rainy.  Slightly gloomy.

So we popped over to the Dennos Art Museum for inspiration.

we ended up getting inspired, and the giggles and lots of goofiness!

A perfect day!

They have this super cool room at the Dennos with a projector a screen, and super cool technology to create these images of the kids as they moved, danced and posed.  They were going crazy in there. 

They could have stayed for hours.  And I would have kept on snapping picture after picture.

Now....I want to make my own fabric with these prints.  If you saw the most recent season of Project Runway and the episode where they got to design their own fabric......oh boy, oh boy!

scrumptious squares

The Yahoo Mixed media Group is doing a swap for 1 1/2 inch squares for the scrumptious squares in the Mixed Mania book study.  I was going back and forth with ideas and then....with deadline looming I just went for it.  This is a mosaic of polymer pieces.  Can I just say that these were a TON of fun to create.  I have lots of tiles with text.  I would just grab a few and see what they said.  And went with it.  I love how they conjure up little funny stories in my head. 

This is from a series of squares with vintage text, paper fabric (left over from the Stitch Alchemy book study) and lots of UTEE (colored and clear).  Unfortunately there is a lot of glare from the UTEE, making it a bit of a challenge to photograph and scan (I tried both).

Can't wait to see what the others have done with this swap! 

Another package I will eagerly await in the mail!!

Artist Trading Cards

Having a little fun this weekend making my Artist Trading Cards for a swap with yahoo mixed media group. 
These are fabric ATC, embellished with some beads, sequins and hand colored girlie.  I just adore her.  Each one is a little different....different background and framing fabrics.  Can't wait to see what I get in return....love these swaps!

Letter Inspired

I love adding text to my art.  So I mixed some words into a fun pendant for a necklace.  Using sheets of mica, I sandwiched some vintage text, added a rivet and viola a fun pendant.  To add another personal touch to the necklace I added two "petoskey" stone beads.  Petoskey stones are one of Michigan's beautiful stones found along the sandy shores of Lake Michigan.