Sneaking a stroke here and there....

All summer I have had a painting working in my head.

After all the float stuff cleared out, there was finally room in the working space....

and the working space is in my head.

Has to all be worked out there before the pencil work even begins.

Especially when the medium is watercolor, there has to be a plan.

But it is addictive when I get it started. I don't want to do anything else...

I suspect that is what passion for something is all about?

(of course, who wouldn't want out of dishes, laundry and housework in general?)

Once I get going with the paint and water right on the paper, I LOVE LOVE LOVE it and then I HATE,HATE, it. Why? Because it is the excellence endeavor inside of me, that wants it to match up to the painting in my head....

This is the "So FAR" work....I will keep you posted....

BABY SHOWER FUN

It was a fabulous evening for celebrating...and it seems like the most wonderful reason to hold a party!!
Alicia is having a baby! But beings we didn't know what it was for another week...we did black and white with muted yellow for our colors....it was so fun.

I had seen some little onsies made from dinner napkins and so I fashioned my own. Yes, these are made from dinner napkins backed with card stock. Talk about fun...I ran out of time instead of ideas. Just napkins and a little hot glue....

Made it myself...

Anyone that knows me knows that I love feminine things...so the fashion ruffle movement is really a great thing. If I could get away with it, I would wear them everyday....just love em.

So, I saw this pretty red sweater in a catalog and logged onto get mine....ah, ALL SOLD OUT. So I went to their local store...NONE. Went to another...NONE...not one red one, plenty of green...

But I didn't want GREEN ONE....I wanted a RED ONE....ah. It is alot of work being a fashionista wannabee....

So I marched right into Target and got myself a P L A I N red sweater and strolled right over to the red matching t shirts and got one of them too. (I even bought a size SM which I have NEVER DONE). And the total price was still 10 bucks below the price of the phantom red sweater in the afore paragraph.

Then I came home and cut that t-shirt right up and stitched it on....

I sewed 3 different sized petals on with triangle stitch patterns. I wanted a rose look.

And I think it turned out pretty darn cute...take that catalog, take that stores all over with NO RED sweaters! I WIN.

Sneaky Time

Oh, how sick I am of foam and glitter and floats...
So, when I got a free minute I snuck down to my studio and made a real mess.
It was WAY FUN...
Made this.
Of course, after I finished, I could think of many ways to make different versions...
stay posted!!

70 and counting...No that's it.

Our Farming Corporation is holding their meetings this week in SLC. There are employees from all over the world coming. This year they invited their spouses to accompany them and I decided I wanted to make a small appreciation token for them. I thought there would be oh, 35-40. Last count...70! RIGHT!

So, I heated up my trusty glue gun and went to work. With TNT and PBS reruns, I got them done with time to spare.

THe real bummer in this project? Didn't EVEN dent my fabric stash.

Cow Bizness

I have had it with the foam stuff...here is the cow.

The before was really awesome...but I had to take matters into my own hands.....

See those "handles"? Uh, there are too many....this cowgirl couldn't do it...no sir. I had to perform a radial mastecomy..... I felt much better.

And take a look at that hip...the black markings have a special code.

If you know what year the "saints came marching in"....you will get it.

Now onto the "heads".

When in "ROME"

Okay, yeah so this was supposed to be the place for fun and frippery, wonderful and whimsical, creative and crafty-you get my drift. So I was recently called to be on the "float committee". For those of you in the west....you will know what THAT means. For others it will seem pretty uh, strange. I WISH rootbeer and ice-cream were involved but....fail.

SO, my moments of the above fun and frippery...etc. have been shelved for now. I am a "foam artist" and that is really stretching it. Basically it means that I get a call from"Dave" and I go over and pick up my assignment. It involves big blocks of styrofoam and plywood glued together in shapes and that's where I come in.Then I come home and shave with my electric knife and smooth and carve and swear a bit...

I went to the 3 dollar fabric store and found this velvety fabric for uh,,,,3 dollars a yard. And the snipping and hotgluing began...and MANY hours later...there they are...all ready for their infamous ride down STATE STREET....

I am afraid that they look at bit like they have been drinking "moonshine" or something...but there is no time for sobering up... I am carving the cow tomorrow!