Love for Violette Clark

I bought Violette Clark's book Journal Bliss. Journal Bliss is fantastic! She has great techniques to make your pages so pretty and colorful. All of her drawings are just so fun, whimsical, and beautiful. I bought mine at Barnes and Noble Bookstore. I think their arts and crafts book selection is better than Borders Books and Music. They also have a great magazine collection.
I am not very good at making links but here is one to Violette's site: http://www.violettesfolkart.com .

On a separate note... I closed my etsy shop. I was feeling frustrated and unproductive. So I closed it. I am just going to concentrate on enjoying my family and my art for my own sake. I also think I might take some adult education classes for computers to improve my knowledge of computers.

Make art and be happy.

I love Crafsanity Podcast

I love craftsanity podcast. Here is the link http://craftsanity.com/. Podcasts are free and so interesting. It's like craft talk radio. Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood is the creator and host of the show. She has made 99 podcasts so far. She has had some great guests: Violette Clark, Jenny Hart, Emily Martin of Inside the Black Apple just to name a few. If you haven't listened to her podcasts then I highly recommend you give it a try.

This is my Du Buh Du inspired doll.

Isn't she cute?
I am very happy with her face.

Clothespin dolls

The two on the left were painted by my son. They are Iron Man and Titanium Man.

I made these clothespin dolls to wrap my ribbon around them so I could see my ribbons and they would look cute. I'm wondering if I should submit some to Somerset Home or Art Doll Quarterly.

Happy Father's Day- late...well the post anyway..

Bill's special gift. Two clothespin doll representing Tara and Cole.

Each one has a message wrapped around it.

New Blog

I just started another blog called Flying by the Seat of My Pants. I wanted a blog that I felt comfortable putting any topic or art project on. I know it's my perogative to post whatever I want no matter what the name is, but I just wanted a new area for it.

Stuff I've Been Working On

My three dolls. The sweater and poncho were made from a recycled cashmere sweater.
Reliquery Girl. Inspired by the book Mixed Mania
This is a man's t-shirts that I made over. Please ignore my ugly shorts.

Rodeo Girl close-up. A mixed media piece

Rodeo Girl. A project from Suzi Blu.