WIP for March

Where on earth did the month of March go? I've been a little too layed back about blogging and hopefully I'm getting some mojo back. It's been a struggle, but I'm finally coming around!!

It takes patience and a lot of time away from the studio and blogging to get my so called muse back.

I think I have finally accepted mentally to being back in the work force and I've started to arrange my art world around that. I'm VERY slow in transitioning! Change is good, but not always easy. I REALLY enjoyed and became a little spoiled staying at home for several years after being let go from my designing job. At first it was the end of the world for me and then it became the best thing ever! I loved being there for the kids whenever they needed me and I'm still available with restrictions. The plus side was also being able to create anytime. I have no complaints because I have been really blessed with my life! 

Anyway, this piece still needs a title and is a WIP.

New Work

Block Angel L

Thanks Linda! I didn't realize that I had hit the post button. Blogging has been on the back burner for me, so my posting have been far and few between. I mean I have to be in the mood for creating, photographing, cleaning up the images in photoshop and posting. I wish I had someone who would do everything for me except the creating.

Cage Doll Ornie 2

Anyway, these are a few things I have been working on. I'm also trying to revisit some older styles to put a new flare to them.

Frida

Frida

I've been trying to rework some of my domino art doll designs. The doll above has had her upper midsection removed and replaced with small metal pellets used in BB Guns. The opening was covered with a piece of mica. The really big change for me was using the photocopy of a face instead of a clay face.

I drive around with my dolls hanging from my rear view mirror, and she was up there the past few days, and my oldest daughter said that she liked my dolls with the dimensional clay faces. I said I did too, but I was going to give the photocopy image a try.

So far, I think her body needs to be a little wider to accommodate that square open space and she could use some length as well.

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all the wonderful people in blog land!! Yes, I had time to post today because we don't live around any family, so we didn't have to be at 2-3 places at once. It's just me the hubby and the kids. It was a very nice Christmas day, except for being stirred from a deep sleep about 2am this morning from a very excited kid! Needless to say, she never really went back to sleep and is running on empty as I'm posting this. She actually ran out of gas a few hours ago, but is fighting to stay awake. I remember those days soooooooooooo many years ago! The were fun back then when you didn't need as much rest as you do when you get much older. It's amazing and tiring to see Christmas through your childrens eyes!

Anyway, a friend of ours called early this afternoon and asked us to take a look outside on the front porch. I had a sneaky feeling what he had waiting for us. Well, we went and took a peak and found this Santa cookie jar sitting at our door step. Filled with homemade sugar cookies and this sign.
This Santa cookie jar has over ten years of wandering between our households looking for a home. Every year we keep filling it up with cookies and sending it back to them and they in turn send it back to us(no one likes the jar!). Last year we thought he was gone forever because he hadn't made an appearance, but here he stands again! It's been a long time running joke between our families.  It's really turning kind of weird because this friends wife is actually starting to like the jar and so I have to alter him in some way to make him unappealing. No one wanted him for years and now she has a crush on him! When I'm done with him, she just might change her mind. Don't worry! It will be a subtle change!

This doll was created for the recycled materials doll challenge on the Art Doll Only Group that I belong to. The body is made from an metal spice container and the dangling piece is a vintage door knob to a dresser drawer.

Last Art Show of the Season

Eiteljorg Museum In Indianapolis, IN

This is the last show of the year and I'm glad because I seem to have less and less energy and enthusiasm for some of these shows. The attendence was low because some type of basketball playoff going on the same day, so people were at pre-game parties and tailgating parties all afternoon. I should have packed it up and crashed one of those parties.

I did have a few sales and meet some really wonderful people. Let me tell you that it is a small world! I meet a couple at the this art show in Indianapolis, who live not to far from me in the greater Cincinnati area. They just happened to stop in at the museum to kill some time before the woman was flying out to visit some friends in New Mexico. Come to find out that she knows quite a bit about the small town I came from in New Mexico. At one time they were looking to purchase a house there, but decided against it. It was really cool!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I can't believe it is almost December!! The Fall months are just crazy in regards to my kids school. Soooo much homework, 3 Holidays, Science Project, studying for tests, dealing with Etsy, Flickr, and the rest kind of takes the back seat. Hence, my absence from the blog. I haven't learn to balance the new things(my job) in my life yet. Somehow I do make time to create. I mean pockets of time! It'd funny because I actually take pieces I've been working on and hang them up in my work area.

The guys are oblivious to their presence. See, I'm adapting!! Anyway, things are good and I'm where I'm suppose to be in life, so I try to embrace it and move forward.

Just wanted to remind folks that I will be at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, Dec. 3 from 10am-5pm. It is called Winter Market and I think this is my 3rd year of attending. I really love being in the museum setting! This year I will take pictures and post them here.

This is Tulip and she is one of several I having been creating with a board as a background. There is just something about it that is not quite right. It doesn't sit very well with me and I don't know why.

Oh well! I just will keep marching forward and try to work it out some how!

I hope you all have a very wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday!!!