Caffeine, cowboys, saints, bingo, loteria cards, and assorted craziness coming out of the kiln. I’m hoping for 2 more batches before the Chicago International Quilt Show in less than 2 weeks. yikes, I’m getting nervous. But we have a great spot in the Make it University area, we’re surrounded by fabulous artists, and we are still having fun putting the mixed-media collage cards and quilts together. (plus a secret: I’m making eyeballs! hee hee - myc)
Introducing Thing and Thang. Twins that recently joined our cult of mixed media play. I was going to tie down their hair, but decided that their adopted parent should decide, but I had lots of fun playing beauty parlor with them (much more engaging than playing beauty parlor with Joey, my cat).
Admit it, we all feel better when we are dressed in our finest. Now that it is spring, treat yourself to a new hairdo, and a prettily colored outfit. It was a difficult winter, so celebrate spring, and let all who look upon your glory bask in your glow.
Who wants the current economic stick? Let’s all dream of a great big carrot instead. I mean, if you’re going to dream, dream big, right? I’m seeing a trend with myself lately, so much dreaming, I better get to work on getting ready for the Chicago International Quilt festival instead.
Dreams are like children, they need to be released to be able to mature. But how do we dream? We dream asleep of course, and when bored with mundane tasks, but also with intent when we dare to create. In fact I believe we could substitute “dream” with “what if…”. What if I used green thread instead of beige? What if I used lemon-aid instead of water in that recipe? What if we released our dreams and they swam away into a life of their own? How cool would that be?
New neighbors have moved into the neighborhood. Gardeners, dreamers, astronomers, and newly weds. Click on the this photo to take you into the updated album. and thank you for visiting.
Here are a small sampling of finished collage cards of the glazed buttons seen in the kiln opening post of March 17. I finally ventured into black glaze and love the shiny little nuggets of handmade goodness. I also forced myself to do a bunch of neutrals and loved the fat happy elephant in this series. Click on the above image to see him in the full album.
Red wine, white wine, champagne, and margaritas with salt rims just in time to celebrate summer days outdoors, and summer nights taking in the view. Share with me a love for liquid pleasures with our handmade embellishment button cards. Heaven. Add to your mixed media art, art quilts, give as gift cards, invitations, or hang up as your own mini shrine.
This is just one of the embellishment cards from series-16. Click on photo to see album of all 20 cards in series-16. Lots of new ceramic buttons in this group.
