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Uncle Crusty’s legs are knobby and boney.  Walk quickly down those creaky wooden stairs, before he loses his balance and topples right on to you.

Love all things creepy and crawly. Love scary and spooky. Love skulls and skeletons: they’re elegant, silly, and a great beginning point for creativity. Mixed Media Monday is hosting the best theme this week: Things That Go Bump in Night.

Uncle Crusty was made by punch needle embroidery and embellished with one glass eye, one commercial clock face button, and gold bugle beads for teeth.

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I love mosaics, shrines and Moon imagery. Ta da! I’ve combined all three. Thanks to the fabulous contributors on Mixed Media Monday, Chris across the pond led me to Awfully Big Art Adventure - more art challenges, yea! This is their very first challenge, and it is a delicious one for me.

I’ve taken a plaster caste of a Crescent Moon man from a Swiss chocolate mold and painted him with acrylics and set him inside a shadow box. I then glued on handmade ceramic and polymer clay tiles, decorated with different paints, rubber stamps, jewelry findings and sparkley stars and store bought glass tiles. Inside the box I glued tiny lights from floral supplies, so when they are turned on they appear to be wee little stars.

Thank you for letting me share another project that brings me joy, michele

October 10, 2008: I have added a picture of this shrine lighted at the bottom of the October 8, 2008 post.

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Mixed Media Monday’s theme for this week is Things-That-We-Love to do: I love Sock Creatures. Love to make them, pose them, learn their stories and see what other people around the world have discovered with socks. They are so silly, they make me smile. Each one develops a distinct personality. And they are the best traveling companions.

This weekend I pillaged my sock drawer and began this newest creature. They are so quick to whip up, it’s hard not to sacrifice all my foot apparel.

Sunday evening it received it’s eyeballs to be able to take in all the wonders of new world and see what other creators, over on MMM love to make.

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Mixed Media Monday - nature

Mixed Media Monday’s challenge for this week is nature. Since finding out I have honey bees in my walls, I’ve wanted to honor them before they are relocated in March. The elements fell together while I was straightening up my house this week. I hope to use it as a focal point on a large piece, perhaps a house shrine of sorts.

I had the ceramic house and roof for another uncompleted mosaic project. Parental unit brought me glorious papers from her birthday trip and the honeycombed nests (from paper wasps) are from my deck tear down project. I just liked the look of the baby doll arms holding up the nest; I didn’t recognize them as trees till I had it all together. It was very difficult to photograph, it’s not this dark and dingy in person. Thanks Mixed Media Monday! loved this challenge.

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