Mail Gifties

One of my bestest art buddies/ex-neighbor, YT sent me this!!!

She's been making dominoes like crazy lately and picking my brain via e-mails on what and why to do's... I think she's doing quite nicely don't you??

Then My SLACKERs in my Soldered House Swap FINALLY got their act together:

After, I soldered ALL their houses..for various reasons they couldn't bring

themselves to finish~

These Slackers, whom I love, shall remain nameless..but if you were in the swap~ you know who they are...btw, the mail out for that was MARCH 31st...

Now my Soldered House banner is complete...I'm in search of a place to photograph it..so hang tight, it will appear one day here for you to see the finished project~

Have a great weekend!!!

Lator Gator~

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Manic Art moment

Or maybe I should have called it: Manic MAIL ART moment???
Watching Chopped on Food TV is when this one hit me..right after the show got started...geesh..you'd think it would have hit me earlier in the day while I was just doing nothing..but nooooo, it had to hit then..Oh Well, I gave in:

I painted these faces on some outgoing mail, that was in the studio..one is a Swap and the other is samples for an upcoming class. I know both will be a nice surprise for them when they see it..

Faces have always been my down fall in art..I've not been good at drawing them nor painting them..but lately I've been fascinated by them and every ones works, like Sharon @ Norhas, Misty Mawn, and Campbell Jane folkart...

I've also been working on my Glass house swap..but then the muse has to jump in and wants to paint faces..my paint stuff is not set up..my glass stuff is set up..and then my muse wants to build a shrine with foam core board, wings, crowns, and a soldered piece...geeee hold your horses..I only have room for one project at a time on my work table...

To top it ALL off we are working on Paper Cowgirl every spare moment...Can you believe it's the end of January already??

Hope your staying warm were ever you are and things are going ok..

Happy Friday!!

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Beautiful things...

Were found in my mail box:


From my friend Sharon @ all Norah's art...I cried when I saw that this. I had admired this wonderful piece on her blog the other day never knowing..she said she left a 'hint'...Sharon!!!! it's beautiful and seems the postal service must have loved it too for not a scuff or mark other than on the stamps were to be found :)


Inside were promised goodies! At Paper Cowgirl, Sharon had told me about the 'super duper' huge Watch/clock crystals she had and promised to share with me...so those were in there and a couple of her prints were in there too! Thank you soo much Sharon! Such a sweetie!

The setting sun was beautiful on this side of the shop shack this evening...

But then, the Moon was beautiful on that side of the Shop Shack.

I found a happy medium on the South end of the building and snapped away at both..

I almost burned the cornbread that was in the oven for supper:

It was good and crunchy..yummy with some butter on it while it was piping hot..Went with the stew that had been simmering the crock pot all day...



Here is the Door to the "man can"..hub's bathroom in the shop..

I'm making it look like the Texas flag..Tomorrow I'll add the star and the white section tomorrow after it all dries good tonight..





Here is one more of my Sally Jean versions of Home Sweet Home:

One more....hang on...

This is the table Hub is making..he's just finishing up the grinding and such so I can prime it tomorrow too..we are then painting it satin black..a red cedar plank top is going on next..

The huge canvas now has a bit of color on it..I glazed it with a bit of raw umber too today..