YIPEEEE!! Radiation finished!!!!

Whew!!! I finally finished my radiation treatments on Friday.  I am truely blessed because the worse side effect I've had is the burning in my throat area and a degree of fatigue.  I was able to drive myself the entire time so that was good.    Back to my art room tomorrow to work on jewelry.  A blessed week to all.  

Round Robins

I finished working in a Round Robin art journal today and went to mail it and almost fell out.  It will be going to Australia so I knew it would be costly but my goodness.  I am now sending it in a flat rate envy and it is still over 12.00   Art journals are not like altered books in that they don't have things added to them that will affect their weight.  I am in one other round robin and when I finish that one, I am bowing out.  Postage is just too darn high.  :(

Dilemma of the day

Mad Scientist Experiment Runs Amuck!!!!!!!

Today I tried to rid my etching tub of ferric chloride and created a disaster.  I forgot I had added baking soda water into a small bowl a few days back and poured it all into a large container with the ferric chloride.  A volcano of puffy, boiling, sizzling, spewing mess came pouring out of my throw away container.  This stuff took on a life of it's own.  Sort of like the big marshmellow man in the movie Ghost Busters.  Now, the dilemma, where to put this stuff?????  Well, all I know to do with it is put as much as I could in a gargage bag and then hose off the table and deck floor.  I've probably contaminated the whole neighborhood.   

Sometimes I think I need to be locked up.

Abundance Doll Finished

This is my finished doll.  I made the raven from sculpy and put the frog in the wicker cage.  This was a really enjoyable class.  I love her jacket.
This is a close up of the frog in the cage and the raven.

Doll Class

I signed up for a doll class at dollstreetdreamers.com with Angelia Jarecki for her ABUNDANCE doll.  I am soooo enjoying this class.  Angelia is my favorite doll artist so it is a treat to get to take another class with her.  I will post this lovely doll when I finish her.  Her coat is a collage of fabrics and she is holding a raven, one of my favorite birds.  I've dyed fabrics for her flowing dress and am almost finished with collaging the coat.  

This piece has a watch at the bottom and  charms that add to the time theme .

cold connection jewelry

This is the back side of the etched angel.

This is a piece I metal etched using ferric chloride.  I am just beginning to learn to do this and threw away five pieces that just did not do.  I love the finish on this.
These are a cute pair of earrings made with rivets.  I used  small 11/16 weatherstrip nails on the round piece.  I cut it to about 1/8 inch, drill a hole and push the nail through.  Flip over to the back side and hammer it flat.  It will be secure and next to impossible to remove. 

Grandma’s Potato Soup – sometimes there is nothing better than a steaming hot pot of soup.

Grandma’s Potato Soup – sometimes there is nothing better than a steaming hot pot of soup.

Due to radiation treatment effects, I will be eating softer foods and found this recipe.  Thought I would share it.  

This is a new piece of cold connection jewelry that I am making.  I have three new pieces that need to be  finished.  I love this stuff.  It seems to go with everything .   The back side of this piece has a angel stamped on the back.  She is barely visible, just like real angels.  

I love this piece.  It is a silk transfer with more pretty stuff.

These are some of my little pouches.  I love these.  They hang from a black cord but are just large enough to hold money, credit card and lipstick.  What else does a woman need?

These are printed on silk and embellished with pretty "stuff"

 New bag.

These are some new jewelry pieces.  Solder and charms.
I don't know how so much time has passed that i've not kept up with my blog.  I did a small show this spring and this is some of my art.  When I say small show, I do mean small.  Basically the shows main thing was plants in a beautiful setting at a local nursery.  There were only like ten vendors if even that so needless to say it was a no sales show for me.  None the less, it was a pleasant day and I did enjoy the beautiful plants and settings.

I love Paper Whimsy's collage sheets.  I worked this up on some of the K&Company paper background.  

A new angel drawing.  

I've started this art journal page but am stuck.  Will return to it in a few days.  " Stuff Happens!!!"

This is a page in my journal with pockets .  I've added a favorite Christmas card to  the pocket on the left .This angel is embedded in crackle paste and a wash of goldens acrylics over it.

This is a page in my journal titled Imaginary Friends.  I added a transparency of two little girls to the right.

This is a piece of clip art under a beautiful cathederal piece of cut work.  I added crackle to the picture and went over the cathederal with golden fluid acrylics.

I received this beautiful card of Our Lady from Pilar Pollock and worked it into my journal page. The card is Pilar's original work.  She is such a gifted artist.

Tagged by Mollye Self and Elizabeth Golden

I'be been tagged by Mollye Self and Elizabeth Gold.

Here are the rules. 

1. Link to the person or persons who tagged you.

2. Post the rules on your blog.

3. Write six random things about yourself.

4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.

5. Let each person know they've been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.

6. Let your tagger know when your entry is up.

Okay, six random things.

1.  I am terrified, not just afraid but terrified, of lizzards.  They are sorta like mini dragons to me.

2. I turned 60 today and still wear earth shoes and blue jeans.  You know, kinda like a leftover from the 60s.

3. I didn't get a drivers license until I was 21.   Not exactly sure why it took so long.

4. Am a junk food junkie.  I have however, stopped with the candy bars but love cake and pies and such......for breakfast, lunch  or dinner.

5.Love doing cemetery crawls getting photos of old, crumbly headstones.

6. Love horror films.  Not the new slasher stuff but the old black and white flicks.   Something  mysterious got lost in the new vampire/ghost movies.  

Six people I am tagging.

1. Sharon at http://www.allnorahsart.blogspot.com

2. Judy at http://www.judywise.blogspot.com

3. Zorana at http://www.zoranaland.blogspot.com

4.Cetta at http://www.cettacheese.blogspot.com

5. Ingrid at http://www.ingriddijkers.blogspot.com

6.Viola at http://www.saray-viola.blogspot.com

These blogs are wonderful eye candy and very interesting to read.  Enjoy.  

New Bag

I worked up this tote this week.  I like the face and the new hat style.  Now, to get more ready for my Etsy shop.

Ghost House

Happy Halloween to all.  I worked up this spread in a house book I've started.   My tombstones read "I'm outta here", Rip, and "Later Gator".   My real headstone will probably read "I'm so outta here" LOL  Toni

And Now....For the Utterly Ridiculous

I do not know what got into me to do this doll since I've not made a doll in the last several years. This took on a life of it's on, so to speak, because it definitely was not what I had in mind. Ah well, dolls have a way of doing that. The head is paperclay. I tore fabric in strips and made the body and arms.

Early Morning Mist

I caught this beautiful sunrise a few mornings ago.  There was a mist just over the meadow.

House

This is a new book to be altered.  I seem to have a strange fascination with house books.   I used a tarot card ordered from Alpha Stamps on the right side page.  She has the coolest stuff.  Now we know what I've been doing when I should have been working on art bags to sell.  Hmmmm, I think I have an attention disorder.  Cannot stay on track with anything.  

What I've done with my summer.

I got the bright idea to mount all my unmounts onto cling sheets.  I didn't even remember what stamps I had let along  how many.  Yeah, I'm still trying to finish up that monumental  task. I started ordering cling sheets and retrimming all my stamps onto those.  Now I'm putting "Tack It Over Again"  to the backs and mounting them with that stuff.  Much faster.    I did get my mounts out of boxes so I can see what I have.

Close up of the picture printed onto cheesecloth.
This piece is unfinished.  I will load another photo when I finish it.
Experimenting with cloth.  I coated a piece of fabric that I did not like with two coats of gesso.  then added spray washes (Tim Holtz) and embedded a piece of cheescloth I had ran through the printer.  Next I added crackle paste.

This is one of my favorites.  The names are written on the photo.  "Miss Billie" seems to be unable to make up her mind as to which cowboy she likes best.

I love this old train on the collage paper.

I found these old photo's in a antique store.  The guy on the far right is so handsome.  I'd have given some one a run for her money over this guy.

I started this altered book about a year ago and have made little progress.  I think I just get involved in too many other projects.  None the less, I've got a long way to go before finishing this book.  It is themed on old antique photo's.  I love the verse on the right page.  It is quite true,  I try to remember what the voices of my loved one's sounded like but only vaguely recall.