Creatively Amused

Having making some nifty tags, and needing someplace to put them where i could see them - i made this - I think it looks like a tag farm. If you want to make one, cover a block of wood with paper, (Dick Blick glue stick works on everything!). Then take some wire, put bends and paper clip syle coils in one end and set aside. Take a small nail or upholstery tack and hammer holes into the block, put a dot of glue into the hole and stick the wire in, (once the glue is dry you can bend the wires around a bit if they aren't quite right). Lastly, make some little xmas tree style hooks to hang from the bendy spots for your un-strung tags, and insert others between the coils.

So okay - i tried to put these in order around the room - from left to right, top row - sewing table - (cool mirror from Goodwill), painting table, glue and tape type supplies. Second row - (same order) - paper table, supplies in front of Judy's first version of "There's a Place Called Mars", and the soldering bench. Third row - fabric shelves behind the door, dress form (she needs a name, suggestions welcomed), and the paper hangers. One of my favorite books is " Where Women Create ", after Susan Tuttle posted photos of her new studio, it got me thinking about a "studio challenge" for lack of a better term - wouldn't it be cool to see where we all work? So I'm putting it out there~ and asking Cheryl Prater and Celine Navarro to be the first participants, so Cheryl and Celine- after you post your photos, you get to pick the next two lucky bloggers!

1. I love creepy, weird kinds of things, but I also love lace and ribbons and pretty packages, vintage shiny things, kind of like a crow I guess. Victorian Lowbrow is right up my alley. 2. Louisiana is my favorite locale for fiction, I adore James Lee Burke. 3. I listen to Audiobooks while i do art to get more books into me~ 4. I'm a food snob, one of my favorite things is going to High Tea at the Ritz 5. I just ordered this Amy Butler fabric from Purl Soho. 6. I'm an HSP; The Highly Sensitive Person if you are an HSP your nervous system is more sensitive to subtleties, your brain processes information and reflects on it more deeply, and you are more easily overstimulated, stressed out, overwhelmed. 7. I have an Elna , and I know how to use it! I'm tagging Sarah Fishburn , Patti Mosca , Melissa McCobb Hubbell Ro Bruhn , Kelli Perkins , Lani Gerity , and Tiffini Elektra X

Anna Maria Horner: Making a Splash Is this not gorgeous? After I saw this skirt the other day I found myself going back again three times - (after I put Ms. Anna Maria in my links list) ~ so I just had to post~ Her creations are amazing, thanks for making our lives brighter Anna Maria!

Happy Mother's Day! My Son Colin has started a Mother's Day "Cows on Parade" collection for me, last years gift cow was "Chelsea" at right, and this year he gave me "Lactose Intertolera-Bull" - loving those Art Cows!! (I want the Day of the Dead Cow next!) And what could be a better Mother's Day present than a Grandbaby!! Colin's boy Tiernan is 18 months old and I adore him ~ (he talks with his hands already, just like Gram, I love it!) His current favorite phrases are "what do'in?" and "where go'in?", which he very sweetly asked the ants I introduced him to in the front yard the other day~ lol