Sacred Girlie Show!

In her Friday blog, Suze Perot (local artist extraordinaire!) mentioned “The Girlie Show” and, being to internet junkie that I am, I immediately googled and found that it is a local “chicks only” art show, right her in OKC!!  Meg and I went on Saturday and ohmygosh am I EVER in love!!
Here are a few [...]

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Letting the Light In

I’m a terrible perfectionist.  Last night I received a couple of papers back from prior classes – both made perfect scores, but the professors had noted some minor errors or omissions in each and I was just beside myself about it all evening!  Mostly, it’s because both notations were vague and I have not a [...]

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Beautiful in Her Sight

This is one of the pieces I made in Carmen Torbus’s Spill It class.  I diverged from the instructions a little and used alcohol inks instead of acrylic paints and the wonky face just sort of appeared.  I’ve been noticing faces in things lately – in the pattern of the tile in my bathroom, in [...]

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Emergence

I’m not sure where I heard it (I suspect it was here), but the word “emerge” has sort of been guiding me lately.  Here’s a little focused play I did with it this past weekend…

I added the definition after I’d actually completed the piece…
e-merge’ (e-murj’), v. To come out into
view; to appear; as, the sun [...]

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How Can I Connect Your Call?

I’ve always working to improve my internal language (in other words – be nicer to myself) and someone recently suggested using the image of an old switchboard… you know the old fashioned kind where operators unplugged your call from one place and into another (perhaps better) place by way of a big board?  I loved [...]

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Mother of Invention

Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife”
~Jonathan Schattke quotes
I’ve been inventing – what do you think?

I originally planned to make another mirror like this one, but I wasn’t crazy about the colors once I got it all together and was considering sanding it [...]

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Dream Journaling

dreams lead us to the best of ourselves…
that is why we are ultimately compelled to follow.

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Shone, Shined, Shining

I spent some time over the weekend revamping one of the pieces I made in Sarah Ahearn’s class at Squam.  The piece on the left is “the game piece” we created in class (it was created spontaneously, based on prompts that Sarah provided).  I liked elements of it, but not the whole thing, so I [...]

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Pendant Collage

Remember a few days ago when I showed you that Story People pendant?   Well, it came yesterday!!

I added it to a  ZuluGrass necklace I bought in New York forever ago and then added a couple of dangles I made with similarly colored beads, wire, needle nose pliers and some careful twisting.
It sort of turned [...]

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Squam Dreaming

I’ve been playing in my journal this week instead of doing my homework and now I’m under the gun to get everything finished!  My heart just isn’t in it – I guess I’m still dreaming of Squam and creative play all the live long day.  Sigh.

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