White Witch Sneak Peak

I am posting this for Joan. If you follow my blog you know Joan and I have been collaborating on her first set of dolls. I hope you like her outfit Joan. Joan is really getting the hang of sculpting with Paper clay. Now, all I have to finish on her is her hat. She will be holding a white owl...as soon as I figure out how to attach him. I have talked Joan into doing a red one, so we can have some them. Then we may list them at the same time. I cannot wait to share this one when she is done. In my own world I would love to paint something today. Not sure if I will but we'll see.

Free time

I thought I had a lot of that today. NOPE Life happens. Spent an hour talking to tech support about my wireless modem. I was a bit frustrated the call center was in India. You know them. I could hardly make out her accent and she could barely understand me. I was practically yelling at her. I felt terrible about that..but, what? what? what? Uggg. Anyway, at least I got this accomplished. I still am not sure I am happy with it. I will wait till it dries and do some touch up I suppose and see what happens. I am in dire need of a new supply of paint. Much of my craft paint dried...I guess they don't have much of a shelf life and I used the rest. I may have to find other things to create for a while. Mieninger is a luxury I won't be enjoying for a little while at least.

SWAP Dolly

Can you believe I am waiting till a day before this little girl is due to get shipped. Man, I really need to change that. Doll making is messy. I don't have proper room on my table so my floor takes the brunt of it. I would love to have a workshop someday. Just for painting and doll making. My fancy doll museum of an office just does not cut it. LOL Sure is pretty though and I spend about 80% of my time there. I have to get this done by the end of the day. Schools out for 3 weeks so I am hoping to catch up on my blogging. I miss my blogger friends a bunch. I never have time to comment and check out art anymore! Boo Hoo

Christmas Tree

I took this baby out of the closet last week. Kinda funny, I still have my spooky trees and crows out for Halloween. It's fall so I wanted to enjoy it up to Thanksgiving. I normally put up the tree, by myself (frown) the Friday after, but I don't think I am going to have time. I am off school on the 18th, so it may have to wait. We'll see. This tree is made by a local artist Look In The Nook. I Love her stuff!

Ambitious or no?

Look at all these Christmas patterns. There are four here I have not made yet. I was asked by a friend to do Christmas handmade party and thought I would make some nodders because they are easier than a whole dolly. But I would love to make some stocking and other things. Can I do it? We will see. Only 3 weeks left to create!!!

Mexican Folk Art

I was inspired to put a flower in her hair by Frida. We watched that movie the other day. It was good except for her provocative lifestyle. Is that really true? Anyway, I have decided to give this painting to one of my sisters kids. Along with the winter painting I did a while back. They are perfect for them. They are half Guatamalan and have that dark hair. I think the bright blue back ground reminds me of Mexican art. I think I like these characters better than my angels. I am enjoying the practice, though.

More Painting

What a wonderful morning. I actually accomplished something. Another angel painting. I have decided to give this as a gift for Christmas. Lots of my family will be getting art or hand mades this year. It is fun for me, though.

~Angel Painting~

That did not take long. I love that about acrylic paint. I have been debating on posting this on E-bay or giving it as a gift for Christmas because I have never really sold paintings. I am not consistent enough.

WIP (finally)

Can you believe it? I am actually making something! While I wait for her to dry, I thought I would share. There's some details I want to add to her, so she is not finished. Plus, she is missing a halo. I hope I can create more items this weekend because I have it free. Aside from a couple quizes.

Twitter & Stuff

Just added Twitter. Great one more thing to update. Keeping it Wonders of Whimsy, unless people want more. Not too many dolls been made this year. But, I have a swap coming up, so I have to make at least one. I will be teaching myself to sculpt with polymer clay next year. I am very interested in Stop Motion Animation, so this will be a great skill to learn. I cannot wait. I am gonna need real artist workshop instead of my doll museum of an office. I hope I can find time to finish this hook rug. I have been procrastinating for a while.

October Snow Storm

A break in the snow has allowed a lot of what was shoveled to melt. The Crows came out with another swarm of black birds that like to eat the cat food I put out. The crows are spoiled. They hang out during the winter mornings and eat peanuts Joan and I put out for them. Crows are really fun to watch. They know me, which is real neat.

Halloween Decor & A Box by Joan

We sold all of our Halloween Decor, except for my trees, garland and crows. I will post a video of our house all decked out. It was fun. I would let kids tour the house, most were scared because it really looked like and old manor house with flicker lights everywhere and our costumes we awesome!

Since becoming a Christian we felt we should not celebrate Halloween like we used to. I love fall and Halloween, so I had to keep some items and our custom made theatrical costumes. Plus, I love lights. I could have lights up for every holiday, mind you. Gosh, I'd be a Koo koo cat lady with lights all around her house all year round...HAHAHAHA...too funny, I crack myself up! Nope, I am the opposite of that. I hate clutter. That would suffocate me.


Joan painted a box I gave her. She is trying to break into Folk Art and loves to paint. Go check out her blog to view the auction, it ends Sunday.

Primitive Folk Art Cat Make-Do

I was searching for an image on my computer and came upon this one. Here is Shadow posing for me on my set up. Shadow is a big reason I wanted to get into Animation. I cannot blog about what I mean here, someday you will know. Anyway, I have been a terrible blogger. I probably said that before. LOL I could blog about some of my classes, lol then you might feel connected. I have Art History next term. I am happy and excited. I did not pay attention when I was a teen and the Art Institute did not have book classes. PURE ART. Just how I liked it back then. I was a C student at best. Late bloomer I call it or just too much partying and not giving a crap. Now I am a 4.0 student. YEAH. I do not feel proud of myself, though. Because I did not try as hard as I should. I thank the lord for that, but know that if I did it all perfect I could have a 100% A+ I don't know if that even counts as anything higher than a 4.0, but I think I compete against myself sometimes. Is that weird?

Burr it is cold outside!

Not much going on here today. It is real chilly out and rainy, so I thought what a good day to work with fiber. Here is my latest hook rug. I blogged about wanting to make this months ago. My hook rug tutor had one at her house. I really need to meet up with her again. I am an idiot when it comes to binding them. Or maybe I am just too much of a perfectionist. Probably both. LOL It would be a good day to snuggle by the fire, but nope, none of that going on. I have been procrastinating on a bunch of Ipod purses. They are almost finished, but I cannot seem to get motivated to make the straps. Probably because I have not sold any. That is usually a big motivation for me. I am sure it is the same with everyone. I also have a few canvas's that are sitting. Having so many hobbies is great..I do love it, but I can see if I had just one I might get more of that finished. I am not complaining, though. I would never take back any of the fun things I have learned the last few years. I have many many projects waiting to be started to, so my winter will be full.

Joan's Witch

Sorry Joan, I could not wait. I have been teaching Joan how to make dolls. Paper clay dolls, that is. Here is Joan's first witch. I have been helping her as she goes. Showing her all my clever tricks, making the hat and needle felting her hair. It has been quite a fun experience being able to share my skills with someone.

Joan will be putting her on E-bay next week and I will blog about it again...then. Soon maybe Joan can join our doll groups and start making a name for herself. I am so proud of her so far. She has been a great student.

Joan is using a pattern I created using muslin for these dolls. I will be showing her how to sew on my machine tomorrow morning, so she can start creating more.

We can officially welcome Joan into the doll making world!!! YEAH! Go check her out on her blog.

Joan's Sneak Peak

My good friend and neighbor Joan is making her first witch doll. GO Check her out on her blog. As for me, I am struggling to get to my homework! GRRRR.

Happy birthday to me!

I know how you all love to see pictures of my office, so here is a new one. Joan gave me 3 kitten paintings, from the last litter I rescued, for my birthday. You can see them on the bottom shelf. I also blogged about them on alley cat rescue. She also took me out for breakfast. That was cool! Thanks Joan.

So, anyway.....I am turning 40 years old today. Yep, you read that right. I don't look a day over 29, either, right? Actually if you go by facebook, I am 18 and 21. lol That would be about right because I am a freshman in college. Yet, I have the mentality of a 40 year old. They call that wisdom and I thank the lord for it.

I am sorry about being a lousy blogger lately. I have been helping Joan with her first witch doll. Plus, I only have 2.5 weeks of school left this term and it goes by so fast. I still cannot believe I will be a sophomore by Christmas. Time flies when your past middle age.

Sunflower rug

It has been a busy day, but I did get the chance to finish a project. I always like when I can accomplish something. This little hook rug is only an 8x8.

It was real cold, today. Barely 60 with overcast and sprinkles. We'll probably have more of the same tomorrow.

Welcome Fall

It is cool and windy out this morning. Feeling like fall. As I was looking for something in my craft closet, I eyed a stack of wool from Marti of Old World Primitives. So, I decided to cut out a fall picture. I did this all freehand without a drawing or pattern. That's the easy part. When am I gonna hand stitch this together? I feel it will need more embellishments as well, so it will be a work in progress. Fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors, the smells, the sweaters, Halloween, my birthday....it goes on.

~Pumpkins & more~

What am I working on... I scheduled a little creative time today. I am so happy, that I did. I won't be getting much over the weekend. I have open houses both days. But, if I could put a few hours a day, I may have some Halloween items for sale this weekend. I love this little pumpkin make-do with his crow. I painted on his eyes versus the sew on look. He is not finished but, I like sharing. I feel like I have not been a good blogger, lately.

Projects

I have been procrastinating on my doll, long enough. I hope to work on her and my sunflower hook rug this week. I wanted to set her aside and work on a Halloween item, but I don't want another unfinished project.

I have lots of schoolwork and now I am working on the weekends, doing open houses. So, less free time for me.

A Clean Office & Joan's Doll

Minus my sewing machine on the floor, it looks clean! :) When your friends say, "Wow, it's clean" you know it was a pig sty. LOL

Joan is finished with her first doll. It was a collaboration between the two of us, because I had to sew for her. But Joan did the rest. Her painting style is interesting and makes this doll so much her own style. I love it. I am so excited to share.
She will be listing her on Ebay...Hopefully tonight.

Joan is excited about making dolls now. I am sewing up bodies for her, so she can paper clay a witch this week. It is so fun mentoring an artist. I never thought I would be doing that. I sure hope Joan finds success in her art. She has been painting all her life. Go check out her blog here.

Where is my Halloween spirit?

That is what I was thinking when I decided to make this Americana doll. This is what I made when I showed Joan how to use paper clay. I am thinking about mounting her on a jar and putting something themed inside. I am a bit clueless right now because I am not concentrating on this. I wish I could just get my act together and make some Halloween dolls. Time is flying by.

Progress

Dave rented that old movie Soylent Green, last night. So, I chose to work on my rug while we watched it. We had not seen it and were told it was disturbing. Well, I could not get over how cheesy it was. I did not finish watching it. It was too silly for me. But, at least I was able to get some of this done. It is nice to finally work on something!

WIP

It has been a while since I have made anything. I cannot believe we are into September already. I should be getting motivated to make a doll. I have 3 days to make something for WSOAPP. I haven't even started. Doll making can take up 4 hours at a time and I just have not been focused enough to commit that. I received a custom order for my slippers. I should take that off my ETSY. I figured I am making $3 an hour. Yippy. But, it does help out with the cats. By the way, I finally caught and snipped that momma kitty. You can read that on Alley Cat Rescue, when I get around to posting it. LOL

Ghoulie is here

Pea of Whimsical Endeavors created this cutie. She is sweet, too! I am busy today. I designed a cloth body, so Joan (my friend and neighbor) can sculpt paper clay dolls this afternoon. Should be interesting.

ME @ 21 Too Funny!

I decided to scan in some of my scrapbook (that I never really finished) lol This scrapbook has pictures of me in my 20's and early 30's. I may share some more down the road. So, this would be my natural hair color.

Camping Pictures

Better late than never. I took these last weekend. We are at about 8000 feet. But on the flat tops, so you don't see mountains. The lake is bigger than it looks. It was real cold and choppy on Saturday, so my jet ski ride was frigid and wet. But, Sunday was warmer and glassy; so we had a lot of fun after all. I took Gin for a nice hike in the woods. She loved it. She acted like a puppy though and insisted on dragging me most of the way.

I am almost done with school work, so maybe I will do something creative. I have so much on my to do list, though, that I am overwhelmed and do nothing.

As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness round about. This [was] the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw [it], I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow [was] upon his head, and his face [was] as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=rainbow&t=KJV

A darling surprise!

Oh look at all the goodies i received today. Pea of Whimsical Endeavor made this darling make-do. He is so sweet and meticulously crafted. Pea was so generous giving him away on her blog. She was also kind enough to send goodies for fun and for my birthday next month. I love everything and it totally made my day.

Paintings listed on Ebay.

click on the image to view their auction.

Winter Love

I painted one last painting before the weekend camping trip. We are going to the Western Slope to camp at a lake with Jet Ski's and 4 wheelers. WooHoo! :) I'll share some pictures when I get back. I hope you have a nice weekend. Enjoy it cuz it's almost over!!!

Stella

I pulled this big canvas out of the garage. It was for an abstract, that I had not gotten to painting. I think it goes really nice here. It is huge. 30X36 the others are 10x10, 8x8, 6x6.
I cannot imagine selling something this big on Ebay. This would look good in a gallery...hhhhmmm.

Three Sisters

Welp, I am out of canvas. I have a lot of studying to do, so I best get to it. All of these paintings will be posted on Ebay, once all my current auctions are over. I think they look great together. Seems like something someone might want to collect. We'll see.

Twins

I painted 'Twins" this morning. It is a 10 by 10 deep canvas. I am thrilled with it. I hope you are enjoying my new work. I decided to do an entire theme with these colors. I love how the blue looks up against black hair. It will be interesting to see if people like these. I mean enough to bid on them that is! It would be nice to be able to support my college education with a job of painting. Praise the Lord!

More paintings

I got three more painting in for the day. These are little 4x4s. I think they turned out beautifully. It would be wonderful to list them all together. So, I may wait till my current auctions are finished.