A Tribute to Carl and Jessie

I needed some fresh inspiration to complete a project this week. I have been wanting to do an ATC in tribute to my dear mother in law. She has been gone a few years now, I loved her dearly, and I miss her. Her birthday was last week and I am forever thankful that she had my darling husband and brought him into this world....and into mine. Her name was Jessie and here is the ATC I did yesterday in her honor.

Jessie was quite a piece of work. She was always dressed up every day complete with makeup and lipstick. She wore a fancy top with matching earrings, brooch, and a bow in her hair. She was the cute little old lady in the fancy outfit and gold LA Gear tennis shoes. She had a famous saying that she used to day "Little Powder and Paint, Makes you what you Ain't" A few years ago I found a rubber stamp with her saying on it. Apparently, she had not invented the phrase. So I added that to the back of the ATC...

Then to the make the family homage complete, I made a ATC with Roger's father, Carl in his US Marine Photo. He was a Marine Corps Master Sargeant. He fought on Iwo Jima, was shot and received his Purple Heart when he returned home from the war. Jessie was still waiting for him when he got back from Iwo Jima. They were married and went on to have my darling husband, Roger and his sister, Linda.

God Bless Carl and Jessie......

~ Lovingly yours,

~Dawn, your grateful daughter in law

S O S

Save Our Shows!!!! I read today on Claudine's blog
DIY plans on making some programming changes.
They would like to replace Craft Lab, Uncommon
Threads, Knitty Gritty and Stylelicious with more
how to tile your bathroom type shows.
puuuullleeze
I really enjoy the hip crafty girls on DIY if you do too
click on the link and let DIY know how you feel.
Us Art Chicks need to stick together!
Steph

http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/newsletter/text/0,2019,DIY_14146_14234,00.html

Digging out

Welllllll, Looks like I've got my work cut out for me

here. This is a picture of my desk, taken 45 minutes ago. ugh(good thing it's a small photo)

Where is that hostess of Clean Sweep when you need her?? The
last few weeks have held very little time for tending the art supplies
and I think without supervision they may have mated and multiplied
over the holidays. Tonight I will be digging out, all the packaging and
wrapping odds and ends will be banished and I resolve to have a clean table in the morning. I must have space to work on 3 swaps I joined eeek!

Wish me luck,

Steph

Xu Bing Square Word

Another thing I happened upon at the museum was this Square Word Calligraphy. Too Cool, really quite mesmerizing to decode and read in text form. (top to bottom) To the
left you can make out some words.
It looks just like traditional Chinese
Characters (to the untrained eye) but it is English spelling. Think of the time it took to make all the letters fit like a puzzle, what an amazing artist.
I have spent some serious surfing time trying to find a better example to show. (check out the link below)
I will have to sit and play around with this, at the museum you can type a phrase into the computer and it transforms it into Square Word.
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424298598/137214/xu-bing-quotation-from-chairman-mao.html
Have a fun Sunday!
Steph

Mahna Mahna

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(Because I am not a smart blogger, my video clip is in the sidebar,
my apologies to savvy bloggers everywhere. :)) Upper right corner,
**caution Dawn has been singing it ever since she watched it**

I hope everyone is having a great start in 2008!
I was soooo tickled by a field trip the winks and I
took today, I had to share.
The Museum for Youth in downtown Mesa is hosting
the Smithsonian's, Jim Henson's Fantastic World.
What a treat for those of us who grew up with Sesame
Street and the Muppet Show. I am certian that my sister
and I enjoyed it more than our winks. What I didn't expect
is how hard the winks would laugh when I got all choked
up at some of the stuff on display. whatever.
Lots of sketches on regular yellow lined note pad paper,
looked like sharpie ink to me.
(proof that "acid free" is an urban legend, hee hee hee hee, couldn't resist)
It did occur to me that if he had spent hsi time looking for the perfect
archival paper and the non smear, waterproof, dye ink pen he may have
missed sketching some of the most lovable characters of my child hood.
~Steph

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”

~Jim Henson