'Tis the Season!!!!

I got the rest of my Christmas decorations up today! I cut some pine boughs down from our gigantic tree and got down to business! I wanted a really crisp, cool, glittery feel, and I think I accomplished what I set out to do! I realize that Christmas is still pretty far away, but in these parts, you have to get your outdoor decorations done early, or chances are you'll be doing it in some pretty Arctic conditions!!!
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Home Sweet Home

So when my seven year old son, Caiden came up to me requesting I cut a door and a window into this cardboard box, I think he somehow knew that he would get more than he was asking for. So, downstairs I went to my fabric stash, and came up with curtains, shingles, and siding...well, the potential for it, anyway. We got out the glue gun and got busy! Sisi and Caiden played for hours with it. Sisi with her babies, and Caiden with his teeny tiny action figures. The two methods of play couldn't have been more different. Sisi nurtured, fed, and put her babies to bed in the home, while Caiden pretended it was a jail. Kudos to imagination! To paraphrase Hamilton Hock, from Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, "To you it may only be a cardboard box, but it's home to meeeeeee..."
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Will E. Freeze

I needed more Christmas decorations...and not those cheap, personality-lacking, mass-produced jobbies you find at the stores. I wanted something WHOLESOME. Something that, years from now, when I unwrap the tissue paper after it's been in storage for 11 months, makes me smile and brings back memories of happy times. This brings me to the birth of Mr. Will E. Freeze. Born in my kitchen (cuz my studio is just too messy to work in now), Mr. Freeze is entirely one of a kind, made from newspaper, handmade paper pulp, and flour. No molds, no nothing. This bad boy truly is an original. I even knit the little guy a beautiful scarf in glorious 100% wool. I hope he'll be with us for long after I'm gone, so that when my children, and children's children unwrap him from an 11 month hibernation, they'll all feel the warmth and love that was poured into him. My little girl Sapphire already feels the warm fuzzies for Will E.
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An award? What?

Check it out...this cool chick at http://theunexperiencedmom.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-got-award-honestly.html gave me a blog award!
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Thanks so much Tamara! This tells me that I must get my proverbial butt in gear and start posting again! I actually have been keeping very busy creatively as of late, so I do have stuff to post about! So let's see, I have a couple commissioned pieces on the go...a 4' x 3' mixed media painting being among them. This friend of mine wanted a giant 'merman', so after a few weeks of trying to get inspired, I got down to business! Here's the work in progress (and please mind the chaos that is my studio...creative minds are seldom organized!


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Oh - and hey! Do you remember that igloo I started and NEVER finished last year? Well, we had a freak snow storm on October 9th of this year and GUESS WHAT? I made a freakin' igloo! And it even had a roof!
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