Showing posts with label where bloggers create. Show all posts
Showing posts with label where bloggers create. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14

Where Bloggers Create III

I love my art room.
Sometimes I call it my studio to sound professional, it's actually our dining room.
I needed an art room much more than a formal dining room. 

A place I can go to forget the stress of the day & get lost in a whole other world.
 Sometimes I dream of having a 'real studio'.
A big room, separate from the rest of the house.
But for now my room is perfect.
 It's in the center of the house, close to the kitchen & living room.
 I can play with my toys while the kids play with theirs.

With 3 little ones, I get my art fix when I can.
But my favorite, most creative time of day is early morning before anyone is awake.
 My head is clear & the house is silent.
 I can, & do whittle away hours looking thru my drawers,
boxes ,
& suitcases
 searching for the perfect element to complete a project.
There are some pieces that are just to precious to me,
I don't think I could ever use them.
I just like to take them out & stare.
Shelves filled with gifts from sweet friends,
things I've made,



and many,
 many,

collections.


Thank you Karen for once again organizing this awesome party. Every year I look forward to poking around your studios.
So I'm off to snoop!
  Thanks for stopping by.

Wednesday, June 23

Published!!

I'm buried deep in projects, first of which is my awesome Paper Cowgirl gig!
Don't tell anyone, but I think I bit off more than I could
chew. 
LOL
I work best under pressure though.
So yesterday, while standing in a sea of lace, covered in glue, kids screaming for something more than a Pop Tart to eat, & I'm just about to throw one Texas size hissy fit..........
the doorbell rings......

I've waited 8 months for this!  My work published at last!

I even kinda made the cover!

And yes Sissie, I wet my pants!
It's a real honest to goodness layout, (5 pages, but who's counting) accompanied by my own words. 
 I set some serious goals for myself this year & after a lot of hard work it's so gratifying to see my dreams coming true. 
My idea... to have a small home business up & operating by the time my kids start kindergarten.
Nothing big, just enough to contribute to the family.
Opening a blog shop, teaching workshops, selling my art, & now being featured in my favorite publication!
 It's all happening & I'm overwhelmed.
Thank you all for giving me the encouragement & confidence to go forward.  You brought me here!
One of my favorite quotes is from a poem by Thoreau,
When it's time to die let us not discover that we have not lived.
 Spidy 1, 2 & PPP asked me to say thanks for visiting our little studio.   I'm working my way down the WBC list, there are so many AMAZING rooms to see! 
 I'm off to Paper Cowgirls tomorrow, I'll be back Monday to reveal my soapbox & so much more.  For those of you participating in my art challenge, I'll have
Mr Linky up Sunday night.
Wish me luck on everything!

Friday, June 18

Where Bloggers & Kids Create!


Our Mommy is crazy right now working on some kind of paper doll, or cowgirl thing. 
Oh yes, Paper Cowgirls
We are Spiderman, Pretty Pink Princess & Spiderman 2, & we'll be your hosts for the party!
Mom doesn't have a big fancy studio, she makes her art in our playroom.  We like it that way because we can play together. 
This is her work table, it's her very favorite thing.  Daddy found it for her at a re-sale shop when we were kids.
 
She thinks it came from a school or something, it's old. 
 
This is our art table, Mom found it at a garage sale for $10.
We are mixed media artists too!

We love to dig through the drawers in Mom's desk.
There are 22 of them, we'll just show you the ones we like best.

Mommy loves nature.  She says it's her favorite art supply, except for lace.  She really loves that stuff, we'll talk about that later. 

This furry thing freaks us out! We are not sure what it was.

Her very favorite nature is heart shaped rocks, she has a big 'ol jar of them.  Whenever we find them for her she gets all happy & hugs us hard.

Daddy calls her a hoarder, but she says she's a collector.

See this suitcase?  It's our college fund.
Mommy says city college will make a man of me.

This stuff in the buggy is velvet ribbon, she loves it almost as much as the lace.  Instead of going to Disney World last summer, we had to go to Louisiana so Mommy could go shopping with Aunt Jodie.  That's were she got all this.  We don't care what Mommy says, crocodiles are not as cute as Mickey Mouse!
When she's not buying up lace, she's looking for fabric.  Some of it is in these suitcases. 

She thinks she's pretty smart putting the words on the suitcases, but everyday she's pulling them down to get something out of the bottom one.

This one has lots of Barbie rugs.

Mommy spends a lot of time looks through this suitcase.  She says it's Yummy!
That's silly.

She gets real happy about this one too. 
 She says things like 'ahhhh'. She snuck it in the house while Daddy was napping.

She takes dryer sheets out of the laundry basket & puts them in the cases.  She say's it makes them smell good.
Once in a awhile Mommy buys new things. They don't need dryer sheets.
This is a good one,

it has tons of teeny baby shoes, but Mommy won't let us play with them.

This is Mommy's hutch, it used to be in our dining room.
We don't have a dining room anymore. 
She keeps her pretties on it. 
See that angel doll on the shelf?? Isn't she so pretty?  Mommy's friend Dorthe made it, Mommy say's her angel watches over us!

These are cards & things from more of Mommy's friends.
She's made a lot of friends, she talks on the phone to them.
She talks on the phone a LOT!
When she's on the phone we're not suppose to bug her unless we're bleeding.

When she's not buying up lace & fabric, she's buying buttons.
We like buttons, she lets us sort them. 
 We look for the prettiest ones.  We put all the whities in this jar.  Whities are her favorites.

Mom says this is the best wall in our house. 
She says every bit of it makes her happy
We like it when she's happy so we try not to mess with it so much. 
The art on the wall is from more of Mommy's friends.  Dawn, Jodie, Dorthe, Karen, Julia, Ann & Rebecca
 Whenever the postman rings our doorbell Mom gets all excited. 
Then she gets her camera & takes pictures while she unwraps the box. 
Then she does the Happy Dance.

We think maybe Mommy & her friends lost some of their crayons. Everything is white & brown. No purple, no blue. Not even green! Maybe Mommy needs new crayons.


More white stuff!

That's one of Mom's mannequins, we used to call it a maniac.
We were little then. Now we're 4 & we know it's a mannequin.  Mom glued paper all over it & made the biggest mess you ever saw.  She makes a lot of messes.

It's almost time for Dora, but we'll show you one more thing. 
See those cabinets by the doors? Well, sometimes we go to Ikea.  Mom loves Ikea.  She bought them there, she bought the hutch there too.  Daddy puts them together.  He's pretty good at reading the pictures that tell you how.  There's a lot more stuff in those. 
That's our dog Izzy outside.

See, more stuff!
Mom read on a blog how to put her stamps in CD cases.
Pretty smart huh?

She likes Tim Holtz a lot, she calls him a Grunge King.
She says the silliest things.
Mommy says you can never have too much seam binding.

That head thing creeps us out almost as much as the furry thing in the drawer!  She's always dragging those magazines around too. 
We didn't even talk about the magazines, we can't stay up late enough for that!
Thanks for visiting today, we hope you liked it!
Mommy says for us to tell Karen she's a Rock Star for dreaming up this awesome party & she can't wait to stop sewing so she can go see everyone's studio's.
~ Lisa
Spiderman, Pretty Pink Princess & Spiderman 2