Look What I Got!

This is the carton I received! I just love the felt bead, art journal & the boxes are so lovely. I saw them on the blog & fell in love with them. The journal is beautiful. It included some of my favorite things: vintage & art deco. Thank you so much Susan. I will be mailing out my first 2 cartons next week.

Purple Angel

I finally finshed a wall hanging for my friend's birthday. She loves purple & angels. This piece was like hard labor - it just did not want to come!

It started out under glass but that just didn't work out! Such is life. I do like the way it ended up anyways! Susan just loved it & that's what counts the most.

At least I think I figured out the basics for this picture thing! Just in time too because my Art in a Carton is on it's way! I have 1 carton done & some pieces done too. Hopefully I'll have another carton done today. I'll try to get it finished on my lunch! If not then by Tues at the latest.

I had to run an errand on Thurday for my husband, so I stopped at 1 of my favorite antique stores on Glendale Ave in Phoenix. I found some great things! 3 wonderful rusty old doorknob plates with skeleton key holes, a rusty doorknob set, more of the glass picture slides & some great postcards & cabinet cards. Some of it will be wonderful for my class in Aug.

Great score at Goodwill

I had to go to Phoenix yesterday & decided to stop at Goodwill... I found so many great items! And most at 50% off. You got to love that! I found a spoon rack - but it has 2 hand carved triangles - like roofs & 2 stately columns separating them. It's coming apart but I saw so many possibilities and all for 1.99! I also got large plastic bags of buttons, threads, patterns, and other misc items in there. I haven't opened them yet - I want to enjoy each item. I finally found the fabric to cover the laptop project. I thought I'd try my hand at Steampunk - so there went the old laptop! That's one of my "in between" projects. I've been working on the pieces for Art in a Carton. This swap has been great for me! I've been trying all kinds of new techniques I normally don't do. I love the mini art journal I just completed - I made it with a clamshell template & used an ocean theme. Now I'm getting ready to make some different ones! It was fun to make. I work usually in a "production line". I have projects all over my table & work on which one feels right.

I don't get alot of time to update my blog & still having issues posting pictures. I've been putting in alot of hours at work on top of that 1 hour drive each way, we've spent quite a lot of time cleaning up & repairing damage from the last kid that crashed into my yard! 5th time since we bought this house! We live on the corner by a wash - they love to fly ( & I mean fly!) through the wash & try to make that corner - doesn't happen! Which is why we have huge boulders outside our fence. This last kid plowed right through the boulders, the fence, stacks of firewood & landed smack into the middle of my greenhouse! Totaled his girlfriend's truck - snapped the axle off. Destroyed the greenhouse! At least this time the kid got arrested - the last one ran! So needless to say time is at a premium! Plus I'm trying to organize my studio - I spend more time trying to find things in there! I'll be working - the lightbulb goes off for the perfect item for the piece & I can't find it! Also I'll be getting ready to pack my stuff for Art Unraveled. I have all the required items but dodads... I need more ( I always need more!) I need to take a trip to the antique stores in Glendale. I always find fun stuff there! I never know what I'll find but that is the fun of it!