Christmas Cards

Here are some of the belated photos of the hanging cards I made for Friends. Naturally they haven't received them yet (leaning toward a "Christmas Month-kinda like "Birthday Month"). Good news or bad, not sure, but these three girls aren't blog followers, so posting them is a OK! I went to a yard sale several years ago and bought this great plywood boxes, they sold the whole group to me. I think there were 25 or 30 in all. The boxes had lids and sometimes my boxes don't need lids and naturally I couldn't just throw them out. So I made these little hanging plaques-I actually like them. There are vintage buttons, old lace pieces, velvet ribbon remnants, pieces from vintage cards, old sheet music and lots of gold and silver paint! Funny enough, I thought that a two dimensional piece would be easier or should I say faster to make. Silly me, I still had to find parts....LOL! Have a Creative Day!! S

Art on the Road

Well, I have been taking continuing education courses this week so I can keep my business license in the state of Indiana. Trapped in a really chilly basement, eight plus hours a day and stuck in a hotel the rest of the time. The first night at the hotel, I spilled a container of seed beads in the bed. I started laughing so hard, trying to round them all back up again, imagining what in the world the poor housekeeping person would think about the beads in the bed...Who really tries to stitch with beads, while lounging in bed anyway!

I have been wondering about this couple that I found in an auction box. New Harmony auction of course. I am so overdue for the auction next Saturday, but my little buddie, Conner is having his first birthday party and I have been lucky enough to be invited, and of course I must attend the celebration of his birth! I bought him his first crayons; the kind that look like little eggs. I am sure it's a bit too soon for crayons (at least for most people), but really can you ever start making art too soon? That would be a great big-NO!

I woke up night before last and had a fabulous idea for a Christmas card. I have never wanted to make a Christmas card before, so I don't know what came over me at 2am. I woke up at my daughter's house and remembered why I like to have a sketch book by the bed! Now this morning as I was waiting for everyone to wake up, and happily making Christmas cards, I wondered why I didn't take the time to make them before. Yes, the cards are time consuming, but so are holiday cookies! I am not making that many cards, but really, they will be suitable for framing and how much fun will that be? I think almost as fun as cookie dough, but with a longer shelf live.