Better Late than Never...

Hey All

Thought I'd better at least 

check in with you all so you'll know I am still around,

and yes, still floundering for the Summer months.

But as the Summer is coming to a close,

I'm pleased to say I've still managed to get a bit

of art time in once in a while, so just a quickie

blog post to catch up.

First off, Better late than never,

I'm referring to the Fabulous Workshop 

I took a couple of years back with 

Desert Dreams Studio's

Mary Jane Chadbourne

Her Wood Doll Workshop was great fun,

and I'd bought three of her great wood doll blanks,

and had completed two of them, but the third

ended up on a back burner as life tends to get in the way.

So pleased to say I finally finished the third wood doll.

Named my Hippie Dippy Doll

'When Pigs Fly'

It's been one of my favourite sayings for years,

and I tend to collect flying pigs so thought

with this last doll I'd go for it :)

Using Mary Jane's Wonderful Wood Doll Blank

and lots of papers and bits and bobs, 

and some great items, including the 

Lazier Cut Out of the Flying Pig

from 

Retro Cafe Art Gallery

I so enjoyed getting back into playing

with assemblages again, and even went as

far as making bits using my art tags to incorporate.

It really felt good to finally complete the set :)

Such fun!

And as usual, been keeping busy with....

Tons of tag making!

I've been spending the Summer doing some 

clean up and reorganizing the Art Room,

and came across a ton of printed up Graphics

from a myriad of Companies over the years

that I've collected yet not really played with.

So I've been cutting out tons of graphics of

an evening while watching t.v. and now have

a go-to box of graphics, as I've also

made a routine of early morning 

Coffee and Tag Art Making.

And even diving into some of my stamp collections,

and I hate to say, some I've never even used yet!

Character Construction Stamps have

been sitting and waiting for me to notice them in 

my collection, so lately Coffee and Tag making

has been spent with them :)

Gorgeous Quality Stamps

that I'd collected a ton of and I'm so sorry

I've waited so long to play with them!

I also dabbled a bit in some

quick crafts, popsicle stick arts.

Found them to be a bit of fun.

And even experimented with a idea I saw

on Facebook of using discarded recycled plastics

to create Shrink Plastics.

Used my hand carved stamp of my Favourite Boy

Oliver Howard to experiment with...

another fun project :)

So as you can see, Summer hasn't been

a total loss of Art Time,

but really looking forward to some 

Fall and Winter serious Play Time

with the Art Room.

Hope you find some inspiration to get into

the Mojo of some Art Time for Yourselves too!!!

Thanks for having a Boo!!

Enjoy!