Wordless Wednesday

If I participate in Wordless Wednesday, that means I don't have to say anthing about this LO.here.

So I shant.

If you don't believe me, go visit them.

Go on

Shoo!

WOYWW?

Well, this week, it's really more like What's on Your Workwall Wednesday.

I just had to show you the awesome shelf my daughter's honey gave me for Christmas.

It's turned me into a Michael's shelving freak though, since loading this baby up, I've bought (she looks around) 4 more pieces for my studio and have spent an inordinate amount of time putting them together.  Maybe later today, I'll show you the kind of thing I'm replacing.

Suffice it to say, the movers, when I came into my condo, referred to my studio as "You mean the circus room?"

See proper What's on Your WORKDESK Wednesdays here.

The Work of the Glue-#84

If you are scratching your head at my post title, go here.

It's a new year, it's a new challenge and the new challenge is to do something new.

(That should be a song)

The new thing I've done is re-colouring a photograph.

The photo is of yours truly, maybe in, oh, let's say 1957 or so.

And that is my very own firetruck.

If you click on the picutre, you'll see my little foot on the pedal, and notice how I am ringing the bell.  You may or may not believe this, but I actually remember driving that thing up and down the cul-de-sac, ringing the bell to bring everyone out of their homes so I could show them.

I especially remember an elderly gentleman who made such a fuss over me.

And my firetruck, of course.

Well, mainly the firetruck.

But it was so cool!!!!

OK, back to the matter at hand.

The photo was black and white, well, to be honest, yellow and white now, and I wanted the truck to be red.  So I made it red.  then I thought my little sundress should be blue.  so I made it blue.  and so on.

Granted, it's my first attempt at this sort of thing.

but the Poobahs over at Opus Gluei said "Try something new" and gosh-darnit, I did.

So there.

Go tell them I did.

They're waiting.

Here.

Zetti

This week's word at Take A Word is

ZETTI.

I've never done Zetti and I had a blast making this.  The figure in the centre is my Zetti character.  The others are just her friends.

On second thought, the one on the right would be a "friendemy".

She's planned to scoop her main squeeze.

Hence, her stance and her declaration.

Of love.

OK, now that you've seen mine (and wondered why I haven't taken my medication today),

pop on over to Take A Word and check out the terrific sample that Bill has provided for inspiration.

(PS, the majority of the elements are from Crowabout Studios-

You can find them and other cool stuff at Scrapartist.)

I got my photos done!

Yay Me!!

A couple of times I got a wee bit sidetracked.

Here are a couple of the ones I got sidetracked with.

and this:

and finally, this:

Good night.

You wanna know why I haven't been around?

BECAUSE

I've made a decision to edit and print all the photos that I haven't edited and printed.

That's over 1000.

But I'm almost done.

This is a Quick Page, by Downunder Studios.

The child and cat are mine, the "valance" at the top and the crowns are by Fiddlette, and the birds in the sky are a brush I downloaded from Brusheezy.

OH yeah, the word art is from the ubiquitous Internet.

Thanks for looking.

Catch ya later!

Happy New Year!

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The Artist Trading Club-December

Chriss' theme for the Artist Trading Club-Swap Till You Drop December swap is

BIRDS.

Ya know how a while ago I said I would try to post the supplies I use, more consistently?

Well, scratch that.  I have OODLES of stuff in my studio that I HAD to throw the packaging out from, to fit it in my room.  That's the truth.  So I can't tell you from where most stuff comes.

The good news is, my daughter's DH gave me a HUMUNGO Making Memories shelf (hah!  I knew who made the shelf, didn't I?) for Christmas and that threw me into an OCD fit and I've been cleaning and sorting and such and

I WILL DO MY VERY BESTEST TO NOT THROW PACKAGING OUT FROM NOW ON.

You'll have to trust me on this one.

I love Christmas.

Don't you?

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Scribble Stain Distress

Linda's Compendium of Curiosities Challenge #24 is exactly that:  Scribble Stain Distress.

Do you know what that is exactly?  Hah!  I'm not going to tell you.  You need to open your Mr. H's book to page 34 and learn it for yourself.  THEN, you need to make something with it and get on over to StudioL3 and post what it is you've made.  Get busy.  You might want to have it done before New Year's Eve, so you can get plastered if that's your thing.  You shouldn't be doing this technique when you're plastered.  Not that I would know if that's REALLY a bad thing.  Just sayin.

Hey, why is New Year's Eve capitalized?  Is it someone famous' birthday?  Or do we get candy?  I never know what the deal is.  I just live in my own little world.  But it's OK.  They know me here.

Last WOYWW of 2010

In case you're wondering, the canvas on the left is going to be for my 2010 Dress Up dresses.

I saw a couple of other participants mount them in this way and I loved the idea, so, well...

And the rest?  I'm trying to get caught up on some photos from early 2010.

Yeeks.

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More on Music

I had planned to write a little bit with my last post about why music is so important to me.  BUT, I was late getting my sample posted, so I didn't do that.  Many MANY years ago, when I was adopted, the birth parent was permitted to make some requests of the adoptive parents.  My birth mother wanted me to be raised with music.  So, I learned to play a number of instruments-in fact, I won a scholarship to the International Peace Gardens Music Camp when I was in my early teens.

ANYWAYS,

I've tried to do the same with my daughter.  She also learned to play different instruments, culminating in a tuba duet in her last year of high school (now where IS that DVD?)

Her high school band played with an adult orchestra and I chaperoned some of their trips to competitions.  The long and short of this is that I cried, every time they played.

An important Christmas tradition I have is that I attend the Sing-along Messiah, first, with the Philharmonic Orchestra, and then in an old church, with other like-minded folk.  I do it alone.  I look forward to it each year.  I always cry when we get to the Halleluiah Chorus.  (Did I spell that right?  Geesh!)

It's worth noting that I'm always lost when I sing along, but sing along I do.  Kind of like Christmas Carols, I know the first line and then hollar out the rest as "La, la, la, la, la!"

You do that too.  You know you do.

ANYWAYS, that my story about music.  It's the single most important thing in my life that makes everything OK when it's not OK.

Thanks for listening.

TTFN.

Music!

Oh Arrgh, apparently I'm 16 hours behind Marie of Take A Word !  I'll make this quick-  Here is my sample for the theme of "Music":

Please accept my apologies for the lateness of this, I had good intentions.  And thank you Marie, for giving me this opportunity!!

Wordless Wednesday

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Celebrate

Over at Take A Word this week's theme is Celebrate.
I had some trouble coming up with anything and then decided it didn't have to be something "traditional" like a birthday or Christmas...so, first, we celebrate this gentleman getting a date.

I mean, LOOK at him.

THEN,

we celebrate the birth of these little birdies.

(I have no idea when Cardinals are born, but it seemed December-ish and besides, magpies are SO annoying.)

Click on each image to see the fine print.

(and the little birdies.)

Five More Sleeps

Dress Up 2011

Yesiree folks, the Dress-Up projects continues!

Angela of Sew Loquacious has agreed to take on the task of hosting the coming year's Dress-Up challenge.

She has some exciting new ideas, so hop on over to here blog to get all the deets!

Challenge #30 at Digital Whisper is to use this image in a project.

Here is my project:

It's digital.  That's about all I can say.

If you go visit Digital Whisper please tell Kimmie I sent you.  And tell her thanks for the super inspiration she gives us each week!

If you make it, we will come.

Challenge #83 at The Order of the Opus Gluei is to make something.  anything.  Wow, how much easier could this be?  In the spirit of the holiday season, I cheated.  Well, not cheated, exactly, but I took a picture of a wall quilt I made years ago when I was a quilter.  It's supposed to be poinsettias, but I used non-poinsettias colours, just to be different.  That's how I am.  Let's just be different.

It's framed, is behind glass and hangs in my bathroom.  Why in your bathroom?  you ask.

Because it matches the colours in there and I'm running out of wall space.  When I move into a smaller place, I'm going to have a challenge.  Maybe a sale.  Or maybe a giveaway.  Something, anyways.

OK Poobahs, there you have it.  Now you can come.  You said you would.  I'm waiting.  I have the kettle on.  And cookies.  Hurry up....