Power back to the People

My submission for: art > money design to define a movement.
Charge: create an iconic image that confronts the role of big money in politics and inspires political action.

 Will post a link to VOTE your favorite October 12.

Halloween Costume ideas for kids

Frankenstein & The Bride of FrankenStein

Thrift store - 2 white twin sheets, a small dude jacket, purple shirt & black pants

Halloween Shop - white, green & black makeup and 2 cans of black hair spray

Random:

Embroidery floss - to make the "stitchery" along their collars

Wire - to create the "bolts" around frank's neck

The Joker

Thrift Store - small dude light colored jacket and pants - dyed them purple, ladies yellow collar shirt

orange fabric, to make bow and a vest

Halloween Shop - white, red and purple make-up, green hairspray & trick lapel flower

Vampire Princess

Thrift Store - any little black dress, tiara

Halloween Shop - blood, cape & fake eyelashes

Jack & Sallie
This one took a bit more work, time and money but oh so good!
Thrift Store - little dude black suit & white shirt, light blue turtle neck, black gloves
Fabric Store - fabric to match the sallie dress colors, black fabric for bat tie
Craft Store - white puffy paint to "pin stripe" jacks suit & make "boney hands" on his black gloves, black puffy paint to put the fabric designs on sallie's dress
Halloween Store - sallie wig, blue, white & black makeup
Random:
Sharpie black - to make stitches on sallies turtle neck & tights
Wire Coat hanger to form tie, glue gun black fabric onto
Light blue tights
-- cut the front of jacks jacket and attach to back to make "tails"

 Yoda & The Spider Princess
Thrift Store - Yoda - White hooded sweatshirt (cut down the middle in front to make a jacket) white large sweat shirt, white medium sweat pants - dye brown
Fabric Store - yoda looking green velvety fabric to make feet, hands & ears
Halloween Store - green and brown make up, bald skull cap
Random:
Wire hanger to form feet & headband ears, cover with velvety fabric with glue gun
Sew simple 2 fingered gloves

Queen of Hearts & 
The Mad Hadder
Crazy fun putting this one together....
Thrift store - black long sleeve dress with puffy shoulders, giant collar white button down shirt, (to cut and glue/stitch together top part of Queen's dress) long plaid jacket, boys pants, eighties metal belt

Fabric Store- red shiny fabric, black shiny fabric, patterned shiny fabric (to assemble lower part of the Queen's dress) patterned fabric for mad hadder tie

Halloween Store- white, blue & red make up, 2 cans red hair spray, mad hadder hat & wig, plastic tiara paint gold

Craft Store- gold spray paint, popsicle sticks

Random: drumstick and wire for Queen's staff
ikea magnet container full of metal parts as mad hadder's clock 

Day of the Dead 
Thrift Store - black dress, little dude black jacket & pants, women's white pretty collar shirt, little black dress, black gloves
Halloween Store - black & white make-up, top hat, long black gloves, white hairspray
Fabric Store - purple & white organza for veil
Random: black roses, black headband, stripe scarf, dead flowers
 

Baseball Season! Makes for a busy house

Baseball season in full swing and another school year coming to an end. A senior in college, a freshman in high school and the little dude going into 5th grade. They all make me incredibly proud. Kind hearts.

I have been painting to make a living as of late... houses, inside & out. And furniture! Getting colorful!!

Here is what I hope to tackle this weekend, in between soccer games, baseball and birthday parties... Setting a Tuesday deadline! ~

Busy can be inspiring too... maybe.. :0)

Busy!! I have a few print pieces I am working on for new clients! Nice. But I really want to be sewing right now. I did however take a little fabric field trip to some new and some old shops. Shout out to Banasch Fabrics in Cincy, first visit, very cool place. And went to visit an old favorite, have not been there in years... Mathis Fabrics in Middletown. They make pillow forms on the spot! Found some vintage pieces and some auto carpet, yes I will be making a bag with auto carpet, strangely enough it is quite perfect for a bag.

Design things to show and share soon. In the days to come mickey has science fair, there will be several basketball games, orthodontist, optometrist and I think baseball season in trying to start... well, it was 60 degrees today. Frightening, nice... but frightening.

pretty fabric by Mod

Inspired by

A field trip with my daughter's 8th grade science/math club to Miami University. Beautiful campus, yes... knew that already and even in the "drab" of January in Ohio, the campus is still beautiful. The focus of the trip was to experience a bit of science and engineering in college, my favorite bit was visiting their fantastic zoology museum "The Hefner Zoology Museum and Natural History" where it is apparent that the arts are heavily involved in the process of making such an incredible learning environment for folks of all ages. There are models created of ecosystems and the models of the animals which reside in those ecosystems showing the collaborative efforts of artists and environmental scientists. Very cool. Art work from local high schools featured throughout the zoology museum.  www.environmentaleducationohio.org

I was unable to take photos... but this I had to capture.

a gorilla & a human skeleton...

~ Birthday ~

And a lovely day it has been... 

Cold, really cold... but celebrated!! A card by my sam,

and a cake by my fam.

To wrap up the day we built a motor out of a battery, 2 paperclips, some wire, a magnet, a straw and some styrofoam. Came in a kit that we have had for some time and for whatever reason Sam pulled it out tonight after dinner. It worked! Inventions: sciencewiz.com
happy day. happy, happy day.

Doing the Birthday Dance

Tomorrow is my birthday! 

What a fine way to start my 42nd year on earth… with a blog! Sharing my creations and how they come about, documenting some of my family hilariousness and getting my shop up and running. Here's to 40 years and looking forward to the next 40!