February Calendar: Page 1 for Marci Glenn's calendar. I used soft pastels and collage on this page. This page looks pretty good ~ hope Marci will like my work in her calendar.

February Calendar: Page 2 ... Made a huge mistake on this page after it was almost all done, so I had to cover up. I used silver tape to cover the mess and I must say, it worked out quite well.

February Calendar: Page 3 On this page, I went for the super simple look.

February art for calendar RR

I received a desk calendar in the mail from Marci Glenn which I will be creating art in for the month of February. I'm in a 2006 Calendar RR (round robin)in the Mixed Media Collage Artist online group. The calibre of art on this site is extraordinary, so I'm excited to be a part of this project. There were so many people interested in participating in the RR, two RR's had to be started to accomodate everyone.

Marci chose a calendar with the Paris theme. I'm having fun with it so far. I'll upload a few shots of some of the art I've created for her calendar.

This Art card was made for me by my dear friend Arlene for my birthday. My nickname at the Pointy Hat ART Posse is HRH the Queen CEO (Creative Eccentric One). What a beauty, eh?

I've been tagged ...

For the first time, I've been tagged. I was tagged by the lovely, the talented, Charlotte (Lolly) Kemsey of Scotland.
4 jobs I've had: retail salesperson, campground attendant, newspaper layout artist, & Mommy
4 places I've lived: Edmonton, Alberta; Vancouver, British Columbia; Fredericton, New Brunswick and Barriere, British Columbia (all Canadian locations)
4 shows I enjoy: Monk, Corner Gas (a very, very funny Canadian comedy ... Canadian comedy is most often an oxymoron ~ but not in this case), Canadian/American Idol, Extreme Home Makeover
4 places I've vacationed: Jasper, Alberta; Nova Scotia; Vancouver Island, British Columbia
4 websites I visit daily: Mixed Media Collage Artist, Pointy Hat ART Posse, art-e-zine (I don't visit EVERYday, but often ~ excellent site)
4 favorite foods: Anything from the Olive Garden Restaurant, nachos, Greek Salad, Tabooli Salad
4 places I'd rather be right now: Jasper, Alberta; Victoria, British Columbia; Australia; Wales
4 bloggers I'm tagging: Nicolette Anderson, Karyn Gartel, Cindy Hogg, Deryn Mentock

A gift for a friend 

Valentine Hanger

This is a 4x4 Valentine decoration that I created for a gift to put in a package for a MMCA Valentine exchange. Hope the person that I sent it to will like it!

Valentine Angel of Maple Ridge ATC 

A belated Happy New Year!

I'm ever so slow in getting back into the groove of creating again after the Christmas holidays here. I've found that this is the hardest time of the year to be productive in the creativity department.

Finally, though, I'm getting some art done. I've started in on altering a 2006 Desk Calendar for a round robin through Mixed Media Collage Artists' (MMCA) group. I have to have that ready to mail out by the 27th of each month.

The other thing I was working on last night was some Valentine ATCs. In fact, I made 5 cards in one evening. I want to have some on hand when we have our regular meeting of the Pointy Hat ART Posse (PHAP) meeting on the 30th.

On the 20th, I'm hoping to get some work done too when I go to the PHAP all-nighter create-a-thon. Hmm ... I'll have to think of something spectacular to work on then. We may do a group project for possible submission to Somerset that night if enough of the group shows up.

I'll post a photo of one of my Valentine's for you here. It is much nicer "in person" but you can get the general gist of the card.

I made this star tag for a gift for my husband. I love using crayons in my art.  

A collage gift tag I made last week when I was not at home ~ therefore I had limited art-resources to work with. Sometimes the challenge of creating something out of "not much" is a good one. 

My star "Love" 

Christmas is fast approaching

It seems like there aren't enough hours in the day at the moment as we try to get everything ready for Christmas. I haven't done much art lately ~ the arts are always the first to suffer, ya know. Here's one of the stars I've made lately. I'm actually keeping this one ~ it's on my tree.

Zach's yummy looking mail art 

Altered Art 101 ~ Class 2

In the 2nd class of Altered Art 101, we discussed mail art and everyone was given a chance to produce an altered postcard to mail to whomever they wanted to. My son who is in the class decided to create one for his dad. He figured that way, he'd be able to keep his first piece of mail art that way. You will see his chocolate collage in the above photo. If you look real close, you will see a beaver camouflaged among all the chocolate!

Hope to see lots of creative ATCs created in the upcoming Altered Art 101 classes I teach. 

Getting ready for classes

My foray into teaching altered art starts soon ~ November 6th. A couple days ago I went down to the library to decorate the main display case which was a lot of fun. Hopefully it'll spawn a lot of interest for Altered Art 101. I love what the library wrote as the age group for the sessions: 12-99 years. Wonder how many 99 year olds will attend ~ hehe. I want the 4 classes to be a real hands on experience for the people who take it. I don't want to give a bunch of instruction ~ I'd rather be a facilitator for their artist process. Wish me luck!

Some of our bottlecap creations 

What is GEMMS?

Saturday, September 10th, my friend Arlene and I plan to have a table at a local fall fair and sell some artsy bottlecap jewellery. We call our little venture General Eclectic Mixed Media Sistas ~ GEMMS for short. We pulled an all-nighter Friday and created a whole bunch of fun bottlecap stuff including necklaces, brooches, bracelettes, keychains, dog & cat tags and cellphone charms.

We're hoping that the event will be well attended since this is the first year that this nursery is holding this event. It'll be interesting to see if we are able to sell our goodies. Guess we'll keep any we don't sell for Christmas craft sales.