Last Days in the Garden

The last pale pink rose of our garden has just bloomed and faded . It's pretty pink color and our passing garden were the  inspiration for my tiny bird houses. These little treasures are only 1 1/2 inches high and are painted in pastel colors with Artchix images applied to the back and sides. The front has small cut out words and there's a  precious charm for hanging too. These are part of a gift swap  held at Artchix Studio, a  picture of my gift packaging for this swap is below. I believe a gift's wrapping can be creative as the actual gift, in fact it's like getting two gifts at once. Till next week, craft on.



Three tiny bird houses with portable backgrounds.



 



The wrapping.



It's Very Scary


It's my favorite time of the year, that being autumn. I love the crisp fall air, the changing colors of the leaves, wearing sweaters and of course Halloween . Today's post shows some Halloween signs or cards I have been working on. Ok I'll admit, been going  a little bit crazy with a spin art machine that belonged to my daughter when she was younger. Spin art is so much fun, the colors blend together so randomly and you never know what will appear. Whatever the spin art creates is so very boo-tiful.


 

Altered Victorian Clothespins

For  my Artchix group, we are doing a swap of little gifts for the holidays. Here are my altered Victorian clothespins that I created for this project. The images are Victorian at least, because the clothespins are definitely not. With these embellished clothespins you can clip them to anything, like a lampshade, a bulletin board or even a cubicle wall. They could also  hold together all your secret  love letters. LOL.

Inspired Paper Shrines

There is an ARTchix challenge right now for shrines, so today's post contains my two submissions. The first is:  "The Shrine to Love", it was inspired by a wonderful movie I just saw called " The Red Violin "  (1998 with Samuel Jackson), a marvelous story spanning 3 centuries. The shrine was originally only to be black and white but after seeing this movie, I had to add red. The second is: "The Shrine of the Little Seamstress" having recently finished the book "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress "  by Dai Sijie. I couldn't resist using the thought of a little seamstress for this project's inspiration, even if she isn't Chinese.
Hope you enjoy this art filled post.


The Shrine to Love




The Shrine to the Little Seamstress



A Little Birdie told me

A little birdie told me to show you these two bracelets I created this week They are little collages of royal birds complete with crowns  that  have a bead and bird charm attached. The pink one says "Love, it suits me well." The blue one says: "Embrace the  earth and sky". Hmmm, maybe the pink and blue had a subliminal meaning of male and female, never thought about that till now!



"Love, it suits me well."



"Embrace the earth and sky"



Seeing Red

Well I'm really not seeing red,  I just used it because my two projects on today's blog center around the color "red". In fact, I am in a happy mood because my popsicle flower collages from last weeks blog  won me $40 from Artchix Studio. WooHoo!
For this week, the first picture is a red bracelet with charms that I made with little paper inserts that have words to live by: Happiness, love, art, and trust. I showed it to my art group last Wednesday. The second picture is a simple red tag collage called "Sealed with a Kiss", that I framed and is now in my guest room.


Words to live by





Red Tag Collage:Sealed with a Kiss



Till next week....remember to create art and share happiness.

My very first post..

Well here it is, my very first post on my blog of  art and adventures. I love creating all kinds of all art from mix media, to painting, to photography and even gardening. Art and creativity are  an important part of our family life too and I hope to share it's treasure.

Here are my submissions to an Artchix blog challenge using popsicle sticks. Artchix really liked them and gave me some wonderful compliments too.
Hope you enjoy them....


"A word to the wise: wish with a tender heart."



"A Fairy Story: lovingly dedicated to the little crannies of my heart."

"The love that bloomed at dawn radiant with hope."