HONOR

TICKET

Gothic Arch Challenge this week: TICKET

I figured alot of pieces would center around song lyrics or poems with the word "ticket" in them, so I racked my brain thinking of something totally unique and weird. OK, Willy Wonka is about the strangest movie of all time (Gene Wilder's version) and what were those children searching for? The Golden TICKET!

Weird, strange, creepy, and my kinda movie!

PAPER WHIMSY DOOR CHALLENGE

This is my entry for Paper Whimsy's DOOR challenge posted on the blog over there. Go and check it out! Each month there is an image (FREE) that you download, make a collage, and enter it into the drawing for a gift certificate. The images are awesome.

My entry is the image, layered with stamps and images from Paper Whimsy and the whole thing is covered in bees wax. Drips and all! It is called: TO THE MANOR BORN.

HIDDEN TREASURE

A recent hike in the woods brought this discovery....an old bolt, rusted with time, covered in the green blanket of moss. Pearched upon a rock. Waiting to be photographed. I've walked by it before and didn't notice. But somehow this day, this hike, this silent treasure was found.

"Climb mountains and get their good tidings.

Natures peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

The wind's will flow their freshness into you...

while cares will drop off like autumn leaves"

John Muir

A bad day.....

Hacked and mad! Who knew that my morning would start out this way? To discover that some EVIL person thought it was funny to hack into my email. That it was funny to send a poorly worded letter to my friends? To delete my entire contact list? NOT FUNNY!

Ole Rusty

You know how sometimes you see things a million times and then one day it's like "HEY, where did that come from". Good, now I know I'm not crazy! So here is what I was looking at but not really seeing for years on our trips up north of my small town. At the side of the road, pearched ontop of a mound of dirt, laughing at me every time!

GOTCHA....now it's immortal!

HELGA'S CHALLENGE

And to make things even more interesting here on my new blog, here is a piece I did for Helga over at ArtChix Studio (see side bar link to left). We were to take photos from magazines and create a collage AND use circles from her previous challenge. Mine is BLUE, huh!!!????

Gothic Arch

This week at Gothic Arches, we were to use a picture from the artist Lord Frederick Leighton. What a wonderful artist he was indeed!

ATUMNAL FACE

Dollie #2....made with batik fabric. She is sitting upon wool roving (to cushion her), she has see-through wings, a rusty crown (not to be out-done by PEARL), and is wrapped in rusty wire. Attached to her skirt is a quote:

NO SPRING NOR SUMMER BEAUTY

HATH SUCH GRACE AS I HAVE SEEN

IN ONE AUTUMNAL FACE

A New Passion

I've been playing around with making dolls. Apparently I didn't get enough of this as a child! These aren't the baby dolls I had back then...these are more artistic. So my first one is made of cloth that is stamped in a free-form style. The fabric head is placed on top of paper wings that I painted and she has a paper crown (because she seemed to need one). Her adornments are strips of cloth and silk ribbon with some little charms and a freshwater pearl. Thus...here is PEARL!