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What’s on your iPod or mp3 player?

Posted in Just my Thoughts, tagged , , , , , on 29 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I know that the world we live in makes brand names nouns of the non-proper variety, meaning most out there reading will realize I mean any mp3 player when I say iPod.  This has been a cultural phenomenon that I have avoided until this came along.  I don’t call any brand of toilet paper Charmin.  [...]

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Early Morning Phone Calls

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, tagged , , on 29 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I realize I work from home.   We had a period – way too long a period – of time where business calls were coming into my house at all hours of the day and night.  I was getting desensitized to the phone ringing at odd hours.  Well, the other day, I finally figured out how [...]

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Hammered Copper

Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , , on 25 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Another process from Julia Andrus’s Paper Transformed is hammered copper (or gold or silver or probably bronze).  I love the look of this technique and tried it on a couple heart diecuts.  The diecuts are from a Sizzix die.  The copper used is Pearl Ex.

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Patina

Posted in Art, Family, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , on 25 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Patina – by definition – is a film or incrustation, usually green, produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value.   I have always loved those “fake” patinas that artists create.  I was so excited when I saw that learning to create a patina look was one [...]

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Sand in Gesso

Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , , , on 24 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As those of you who visit often might recall, I am doing a year long workshop based on Mary Todd Beam’s book Celebrate Your Creative Self.  I am tad bit behind the group but was catching up by doing a painting using sand in gesso. I agree with Todd Beam in that the one thing [...]

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A Rose By Any Other Name

Posted in Art, Family, Just my Thoughts, tagged , , on 23 June 2008 | 2 Comments »

My mother loves roses so this piece I dedicate to her.  She talks to me like understand.  She ought to know I can’t even keep a cactus alive.  Plants and I are mortal enemies and since I am still kicking, my guess is I have killed the plants. I am not totally sure I am done [...]

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Graduation Art Weekend

Posted in Art, Family, tagged , on 23 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I know it will seem late to a lot of you but the graduation season has started here and that means congratulatory cards for many.  I have been known, since my oldest graduated from high school five years ago, as the one who makes all the cards.  I have gotten lazy, lost instructions for various [...]

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Jewelry Making

Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, tagged , , , , , , on 19 June 2008 | 2 Comments »

The challenge this month at The Latest Trends in Mixed Media was jewelry.  I am slowly making several pieces but want to include some items I have made previously.  I am big on pins, which I consider jewelry though others may call them artist trading pins.  Most of my pins have been made using dominoes.  [...]

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Summer Reading

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , , , on 17 June 2008 | 1 Comment »

Not only do I love to read, I really think that is what summers are all about – friends, family, maybe a beach or two, tons of music and good reads! Some of my favorite summer reads have been discovered by accident.  I love Jimmy Buffet’s novels.  Two summers ago was the discovery of this [...]

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Hall of Fame Game Gone

Posted in Just my Thoughts, tagged , , , , , on 16 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I can remember the weekend in July, all through childhood, when I wanted to be in Cooperstown.  I was the son my father always wanted but never got – a tomboy through and through until I was suddenly a mother at the age of 23.  I loved baseball as a child and loved trips to Cooperstown [...]

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