Yard Sales and Thrift Stores are Great Places

I don't usually stop at yard sales... too much guilt and pressure if I don't find anything to buy -- but while we were out and about Saturday my friends and I checked out a sale and I ended up netting two great bargains! A plastic lidded shoebox filled with craft stuff -- mostly paint, but some glitter, brushes, and a box of beads and buttons ... all for $1.50. Plus I found a little curio display unit with little sections for 50 cents. Who could pass that up?? Now, as you can see, I just need to DUST it!!

Great Loot eh? We though about sticking around as the kids were up in the second story of the house lowering more stuff down with a rope. You never know what more might have come out of that window, right? But we were off to the movies so JB could sleep through "The DaVinci Code."



Plus, earlier in the day I scored some cute "vintage" shoes, a blank book with black paper, a book, and some red and white trim at the local thrift store

June Spread - Altered Calender Round Robin

So this June page was a bit of a challenge. The "assignment" was to take works by Robert Rauschenberg and alter them to create a whole new work of art inspired by the original work of art. First off was to do a little reading on this artist that I didn't know much about.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/rauschenberg_robert.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg

I wish I had thought to snap the orginal, but alas... I'm bad with that kind of thing. I can't find a picture on mr. internet right now, but it was basically an aspirin tablet and the words 'fast pain relief' ... and since I get a lot of headaches, it seemed the logical project to tackle.

I had a hard time deciding how to begin, so eventually I just had to plunge in. I grabbed a magazine, and just started ripping out anything that I thought remotely harkened back to the original artwork. Then I started cutting and pasting. Eventually, I had this:

Hiatus

So here I am back to making a blog entry. Been away trying to integrate a second job into my life, which takes up a lot of time!! But recently I've been making more of an effort to make myself get "crafty" or "arty" or just plain "creative." To that end I've found myself signing up for a lot of swaps on the various Yahoo Groups that I belong to, and eventually I woke up and realized that it was my way of making myself get into the studio and do STUFF.

So despite the long evening and weekend hours at the "Big Store" getting cashiers elbow and the days in front of a desk wishing it was my crafting or sewing table... here's what I've been churning out/thinking about/working on...

(In no particular order)