trash~

today begins my three day weekend of art fun (my 9th non-consecutive year) at the Santa Fe Recycled Art Show. artists from around the country come to our small city and show their trashy best. it is an amazing feast for the eyes and such an eye opening experience to see what we really can do with castoffs. plastic bags, bike chain, old jewelry bits, cutting room floor scraps, paper bags, newspaper, found metal objects from along the river banks, bottle glass...all those bottle caps from the beers and bars...the metal from cars stuck in the arroyos or at the junker...the list of components is as amazing as the creativity.

buyers also come from all over the country. this show has really turned some heads and people come to shop, explore and get ideas.
children (young and old) come for the trashy make-and-take. always inspiring to see what a young artist has created from the scraps of life. you should see their proud faces! many of our local industries drop off cuttings or misprints that would go into the trash and the kids eat it up. my eliza gave me a bucket full of pop top tops. those will go in the make and take. a large eerie canopy that is ripped will also go in for the cutting and altering. seriously, this show is awesome!
tonight is the fashion show. i have seen this show go from three items to hundreds of extremely brilliant creations that are sought after by collectors. the founder of trash fashion in our neck of the woods, nancy judd, is an awesome force commissioned repeatedly by company's to showcase their efforts through fashion. unbelievable!
here are her 2009 garments made from the voting brochures, pamphlets and other obama ~get out the vote~ materials that would have been tossed after the election for which she worked. the jacket is all handwoven, cut and sewn from paper. it is now in the Smithsonian.

my buddy rick makes amazing artwork from scrap paper and plastic bags. he molds it, folds it, crushes, scrunches and holds it steady with a mix of materials to create beautiful artwork. his work is on display at pasqual's if your in town and the show isn't. he was even once commissioned to do a whole wedding with his paper and plastic bag flower creations. truly a deary.

here's to a trashy weekend of glorious righteous fun! cheers y'all.

it started out innocently enough~

he said "do you want a southern gentleman?" and i said, "you betcha" so into the coffee went the bourbon and baileys. then came the pancakes and bacon. what a way to start the day! especially when one acquires a stupid head cold...bleh!
a sari silk wrapped bracelet that has been sitting inside my head. we found the medallion in the parking lot of the local k-mart. here is is all listed  fresh.

so, i haven't listed in a long time. skulley here with numinosity drops. i came home feeling quite a bit sick yesterday and in-between naps i created. felt good to be back in the studio.

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this is my fav. been sitting on the bench for a bit waiting to be fulfilled. a buddy of mine gifted me some porcelain doll arms. one was broken yet cried out to be loved. loved she is.

more numiosity love and bike part adornment.

then i made this little christmas doll for the recycled art show. i always make at least one doll, but this year there are two. this beauty and my little pin. they sell well, so i don't know why i make so few. weirdo me! <3

i usually give her a name and write it across the patch, but can't think of one. still waiting for a sign. cheers y'all!

s'more goodies~

i'm a bit bored so i'm showing off and ruminating.

well, a long time ago i went on a bike ride and found a piece of rosary under an ancient cottonwood tree in a ghost town called waldo, nm. i love both of them (the rosary bits and the town, which consists of a sign and an old cottonwood tree). then i found these little sterling naughty-bit charms in a second hand shop. i added an "o" ring from a bike cog and some reclaimed chain and viola! a naughty bits necklace that i can't wear to school!

see, excitement! as frank mccourt would say.

so, the recycled art show is a month away and i usually make kinda scary but fun little ornaments like this doll. but this doll is not so scary and is kinda in the vein of the colorless that i've been going for and...she's a pin.

 see? a pin here on the back. her name is vera.

so i've decided to make little house instead. this is my prototype. hahahahaha. same cloth as vera,  as you see. sari silk, old cotton, my favorite linen shirt that wore out...lace and a lovely shell button as the attic window. i'm not too fond of it yet and think my stitching needs to be closer to the edges and the door shouldn't be so slanty (but my hubby. tommy house, likes it that way). see, i'm making houses because we're houses! any way. that's what i be up to besides parent teacher conferences and drinking yummy beer and loving the aspens and most important of all, loving my family! cheers y'all!

putting off till tomorrow...

hehehe. not doing school work today! not once a bag from alchemyshop showed up in the mail. :)
i made a pendant right away and set up some earrings using kim's head pins (on the pendant too!).
while i was in the studio, i spied from my little eye a huge! dead! black widow! that creeped me out to no end. she was just clinging to the wall, no webbing around her, just clinging dead to the stucco. eeeeeewwww! creeped me out. they sometimes build nests in the drawers of my desk. i HATE when that happens.
anyway, i was also recently gifted some osha, so that's drying. gonna tincture it soon. xoxo

random metal stuff with a numinosity headpin.

key hole and thimbles. these just might need to go together.

 a giftie.

little tin with metal stuff. see, i also use what others find! :)

some of the metal bits.

earrings?

yup! odd metals with battered brass and numinosity head pins. sterling silver ear wires.

osha. only grows here in the rocky mountains. what a find. take that lung grunge!

feels like forever~

i haven't even looked at my bench much, let alone make something. but today, i made two things and the other day i made one, but forgot to take pics of that. hahaha. so outta shape!
gotta hit the scrap yard for wire and start creating earrings for the recycled art show coming up in November. since i am back to work full time and then some, i need to get cracking when the moments arise.

second grade is going well, but i will never recommended 28 students in one class for the sheer nature that the line in the hallway stretches a mile down the road! otherwise, the kiddos seem to be engaged and learning with some off task behavior, but that goes for the majority of people; off task at one time or another. :)

so, i'm lesson planning and gobbling up all the new areas of expectation (mid school is a far cry from 2nd grade) and getting through all the beginning-of-the-year assessments in reading, writing and math. so far so good.
bringing lots of work home on the weekends. bleh to those haters out there who thinks teachers have it easy. even in the summer i work for no pay on curriculum, lesson planning and research. and then i work on the weekends during the school year. just not enough time in the day i guess.
any who, not complaining, but definitely tired of armchair peeps who think they know better then the professional. la.
so, here's my new work. i really dig the earrings fo sure.
cheers y'all!