Happy National Creativity Day.  The WaggonsWest Traveling Chicken and Monster Show is all about bring creative and letting your imagination run wild.  

Celebrate the magic of creativity by coloring your own DIY Denizen.  You can use the included water color paint then wash and do it all again.  Or you can follow the instructions and make a permanent masterpiece.  

DIY Denizens include the dinosaur, a fox, the moon, a bird, a bunny, a fox and a wee small pig.  What other Denizen would you like to see as a DIY?  Let me know in the comments.  

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Decisions. Decisions. Decisions.

 

 

Sometimes, one of the hardest things to do is decide which path to follow. I decided to make an olive. It has silly little legs. I laugh every time I think about it because I imagine all of the olives in the Mr's martini bottle of them sprouting little legs and running around all crazy as soon as the fridge light goes out.

I posted a picture of Little Miss Oliveea on Lettuce Craft, a friendly, supportive community I've been a part of for a long time. In the comments section, it occurred to me that I have almost a complete, old school relish tray. I have carrots, pickles and now olives. All I am missing is celery, radish roses and a little glass pitcher of poppy seed dressing. And as is it's wont, my tiny little mind decided I needed to make celery. 

I started sketching. Now to fit into my vision of vegetables running around all crazy in the dark, the celery needs to be kawaii with silly little legs. That is, it is best served as the top sketch from this page in my sketchbook. But oh.... that face on little Mr Celery number two is just so hard to resist.

So now, I have to make a choice, because I don't have a lot of time to make both. Which one do you want to see first?

Of course, I still have no idea how the leaves at the top are going to work but I am sure it will come to me eventually.

 

 

Best in Class, Textiles! Wow.

I was pleased to attend the Montevallo Arts Fest in Montevallo, Alabama. It was a lovely setting with lovely people. Lots of denizens went home with their forever friends. At the end of the day, I was presented with this Best in Class Textiles ribbon. What an honor. Thank you! 

 

This is not something that normally happens to me. I am usually the "one of these things is not like the others" in the lineup of artist booths. The Spud's first question was, were you the only one No. There were about a dozen fiber artists in this show. Probably about 10% of the total which is pretty typical for fiber and textile. The thing that gets crazy is that textile can include everything for clothing to fabric dyeing to leather working to bag making to quilting to needle felting to fabric collage to knitting to amigurumi and much more. So it is has to be hard for the judges to make apples to ramen comparisons. At any rate, I greatly appreciate the honor.

 

 

Maker Life: Yetis, Patterns and Pins

 

Sometimes, I'm organized and I manage to keep my patterns in fancy labeled folders, most of my pins are in the pin box (except for the ones that inevitably escape and land under the Mr's foot) and my clips are in their fancy pickle dish. Because, if I don't use my fancy pickle dish for clips, when will it ever see the light of day? Maybe I need to get out a fancy trinket box for the pins so that they want to stay home and stop roaming.

At any rate, no matter how organized I might manage to appear on the internet, that insane fuzzy fabric the Yetis insist on flies EVERYWHERE! It is like sand on a beach. It ends up in places that are unimaginable. So the thing you don't see is the vacuum cleaner sitting next to me that I try to run like one of those fancy bags on a sander. Hey! Someone needs to invent that. Scissors with a fuzz collector.