Show some skin in wax

Well A new chapter has opened for Little Fat Book Club.  We are going to a new venue this coming Tuesday.  I'm pretty excited to get with the ladies because I haven't seen them since January.  So the theme for this month was Show some Skin! so This is where I went with it.  I went with beeswax cause it's my new favorite medium.  I think the outcome is good and I can't wait to trade it at lfb club.

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Went off to NYC again.

Saturday I went to NYC again.  I really enjoy it as does my family.  This time we went to see Phantom of the Opera, which is a childhood dream come true.  As some of you already know my memory is kind of fuzzy when it comes to my childhood.  One thing I remember is being a child and looking through the Phantom of the Opera program my mother brought home when she saw it.  She would take it away and tell me that it wasn't for me to look at.  I would always end up finding it again.  It came around here a couple years ago and I wanted to see it but it didn't work out, so when Dad suggested we bring Mom for her birthday.  I was on it.  We watched the movie the week before and the build up to the day was driving me crazy.  I was beyond happy to see it finally and it was AWESOME!!! I enjoyed every minute some parts were slower, but over all it was great.  I wanted to get the CD but they wanted $50 insane!!!  I'm going to wait and find it here locally for probably $20. 

The rest of the day was fun we went to the NBC experience which was neat.  We saw where they tape NBC Nightly news, The Jim Fallon Late night show, and Saturday night Live.  I don't think it is something I would go to again, but it was neat to experience once.  Then I made the family walk 30 blocks to go to a stamp store.  The Ink Pad was a cute store and had tons of stamps but it was too much to process and it was too hot really enjoy.  I ended up with one stamp that I wanted.  I'm not sure if I can convince the family to go again.  Probably not.  Oh well. 

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St Patty's day Twinces

Here are my St. Patty's Day Twincies I did for a Vintage Room Swap.  I wasn't sure I was going to get them done because I was feeling kinda blocked.  I was a little concerned because the images that I orignally printed were kinda being used by other ladies in the group, I ended up scrapping my orignal game plan and went a totally other way.  Of course aside from one.  I really think I like what I came up with.  This project was kind of a break for me to get my mind off things.  Sara's sister Stormy has taken a turn for the worse and most of my day was spend force feeding her a liquid diet.  It is not fun to force feed a ferret.  I have tried ensure and pedilyte softening her food, just water, chicken baby food she is not interested.  I have do to what I have to do to keep her comftable.  I have a bad feeling that with in the next couple days Stormy will pass too.  It makes me cry just thinking about it but there isn't much I can do.  I have give her and Sara a safe and happy home.  I'm not sure how their started but I do that the last part of their lives have been good! 

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Happy to report

That this little cutie has joined my little ferret family.  This past week has been tough on me and the babies.  I have been watching them very carefully trying to decide what to do.  I started looking at babies online I entertained the idea of bring in rescues again, but its so tough not know there past health history that I didn't want to go there again.  So I dragged my dad to a couple pet stores and ended up holding this little guy and falling in love.  He is 5 months old and God he's handsome.  And I'm using the word little loosely he is HUGE!! He is like I said 5 months old and double the size of his big brother JJ (who is full size).  I just love his size I know that's dorky but I'm not sure why I do.  I guess its because I know he is able to handle himself.  I have a house full of animals as many of you know and I sometimes worry about the bigger animals hurting my ferrets, so I feel like I don't have to worry so much about him.  If I remember correctly JJ was only 6 inches or so long when he came home.  He has already changed the mood in the cage/my room.  Stormy protected him from Penny (my 2 year old beagle) she bit Penny square on the forhead.  I haven't seen Stormy move like that ever (let alone use her teeth).  Bandit my oldest ferret doesn't seem care either way.  JJ on the other I was worried about I have never had two males at the same time. And JJ wasn't been very nice.  I haven't had extremely playful ferret before my girls are kind mellow and JJ just kinda follow suit, but the baby came in he has been biting him and pinning him and talking like you wouldn't believe.  I have never heard him go on like this before.  So at first I would grab by the scruff of his neck and let the baby get away.  I woke early this morning to him doing the same thing in the cage so I spilt the cage in two sections so that the baby could sleep.  Then today I went my room to check on them cause I have been letting them have the run of my room lately and I found JJ and the baby curled up together in the base of my curtain.  Too CUTE for words!! I don't think I have a thing to worry about.  A baby boy was just what we needed.  I did question it for a minute after I got home.  I thought it would make me feel better but after a little while I felt a little empty, but after a little cuddle time with the baby I felt a lot better.  We bonded.  I have a new cuddler.  The cuddler doesn't have a name yet.  I'm leaning toward Archer...Cooper...Xavier...or Xander.  I haven't decided yet and I want it be just the right name.

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Well I've been scrapping

I felt the need for something different.  So I went back to some childhood pictures that I had waiting for pages.  So here they are.  The first one is actually the last one I did (this evening) I used BG's Color my Silly papers.  I used Tim Holtz's foam stamps, ranger paints, cardstock, and watercolor paper.  I used a paint brush as an embellishment.  It was a fun a different page!

The second page is the first one I did two nights ago.  I used a Close to my Heart paper and embellishment kit that I got free awhile ago.  I love how the softer colors work with the picture of me as a toddler.  I believe the dress I'm wearing in the photo was one of two I wore for my Great Grandma's wedding.  She choose one dressed and her Husband to be My great Grandpa Jake choose the other. 

The last page is the one I did yesterday I used the new Grace collection from Close to my heart.  I paired it with some prima flowers, making memories brads, and American Craft Thickers that I recolored with  Close to my heart Twilight ink to match the pages.  I had fun doing something a little different and I am happy with the out come.  Pin It Now!

Thank you my angels

A women that I have only gotten to meet a couple of times Marilyn made me think today.  She asked a simple question "What is an angel? What does that mean to you?"  Her defination was spot on for me "To me, an angel, is someone who is kind to people, caring, and warm with a keen sense of humor. Someone we can trust, who has good character and a solid value system who treasures family and friends, loves animals, cares about the environment, enjoys helping people in need."   and it got me thinking I don't say thank you to my friends/angels enough so today I want to public say thank you to my friends your are truely my angels you have such kind words for me, have give me confinence, and gave me a profound belief in myself and my own art.  I have always wanted to create in some way and settled with scrapbook (which I LOVE), but didn't feel that I was an "Artist" until last year when I was pushed by a very special angel to the Vintage Room.  So a big THANK YOU!!!

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Well I actually created something

Well I did some creating yesterday and today.  I have been thinking about a canvas piece for awhile inspired by my friend Peggy who quoted Tim Holtz in saying "Never Apologize for Your Art".  I got a new book last week that showed how to create wire letters and I formed the letters I needed for the piece.  I bought some flat canvas boards from walmart the other day and painted it a dark and light green and stared at the letters sitting on the green canvas for a few days.  So as it sat I started thinging about some other projects that I need to work on.  So I move on to the LFB page above which I like but it doesn't have the pazz I wanted.  So that is sitting on the shelf till I figure it out and I went back to the canvas today with beeswax on the brain.  I love the medium!! So I put a sewing pattern over the greens which gave me the aged look I love.  Cut up a page of mini collages from K& Company.  Stamped my new little girl on to sewing pattern and used one of my paper roses and some do dads and placed my words in the wax.   I love this reminder piece!! I will look at it and remember that my art is my art and I should embrace the good with the not so good and continue creating.  In other news I have been spending a lot of free time with the ferrets cause they need it.  I have given them weekend to rest, so that I can start all over with play time tomorrow.  Here are a couple pictures from play time last week.  JJ the lighter ferret likes to steal toys and hide them under the bed and I guess size doesn't matter.  I bought them a fun toy that is a big lady bug wtih a pocket for them to hide in/sleep in and some balls that make noise and then there is a bar that goes over it that has a couple toys hanging down.  JJ just love to take it by the attached toys and try to pull it under the bed to hide it.  I play tug-a-war with him.  Its nice bonding time.  Stormy is the other ferret picture she hasn't been doing well in the loss of her sis.  She plays for a little while and then climbs up into the cage or finds a place in my room to go back to sleep.  I feel really bad for her but I pull her out of her hiding spot and try my hardest to get her to play for awhile more.  I last for a few rounds of this before I give up and let her go to sleep.  What can I do?? There are no pictures of my oldest ferret Bandit because she is naked due to anderline diesase. She lost all her hair but she functions like normal she is way to old for a ferret to have the surgery required to fix it, so I figure what's not broke don't fix it.  So we are still hurting over the loss of Saratoga Hollner (yes her full proper name was Saratoga because we got her from Albany Saratoga Speedway at an adoption Clinic) but I think we will heal and maybe someday soon someone new will enter the ferret cage.  Its just not going to be too soon.

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