OK, enough with the sob story and on to today's creative endeavour. This frame is 18 x 24 and was something that I got a while ago at the Goodwill for 1.49. It was plain white and the artwork was old and dated. Purple was the color chosen to repaint the frame. Now for the really challenging part, I don't have any paper that large, but I wanted to do a cool drawing. What I ended up doing was taping a few pieces of paper together for my base design, it didn't have to look pretty. I drew a design using some stencils that I cut out and then outlined it in marker for ease of tracing it later. Here is the tricky/creative part. On the finished piece of art the patchwork paper wouldn't look good, but if I made small 'tiles' and made a border around them, it would be intentional and it would work. After I meticulously drew the tiles, it was time to assemble it. Another issue, no large paper no large mat, SOLUTION! I flipped the original artwork that was mounted on foam core and using red duct tape, made my borders. Duct tape such a wonderful thing! After that, I just attached the tiles and the rest is history. This is definitely one of my favorites so far.
The best job ever and the coolest friends that I ever had were when I worked at a restaurant called the Heartthrob Cafe. It was in downtown St Paul, Minnesota and was so fun! Today we had a get together to catch up and reminisce. This is one of the many good things about facebook, finding people that you wished you never lost contact with. So, today my post is the buttons that I made for this event. We had 'flair' that was a lot more fun and cool than a restaurant chain that I will not name here. We danced and sang birthday songs. The girls wore poodle skirts and we did all of this while wearing in line skates. We were a crazy family and honestly this was one of the best times in my life. Ahhh...memories. In the time spent there somehow the button machine came into my possession. In honor of our gathering, of course I had to make pins. Here are also two murals that I painted at the restaurant. Let me tell you they were tricky! The murals are on glass and when
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