Big frame, no budget!

As of right now I have pretty much zero money. I am starting to scour my home for things to do. I don't usually like to get too personal, but I currently do not have a job and don't qualify for unemployment. Believe me, I am looking. So, I am asking if anyone is out there, let me know if you have any items that you would like to give new life to. I will continue to create things every day no matter what even if I have to paint the kitchen sink.

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.

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Heartthrob Cafe Memories

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...

Too many ideas!

When is comes to this time of year, my mind goes into creative overdrive. I realize my posting is much less now that my original goal has been met, but believe me, I am still making stuff. There are about ten Christmas gifts in the works as well as my calender drawings. Current projects involve sewing, crafting, drawing and crocheting. I am proud to say that a good chunk of gifts are already done or close to being done, yeah! Working in a fabric store has definitely boosted my creativity and some days too many ideas are crowding my mind. Because funds are still low for us, I have been buying things bit by bit every payday. It helps to not have to blow an entire paycheck all at once. This also is good because with my discount on top of sale price, I have gotten some incredible deals. Add caption Today, my post will be the first of my calender pages. There are two finished so only ten to go!

Zebra for Ashley

My niece, Ashley loves animals. So a few years ago, I started making some of her gifts. One year it was an old wooden kitchen chair with animals painted on the seat and animal 'prints' to decorate the seat back and rungs, blank journals with personal inscriptions, even a pillowcase made with horse fabric. I love coming up with gifts for her! This is a drawing of a zebra that I made for her. The frame is from a picture that I got for free. It had cracked glass, but the frame was perfect. A friend of mine does custom framing so she cut new glass and finished it with the orange mat. I drew it using a gel ink pen. Very tricky trying not to smudge it while working on it. I might actually have to do another one for me!

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