Elusive Creativity

Big sigh! Today my creativity seems to be eluding me. I have projects plotted out in my head but until I get a few bucks in the bank I cannot transfer them from my mind to my crafting table. There will be something today, but it may not be my best effort. I'm allowed an off day. I went to my new favorite place today, the library, to try to get a bit more inspired. I ended up with a movie and two books to read. It's like writers block I'm sure. It's there, but not quite.

To get my brain working, let's talk about my top five dream jobs. It's good no matter what age you are to have dreams. Did you know that the famous artist Grandma Moses was not 'discovered' until she was in her seventies? Keep plugging away, your time will come.

T-Shirt design for a place I used to work

These are in no particular order:

Children's Book Illustrator, known painter for hire (other than friends & family)

T-Shirt Designer, Creative Magazine Contributor, Designer of Home Accessories

I did attend school for a short time for fashion design. I liked drawing the clothes, but I could never execute them properly. I do know how to sew, just give me a pattern and I can follow it, but making my own was not something I could not do well.

One of my fashion designs

So, on to my post for today. It is something that I did a while ago, but with baseball season nearing, it is appropriate to post. I do enjoy painting the designs on adirondak chairs because you can customize them for anything. Favorite teams is perfect for any sports fan. Here is a Minnesota Twin chair that was made for a charity auction. I do a lot of them for charity. In the time that I have been painting chairs, there have been five or six of them that I made money from. I have painted about thirty chairs. Wow, I just figured that number out, that's a lot! It does feel good to make something that will benefit people in need, so I don't really mind and painting is one of the things that makes me happy. It's a win win situation!

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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 tell you they were tricky! The murals are on glass and when

A few paintings

Can you believe it? Another post this soon! I have been making stuff, but the posting has gotten slower, sorry. These two wooden plaques were bought at a thrift store for less than $2.00 each. They had some premade botanical pictures on them. I decided to just paint some random designs on them. They are about 12 inches square and they turned out great but now what I really want to do is some more paintings in this style only much larger. The designs would make such a statement on a larger scale. That may require a trip to Menards or Home Depot. Sorry for the picture quality, my camera in not working the best right now.

Black and Blue Snowflakes

Ah winter in Minnesota! We have had a lot of snow this year and this design is snowflake based. There is a contest that I am entering this week for snowflake design. You can use any medium that you would like the only requirement is that it be no larger than 12 x 12 for display purposes. I doodled until I came up with this 'snowflake.' At this time I don't know if I want to submit the black design or the one that I did in the blue outline. Both are very unique. I have to admit after making the first design, I traced it for the second one, but as an artist sometimes you need to do that to get things just right. If anyone is reading this a comment or two would be helpful in my decision. The deadline is on Wednesday of this week. It would be nice to get some kind of recognition for my art other than friends and family telling me how talented I am. It keeps me going, but sometimes it would be nice to hear it from someone who judges and critiques art. No matter what

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