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Trick and Treat to be the guest art mom at school today for pumpkin decorating. She the results here and the table below was after the kids hit it.
A treat to have tiny moments of big draw time so here are a few:
Trick, snow
Treat, peace (5 minutes but hey, I'll take it)
Treat, Starbucks
Trick...it is cold out! Treat, vintage buckle on my fingerless gloves
Trick
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... and this one is for the "girls". Thanks again Sherry for this perfectly titled Etsy Treasury. It is an honor to be in one treasury, let alone 3 with such wonderful other women. To this group, and to all the fantastic people I have met along the way, it is too bad we were not the leaders of this world and the only fighting done was over the last piece of dark chocolate at our "World according to us" meeting/"Art workshop". One can dream and what I am trying to say is how magical it is when women who have never met can become part of history together. Yes, we are becoming part of history for our efforts.
In other news having a little "battle" of my own today...it is called "trying to do anything on the computer with 2 five year olds running around". PJ girl had half day today...as in 11:00am so we brought home a friend after school, his mommy is still at work, lucky gal!! Just kidding, they are great...for the most part. When our little guest does leave I will race back and show you what fun I had today at school...as guest pumpkin art mom. This kindergarten stuff is quite fun, sign me up!
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Whew! What a day. Weather was rough and visibility going to Albany for my hair appointment was nil! Then...are you ready for this one. I was running a bit beehind due to the slow downs so I called my hair place and said I would bee running 5 minutes late and they said..."Karen, your name was erased out of the book". EXCUSE ME.... I was a little miffed to say the least and said well I am coming in and someone is at least going to trim me up a bit. The appointment was for my natural hi-lights and cut. By time I got thru the door they had my hairdresser of over 20 years on the phone and she was on her way in...no explanation as to why I was erased and ended up getting my hair done by the only person allowed to touch my hair. So needless to say had to postpone the tetanus shot until tomorrow...bummer,I really wanted a shot...ended up getting home to snow...yes the 4 letter word...already. So fingers crossed after my long day this post will make sense.
Ok, enough rambling and a more list vs my normal eloquent post, hee hee.
First lets talk about me...well, ok my new bag that features an art piece by Suzan Buckner. This bag is great! The quality, the image, everything about it. Go to CafePress and buy all your holiday presents there. Add your own images and presto, one stop shopping!
Thanks to Nancy Lefko at My Collage Art for spotting this from Diana Evans
~*~Patty at Magpie's Nest spotted this next fun "book thong" from Tabby at Crooked Heart Art. How can you not want to have something with a name like that! What a neat idea and looks like you can get one right at her blog
~*~ Patty is always spotting bees but this time she posted one herself in a pink post , can you find the bee there?
Last week I was tagged by Valaine from Silent Dreamer so I obliged but took these little honeys from her collage with me as a token, hee hee!
I just love her photos and composition of her art and collages! Thanks Valaine!
m.heart posted a surprise to start the week with. Looks like a slow motion shot, maybe he knew about the snow and was lingering as long as possible
m also sent me some great links. I am going to try and figure out how to trick "Bees without Borders" to come here and set me up. We don't have many borders around and could pass for another country. Just kidding... and if city bees can make honey, well country bees can make it sweeter with less stress.
My Buddy "Bee" from down under at Witchetty is entering her bee season as spring begins in Australia. Look at her first sighting of spring. A sock monkey bee from Etsy.
Leah from Creative Every Day sent me another Etsy find, this awesome soap, sounds as good as it looks too!
Ok, one more bit of honey coated sweetness from Jacquelyn at Ascender Rises Above. Posting at my own risk, just found this one a little while ago but the wonderful and talented Jacquelyn has let my post a picture before and this one is so apropos...but go here to see the rest! She really is the bee's knees!
That's a wrap!
Starting a challenge of my own. Looking for "great hives" since the months ahead will keep me buzzy in my hive. Lets see what you can come up with or seek out. Thank you all once again! And to all you blogs on break...happy break!
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Up an out early this morning and a full day ahead. My Bee Spotting post will bee done later today or first thing tomorrow morning.
What am I doing? Hair appointment but hopefully not a doodled bee-hive like this picture I drew in bed last night. In case I do not draw anymore today this will be the big draw entry for today, day 28.
Her feet were not very good and mine were cold so it looks like my subconscious gave her Uggs.
After hair appointment, an hour away, I need to go to the doctor for a tetanus shot. It will be worse than the reason which happened Sunday. It involved a sewing machine, a Halloween costume, and my finger...oops! Don't worry I am not running around with a costume sewn to my finger! So from the doctors I got to grab two uniformed children and drop one off at another house...which one will be determined by after school mood. Then swing home to de-uniform the child I end up with and take to art class...then the library...then eat supper...then post Bee-Spotting! Whew! At least I will bee bee-utified!
Also if you are in the Esty neighborhood I am in another fabulous treasury from the fabulous awareness queen bee Sherry. This one is called "Breast Attitude of All" featuring sellers who are supporting breast cancer awareness and making a difference. Another catchy title, love it!
Still want to know how to save a picture of the treasury, there must be a better way than taking a photo of the computer screen!
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These are doodles I did in bed last night, falling asleep, with one eye open. I will not have time to draw something today. They are based on a doll I saw in a flip through of a magazine. The dolls are made by Sam Mckechnie and are simply adorable. My doodles are just doodles, after a quick glimpse of one, no where near her detail in these fun dolls I found of hers on-line.
wow, can tell I was half asleep but I do like the little baby going for a ride in a leaf with bunny!
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The other day I hit my favorite antique connection and really connected with some great old Journal magazines from the early 60's. Lots of fabulous "Jackie" shots, including her painting a picture and her personal wedding shots. Her influence is everywhere in the pages of these magazines. I had to pick one and draw it and only had less than an hour to do it. Here is my pick, a great add for "Formfit". (I figured it was in keeping with the breast cancer awareness)
Here is a photo of mine, complete with pink ribbons.
I used a jumbo graphite to do some nice dark quick shading. It is very messy but fun!
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I have done something I really told myself I would never do. Draw a person from a photo...as in make it look like that person...let alone a family member.
Close to 2 years ago I fell in love with a series of random photos of Pajama Girl dancing around and posing with a beat up old wreath when we were trying to decorate a bit outside for the holidays. Through Shutterfly I made our holiday cards and later a canvas of our favorite picture of the year.
Here is the card (pardon the red tones on the bad scan)
Here is the shot we loved
and here is the big drawing I did when I work up this morning
The eyes looked a little better than the "auto adjust" fixed them for that. I think even though I was looking at her picture from 2 years ago, it is almost as if I have drawn her closer to her age now without intention. Ok, now I have to double check the actual drawing because the eyes are bugging me and If my drawing is going to look like my sweetie...it is going to be perfect!
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I loved the Ford "warrior" from today's earlier post I just drew it. Now I need to get some sleep!
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I have several things I should be doing right now but it will all have to wait until this post is done. Many of you know I am a pharmacist, the job that pays the bills...or at least some of them. Art is my life, my fuel, my soul. It is how I communicate. Today I need to correlate it with my career in the health care industry, everything has a reason.
First I would like to thank Sherry at Epirit*d'Art for adding me, to a great Treasury named "Save the tAtA's, sellers who are supporting the cause" at Etsy. (This listing will expire on Sunday at 4:44 a.m.) I was not sure how to save a picture of it so I took a picture of my computer,I apologize for the blur and if anyone out there knows a way to save a picture of an Etsy treasury, let me know ASAP!
Sherry is a very dedicated supporter. Her blog is full of her dedication to support awareness for breast cancer. I found her post Her2 Neu Who? extra special. It begins with the mention of fame, ridiculous amounts of money for the talent that achieved that fame and the silent heroes. So often the media skips over the real hero's of the world to bring you, quite frankly, a whole lot of crap we can do without. What about the hero of her post? Does anyone even know who Dr. Dennis Slamon is? I did not, until today. He is a hero to women everywhere and they may not even know it. Why don't we know about these heroes?
Circle back around to my job in the "cage", the pharmacy. The place I hear the whines of " those selfish drug companies" Where is the general public getting their information? Hmm, the media and the twisted half quotes of how much the "selfish" drug companies are"making"...Hello? Thank you media, you just got my attention...NOT! How about the whole truth, how about how much it actually cost to make that drug?
Please skip over with me to a minute to All Things Paper by Elizabeth Parsons and a post that had no comments until I got there about the price tag of these drugs. This is the half in fine print or neglected by the media after the bold headline stating how much greedy drug companies gross. To quote Elizabeth's post:
"The average time it takes for one drug to make it from pre-human testing to market is 12 years. For every one drug that makes it to market, there are 5,000 (yes, 5,000) that failed. The cost for one drug to get to market? A staggering 800 million dollars."
How about the cost to fund the ideas of genius minds like Dr. Slamon. He, after saving more than 400,000 lives for his drug Herceptin, finally got some recognition on October 18th, on Lifetime. I am just sorry the media did not let me know ahead of time that SOMEONE WHO HAS SAVED MORE THAN 400,000 LIVES was going to air. This would have been nice to know since MY FRIEND AND REASON I DO WHAT I DO HERE WAS 1 OF THOSE 400,000 LIVES SAVED. Sherry is one of those lives as well. I know 2 OF THOSE 400,000 LIVES SAVED AND NOT A DARN HINT THEIR HERO EVEN HAD A NAME.
Loved the above picture from Sherry's post and the Ford Warriors in Pink campaign. We are warriors too and I am thankful for all the artists out their who continue with their efforts and support of any cause. I know not all artists have deep pockets, but we do have deep hearts. There was a comment on Sherry's post with a quote "if you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at who he gave it to." So there you have it. We may not be rich or famous but we can be silent heroes. To quote myself from this post
"Science, like art, is a God given talent too, it just cost a lot more and people forget that aspect"
It does take our efforts and they do make a difference.
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