A Shrine and a Pink Piece

I really like the Old West. So I did a shrine to Annie Oakley. I found a bunch of images from the Buffalo Bill Wild West show and used them on the sides and in the attic.

I shingled the roof with shingles from the doll house section at Hobby Lobby. I used vintage lace and dried naturals and Birch bark and a piece of Oak for embellishments.

I used rice paper instead of dictionary pages like I usually do to cover the walls. I gotta say i didn't like working with it. I think I will stick to dictionary pages.
I put this in my Etsy store.

I was paging thru mags for no particular reason and I started pulling ads. The face is black and white, so I put some color in with crayons. Nothing else worked.

I did the background with oil pastels and sealed it before collaging on it. The ribbon on the side is made from paper. I thought it fit well with the lace. Then I added the pearls because I seem to be on a pearl kick lately.

I love the way the flowers are almost a hat or almost her hair depending on how you look at it.

This was just plain fun to do.Sometimes you just gotta play.

I put this in my store too.

Peace

Finished I think

Well, I'm not really sure if I'm happy with this or not. I know I am going to have to do something to the background. I like the layout. And the things on it. But I'm just not sure.
The dragonfly sticks up about 1/4 inch or a little more at the highest point. Which is the body and where the wings connect. I built up under the wings by the body with modeling paste and then tapered them down to lay flat on the board. The top trim is lace. The flowers are dried from our woods. The long grasses are twisted tissue paper.
There are tiny dried leaves along the bottom. They show up better in person. In fact the whole piece is better in person.
So I think I'll live with it awhile and see if it needs something more or not.

Peace

Making a Mermaid

Yay I can put up pics today! So here's how this piece came to be born. I garage saled the round piece of wood about 10 years ago. Just one of those weird things that you see and think 'I need to have that'. It was from something someone cut a whole in and my husband couldn't believe I paid a dollar for it. Then last year I was looking thru a mag and I saw an ad with this woman in it. It stretched across 2 pages, she was sitting in a desert. I really liked her hair so I cut it out and put it in one of my many files. Then a couple of months ago I was poking around looking for inspiration and I saw her again. And I thought 'Mermaid' which made me thing air bubble which made me think round which made me think piece of wood and there ya go.
So I painted the background and used sand and modeling paste for the seabed. Then i glued on the shells and coral.I put pearls in her hair because I thought she needed them and gave her a seed bead neckpiece to sort of hide her boobs. Then I gave her a wand because who wouldn't want a wand!

Her tail is made from large sequins cut into quarters and placed one at a time to overlap like fishscales. Her fins are fabric and netting.

I wanted to have some kind of seaweed or something, but I wanted it to be light and sort of 3-d. So I took floral wire and wound it up and covered some of it with ribbon and there she is!
So that's how a Mermaid was born!

Peace

A Mermaid and an Etsy Store

I feel like I haven't posted in a long time. I've been down with a sinus infection/cold all week. So I've been feeling a little uncommunicative. But I used the time to open an Etsy Store! Yup, I really did it! I wouldn't have ever gotten the nerve up without the support and encouragment of my online art sisters. Thank you all. Here is the link (I hope):
http://www.greenwomancreating.etsy.com
If not it is called Green Woman Creating and you can look in Etsy for it by name.
I wanted to put up a pic of a Mermaid piece I did, but for some reason blogger isn't letting me do pics today. But I did put it in the store.
So thank you all again, I never thought I would find such a wonderful community online.
Peace

Playing Tag In Bloglandia

I got tagged by Moonwillow http://moonwillowblogspot.com/ .Yay, what fun! Here's how it works, you get tagged and you list 6 things about yourself, unimportant, random,habits and quirks. Then you tag 6 people and link them at the end of your post. Then you inform them they've been tagged and on it goes.
So here's my 6:
1. If my husband didn't object so strongly I would cut my hair in a shaggy spike and put purple streaks in it.
2.I used to teach Disco.
3.If I had to choose between art supplies and books to be on a deserted island with me I would pick books.
I haven't had any artistic training or ever attended a workshop.
4.I was in the Our Lady Of Angels fire in Chicago.
5.I watch a lot of reality TV.
6.I wish I could draw and paint.
So now I am tagging:
http://www.alteredrose.com/
http://artrix-playtime.blogspot.com/
http://cynthiapowell.blogspot.com/
http://erzsabetart.blogspot.com/
http://www.maigirlz.typepad.com/
http://www.serenitynowcris.blogspot.com/
Tag Girls, you're it!!
Peace

More Affirmations

Here are some more Affirmation Goddess' I just made. I really enjoy creating them. I never know who they are going to turn into.
Here is Warrior my favorite. This one turned out to be standing sort of hip-shot. Maybe a little cocky. Here is Grow. A wish for spring to come so I can plant some flowers and see some color when I look outside.
And Peace.Because it's what I wish for us all.
So that's what I've been doing. And the dragonfly textured piece should be done this week along with the Winter Goddess.
And I spent several hours taking pics of some things for the etsy store that I hope to open soon.

Peace

To Etsy Or Not To Etsy, That Is The Question

And for me it's a big one. For some reason this is a scary thing. I guess the feeling is like 'what if I give a party and no one comes.'
But I have been doing a lot of looking around and I am going to do it. I have to I think. I am reaching the point where I don't have room for all I create. If I don't sell, I will end up with a houseful of stuff that my kids will have to clear out when I'm gone.
So now the big question is what about tax. Do I charge it, do I claim it,do I have to have a tax number or something. All questions for my accountant. But until tax crunch time is over I don't want to bother her.
How do you all handle that part of it?

Peace