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Well, I took the plunge and opened an Etsy Store!!
Who knows what good it will do or where it will lead, but since my website is undergoing major overhaul and is taking way longer than I thought, this seems to be a good option. I must say it's much easier than Ebay and dare I say? Fun??? I've only added a few things for now to try it out and daresay I will add more in the coming days!
Come visit....
http://lostaussie.etsy.com
Today I've been pulling apart some old Christie's catalogues that I picked up recently at a second hand book store. For a $1 a piece you can't get better than that for good collage fodder!
Can you tell I am getting ready to send off all my Christmas Cards?
Here's this years year's addition to the Amora Island collection of Faux Postage.
If you like sticking fun stuff onto your Holiday envelopes, I will happily send a full sheet printable file to the first 10 people who ask..!
First in best Stamped :-)
It's been perfectly balmy weather up here for the last few days. Nice to be able to be out and about without so much as a jacket!
I fear though, things are about to change. All day the geese have been trooping across the skies overhead, squawking and calling to each other as they head south. The chill must be on the way!
And I got mildly chided by hubby today for not creating much in the way of art while he has been gone. Usually I would take advantage of the lack laundry, dinners to cook or any other domestic duty to be performed and hole up in the studio from the moment he'd left the house until about 5 minutes before he gets back, but really this nasty cold/flu/bug has had the better of me for the last 10 days and sleep has seemed way more attractive than anything else I could think of!
...anyway I do feel better these past two days! ...and did create a new piece today, a digital collage with this lovely little ballerina. She is taken from an oil painting by Angelo Morbelli (1899). The other elements in the composition are pulled from some of my antique botanical prints, an old London theatre poster and some plaster of paris background that I coloured with Adirondack colour wash.
Oh, and I made the new Snowflaky Winter header for the blog...way past due for a change there!
Aside from my own Rubber Stamps there is nothing much that "floats my boat" better than a good Zetti Stamp. They will alway number amongst the first and the best in my vast collection.
Chalks and pencils adorn this cool dude. An ode to feeling better and looking forward..can't be bad?
Taking a break from the Corporate Rat-race, hubby has taken a turn at tripping down to Australia to see the boys. It's the end of their school year and much to be done in preparation for the Holidays and Vacation.
It's been a while since he got down to the "marvellous" part of the world, but I can't help but sniff and mourn a little that he is huggin' the boys and not me....
Can't believe how much they have grown in the last 4 months...hhhmmmm my turn soon!!
Contrary to popular belief, I do take paper to canvas and smoosh it all around every-now and then.
It's usually an 11th hour thing when I should be in bed and the thought of a complex piece of digital work is more than a tired brain can bear.
In this case though I felt particularly guilty that I have not contributed anything lately to my beloved parent society - CollageCats. I've been a member of this Yahoo group for many years now. It's where I took my first teetering steps into the world of mixed media art and found so much love and support in my endeavours. An interesting journey for sure...and... amazing now to recognise a considerable number of folk who once crept into our hallowed walls as newbies making a name for themselves in the bright lights of teaching, publication and commercial art enterprises.
I think that there is a BIG HAPPY crowd who owe a generous toast of Goodwill and Thanks to Ms Carla Naron for starting us on our happy way!!!
Love you Dollink! Muchas Gracias and Blessings to you Sweetie!
Thanks to all of you who have left comments and sent emails. Sadly it's been somewhat of a ""creppola"" week. No sooner did I get my back to rights than I caught a nasty dose of bronchitis. I'm thinking I may sleep the weekend away and hope that I feel more chipper on Monday as I am always lousy company when I am sick!
Almost 19 years ago to the day I was involved in the most horrid car accident, suffering amongst other things, a broken spine.
It's all down to nearly two months of lying flat on my back and the fabulous colleagues who took great care of me that I dont now operate from the perspective of a wheel chair. Having said that, there are times, few and far between thank God, that I do pay the price. A bit like the Mermaid who walked on knives in exchange for her legs....
Today was one of those days. As if a thousand Samurai were using my back for target practice and it was with great effort and forced countenance that I completed the day on my feet.
A great shame really as hubby and I had planned a day of snapping pics and catching some local art fairs. We (I) managed a few good pics from downtown, two of which were used to make the piece for the blog - timely gnarly wood and staples with some barbed wire fence for good measure. We also snuck in a quick visit to the Center for Creative Arts, which landed some new and lovely pottery mugs and a fabulous pieces from a local assemblage artist. I just wish I had been able to stand a bit straighter and pay a bit more intelligent attention to what was a great show.
Pray heaven that a night stretched flat out on the floor will make tomorrow a bit more bearable!
