LOVE IS . . .

Love is... when your husband takes your art out of the trash - puts it together and hangs it in the
living room!!!




If you have been with me for awhile you will remember that in June of 2011 my husband and I participated in Scrapfest lead by one of our artist friends.  It is an annual event where you run through a scrapyard pick your scraps and create a sculpture. We were part of a team of 5 and it was an incredible experience.  While we were working like madmen in our garage after work every night (we had 2 weeks to complete the task) we generated a lot of onlookers.  I had made a poster for the end of the driveway signifying what we were doing!  Throughout the process I took a lot of pics and we had pieces of metal leftover from cut outs that I used for some of the pics!

When the event ended, my husband and were left with the chaos and some of it I just couldn't toss out.  ( I do have a problem with that )  My plan was to have Mark (the said my husband) rivet the poster to one of the metal cut outs to be hung in the garage in remembrance of the experience.  Somehow, more than a year has gone by and the pieces were still sitting on the landing in the garage. So, a week ago, he asks me what am I doing with this stuff?  Hummmm, well, I thought the plan was blah blah blah but I guess not.  He went back into the house and I stood there staring at my kooky treasures.  I picked it up and took it to the dumpster.  I didn't say a word.  I figured he wouldn't even notice.  I knew he would notice it was gone but assumed he would think I put in the basement or somewhere in my room of art chaos!

Trash day had come and gone - I didn't think another thing of it!  Yesterday I come home from work and hanging on our living room wall is my trash!  You have got to love a guy that understands the depths of your soul!!!!  I never saw it removed from the garbage... or him working to put it together!  XXOO!!!

Thanks to Alexandra for hosting Sunday Sketches!!!!!  Can't wait to see all the art!

cheers, dana
make art, make friends - share art, share souls

we didn't win BUT OUR PIECE BROUGHT IN THE MOST MONEY...

We fell short of the People's Choice trophy, we were second - which counts the same as last...BUT for the silent auction our piece brought the most money of all the 17 entries...$1,000 was paid for our Hickory Liquory Clock.  Many of the other artists' said they were surprised we did not place.  It is a high compliment when your competition comes over and ask where did you guys come from...none of us are familiar with your work, "it's great".  Can't top that, well, it would have if we had gotten a trophy.  The event committee people said that we were their people's choice and of course, are super excited about the money the piece brought in for them.  This event gives all the silent auction money to Old Town Community development.

It was a great experience, exhausting too.  All of us work regular jobs, the guys work 12 hour days and traveled for four of our 12 days to work on it.  I had a wedding to attend and an open house....today, I am on shut down...just doing laundry, which is piled high.  So, I have taken my poster that I made -framed it in some of our leftover scrap and will be hanging it in the garage...it was our Junk-Anew-bies headquarters for ScrapFest 2011......thanks to those that sent in a vote for us!!!!

                              hhhhhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmm 2012????????????

cheers, dana

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Paint Party Friday ...and TEXT YOUR VOTE TO 411669 - scrap11

(Back from the drop off - won't have voting number until 6pm so as soon as back from that visit to the competition - will post so we can get your vote -read below first or this won"t make sense) TEXT VOTE TO 411669 message: scrap11 anytime after 6 pm 6-24-11 Michigan time thru 6-25-2011 at 5 pm!!!
Old Town ScrapFest 2011...and the Junk-Anew-bies team!!!! 500lbs of scrap, a creative lead artist...3 guys that can weld....tools extraordinary...I did a bit of painting here and there....cooked lots!!!

Poured more!



What an incredible experience! Thanks to Stacy Love, she had the guts to ask us and we all jumped on board. So for Paint Party Friday - the Coupe de gra!!! (I am sure I have THAT spelled wrong - but you get the idea)



Hickory Liquory Clock....





Junk-Anew Vintage 2011



The champagne bottle to your viewing left inside the giant spring was a brass part from a lamp...so that counts as paint party friday as I copied it to appear as a bottle of dom perignon...this is a functional piece of art...wine rack!!! Please read the incredible Artist Statement that Stacy submitted for our team!!! We were all outside of our comfort zone on this project and soooooooo happy we did it!!!



in the beginning



So, I am getting ready to leave to take the sculpture to the competition...Stacy is meeting me here and we are driving the Junk-Anew-bies mobile!!! Hope I don't have to hit the brakes...

If you have time please view the statement...AND I WILL BE POSTING A NUMBER TO TEXT YOUR VOTE FOR PEOPLE'S CHOICE IN THE COMPETITION...PLEASE VOTE...IT STARTS AT 6pm - TONIGHT MICHIGAN TIME!!!! One vote per phone number and it will be tallied on going showing on the side of an old building at the festival!!!! Keep our numbers rolling please...we get our number once we deliver the sculpture so please check back... I will edit this post to add it!!! THANKS TO KRISTIN AND EVA FOR HOSTING AND FOR ALL OF YOU WILLING TO VOTE!!!! Here we go!

Thanks for reading...following the event...sorry it's soooooo long winded BUT seriously an experience of a lifetime!!!!
cheers, dana

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Only 2 nights left to complete

my husband Mark,
one of our Structual Gods!

our creation... we started with the truckload and it is all coming together.  I can't believe it!  Our leader has great vision and THE GUYS...what skill!  I have learned how to use a plasma cutter (I have to get one!).  I am now in LOVE with rust!!!!  Here is a sneak peak at what we're doing...can't show much until Friday - the official unveiling!!!!  I will also post twice friday...you can text a vote in for our work!!!  One call per number.  Once we drop the sculpture off we will be assigned a number for voters...sort of like American Idol!  So even though you won't know if our sculpture is the best....
PLEASE TEXT IN YOUR VOTE FOR PEOPLE'S CHOICE TO JunkAnew-bies team!!!!  Visit http://www.oldtownscrapfest.com/ to find out about this great event! 
 I will post info!  Not sure what is wrong with blogger but I had to paste the pics in?????  What's up?

some of the guts of our work!!!

The completed piece will be posted for Kristin and Eva's Paint Party Friday!!!!!!   So please check back!!!!!
cheers, dana
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