okay back to art-work...

I compiled my pieces to start my snail mail.  I just started layering pieces and then gluing them down - topped off with a coat of gel medium.  After everything dried I then rolled on some poodleskirt pink, warm white, and raw sienna to give some additional dimension.  My main piece will be covering some of the canvas but obviously placed where it looks like something is missing - because it is!  Everything is still drying so - I MUST WALK AWAY!

My piece is going to end up folded in half - so it looks quite discombobulated right now.  I hope I can pull it all together with the additional work on the main focus and some accents!  Trust you are working on yours... it is already the 12th of July.  I lost track of time working on a home for the kitty and had 3 grandkids for the weekend!  All good stuff though!

cheers, dana

HAPPY PINK SATURDAY

Much of this week and last, I spent trying to find this beautiful stray kitten a home.  SUCCESS!  I am sooooo happy that I did not have to send her to animal control.  She is the sweetest thing ever and if serious allergies were not a problem for my husband and one of the grandkids - we would have kept her.  Anyways, she will be well cared for and loved!  One of my facebook friends and blog followers sent me this pink kitty a couple weeks ago in honor of Pink Saturday - perfect for this weeks activities at this house. Although, Sophie, obvious Queen of the house, has found Baby (our stray) a distraction - she will also miss her.  They really have become great buddies! So once Baby is to her new home, I can get back to the business of the SNAIL MAIL ART CHALLENGE!

What fun I had visiting Pink Saturday sites from this past week:

nan at http://bubblesofjoy-nane.blogspot.com/

hayley at http://knittinghayley-aezoey.blogspot.com/

and the others I have been following since checking them out - special shout out to Anna at http://frostedpetunias.blogspot.com/  again!  http://connie-livingbeautifully.blogspot.com/ her tutorial is priceless!  AND SUPER THANKS TO BEVERLY FOR HOSTING PINK SATURDAY'S!!!
http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/
Seriously, I think about PINK all week and friends/coworkers that don't blog are mentioning pink things for me to blog about! LOL
cheers, dana

SNAIL MAIL CHALLENGE...

I have decide that in my own snail mail piece - I wanted to have a snail BUT after looking at pictures of them - I guess I forgot how ugly they are.  I remember in elementary school we had snails for a science class kept in screen topped aquariums.  Some kids broke into the school and took all the tops off - we came back on a Monday and snails were everywhere.  Stuck to the ceiling, walls, chalkboard and our desks - yuck!  Anyways - I am starting with a watercolor canvas with a sap green wash!  I am going to layer this note card so will be drawing my "snail" on 80 lb watercolor paper and trying some things with layers of paint, gel medium and tissue paper - wish me luck - hope you have started your challenge project!

Oh yes, there is always escargot!!!

My snail will definitely not be a real looking snail!
Here's to artistic freedom!
cheers, dana
THANK YOU TO ANNA, FROSTED PETUNIAS, for the awesome challenge button on my sidebar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://frostedpetunias.blogspot.com/
please see post from 6/27/2010 for challenge info!

ps need home for  found kitten...I call her Baby, she is a lover!

July dress challenge 2010

WHAT A FANTASTIC INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!  THANK GOD!  Again, I will share that I stand-EVEN in my livingroom while watching a sporting event -each time I hear the Star Spangled Banner!  Hand on heart and tears in my eyes!  I cannot imagine living anywhere else...why else would everyone keep trying to come here - even those that say they hate us!
My July dress challenge is in honor of the RED - WHITE and BLUE!!!
 LONG MAY OUR FLAG WAVE!  Click on the dress challenge 2010 button on my sidebar to check it out!

We had a super busy 4th - started on the beaches of Lake Michigan - it was crazy windy - great waves and fun!  Then off to friends for a quick visit and Mark went out sailing a bit - then to the Lugnuts baseball game with Fireworks!  I need a day off to recover - oh well - that's not on the calendar.  Off to work I go... please join in the fun with the SNAIL MAIL CHALLENGE - also, send a letter to a soldier!!!!!!!!!
cheers, dana

Proud to be an American - happy Pink Sat. with RED WHITE & BLUE

                                   YES,  I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN !!!!!!

AS WE CELEBRATE THIS INDEPENCE DAY WEEKEND, LET US ALL REMEMBER WHAT THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN BUILT ON AND BELIEVING IN!  THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE THAT HAVE FOUGHT AND STILL FIGHT TODAY TO PROTECT OUR FREEDOM !!!!

As we celebrate our freedom this weekend with friends and family, take time to send a prayer to all those that are serving!  In combination with our snail mail challenge - please send a handwritten letter to a soldier.  If you know someone serving, send them a shout out!  If you don't, please take a minute to write a letter - send it to me and I will send all out that I receive to: http://www.letterstosoldiers.org/
You can write email letters on many websites but from time to time soldiers are not allowed access - let's start a M.A.S.H. type campaign - remember all the episodes with letters from home!
dana
please visit the Pink Saturday posts! thanks Beverly http://www.howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

IT'S FRIDAY ... again

and I have fallen behind in all my projects, nothing new there.  Anyways, Connie at Living Beautifully, talked about starting a Frou-frou Friday.  I don't know if she was for real or just chatting but it got me thinking.  I always called it fou-fou, I had no idea it was frou-frou - I actually looked it up in the good old fashioned Webster's!  So, as I have missed the Foto Friday Challenge this week - (sorry peggy - but I am game on for the next one!) - I decided that by changing my header (with Connie's great tutorial pages), trying to finish my first dress challenge (with Margaret's great blog due by June 30th - I am late )  HERE IS MY DRESS CHALLENGE 2010 - JUNE entry - check out Anna's, Frosted Petunias- dresses for June

 and getting ready for Beverly's Pink Saturday post- that I now qualified as a "Frou-Frou Friday" gal. 

My frou-frou isn't girly enough by most standards but my daughter in law and granddaughters' can't believe - the pink I'm in!!!!!!!!!!!

Please stop in again tomorrow for the actual Pink Saturday Post!  Thanks to Beverly's blessing - I will be posting in the RED - WHITE & BLUE, in celebration of Independence Day weekend!

Please visit these gals that I have mentioned today at:

http://www.howsweetthesound.typepad.com/ = Beverly

http://www.connie-livingbeautifully.blogspot.com/ = Connie

http://www.aliceandcamilla.blogspot.com/ = Margaret
http://www.frostedpetunias.blogspot.com/ = Anna

Also - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO STEPHANIE - Queen of Dreamsz!!!!!!!!!

Back on Monday to take on the snail mail challenge!

cheers, dana

STAND FOR OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM...

PLEASE VISIT YOU TUBE AND LISTEN TO WHITNEY HOUSTON SING OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM!  Beverly, at how sweet the sound, ( http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/ )has shared this today!  THANK YOU.  I don't know how to put the video here or I would.  So please click on my blog list with her site!  Stand proud, hand over heart and SING ALONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES, I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISABLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL...REPOST IF YOU THINK GOD, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR FLAG DESERVE RESPECT.....LETS SEE HOW MANY AMERICANS WILL REPOST
dana