one last secret...

happy friday friends: you have until sunday evening to link up a creation on the theme of "secrets and hidden things" at the lunagirl moonbeams blog.  i've got one last DT piece to encourage you.

vintage image from lunagirl with other bits from my stash.
trying to blog every day this month is proving challenging.  i've made it to the midpoint of the month and i'm not sure if i'll make it to the end.  but it has been interesting trying to keep nice things coming.  i've got lots of challenge pieces to get done this coming weekend as well as ornaments due for a swap soon so i'll be making lots but not sure if i'll be posting.  in any event it is always lovely visiting with my blogging friends and I deeply appreciate your visits and kind comments here.

linking to pink saturday and 4 krafty girlz "anything goes" challenge.

love to all.

dancing and drawing

so if you visit here much you know i love to dance and i have tried many different kinds of dancing over the years.  i am currently 2 weeks into a lovely and unusual 8 week class called "dancing the bones."  the focus is on exploring dance through anatomy -- thinking about our skeletons, organs, musculature, etc.  and the movements are derived from that exploration.  very experimental and probably sounds a little weird but i confess i love it.  we also take drawing breaks during the 2 hour weekly class.  so today i am sharing a drawing i made of my own skeleton (with apologies for less than ideal photo quality -- it was a pencil drawing):

i know, funny huh?  when i was young i used to hate to think about my skeleton because it freaked me out but now i kind of like thinking about the amazing bones that keep me upright!

and this is a drawing from the second class of how i felt after we'd been dancing for quite awhile, considering the relationship of our skin to the physical space:

i never said i could draw...

okay, so this was a different sort of post but i thought i'd share.  i'm having a great time with it.

love to all.

thanksgiving card

a thanksgiving collage of vintage images to link up to the thanksgiving challenge at the gecko galz yahoo group.  all images from gecko galz.  flourish is from jolee's boutique.

i really have to work one holiday at a time, it is a limitation i seem to have. so if i can do a few more thanksgiving cards i might really be able to get started on christmas...

love to all.

all stitched up

i've really been in the stamping mood so to make my contribution for the tag tuesday "all stitched up" prompt i grabbed some sewing themed stamps from a hero arts set to make my tag.

i started with a green tag base, added some torn papers and then stamped several sewing images.  done!
yes it might have been nice if i'd actually taken out needles and thread and actually sewn something for this challenge but yikes, just couldn't do it.

love to all.

curiouser indeed!

for week two of the "secrets and hidden things" challenge at lunagirl moonbeams i wanted to do something kind of whimsical.  i was thinking that the alice in wonderland story includes secrets and hidden things so i turned to one of the alice collage sheets from lunagirl.  i colored the image of alice pulling aside the curtain with promarkers and cut it out. but i wanted her to find something a little more surprising than the queen's garden. so while the mysteriously smiling cheshire cat looks on, here is what happened in my alice scene...

whoa, what is rudolph the red-nosed reindeer doing behind that curtain? i guess he is telling me i'd better get going on making some christmas cards.

the alice, cheshire cat and "curiouser" all came from the lunagirl sheet.  the background was a freebie karen at lunagirl provided on her blog a month or so ago.  the rest are little things i had laying around.  i decided to link this card up to the "humour" challenge at dream valley challenges  and also to the "animal antics" challenge at the squirrel and the fox challenge blog.

happy week!  love to all.

angel wings

like so many artists and crafters i love working with angels and with wings so the new two week challenge at cheerful stamp pad definitely makes me happy -- the theme is "angel wings."  our challenge sponsor is the lovely digital stamp company michelle perkett.  a randomly selected winner will get some goodies from the company.

here is my first DT piece for the challenge:

my cardstock was spritzed with watercolor inks.  i tried the "washi weave" tutorial from technique junkies to make for a different kind of background.  my stamp is a favorite one from character constructions.  i printed a relevant quote from my computer then tore it and distressed the edges.  a few other embellies and voila! angel wings.

i hope you'll join us.  i'm also linking up to the "sentiments" challenge at that craft place challenge blog.
love to all.

november colors

is it really november?  how did that happen?  and we are nearly halfway through it.  here is a card with "november colors" for the gecko galz yahoo groups monthly challenge. in the northern hemisphere we're moving from the oranges and yellows of early autumn to the browns and more muted tones as we transition to the colder months. so that's what i'm picking up on here.

vintage squirrel and "harvest" images are from gecko galz collage sheets.  my little 100 proof press acorn guy stamp is also here to remind everyone that this is harvest time.  plus other embellies.

linking up to pink saturday "pink" or "seasonal" and frilly and funkie "thanksgiving" challenge.

love to all.