Hi!
I have just spent an hour listing new items in my etsy store:

www.inkspired.etsy.com

'Princess in Yellow' original Collage Art Doll by inkspired

My problem is I am way more creative than business like, so I have tons of new Collage Art Dolls and new bottlecap magnet art, and old, vintage books to list, and sell.  I also have several pieces of jewelry that I have hand beaded that need to get listed.

A set of 5 Wall-E magnets just listed.

 Now how often do you see the Captain? or two of the 'rogue' bots?

I think this set is just super.

That's a bit of a problem too...

I like what I do, so sometimes it is hard to sell,

as most of my items are one of a kind, and I really can't reproduce them.

'A Vintage Feel' original Collage Art Doll, just listed in my etsy shop

I have been doing some more of my 8 1/2" x 11" approx. collage scenes.

I still haven't come up with a good name for them.

I will be selling these as fine quality prints, printed on glossy cardstock,

with a small white border for ease in framing.

I just have so much darn fun!

Here is another sample of one of them.

(refer to a couple of days' ago blog for when I posted the first one)

 'Mermaid with Pearl'

Why don't you help me come up with a name for this series?

My other series is, of course, named

Collage Art Dolls

This new series will be full size 8 1/2"x11" approx.

created with all junk mail that has been recycled.

Each one will be a dimensionally looking scene.

How about

Collage Wall Art

???

Here is another one:

'Autumn's Faire Maid'

I truly would like to hear some opinions and ideas for names.

and it is so easy to leave a comment now on my blog.....

:0)

Here are some more bottlecap magnets made from all recycled junk mail

that I have recently posted in my etsy shop:

Bad witch and Good Witch, Wizard of Oz

'the claw! the claw!', Toy Story

and for when someone just needs a razzberry -

raspberry recycled junk mail bottlecap magnets

Well it's that time of day again....

where household duties call

or in the case of laundry,

they scream,

and I really should go do something about it.

Maybe close the laundry room door....

:0)

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

http://www.inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com

Last Minute August Holidays

Bueno!

(Spanish for hello)

Just in the nick of time...

we have some last days of August holidays to celebrate!

In no partial order, let's start with

Peach Month - August 1 - 31

"I don't like people,

But I like individuals."

- Edward Abbey

 

"Love beauty;

it is the shadow of God on the universe."

- Gabriela Mistral

recycled/upcycled bottlecap magnets

with a hand tweaked and

hand colored Art Nouveau Alphabet

by inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

Second, we have

National Catfish Month

August 1 - 31

a blue catfish

I must admit, fishing has never been my thing.

Looking for photos to go with the Catfish Month, I was really grossed out!

Catfish are mean-ugly!

So, I have chosen illustrations for Catfish Month:

www.supercoloring.com

http://www.tonyabond.etsy.com/

 

 

http://www.sophytuttle.etsy.com/

I mean, really, people eat these things?

Next and finally we have

National Toasted Marshmallow Day!

August 30

Now here's a day I can celebrate!

Toasted marshmallows and camping go hand in hand.
I like to think my Dad was the camping expert of his time.

He trained many men and women to be great camping experts world wide.

Go DT!

I have spent many evenings growing up around a campfire,

roasting marshmallows.

I could generally do without the chocolate or graham crackers,

but those yummy, crisp and gooey marshmallows...

http://www.us.monin.com/

Just sounds yummy, doesn't it?

Here is a must-have for all those chilly evenings around the fire:

toasted marshmallow charms by

http://www.chibibeebee.deviantart.com/

So, on the way home from picking up the kids from school,

or going home from work,

or on the way back from your workout,

pick up some marshmallows!

okay,

you can get the Hershey's chocolate bars and box o' graham crackers too!

and maybe a peach or two...

http://www.pennypantry.com/

See you tomorrow!

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

http://www.inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com

Ramblings of Creativity

dia duit

pronounced gee-ah ditch

Gaelic, literally 'God be with you'

I have browsed a few of my older posts.

My goodness I am a 'Chatty Cathy' !!!!!

Some of them look like mini-books!

So, perhaps I need to post a note above the computer saying:

Michael says:

You don't need to write a book every blog.

:0)

Today I am in a

wandering through my creative processes kind of day.

Caution:

this could be scary to some...

Yippee - Laundry Day

I just posted 5 new Collage Art Dolls on my etsy shop.

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

I also added a set of Happy Hollister Books

(3 with 1 free bonus book)

and a couple of bottlecap magnets

When I work on my bottlecaps, my table looks like this:

actually, that's kind of clean for my usual mess...

I cut all my graphics and words from junk mail,

catalogs, recycled magazines, brochures,

those annoying ads people stick in between your door,

or on the outside of your mailbox...

pretty much if it's paper, I have fun with it.

That's where the quirky humor comes in.

you know, a dog has questions....

and we ALL know cats get messages from the cat planet...

It is way too frightening to take a picture of me going through the magazines, et al. I have stacks in various stages of being cut apart.  My living room chair is surrounded by little bits of cut paper.

Cinderella's Stepsister Steppin' Out

Collage Art Doll, one-of-a-kind (ooak)

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

Currently I have been doing some cut art work.

The little scraps of black paper look like spiders.

eek!

a black widow spider beaded necklace I have for sale

I can't show you my finished pieces,

as The Printer is being returned as I type....

A new one, from Costco (great prices)

only the window with lights that lets you copy from the machine (not using your computer) is blank.

No lights.

Can't use that function.

So I can't scan right now.

Here are some of my older cut-work

also called scherensnitte

(sheer-en-snit-uh)

This one I actually did do a couple of weeks ago.

I haven't attached it yet,

but I do have a frame ready to go!

This is the pattern I used. If I am careful in how I cut,

and of course the right kind of pattern,

I can use the pattern paper as framed art also!

another example

I don't know, maybe I really should finish this net-beaded bracelet

 I have in-the-works next to my living room chair.

It's a pattern that I am trying to remember from two I did before,

but have lost the directions to.

There is this new pattern in a Bead&Button magazine that looked interesting, but I just couldn't figure out their directions.

It looked similar to my previous bracelets, in the starting bit,

so, I am practicing.

I can't stand to just do something for the sake of doing it

(like practicing!)

so I thought I would just make it into a bracelet.

Four tries later, I've got it down,

but now I'm so bored with it, it is hard to finish!

Sound complicated?

I did warn you that my brain paths may be scary....

This is a truly stunning netted necklace I beaded.

My photos don't show up the pearlescent beads, silver accents and the pearls I used in it. Alas, after I photographed it I accidentally dropped it, and my Great Dane Koda stepped on it.

Broken thread, little tiny seed beads on my front porch..

not a pretty sight.

Sigh. I'm going to have to do major re-work to fix it now.

So, it sits in my 'Jewelry That Needs Help' box.

This is a very simple netted pattern that I made when I was first learning the netting stitch, using tiny seed beads.

my daisy chains -

Whenever I get 'stuck' trying to sort out a difficult pattern,

or I want to do beads, but just am not in the mood for following a pattern, I make a daisy chain!

I call them my happy beads!

I learned the pattern in junior high school, I think.

Here is another pattern I do when I want to bead,

but again I am watching tv or something,

and don't want to concentrate on a difficult pattern.

all the same basic pattern, which I have modified from the original

Hmmmm....

I am starting a new Michael Jecks medieval mystery,

and sure would like to spend some time reading....

this is one of the ones I have recently finished:

I really like these cover graphics. The 'new' ones have more of a realistic close-up of a warrior in armor.

My sister-in-law via my mom-in-law just loaned me a copy

of Carol Burnett's memoirs.

Love that lady!

Great actress!

Uh-oh.

I'm writing a blogbook again.

And I'm getting side-tracked.

Think I will go watch my 'new' John Wayne movie

'Alleghany Uprising'

and do some more scherensnitte,

although there's that bracelet,

and I just received some 'new' magazines to cut apart,

and I need to match up some words with some bottlecap graphics,

and, oh yes! I haven't eaten lunch yet,

and it's 4:30pm!

recycled bottlecap magnet,

www.inkspired.etsy.com

Think I better quit while I'm....

ahead?

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

http://www.inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com

with recycled junk mail graphics and words.