Just got my classes listed for the next 6 weeks on www.blissbee.net! Most are small easy under 3 hour classes ,unlike my workshops and retreats. I am working on making these smaller classes into kits and already have 3 listed on my etsy site. Boy all this takes so much time. When you come up with this ideas .You think... oh ya I will do this and then that and then this !!! and theeeeeen 2 months later you only have a tad of your ideas done. Why can't the days be 48 hours long and why can't we live a lot longer too ! So much fun stuff to do and so little time. Do any of you every feel this way??
This is an update to Sundays post . I had time to play with the Tim Holtz rusted doll I showed in the last post and YES you can drill into the plastic!! I drilled a hole for the wings so that they are secured with glue and a small nail and I drilled her head and added a wire wrapped hanger. SOO Easy and kind of nifty looking ?? Oh she has a wee real pearl necklace .
Today I am going to show a mini "how to" on creating real rust finishes on metal, wood ,paper and plastic. I use a 2 part process using real iron paint and then an easy rusting solution . Both can be cleaned up with water .
I started with a piece of card stock paper , a Tim Holtz plastic
"fractured doll" ,
A wood tag and a tin bottle cap.
Next I painted them all with the "Blissbee iron paint".
2 heavy coats on the wood and paper and 4 heavy coats on the plastic doll and tin bottle cap.
I allowed each coat to dry before re-coating . The iron paint is then cleaned up with water .
I then coated each with 2 coats of the rusting solution. I used a paint brush for this as it agitates the surface a bit . Also use gloves for this process and allow each coat to dry naturally . The first coat will not show much rusting action. The second coat will. You can then clean the solution up with water . Dispose of excess properly.
The iron paint and rusting solution(enough to cover 3 sq. feet) can be bought on the Blissbee web site
These are Tim Holtz's plastic" fractured dolls" (small 2 " large 3).
You should be able to drill into these unlike porcelain. So an eye hook could possibly be added for hanging. I have not yet tried this but I would add a clear matt sealer to the finish if I was to do so and use it for a necklace .
It was off to Art Unraveled in Phoenix this last weekend. A fellow artist friend and wearable art artist Lorri Scott ruptured her retina YIKESSS!! So was unable to teach and run her booth at Art Unraveled . She asked if Lori Garver, my sister Lorrie and myself would run her vendor booth for the event. It was a shopping frenzy all day as we played Barbie arraigning and rearranging clothes and we sold like mad!!! The rest of the weekend was spent in quite play time as my sister and I journaled at our Mom's dining room table. It was a wonderful weekend all around and nice to get away from the shop . Cal was left in charge there and did a fine job of it too.
On the way to phoenix .Yes this really is the Arizona Desert!!!
A happy customer in Lorri Scott's wonderful clothing .
The Business of vending
The end of the day -Lori , Julie and Lorrie
Journaling fun !!
You are given one little spark of madness.....
You mustn't lose it.
2 pages from my journal - simply dry brush painted backgrounds using Claudine Helmuth paints (which I LOVE ) a few collage elements and some letter stamping.
My sister lorrie and my mom came for the weekend. I had begged Lorrie to come in and teach a journaling class for me so I could learn some of her skills she is a wonderful journalizer and the class was soooo much fun . I lOVE taking classes . I have always frozen up when it comes to the collaging elements and the putting down of the text .After her class I now feel more confidant .She was a very gently teacher moved me along with just the right nudge when I got "stuck " now thanks to her help I am over the hump. After class the 2 of us had "sister " time and kept working for about 3 more hours and then it was home to pizza Cal had ordered for us from Bisbee's little brick fired pizza shop. I have also been up to a bit of sewing and have altered some jeans for the shop and a few little tops too!! That too was so much fun that I ordered a surger. It's a refurbished one and I have yet to try it but I am sure it will work fine.. Oh and this was a little altered spool class I taught last week . Much thanks to the influence of my friend Marie Kennedy and her little spools I carry in the shop . My plan is to do a different spool class every six weeks and then at the end of the year those who take the classes will have a fun collection of altered spools. This one was called " Poetry in Motion"
set up for class
Diane is intensely into the mess of creating
Some of the journals drying ...oh such pretty colors !!
a page spread in lorries' class sample
A page spread from my journal with the start of a Mary Oliver poem
Some of the things going on at "Blissbee "this week..
new " meg" clothes came in today paired up with some "Vintage Kitty"
More new jewelry
We carrry Chris Roberts- Antieau
My favorite Fabric folk artist!!!
And then last but not least our class today was
"Cross your heart and hope to fly"!!!! Thats Renee, Ginny and Evelyn. We have a tiney class room for 6 students but just found out we can rent the back workshop space in the store this Fall!!
Even thought the store is taking a lot of our time. I am finding time to be creative too . It is sooo wonderful to have my studio in the back room . I even have room for my sewing machine to be set up all the time and I love my sewing machine it is the crafts expression Janome model. Any way a new fun thing I made is this doll she is in perfect mode for the fall season and will be teaching her this fall at Terri Brushes ART CAMP oct 6 - 10th . The event is sold out but there is always the spring ART CAMP . So plan ahead .
