Can't wait!!

So looking forward to the Blogger's Luncheon this Saturday!  Lot's of new folks to meet and fun stuff to make.

Then, next weekend, I'm "running" in the Dirty Girl Mud Run here in Phoenix.  It's a FUN 5k obstacle course, in mud, of course!  Gonna run with my girlz - our group name is a LOVELY BUNCH OF COCONUTS.  We have coconuts painted on our pink shirts! Too much fun.

Here are a couple of items I've made in the past few days

 Mixed Media collage chunky page

 Mixed Media collage chunky page

 Mixed Media - Winter theme 4 x 6 Gothic arch for the Winter Wonderland swap I'm hosting at atcsforall.com

Okay, my camera broke so I had to scan these art dolls.  The pics are crummy but hopefully you get the idea.  These were done for a Creeptastic art doll swap and are cloth, handsewn, beaded with mohair "hair" and various skellie faces.  The wings were altered with alcohol inks. 

In a Zetti-Halloween-ish mood

Just a few things I've been working on for swaps and private trades.  I have been pretty busy lately with work, church (sang my first solo last Sunday), my dogs/cats and when I can find a few minutes, my art!  Super excited for Halloween so I've been concentrating on stuff for multiple swaps in that theme, but also working in some Zetti themed stuff. 

Hope you enjoy!

Published again!  Artsy Fish - Page 12 of ArtTrader Mag.  Title is Fish and Game, but the pic came out a little fuzzy... SIGH

Here's the link

http://www.arttradermag.com/issues/ArtTrader_Issue19.pdf

Not much doing in the creativity area... Busy at work and have been practicing with my church choir. Going to take a personal growth class starting this week and gonna have to skip the first class because it's my 4 year wedding anniversary (yay). Otherwise life is...... one day at a time

"found poetry" ATC's for poems about love swap - these are words taken from book pages to make a poem or story, in this case, about love. They are collage/mixed media. Got them done today after I went in and groomed a HUGE golden retriever. Man those dogs are hairy... Ugh, feel like I'm gonna cough up a fur-ball the size of one of my dogs ;o)

Front of "Key to My Heart" chunky heart

Back of "Captive" chunky heart

Moveable peep-hole showing dimensional eye

Front of "Captured" Chunky heart

Inchies for Totally Awesome Inchie swap

These are just a few of the goodies I've been working on lately, when I'm not busy at work, which means I work on them late at night ;O)

Great weekend last week at ARTzona. 3 blissful days of creating. Check out some pics at my friend Sherrie's blog http://bigtoestudio.blogspot.com/2012/01/artzona.html

Looking forward to meeting some AFA-ers tonight at the Scottsdale Art Walk!

2012

Wow, haven't been HERE in awhile!! As always, I hope to blog more this year, I guess I just forget.

Looking forward to ARTzona this week. Hosted by a few Arizona ATCsforall.com folks and we have some of the members coming in from out of town. Can't wait to meet some of these folks face to face.

Here are a few of the most current pieces I have been working on, all for swaps or to trade at ARTzona