What I wore to the Wings Reception

I love my aviator helmet and my boots. I figured after painting all those bird pictures, I may as well be a ¨bird woman¨.

Dangerous Tea

Just so you know I'm not totally slacking off, I have been painting. I thought the model looked as though she were planning something sinister, so she has become a spy. The books in the background are all famous spy novels. Would you like to have tea with her?

Farm Chicks Booty

I picked up some paper ephemera, old quilt blocks, funky costume jewelry, vintage stamps, keys and a cool beaded crown embellishment. They will be sources for collage work. I wish I could have recorded more because there is so much cool stuff to look at and the vendors are very creative setting up their booths.

Bruce and I also hit a few yard sales while waiting for Farm Chicks to open. We picked up a small tv (for the camper) for $2!

Back from FArm Chicks

“Ah, good taste--What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.” Picasso

One of the things I love about Farm Chicks is that women dress for the occasion. Here are a couple of them "dressed to impress". I especially like the lady's handkerchief skirt.

I packed my camera to record ideas, costumes, interesting people, displays and the darn thing acted up something fierce. Quite often the shutter wouldn't open....or like the second picture, the shutter was so slow due to the low light, the image was fuzzy. Sorry, but it was so much fun.
It was held in the big barns of the Spokane fairgrounds. I went in at noon on Saturday and it was packed. Next year, I would wait to 2:30-3:00 to let the crush subside.

I am amazed at the creativity. People were lapping it up. I do have ideas for my Columbia Basin Tour show in August!

Junuary

It has been such a cool, wet spring here the CBC has dubbed it "Junuary". I liked how my rhubarb and lilacs looked on my gardening/painting table.

Yahoo, I'm off to FArm Chicks Show!!

Second Loon

This one is still a work in progress but it's 90% done. I haven't come up with a title yet. Getting excited about going to Farm Chicks Show tomorrow.

Petticoat Junction!

If you can remember that tv series, you are dating yourself. I happened across the extremely creative Alisa Burke's blog in my travels and saw her tutorial on a petticoat skirt. I wanted one and voila, this is my version. She is a messy girl after my own heart. (Hey, I am going to replace that carpet someday anyhow!)

I have to confess....I am a fabric hoarder. I have fabric I bought to make my daughter a baby quilt and she is now 28. I have a dresser, a trunk and several boxes full of scraps that I am going to turn into something someday. I am sick to death of clothes not fitting and am trying to sew my own stuff. I am also sick of the fact that clothes are one style and generally a certain number of "in" colors and every chain you go to has the same thing. I always intended to be eccentric in my old age so I'd better get started now.

Oh yeah, I found the wonderful suspenders at the dump!