I wanted to thank everyone for my Paper Stack Pack love. Apparently they were featured on Etsy’s front page and all were sold within two days. I’ve been on the front page a couple times, but I’ve never gotten a screen capture before. That is something I’d really love. In the meantime, I think I might just have to put together some more paper packs. Lord knows I have plenty where they came from.
Yesterday I mowed, today it snowed. This morning I walked to work, no coat, just a sweatshirt. I get to work and it starts snowing. No Joke, and it was really coming down too. Big, huge, fat snowflakes.
Last week I got this lovely postcard, handmade by Katie (Oltremare), in the mail as part of an exchange. My first piece of mail art at my new place. I just love her eye for design and this piece will be a prized addition to my art collection.
Today I finally was able to fulfill my end of project FKFDPYM (Found Kemper Fluid Drawing Pen in Your Mailbox). After searching the lands (read: Michales, Hobby Lobbys and JoAnn Fabrics) high and low in all the northern Illinois area, Rosa told me she would send one to me. When I got home from work today I asked Matt if I had gotten anything in the mail and he said “Oh, just something from Project KPRMBJ7T” That cracked me up. It was so kind of Rosa to send me one these pens she raves about. I’m excited to have this new tool and got to play around with it some tonight. You can see it in the picture above, sitting on the watercolor postcard, on which I tested the pen out.
Tonight I found out that the Create A Day group was featured on 52 projects. I think we CADers all have Sheasy to thank for that.
Thanks Katie, Rosa and Sheila. You are all wonderful group of online chronies and have succeeded in making me feel very special and blessed. Thanks again!
april 25 roid week, originally uploaded by robayre.
Today I released my Found Art Tuesday piece into the world. You can see the painting in yesterday’s post here. This is actually a big step for me because I actually left it in my own city, which has always been a fear of mine. I was able to do this by doing it in a more secretive manner. I put it in a geocache that was near the art building at NIU. For this painting I was combining a couple projects in one, Found Art Tuesday and Geocaching. Have you heard of Geocaching? It is a world wide treasure hunt and so much fun. You visit the website and then use a GPS to find coordinates to caches that are hidden around all of us all the time. My hopes are to set up my own cache sometime soon that will be themed for artwork. Sometimes geocaches have booty inside, and if you take something you must leave something behind. Most of the time these treasures are just kid junk like happy meal toys, etc. I want to create a geocache that is filled with original pieces of artwork, for artists to trade.
I know I mentioned it yesterday, but I would like to mention it again. Found Art Tuesday has a new flickr group and I’d love for everyone to join in. It is so much fun. The thing that really appeals to me about found art is the idea of shaking things up. People don’t expect to find artwork for free out in the world. Imagine how most people are just living their lives on autopilot and coming across a piece of artwork makes you snap out of it a bit. Sometimes people are so caught up in this way of life that they don’t even notice it or if they do they pass it up anyway, or that they are too afraid to step out of their bounds of comfort and take a bit of risk and take it. Read Rosa’s experience of this weeks found art piece here.
Okay, so I’ve created the above piece for Found Art Tuesday today, but I haven’t had time to leave it behind and be found. I’ll do that tomorrow. The theme was Kindness. Check back tomorrow to see where I leave it. I’d also like to mention that Found Art Tuesday now has a flickr group. Everyone is welcome to join and have fun leaving artwork behind. The more the merrier, I’d be so happy to see what artwork you might leave behind for others.
And here is today’s Polaroid Week picture. Matt enjoying a slurpee.
It’s Polaroid Week. Join me and take a polaroid picture and share them for 5 days this week, in the Flickr Group ‘Roid Week, ‘08.
This is my picture for Monday. Today was the first time I’ve ever taken Theo outside and let her be on the ground/grass. I’ve always been too afraid that she would get startled and run away, get attacked by some animal seeing her, or get a tick or fleas or something in the grass. She seemed very curious and I could just imagine what she was thinking…”What is this weird place where the ground is made entirely of food?”
I hope everyone is having a nice weekend. It was a bit rainy yesterday, but today was absolutely beautiful. This is one of those weekends that sped by and I wish I had another weekend just to recover from it. Before I head to bed, I wanted to catch up on a few things I wanted to share here.
This is a very interesting article about a painting by a contemporary artist that is about to go up for sale for up to $36 million. I especially appreciated the part about the print made of the painting.
Here are instructions on how to build your own garden box.
Tomorrow is the beginning of Polaroid Week. Please join in, there is a flickr group devoted to posting a picture each day.
Have you noticed, I added a list of inspirational links over to the right ——>
Do you see any sites that I might have missed, something that you think I should know about or add? Please let me know.
