Christmas gifts

Pillows for gifts done from prints of hubbies work....Dave the famous artist.

The transfers onto cotton worked great. This time I used Ink Jet Printing by Jacquard.

The Rat warrior came out rather dull though, so I beefed up the colors with Prisma colored pencils.

The venetian mask was with made with plaster gauze and paper clay. The fabric for the headpiece was an old rayon velvet piece I had in my stash and the rose is a fabric "Calamity Kim" design.

Artist: Tif at Dottie Angel

Check out this Christmas tree by Dottie Angel.

When did she sneak in and take everything off my studio table to wrap onto this tree?

I'm wondering how you tell your family, " I was going to make you that sweater, but I had to use the balls of yarn for my doorbell wreath and the knitting needles just added that perfect splash of color that I needed for the Christmas tree. Maybe next year."

Christmas staging

Last night my BFF Maire Ferrini called and asked if I'd like to work with her on staging a Bed and Breakfast for a photo shoot today.

These are the before photos of the McClelland Priest Bed & Breakfast in the Napa Valley, California.

Furniture was edited. Chochkies eliminated.

Paintings rehung. Curtains re-draped. Place setting arranged.

Greenery cut. Silver polished. Tinsel tossed and ribbons added.

We then packed up our plastic bins and headed home.

You see Marie and I share bins of stuff.

Actually that should be our business name,

"Bins of Stuff".

I buy and share with her goofy stuff and she buys and shares with me. Therefore, we own lots of "stuff". For some reason knowing she has "stuff" too gives me some kind of satisfaction knowing I'm not the only one with this obsession.
Come to think of it, part of my addiction to blogging is the fact that most everyone of my blogland friends has this compulsive hobby also!