Winner of Harry and David $50 Gift Card

Jolee Jane of Art Takes A Village and Sandcastle Sirens Retreats won this one with these answers.


QUESTION #1: Scrapbook Royalty is promoting a raffle for charity thru September 30, 2009. What is the Raffle For....the item and the cause?

Answer: Ties That Bind: A Very Special Art Doll Raffle, the cause is artist united to benefit the ovarian cancer reaearch fund



QUESTION #2: Name one item that is on the Cancer Coping Center Wishlist.

Answer: Dry erase board

QUESTION #3: How much money did the Sandcastle Sirens event raise for it's non-profit art therapy project?

Answer: over 1600.00

QUESTION #4: Trick question...my favorite blog today is? ha



Answer: Uhhhhh mine? Tee hee


Yes, Question #4 was a trick question...I was hoping for my blog but any would do. Thanks for playing! More to come.

We got a Winner!

I used my handy dandy random number chooser (random.org) and got the number 5. Before I went there I had determined I would count from the bottom up this time.

Winner....taaa daaaa Jolee Jane!!! All she has to do is send me the answers to the questions and she will be confirmed the winner.

I suspect she is asleep right now knowing she is a early to bed, early to rise person so I'll confirm the answers and post tomorrow.

I hope you all had fun checking out a few new sites.

CLOSED...two winners for this little game: SeaWitch and Bonnie P. Thanks for playing. For those of you that actually are up and are looking at this post TONIGHT (Tuesday eve after 10pm and before midnight pacific standard time)I am going to give the first 3 people that email me a tinkerbell necklace, 7 gypsies 6 x 6 scrapbook, a small bag of silver german glass glitter. You choose which one you want to win....give me first choice, second choice, third choice. The first 3 people will win hopefully their first choice but for sure one of the 3. I like to make things confusing..you should be getting that idea by now. ha ha

Thanks for checking in!

Where Women Create.......

First, let me tell you there is still time to enter the Harry and David $50 gift card giveaway ending today at 10pm. Check out the post down below.

Have you seen the magazine by Somerset, Where Women Create? It is a bevy of inspiration of how artists have setup up their studios to help them create there wonderful creations.

I love this magazine and love to look at all the unique items they have in their studios and drool over their organization skills.

When I was preparing my Art Trades for the Sandcastle Sirens I "reverted" to my old ways of creating downstairs. For those that know me, you know I have almost an entire upstairs for creating.

Sometimes it's hard to break habits. I know by talking to others that we can start creating in a WIDE OPEN space but usually end up with a small space in front of us to finish up what we are doing. I think it's because we get so involved in creating and pulling out "things" here and there that the area gets filled.

Anyway, I laughed when I looked at my "space" for making my art trades and thought this is really "where women create" at least for me.

So for your laugh for today, here's the pics........

Note to Self "Start Creating!!"

Here I am again still behind on creating....I have promised to list art to give away and so I dig in my archives of STUFF and find things I have created and need a new home until I can get it together (when will that be?).

So a little giveaway for the next couple weeks. I am giving away this cute little 5X7 memo board and 3 vintage button magnets.

I used a chippy shabby chic frame and got a piece of sheet metal from good old home depot and used a collage picture of a German Antique Doll Head (collage sheet from where else but Retro Art Cafe.

I then applied the collage piece to the metal sheet with Gel Medium and after it had dried completely, I put vaseline over the picture and painted everything pink. After that dried, I simply wiped the paint and vaseline over the face away and assembled in the frame. I then added some vintage lace and rosettes to her necklace to give her a 3D look. With the addition of magnets to buttons....a cute little memo board.

Post and I will draw a winner on July 15th. thanks for visiting.

It's a Lovely Day for my Little Angel

I woke up this morning and remembered my little angel girl was going to get a new home today. I love her little smile and hope that she makes her new owner happy.

I went to random.org and asked that they give me a number between 1 and 31. 31 being the number of posts I had for this giveaway and it returned to me......................NUMBER 1!!!!

Congratulation June, YOU ARE THE WINNER. Please contact me with your shipping details and she will be off to meet you.

For the rest of you thank you for your kind comments and come back tomorrow for the next NEW giveaway. Don't forget to post a comment for the $50 Harry and David Card Giveaway going on right now.

Have a wonderful day!

Torso Swap

I decided to exchange "torsos" within a yahoo group because you only have to do 3. I don't like doing 10 or 12 of something and if it's online, sometimes you never get back what you put in.

Still it intrigued me...so I joined. I made 4 torsos cause I got inspired. Here are the pics of the front and back of each one.









I used some of Jane's techniques of bubble wrap and pencil on this torso.





I used canvas on this torso. I cut a torso shape and painted it and sewed it on a cardboard shape of a torso. I love the feel of this one.





Collage with shiny magazine pages and then I added the flower as a tail feather. To add a little blending to the body I "dripped" paint down the petals. I like it :}



This one is a pic of the front only as the back is the same :}



I bought these awesome digital collage sheets from a blog "Free Backgrounds and other Blog Stuff by Itukpilli" (that's a mouthful ha ha) Itukpilli is Finnish and does beautiful Marie type backgrounds and stuff so be sure and check her out.

Happy Father's Day.....I know it will be a busy day for you Mom's out there :}

Good Morning All You Wonderful People

It's kinda overcast here in "sunny" San Diego but I am in a creative mood so I am hoping to make something today I can add to my FREE giveaways so check back in a day or two.

I am trying to make my blog easier for you to find GIVEAWAYS so you will see I have added links on the upper left sideof my blog for the Giveaways. With these links I can continue to do some posting about other things (not just giveaways) but visitors will not miss a Giveaway because they couldn't find it.

If you have any problems, please email me.

Have a wonderfully creative day!

hugs, jackie