Toddler Tuesday :: First Fridge Art

My lovely friend Andrea hosts art classes from her home studio and she has a drop in Toddler class come up everyone once and a while. 

We were very happy to sign up last week for the Mixed Media class, which was an hour of hilarious toddler wrangling amidst glue sticks, water, paint, felt pen, oil pastels and the occasional runny nose.

Sonny had fun, we hung it on the fridge and I realized that this right here is the First Fridge Art made entirely by him.

I had a moment hanging it up I will not lie.

Poppet Bleach Class

This past weekend I prepared some tiny star stamps to try out some bleach ideas that I have for a class that I am teaching this coming weekend with Poppet.https://poppetartstudio.wordpress.com/

I have a black dress that I found at a clothing swap a little while ago that is getting a smattering of stars in bleach!

I have this before photo (but it's not very good unfortunately) that I took just before I stamped the bleachy stars, at night.  So you can see that it's a black dress, but that's kind of it!

And this is the dress now with fresh stars on it!

 INCREDIBLY bad picture, Oh I know, but I have a toddler running around me at all times, and it was all I could do to keep him from leaping into the frame while I snapped this!

Also pretend I ironed it.

getting ready for the week ahead!

I'm sitting here in front of my computer, looking at my list of "Things To Blog" and I am totally impressed that NONE of the prep work for ANY of them was completed this week!

Literally none of it. 

And to be totally fair I have actually had to take some time out of the studio this week due to an awesome detox reaction that has FOR REAL made my right hand a mess of blisters.

EWWW gross!

Yeah don't I know it.

It's finally starting to heal up to the point where I can kind of do stuff, like laundry, dinner and general day to day things.  But I worked on a pair of Mini Barnacle earrings (I would totally show pictures IF I ONLY COULD!) for a friend's birthday this week and it was all I could do to finish them.

It's so weird!

But.  It could be worse, and they are mending so I am just doing my best as we go.

So I am going to sign off here, and go take some pictures with my NEW IPHONE
(honestly, I don't know why I held out for so long) of some stamps that I carved up for a workshop that I did a few weeks back and I'll even take a picture of MYSELF (whaaat!) wearing a sample for another workshop THAT YOU CAN TOTALLY SIGN UP FOR coming up in a couple weeks.

We're stamping scarves!  You get to keep it!  Seriously, go check out Poppet's spring line up of workshops RIGHT NOW!

Poppet Printing Class

My lovely friend Andrea has an amazing space in her home that she has dedicated to an art space.

It's SO NICE!  And so is she!  She's hosting a couple of Janamade classes in the spring!

I am teaching the Fabric Printing class on April 7th!  It will be really fun, I am going to provide cotton scarves and we'll make stamps using lino, or hot glue or stencils if you want!  And you'll get to keep the scarf when you are done.

Not too shabby if you ask me!

AND in May I'll host a workshop where we'll be painting with BLEACH!  Cute and fun results!

Please email Andrea if you are interested in taking the printing class in April.
xo

February Fox Fair!!

Only one more day until the Fox Fair!  Saturday Feb 9th from 10-4 at the Fernwood Community Center on Gladstone!!

I'll have Barnacle earrings, silver and brass Bangles, some silver AMMAS Prospector pendants and I am hoping to have enough time to finish up a few Anemone pendants as well.

Not to mention that Floating Gold Iceberg, Morena, Nook, Jennifer Riddell Jewellery, Modern Faire, Love Monkey and SO MANY MORE will be there!