Shoo Shoo's Art & Life Journal

shoofontaine @ 2008-07-16T22:02:00

2008-07-17T02:03:11Z

This is what I did Sunday with our Fiber Group and I have the green fingernails to prove it. I just love looking at all of the colors after dyeing. Do you notice that I have hardly any pink..that's right. Most of the folks in the group were not really pink people. Me...yes I am a pink kinda girl. So I will do dyeing at home later and do some PINK.

This is a sample of some of the flowers blooming in our yard.

And finally, this little critter. I saw him/her for 2 days in a row in our driveway as I was leaving to go to work. Can you see it in the pic.

So that's a peek into my world. How does yours look.

Friday Doins'

2008-07-11T12:57:42Z

OK, I was going to post some pics but I can't find my camera cord!! I have no idea where it might can be. I looked this morning...no luck.

I do have a subject that I want to put my 2 cents in about. When you go to a food place, whether it be restaurant or grocery store, does it bother you that the person serving you or the person checking you out has all of these, these.......thingies hanging out of their face. You know their lips, nose, eyebrows. I can't help it. It disgusts me. Am I just getting old and this is why it bothers me? How could that possibly be attractive to someone else? That along with the crotch of the pants hanging down to their knees......who thinks that looks good? I had rather be able to see a man's legs and his butt. How about you? I work in an office so I get to see these little young guys from USPS and Fed Ex come in.......I always look at their legs.....usually nice and tanned.......check them out sometime if you get the chance!

Until next time........

Wednesday - Getting Over The Hump

2008-07-09T12:56:06Z

Yes, I am trying to make it thru hump day. It has been a long time since I have been here. I don't know why. I have been taking pics, but have not downloaded them, or is it uploaded...whatever. I will leave you with a couple of pics tho.

My neighbor took this at my barn. I love it.

We have pretty much cleaned up the mess from this ole tree. I DO miss it.

I promise to come back often if you will!

Pictures - Finally !

2008-06-06T12:12:10Z

This is where we were on Memorial Day.

This was the BIG catch of the day.

I couldn't figure out how the birds were drinking sooooo much water!

How about this big ole boy?? He works hard........he has a lot of chickys to keep up with.

Computer at home is trying to act funny again. We are finally getting the remains of the big tree that my BIL dropped for us. We need rain so bad here. I need to get busy on some fiber stuff. SAFF will be here way too soon.

Have a good week end.

Monster Tree

2008-05-19T12:20:44Z

This is what was going on at my house last week. My BIL came over and was going to trim some tree limbs, or so I thought, but when I got home I discovered he took down the whole tree. I was sad because that tree was very old I suspect. I know it was for the best. It didn't have any leaves at all on it. Needless to say it made a mess when it fell. So we will be cleaning up and cutting up wood for a while. Did I mention our main heat source is a wood heater. I said next winter we were not going to use it as our main source and use our little gas heater more. We shall see. Did you notice the birdhouse in the top picture? I didn't notice it when I was taking the picture. That house has no birds and has been up there I can't remember how many years. Oh yes, this is my hubby in the pics.

Try and make your day a happy one!

Dyed Goodies & Yard Art

2008-05-08T00:41:14Z

These are some of the things that I dyed a few weeks ago with some dye left over from dyeing some wool. I love these colors. I wasn't sure some of this material would take the wool dye, but you can see it did. I plan on doing somemore. Maybe some blues and yellows and some different greens. Some of this material is from an old robe and an old bedspread.

Next up is what I call yard art. Actually it's something that I just noticed and said hey, looky at that. Right outside my back door.

What yard art do you have that you haven't seen?

Wednesday Blooming

2008-04-30T23:02:11Z

Isn't this iris yummy??

It has been sunny for a couple of days. We had rain over the weekend and they are calling for it this weekend.

Is it just me or does everybody feel hungry ALL the time. I could eat and eat and eat......

Did some coffee dyeing. I'll try and do some pics on it.

Have a fun week.

Rooster Goodness

2008-04-23T13:21:47Z

Isn't he something??????/ The last one is of him in the act of crowing...and man is he LOUD.

The next pic I took this morning real quick before I left for work. I'm not sure this is the best one that I took tho. This is the real pic, I have not changed or altered it. The background color looks funny huh.

This last one is NOT the same as the previous, same flower, but 2 different pics....funny. can you tell I'm trying to get better with the picture taking thing. I really love looking at pictures on the different blogs that I visit.

Look for some flowers today on your travels.

Nelson

2008-04-17T01:10:42Z

This is Nelson. Can you guess what he is? He is an Emu. Yep, that's right. Isn't he cute.

Spring is definitely in bloom around our farm. If it doesn't rain this weekend maybe I can get some more flower pics. Hopefully I can get some pics of some wool I dyed last weekend.

2 More work days and then it's the WEEKEND.....Yipppppeeee.

Have I mentioned this lady before,Sharon at All Norah'sArt. Her work is beautiful. I have a link to her blog on my links on the righthand side.

Over and out.....Shoo

Saturday Happiness

2008-04-12T13:42:43Z

Aren't these tulips wonderful. They make me smile. OR how about this sweet little cria. She's not mine, but belongs to some friends of ours. Liberty Hill Alpacas. This picture doesn't do her justice.

Have a happy weekend and look at your surroundings today!

Different Way Home

2008-04-04T01:03:06Z

I have started traveling a different way to & fro work. This is one of the neat things I see on that road.

Aren't they cool. They are on an old church/seminary. I never really paid that much attention to them and then one day I noticed and thought wow, I gotta get a picture. I'm glad I did. The stories they could tell of weddings, funerals and Easter Mornings with little girls in their bonnets. I can just picture them. Can you?

It's been a cool and rainy day here today. I'm looking forward to hearing from folks that are at Art Fest.

Later........

Saturday Class

2008-03-31T16:52:59Z

This is me, on the left, and Kristi Steiner, on the right. What a sweet and fun person she is. I really enjoyed her class at Random Arts in Saluda, NC. Jane at Random Arts is really nice too!! Oh, the class was Art Fiber Nest. The pics of her little nest DO NOT do it justice. She has so many little thingies on it making it just so cute!!

If you have never taken a class with Kristi, I advice you to do so. She also does a 3 day art retreat in NC too!
Her site is http://www.kristinsteiner.com/MeetKristin.html. AND Random Arts is: http://www.randomartsnow.com/workshops.html

I hope you have a fun and artful week!

Check them both out!

Friday

2008-03-28T12:34:47Z

Well, finally here are a couple of pics. The one I had intended on showing I have forgotten to email to myself at work so I could upload them. If you remember I couldn't get my computer at home to do it and I thought that I still had them on my camera. No, I had deleted them off of camera. So this morning I stopped and took some pics and when I got to work and tried to transfer them guess what....they weren't there. As if I had never taken them.........man, it's just to weird.

Anyway, here are a couple of little thingies I did a few weeks ago.

The weather is great here. It' suppose to be close to 80 today.

All you folks headed to ArtFest.....happy traveling and I hope the weather will get warmer and dryer for you.

Easter

2008-03-23T16:20:01Z

Happy Easter.

I can't seem to get this ole computer to work and post pics I have been taking this morning early.

ok, I give, I will try and post pics tomorrow.

Have a happy day.

Mail Art

2008-03-14T11:58:37Z

This picture doesn't do this justice. This nice lady http://allnorahsart.blogspot.com/ sent this to me with some goodies inside. All of the work on this envie is hand done. Soooooo COOL!! Thank you Sharon/Norahs.

This I got at the Thrift Store. I can make up my own sayings and stamp them. How cool is this? It's small letters, but that's ok. I don't know if you can see the receipt date or not. It says 9-29-88. So this little set is almost 20 years old. I already know I want to try and stamp in some fimo and see how that works.

This morning as I was in line to get a biscuit. The speaker person said $1.83. Well, I had already been counting my change, but when I reached in to get the paper $1, I said oh, there is some change in here too. Well, I pulled it out and guess how much it was?????????? 83 cents exactly. That gave me a weird feeling and I told myself, maybe this means good things for today!! So that's my story and I'm sticken' to it. GOOD THINGS for today.

I have already met one of my goals for today and that feels good. Then to have the money carma thing happen, well, it's just got to be a good day!

A Little bit Of Art

2008-03-10T13:19:35Z

A little work in progress on a project.

I have been telling myself. "USE WHAT YOU HAVE". I have sooooo much stuff. I don't need to buy anything to make any kinda of art with. I have been doing pretty good with this idea. I guess what drives this idea into my head is the cost of some of the supplies that other artist use. I read about this product and that product, and this one does this and that one does that. Have you priced any of these supplies?? The cost of some of these things are just too much for me. I just can't see it.

I like to recycle stuff too! Cardboard boxes, like cereal boxes are great for ATC's and cutting out patterns. Papers...........newspaper - gessoed, painted and stamped work great for me; rolled up and decorated for beads(I love making paper beads!). It amazes me how many things in my daily life come in a box!

How about some old wool blazers from the thrift store..........I know this is buying, but for $1, and then I use the outter part for cutting out flowers, hearts, the base for doing some embossing and burning with heat gun....this is big fun!! The lining I have used for lining in bags and making flowers. Buttons, I will buy a thrift store blouse and cu;t the buttons of and then use the material for something else. I like to use silk skirts for linings in bags too! The embossing powders I use I have had for.......I can't remember how many years and I buy them when on sale, so I have a few weird colors.

So the moral of this story is.............recycle something into art this week.

Rainy Days

2008-03-07T13:39:24Z

I love rainy days, I would love them even better if I could stay at home. We just have to take what we get huh.

What was that term on I heard on that movie last night...oh... Infinite Possibilities. I like that. I didn't catch it the first time I watched it. I guess when you are young you can feel like life offers Infinite Possibilities. At my age...no.

So I will leave you with pics of what is blooming at my house. Oh, I didn't change the date on the camera, for some reason it fixed itself.

Happy thoughts!!

Picture Thursday

2008-03-06T13:19:07Z

When I got home yesterday, the Mr said you have a big box on the table. This is what was inside............Yipeeeee. Ms Pluckyfluff wanted to keep a skein of my yarn and I said ok, let's trade.......well.......I lucked out on that deal. Some silvery stuff, some little vintage flowers, orange jelly cord, colored fibers, and some other stuff.........AND this great box......I think she sells them on her website. www.pluckyfluff.com Go check her out.

I can't wait to do some spinning with some of my loot.!!!

Inchie Swap

2008-03-05T20:57:31Z

If you are not a member of this Yahoo Group then you need to join. There is a "Celebrate Spring" inchie swap signup going on. The lady, Marylin Huskamp, who host it is great!! I have participated in 2 with her so far and I have loved them!! So get over there and sign up. The link is :

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArtFiberFest_Inchies_Swap/

You sign up for the swap in the database.

Sunshine Wednesday

2008-03-05T13:44:04Z

Today is Wednesday isn't it???? I think so.

I finally put new batteries in my camera, now all I have to do is change the date and then, TAKE SOME Pictures. I have been wanting to take a couple of pics of the camelias(?) out back of where I work, they are so beautiful. One of them was just starting to open and it looked like a rose. I should have gotten that pic. I take my camera with me where ever I go. I keep it with me all the time, you just never know when you might see that special something.

Yesterday it was WINDY and RAINY (yea). We need the rain. It makes the flowers grow!!

Hopefully some flower pics tomorrow.

What flowers do you have blooming?

Rainy Days

2008-02-26T19:35:42Z

I love rainy days. They make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I enjoy the Winter time too! The trees have no leaves so you see things you haven't seen before AND the Red Birds come. We usually have up to 6 come to our feeders during the Winter, but, I have only seen 4 so far. When they are sitting in the bare brown trees what a show it is. One day maybe I will get a good picture of one to share with you.

How about these rascals. Right to left; Rodney, Mishindi and Norman. Aren't they sweet. They are rascals.

Don't forget to look around in your eveyday doins' and see whats around you.

Innocence

2008-02-22T20:13:41Z

Aren't these pics sweet. Can you see the chocolate from the fondue pot on her face in the first one. I may have shown that one before......if so ooops.

I really do need to change that date on the camera.

Have a good weekend.

Lambs

2008-02-20T14:30:57Z

There is nothing sweeter than a newborn lamb. Everytime we had some born on our farm I would cry. They are beautiful. These babies are from a friend's farm and they are just born, one of them this morning I think. Her email is perfectspot@bellsouth.net and her name is Cathy if interested. They are Jacob sheep. I love looking at them!!

Have a Happy Day!

The View

2008-02-18T18:12:51Z

These were some of the views taken in front of my house one evening last week. I just happen to glance out the window. I grabbed my camera and went outside before it all went away. I thought the pics were pretty good. I still gotta get that date changed on the camera.

Tune in to what's around you!

Valentine

2008-02-14T13:38:15Z

Happy Valentine's Day!! The Mr suprised me this morning. I got him to start my car to get it warmed up this morning and when I went to get in it, he had a bag of goodies in it. A little bear, cande, card, a heart soap, a big Hershey Kiss....yum, and I can't remember what else....it was all good.

He has been doing pretty good lately, as far as how he is feeling. He starts a new chemo round on Tuesday.

I have some good news.

This is a page from my felted journal. I will be teaching this class at John Campbell Folk School next year and I couldn't be more excited!! What fun it will be!!

Don't forget to give that special someone an extra hug today or maybe someone that doesn't have a special someone!