As you already know, I entered my first CSI contest this week and I’m happy to report that I made the top 10. YAY!!!! There is no million dollar prize, brand new car or an Apple computer. Nothing tangible in fact. But when you enter such competitions and are surrounded by so much talent, making the top 10 is a HUGE…
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Ballard inspired plaque….
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery……… I am a new fan of the CSI weekly contest project http://thecsiproject.com/. All of the entries are always so beautiful and inspiring and so when I saw this week’s entry (‘ Ballard inspired designs’), I was puzzled. I had no idea what Ballard was. Was it a style? An era? A media? I don’t…
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October rain….
The sweet percussion of October rain is the only sound I hear. As the rain softly taps the roof of our house with its cold fingers, I seek the embrace of my sweater. ‘How sweet of nature to water its garden’, I think to myself. My fingers now wrapped around a warm cup of tea and my mind lazily embracing…
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Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. I was digging through my attic and found these…… well…not really. This is how I made them… I found these cute little bottles at the dollar store (I was originally looking for weird shaped bottles but couldn’t find them) I painted them black…….. ….added purple glitter and made some simple…
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Boooo….
“Boo”, said the ghost, But it really didn’t scare, ‘Cause I couldn’t take my eyes, Off his vivid ginger hair. It’s really not the same, If head to toe’s not white. Well, it isn’t going to work, When they try to spook and fright. But he tried and he tried, Even though the cause was lost. And he even sprayed…
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