Created for {Echo} Group Week Second Challenge Decorating

Chrysti and Susan challenged us to play with our photographic images. I am bad at referring back to blogs in HTML form but both Susan's blog and Chrysti's are on my list of must reads every single day so easily found if you scroll down to my links. Both are very well known, published multi-media artists. I had the blessing to meet both of them during an art retreat two years ago and can avow both to their talents as to their inner beauty.

The challenge is part of {ECHO} and I participated in Week 2 which has to do with decorating, my interpretation of course, given the photos I have taken recently.

how did i do?

los nervios me comen....poquitos dias ya para mi viaje y tanto por hacer aun. pero me carga ir de compras y lo he postergado hasta el final. regalitos para los amigos y familia y cosas indispensables para mi entretencion alla (nunca viajo sin mis lanas y revistas para inspiracion).

mientras tanto visitando amigos por aca, ayer pasando toda la tarde con veronica, conversando y tratando de arreglar el mundo mientras tomabamos tecito y un quequito de zanahoria que ella cocino. rico, esos son los momentos que adoro.

y tambien un poco de entretencion con mis papelitos.

photo courtesy of Stash Studios on Flick (isn't this amazing?)

Spooks- by Sandra Liatsos

There's a goblin at my window,
A monster by my door. The pumpkin at my table
Keeps on smiling more and more.There's a ghost who haunts my bedroom, A witch whose face is green. They used to be my family, Till they dressed for Halloween

my digital creation

Diane Marra

the kathryn wheel & julie arkell

mary freeman

it's not all about me. there are days when i just reflect, observe, and admire, many times finding jaw dropping imaginings

just a few little creations before i leave, committed to my challenge group, previously known as MAMMA. like last year, we were to make handmade x-mas tree baubles. i so enjoyed the challenge last year that i had to participate again. here are my two so far, my goal being three or four.

i have no bottle caps so couldn't participate in the bottle cap dangle exchange and my brain just couldn't come up with any idea for the "what do you get when you cross a....with a which has some hilarious submissions so far. i love jans of her Cat saying "so what's occurring?"

burning the candle at both ends, literally since i haven't sold a thing in a week other than some supplies. trying so hard to save enough for my trip which is an eccentricity to begin with this year but i miss my mother so and must get down south to see my land before the native trees take over. oh well, it's either feast or famine on etsy and with more and more vendors, it's getting really hard to get noticed no matter how many tricks i've conjured.

here is a handmade journal i made and another tag as i finish off my day, droopy-eyed and ready for my before-falling-asleep reading. I'm reading Confessions of a Catholic Girlhood. I've always loved how Mary McCarthy writes; she is a master at using vocabulary in her descriptions. War & Peace I will take a break from since I've read over 100 pages of battlefield descriptions and i need to give it a rest.

another day of plenty. after cleaning out my art supplies i was able to think better and select the items i really thought i would use in the process ridding myself of alot of found objects which tend to be cumbersome for me. one of my most loyal customers already grabbed a large destash of religious items not less than an hour after i had listed them. i can;t wait to see what she makes with them since they are glorious.

although there is still more to sort out, i stopped midway through the afternoon and pulled out my stack of shipping tags which i had been hoping to work on for ages. this is what i came up with. one lonesome atc also made it out from the sifting of collage images. i love how they turned out. well, i do today, might not like them at all in a few months which happens sometimes when looking back on ones work.