Onion Top Arch Swap

These are the returns from the Onion Top Arch Swap.  Excellent work by all artists!

These are the ATCs I made for the Onion Top Arch swap.  They are now on their way to Medford, OR.  I should have returns shortly after the 15th.  Gotta tell you, I totally messed up on this swap.  I did not follow the directions - each card was suppose to be different.  Oh well, the host excused my error and will swap as usual.  WHEW!

You Can Always Use a Little Help

Chin Rest

Such a Kinda Weekend

Irene visited for most of Saturday and lingered well into Sunday.  Rain and lots of wind.  Ended up getting just short of 3 inches of rain and no damage.  Whew!  When all cleared later in the early evening, we went for a 3 mile walk to lubricate the old bones.  That route through Millersburg was just a tad too long for me.  Won't be doing that again. 

Selling Stuff

So we are trying to thin out some of our belongings and I put a few items on Craigslist.  Yesterday we sold Brandon's old refrigerator and microwave from college for a big 45 bucks.  The couple showed up and paid us with 45 singles.  Very funny.  Seems she is a waitress.  That almost beats the woman who came to pick up the plastic drawer units I had priced at 15 dollars and opened up her wallet and said "it appears I only have 14 but could dig through my change" - REALLY, really.....

Pray Mantis Pray

Look what I spotted in my garden this afternoon.  Cool!

New JAM

Received this JAM today and since I didn't have a lot going on, I worked on it.  I added the postage stamp, stamped and added map pieces, solid corners and the coin.  I just love finishing up JAMs, especially when I receive one that has a lot of plain background showing. 

Pretty

Busy Bees

Finished JAMS

Finished a few JAMs and posted their results below. So much fun and often times challenging,

Craigslist

So what is up with that............people are interested in what you are trying to sell, but they offer you less and then on top of that, they want you to practically deliver it.  C'mon, REALLY?

New ATC JAMS received

WHAT IS AN ATC JAM??  An ATC is An artist trading card (or ATC for short) a tiny, original piece of art created with the intention of swapping or trading it with another artist, not selling it. The one rule an artist trading card must adhere to is the size. An ATC must be 2.5×3.5 inches or 64×89 mm. 

A JAM is where several people (usually 3) get together and make a project together. If 3 people are in the Jam then 3 copies of the project are made.

For instance: Person one does the backgrounds and sends to person two. Person two adds something and sends to person Three. Person 3 finishes them off, keeps one and mails the remaining two to one of the others, they keep one and mail the last one to the person left.  All 3 make the cards, all 3 get to keep one of the cards.  Since everyone is mailing at some point, no one has to include any shipping $.

Finished my portion of this JAM by adding a stamped image.  I then added some color and glitter.....perfect!

I will be the second artist to work on this ATC.  It is a black velvety background.  I certainly will have to brighten this card up just a bit.  I'm thinkin maybe some red.

Since I was the third artist to work on this JAM, I had the opportunity to finish it and that I did.  I stamped the coffee pot in the bottom corner and then cut various letters out of a magazine to spell the word "COFFEE".  Do you like?

This JAM has already been worked on by two artists, the background and the coffee sticker in the corner.  I'm not really into just adding stickers, but some artists do just that.

 I added the green and blue accents to this card.  It is off to the third artist now.

 On this background I plan on maybe adding some leaves to the cards.  Not sure yet!

New Bed

Macee has finally taken to her new bed. Such a finicky little thing!

Busy Spidies

Check out this artwork by the spiders on my deck.  I'm thinkin the humming bird flew through this one.  Kinda creepy.

Mount Gretna Outdoor Art Show

Nice time.  Biggest show I have ever seen.  Everything was top of the line and very expensive.

http://www.mtgretnaarts.com/

WOODEN NICKEL

Went to a local restaurant this evening and had an interesting pizza.....mushroom, ham, fresh tomato and cauliflower.  Actually, it was quite delicious and went especially well with a nice cold glass of draft Bud Light - YUM!

I DON'T KNOW

Gonna give this Blog stuff a try, but not quite sure how it will all work out.