Santa Catalina, Panama / I never tire of the ocean!

We didn't see a soul on the beach, most days!!

Funny, pretty bird i chased all over the shore!

Could it be a sea monster...nah, just pretty beach bubbles!

You just can't get away from my camera

can you? Dig his shadow!

Sparkly Ripples

SP Wednesday

My funny shadow on the beach!

My shadow on the beach with extraordinary (unplanned)

pink shell for a belly button and a coconut for my heart and soul!

Among some ruins in Panama City/magnificent to see!!

Panama, Cinco de Mayo Plaza / Why should we pigeons stick around?.....

Hup 2...3....4

Hey guys...check out this vendor comin' up the plaza....get ready....

Our own luxury spa!

We've got a cool condo!

Bird Brain in July

Finally, i was able to put finishing touches on this hanging...

for a soul sister who's birthday is coming up!

Off it flies in the mail tomorrow!!!

LET FREEDOM RING!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!

Lesson 7 / Layer Love / Great Teacher / Happy Happy Student!

A close up portion...

...another portion, close up...

...and yet another close up...

The whole deal, finished, still dripping!

Julia Prichard's / Layer Love Video Class

I'm loving you in layers, Julia, seriously!

This 5th lesson was soooo much fun on my

return home. i'm going to darken the edges

a little more. thank you thank you!

Joining Michele Ward's Crusade #31

Okay..lets see if i can do this correctly...

i joined michelle ward's crusade #31,,,"making your art, your own"..

we all know what that's about, eh?!

well, i think this was one of the first times i realized this...

and this was my last art doll of many...

it all began...i wanted to make my own doll creation to hang on my daughter's wall for her birthday...so i hunted everywhere for patterns etc...i got answers like, oh, nobody does that stuff anymore, we don't carry things like THAT in our establishment, oh, puffft (blowing the dust) this pattern is all i could find in the cellar..her dress is made from quilts..blah blah blah...sooo

i took off creating on my own (not knowing there were a million people out there, making art dolls)

the story is wonderful if you care to read...i made about 12 creations, went up to a high rent district, got up my nerve to walk into a store and ask if the owner would be interested...the woman proprietor ran out to the back of my car and said..."how much", then, "i'll take them all". i almost fainted!

well folks i was passionate, and my dolls took off when word got out, but...

i started getting commissions and commissions and commissions...well, that took the love and creativity right outta' my heart and soul. this one was the last one, "Mer" for my sister, Candy who craves and loves body surfing as much as i.

Alas..i moved on to mixed media and fiber arts.

the part that is "making them my own", was...when i saw all the doll makers on the internet, i wondered if mine were good enough...oh please...take me down a notch...people payed me big buckaroos that burned me out entirely, from ever making another...maybe someday, again...hmmm.

Some more from "The Land of Lost Luggage"

I took 3 pics of the same painting, it was difficult capturing all the things that are going on in them. I had a plan (which i hope to bring to fruition) on the fourth or fifth layer...then check out the outline of the bird peering at the top of this page...'twas an accident i'll use with a painting in the center-ish. i'm in love with you and your class, julie!

New Views From Start to Finish

This is the 3rd lesson with julie prichard, the land of the lost luggage. it was really difficult to get good pics on these...but man, this was fun and i loved the outcome in every single phase and layer.

julie is a really good teacher, i feel like she's right there along with us!

Layer Love

I am taking lessons from Julie Pritchard on The Land of Lost Luggage

This isn't much of a posting but i am learning soooo much and loving it!

Thank you Julie!

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

The post below this....

I shouldn't post at night. the "sp" post is all backwards...ah well, that's how humorously it's been going lately.

SP with Misty Mawn on Wednesdays

MY TOES

My toes knows where they want to goes.

They flex, they bend, they even pose.

My toes know when I'm tuckered out.

Blame my toes,

they're the ones that goes!

by wanda marie

Dressed in flip flops ready for work...

They are great for chasing children...honest!

Getting ready to leave the chair

Walking out the door to go to work...yep...in flip flops!

They're good for chasing children, honest!

Who Sees

Just finished this collage. i never am quite sure how much to say...if don't say anything, Carolyn gets after me, telling me inquiring minds want to know :). and jane, you always let me know you appreciate that too...so here goes...

i started with plain old piece of thin but sturdy cardboard

matte medium on a photograph (rt. hand corner) and various other pictures and words

sketched "la lady's" head, never have i put crowns on heads, but this partial flower fit

fabric paper (my favorite medium) is her body in twigs, same on the rt. side and bottom

and right hand top corner

and various ephemera to finish and pull together

From Start to Finish

The colors i used...including interference gold that shows thru on her face! (the beauty in making our own art!)

Ta Da!

Self Portrait Day

There i am in the middle with my other 3 parts...my darlin' sisters. The other 4 parts were somewhere else, (the brothers).

And now get this, there's Carolyn, Cookie and Candy...how'd i end up with Wanda...geeze!?