I Wanna Be A Star

The first of my ATC Series "I Wanna Be A Star" I really am enjoying making these in between working on a couple of journals and my Altered Bird Book (only 2 pages to go).

Chunky Book

These are the my pages of the Chunky Book for Alzheimer Research. My pages will be combined with the other 13 Book Artist that are participating in this project. We will each get pages from each artist and the extra pages will be put together into a book of "Memories" that will be auctioned off on E-Bay and the money will go to Alzheimer Research.

Just have to tell ya.

This is Joe DeLozier he owns DeLozier Auto Service. Joe's kids were in my art class when I taught at PCNorth High School, they are all grown up now and his son is a teacher in Piedmont. His daughter is a nurse. I have taken my car to his for just about everything since before David died. The whole family have been really good friends to me for over 10 years. I am truly blessed to have such wonderful friends and I thank God everyday for all of my friends.

I just have to tell ya about my great treasures that I found in the driveway at Delozier Auto Service when I took the car to have the oil changed. Every collage and altered artist I know would just drool. Of course Joe Delozier couldn't believe I would pick all of this "junk" up to use in my art work, but there are pieces of rusty metal, washers (some rusty, some shiny but all flattened by being run over by all the cars), rusty wires in all kinds of shapes, strange pieces of metal in shapes that I can't imagine what they would be used on a car and little "diode" looking things that have bright colors on them, I picked up 2 envelopes full of "treasures". Then I photographed some racks in his garage that hold spools of bright colored wire.

A Great New Book

I got Julia Andrus new book "Paper Transformed" and it is one of the best paper altering books I have ever owned. It has over 100 recipes and techniques for making gorgeous paper designs. The photography and the instructions are awesome. Plus it has all kinds of great tips on journaling and altered book uses. It also has a lot of the traditional effects, like marbling. It has all kinds on hints and techniques to use glazes, paints and mediums. If you can't find it at your local book or craft store you can get it from Julia's web site. (There is a link in my partners in art links on the left hand side) I think it is one of the best investments I have every made and I have a lot of art & craft books.

Senior Night and PCN Panther Pride Light Show

Every year the band performs their half time show in the "dark". That's right in the dark. All of the band members have glow lights attached to their shoes, hats, uniforms and instruments, then the big lights are turned off and they march and play thier show. It really is awesome. Hopefully a video was made and it will be posted on YouTube, then I will download it to this blog. In the meantime I have some pics I took, they are really neat, and you can get an idea of how the field looked "in the dark".

Thursday Night Lights

All of the Senior band members and thier parents waited in line
to be introduced.

This is some of the Sernior Band Members
waiting for their parents.

These are the Senior Color Guard members, doing thier Miss

America Pose for me.

Nico Is coming

I have been in contact with Nico this week and he is working on the Visa to come to the US in March 2008. Also got the facility for the workshop, it seats 250, that will limit the number of tickets that will be available for this particular workshop/demonstration.

Nico and I are very excited about this opportunity for him to show his work and get some personal exposure in the US. This will be his 1st time to come to America from Argentina. He is so talented and everyone I have talked to that has seen his work on his web site (see Nico in left column to go to his web site) and on You Tube are waiting for the tickets to go on sale. I already have people sending in their names for a waiting list for tickets. Since there will only be 250 tickets available, anyone wanting to attend should send their Name, Address and e-mail address to leastart@hotmail.com.