365 Day 74

This is HUGE for me on my personal artistic path this year -- and for my 365 Project, my Creative Progress Report.

I am so happy to be a part of this amazing show and to be in such wonderful company with this line up of artists.

Wow.

365 Day 73

I made it!!!

My first-ever big time juried art show submission - Chime Cat Visits Cloud City - was accepted for "Come Play With Me" at Paint Creek Center for the Arts in Rochester, MI.

I will have more links as I get them, but for today's blog entry this is plenty!

WOW.






I still have a little bit of finishing up to do

365 Day 72

and this is just the stuff that was in the studio and ONE bin in the basement...



Suddenly there is a lot of actual work to do around here! I found my stash(es) of things I really don't need to be the caretaker of anymore.

It is all wonderfully wonderful stuff, it is just that someone else could be enjoying it and using it, you know?

I will be doing tons of Listia listings! Going through all this stuff, sorting it out, taking photos, writing brief auction listings...this is going to be work -- but SO worth it to:

1. get it out of my area(s) and make room so that I can organize the things I want to keep and
use,
2. know that other folks are loving this stuff as much as I did when I first brought it home,
3. not have to deal with SELLING it to people at a yard sale or on eBay...no "real" money on Listia...just credits.
















I am also running on about an hour's sleep and I just had to take a couple of Benadryls for my sinus headache...that is why I am posting the 365 Blog entry now -- I know I will be nodding out off and on all night and probably not be able to write coherently later (I hope this is coherent enough...LOL)

Listia -- what a cool idea!

Something else that has been occupying my time for the last 24 hours or so is Listia.

Listia is a new kind of auction site where you bid on other people's stuff using credits instead of real money. They make it easy for you to give away stuff you don't need anymore and get stuff you want in return for free. There are several ways to build up your credits on the site and it is easy and fun. Example: Take the video tour after you sign up and earn more experience points and credits. Or log in from Facebook...Twitter about it...you get the idea.

Everybody has stuff they don't need anymore...why not list some items just to try it out? I have been clearing out things that I am not using and that are relatively lightweight so I can offer free shipping.

This is my referral link -- http://www.listia.com/signup/348909 -- I get a referral bonus and YOU get a sign up bonus (once you have completed your first auction). I know if you follow it from my Facebook page it will take you directly to the sign up at Listia. Not sure if it will from this blog entry. (Scroll down my Facebook wall to find the Listia invitation -- located between the blackbird postage stamp and the "SQUEEEEE".)

ANYway...try it out, Listia is pretty neat!

365 Day 71

and so it begins...again









I know it probably doesn't sound like much to do, but this is a very time consuming part of making the Tookies finger puppets...selecting the fingers and pre-matching them up with the buttons that will be their eyes. As I have said on many occasions, I have trouble choosing colors (mostly because I like too many combinations) and it just takes me a long time.

I pulled out 50 combos of glove fingers and button eyes. 30 will be for taking to Tiny Studio in Kalamazoo for Bonnie Pfingst's first ever Tiny Market during the city's April Art Hop. 4 are for another very special reason and the rest are for my Etsy store.













I will begin cutting off the finger parts and sewing on the eyes and mouths tonight. I may only get the first 4 done, but it will be a start. Because of the way I was working today, my right upper arm hurts like I got a tetanus shot (poor Took).




I think this one is my favorite right now.

365 Day 70

moving right along...

Having completed the 100 Tookies finger puppets for Art-o-mat what should I do next...make MORE Tookies, of course!

I am starting a new batch of Tookies that I will sell outside of the Art-o-mat format...meaning no box (and probably other changes per puppet). So today has been spent reassessing, sorting, cleaning/clearing my Tookies supplies stash.

Making the Tookies in assembly line fashion seemed to work pretty well with that batch of 100 so I will start this batch out the same way.

I will put some of the new Tookies for sale in my Etsy store and will have some available for sale at the first ever Tiny Market at Bonnie Pfingst's Tiny Studio in Kalamazoo, MI during the city's April Art Hop. Juana and I will share a table there -- very exciting!

Bonnie is also the host of an Art-o-mat machine at her studio. Click on the poster to go to Bonnie's Tiny Studio blog.

365 Day 69

on their way!

Today I finished wrapping the Tookies boxes in acetate/cellophane and then packed them into the box and shipped 100 of them off to Art-o-mat HQ in Winston-Salem, NC.

80 finger puppets will make their way across the country to various Art-o-mat machines and 20 will come back to me to go into my two Detroit-area machines.

















Tonight I am turning my attention to sketching a face for one of my pieces for Kill Taupe/Jason Driscoll's Meth & Hot Dogs 2 show at LIFT in Royal Oak. I am very excited to be able to participate in this waaaaay cool show! I know what my main character will be, I just need to get his face right -- then I can get to the plaster cloth.
click the poster to see the artists line up!