Eclectic Avenue

Hello to you all!! Yes I am using my blog!! I have been chosen to be part of a design team . OOAK Artisan Showcase This is brand new for me but I am loving it so far!! Playing with new stuff is always good! So for this months post I was sent Dye-na-flow paints, fantastix brush tips, and Pentel Gel Roller for Fabric.

SPLASHY SHOES

Hey EVERYONE!!! I want to show you all my new shoes!! Just like when I was kid and showed off anything I got new!! Only now I am older and designed my own shoes.

These started as a plain white pair of tennies, from Walmart!! This project was a blast to make,using the fantastix as markers made coloring the random sections very easy and fast.I did each section and allowed them to dry since I wanted these to not bleed into each other! Learned that from the Pair I made for my Granddaughter Kennedy. Hardest part was waiting for them to dry!! . I then just doodled all over them. Doodling goes way back for me, Back in nhigh school I used to doodle with my uncle David. He taught me many things!! It took me a long time to believe my doodling could be art! Now I doodle on everything and anywhere .These shoes even went to the coffee shop where a few of us meet to Drink and Draw! It was kind of like I was a rebel having shoes on the table and they were a big hit!

I play in a lot of things, experiment and just have fun!! and strive to do different! Yes I will wear these shoes, right along with my granddaughter !!

Life is to short to stay in the lines! so as Gary says ... I draw my own lines!!

Today is the Big reveal from all the awesome artists and the charms they made just for this fun swap. There is one little thing different in this swap, we all send in an extra charm and then the wonderful Jennifer Cameron will post them on Ebay for auction, with the proceeds benefiting Beads Of Courage. As many of you know Beads Of Courage is a group very dear to my heart. I do not do many swaps, but this one... a have too! My Grandson is a member and has many strands of Bead of Courage beads himself!

This years theme was Love,WOW how fitting!!

I had lots of Ideas in my head but nothing ever seemed to be just right, I knew it had to be a heart, so I ordered these cute little hearts in copper. Again they set around for a week before I had any idea what I wanted to do. Then I remember my embossing folder with X's and O's and everything fell into place! I mean come on...everyone knows X's and O's from a 4 year old is the full meaning of Love!! (ok so maybe its a grandma thing!!)
So I cut the brass discs, drilled a zillion holes, stamped love on them, and added the mini bolts and nuts! Ran them through the tumbler and wah laaa!!

I was very happy with the results, even the time it took to get there, all for a great cause, and I got a few charms back myself!! I have some awesome charms and I have decided just what I am going to do with them!! I am going to take them and add last years charms to the group and make a long necklace, with only those charms!! It might get to heavy to wear, but it will look great on the wall in my studio when it does, where I can see it every day!!