another good day, repost from July 2008

When the art is flowing, and the muse is working overtime, ya gotta be with it! Pay attention. Don't let go. Forget the laundry, the dinner, the aching feet and back.....just go get a jug of wine, a bottle of water, a handful of trail mix, light another stick of incense, spin another record and open the door to allow the cool evening breeze to tame the sweaty brow. LET THE MAGIC BEGIN! Fish are sewn, old jeans are transformed into aprons, bottle caps and old wool sweaters become precious little pincushions!

“The Divine Spirit is a Wild Pinto kicking inside you. Let her run.” Kris Carr

~The secret of getting things done is to act~ Dante Alighieri

Snow People

Thanks to a fellow blogger and author Cate Prato who stumbled on my blog, my Snow People are featured among other artists on the Cloth, Paper, Scissors E-Newsletter I am flattered to re-introduce you to my latest holiday creations. "Mazel Tov" was created for Frances, my partner in crime, who celebrates the Hanukkah season.

Love Shack

Inspired by Pam Sussmans book FABRIC ART JOURNALS, I made this house for Matt. It tells a personal story with photos and fabrics that tell our love story...well only a tiny part of it! Each side of the house represents our home with photos we printed on fabric. Even the bottom has a photo he took of the bottom of the rockers on our porch! Get it? The picture Matt took of me sewing on the porch was cleverly shot thru the arm of my sewing machine! He took that shot from inside the house without me knowing it. The close-up of stitching also has a fish bead and star fabric to represent the pond in our backyard where there are a million stars held in the Texas nightime sky. The inside has pockets for love notes, recipes and tiny little gifts and treasures. Our Bed & Breakfast guests always request the recipe for our house specialty muffins, so I printed the recipe on fabric for an inside pocket. The roof is an old patchwork quilt to cover and protect us, something which has very special meaning to us both. 

Ask not what your fabric can do for you, 

but what you can do for your fabric.

house of soul

for my friend Ruby Dale

December Views #2

Advent Calendar I made onto an old cookie sheet.

Upcycling

It's the new word when you make something out of something. You know, the green way to make art. I know, women have been doing it for years like clothing made from feedsacks and quilts made from old clothing. My Mom sews green grocery bags out of old tee shirts! Matt builds crystal radios with an oatmeal box! I am always looking at trash and found objects and see the human form that can be created into an Art Doll or better yet, these old wool sweaters made in to GYPSY CATS! The snowmen were inspired by one of my my favorite magazines, Cloth, Paper Scissors, made with antique bottles, vintage cake decorator tips, and random gatherings from my Art Bodega. Did not spend a dime to create all these wonderful new additions to my DEB DID IT Gallery. I am pondering setting up a DEB DID IT Blog or Etsy just to peddle my artwork...what do you think?

Art for Kids

There is nothing quite like creating with children. As adults, my Art Group Girls who meet every Monday together has become like recess! We always have snacks, play with new art ideas, get gluey, sew, paint and stitch. And even on occasion, rant, rave and bitch! We even go on field trips! I discovered this website for kids this morning and ended up drawing in the gallery. I posted my creation, then went to sign up, but it is a FOR KIDS ONLY site. So I toured the gallery and was so inspired by the paintings, that I am ready to drag out all the art supplies and get busy making stuff. I gotta go now, IT'S MONDAY ART DAY!

random alterings

Just a few random ATCs and Zetti swap altered postcards I have made.

What am I doing?

Just what is it that keeps me too busy too blog every other day? Here's a preview.....I AM PAINTING WITH GLASS!! wait until you see what I am doing to a Bowling Ball!

back to my art

after a wonderful week spent in Florida with my Mom and two brothers, I am ready to get back to What Deb Does. Here are a few new assemblages, including "Salt n Peppa" art dolls for my kitchen.

PARTY TIME!!

Art Girls are so much fun on Mondays...we made cupcakes inspired by the latest issue of Cloth Paper Scissors