decoupaged torso

If you have been in costco you will see the bathing suits on those plastic torsos. I have several of the plstic torsos because I knew there was "something" that I could do with them. One day I would like to pour concrete into one of them and make a concrete torso for the yard......but for today I reverse decoupaged one of them. Using words from magazines and tissue paper I decoupaged the back side of the torso. She is 27" tall and 14" wide. I used a hot awl and melted/poked holes in her shoulders and put a rayon ribbon through the holes to hang her. She looks great hanging on the bedroom door!! Now go to costco and take the bathing suits off those plastic forms and bring them home with you........just be aware that those bathing suits are really really stretchy and getting them off the plastic form can cause them to shoot through the air.

creepy garden head - part 2

Ok, so here are better and closer pictures of the creepy garden head that was explained in the previous post.....so go below to read about the garden head and then come back here to see the pictures.....go....go on now.....go and read and then come on back......

Creepy garden head

Kyle has named her creepy garden head. I offered to install her up by where he lives and he completely freaked and said that he would shoot her if she was up there. So I decided to put her in the garden in the back where she will be safe. She is a styrofoam wig head, wrapped in plaster cloth and painted. Her head are spirals of wire and upon a closer look you can see curls on her head. ok I need to go back out and take a picture of the back of her head and a closer picture of the curls. will post those next. She is then set on a piece of rebar and "planted" in the garden.

Pink Journal

The C Gallery in Los Alamos is having a "PINK" show and this is my submission. It is a quilted cloth journal with lots of hand stitching, beads, buttons and sequins. The inside pages are white and different shades of pink.

I used the alphabet stamps that I carved to stamp words onto tissue paper and then decoupaged them onto the edges of the stairs!!

Jerry decorates

See the hole at the top of the door? See that hole? Jerry put that hole in that door.....all by himself and on purpose.....just not in the right place. You see we have cats and a dog. Satchel, the dog, likes to go into the bathroom and eat the cat food. So a solution to that was to put cat doors in the two major doors so the cats could go in and out and the door could be closed so Satchel didn't go in and eat the food. Jerry decided that we needed ONE MORE cat door to the bathroom. So he takes the door off and take it into the back yard to put the hole for the cat door. Keep in mind he has already done this twice so this should be a snap. So, I leave and go to the grocery store. When I get home I find him in the back yard with his arms waving around and all kinds of words coming out of his mouth. Remaining very calm I asked him what the problem was. He looked like a crazy person. He showed me that he cut the hole in the door and took it in to install only to find that he had turned the door upside down and put the hole at the TOP of the door instead of the bottom. This is where I lost it.....I started laughing so hard I couldn't even speak. He is taking the door into the bathroom and trying to flip it upside down to put the hole at the bottom....didn't work....he suggested putting the piece back in and duct taping it in place......that is soooo not going to happen......he tried everything but finally had to admit that he had to put ANOTHER hole in the door but this time at the bottom where it was supposed to be in the first place and install the door. All night we were in the cave watching tv looking at the hole in the door and I would just start laughing. We have hit upon a solution tho. An 11 x 14 canvas fits over the hole with room around it. So jerry is painting a canvas for the cave side of the room and I am doing one for the bathroom side and they will be screwed together so the hole will be covered. I am still laughing over this.