OKAY! Had some trouble turning this guy around but here he is.

I'm taking a short breather here from packing up at my office to move this weekend-what a huge job-and it's abnormally hot for this time of the year. My little pug was so overheated last night I couldn't hear the TV over him. (A poor joke as the heat can be dangerous to pugs). The boys love ice cubes so I broke some out and it seemed to help.

Thought I'd share my contribution to the Artfest 2006 gallery show. The theme was "Curious Creatures and Mysterious Mortals". I made the face using paper clay which air dries over a base of styrofoam. When he was dry I applied thin slices of polymer clay cane to the face. As he started to gain personality, I decided big floppy ears would suit and then the idea to have him peeking out from his forest hideaway. I crafted his fingers over wire armatures, stapled fern fronds to a background of moss glued to a slice of tree and he was ready to go.

I've been commissioned by a fellow employee to create a polymer clay tile frame for a painting of a fairy and dragonflies done by his 15-yr-old daugher. I'll post when it's done.
That's all for now!

I finished my current project yesterday, a polymer
clay tile mosaic picture frame for my new
grandbaby-on-the-way due in July.  As usual, I’m
feeling a letdown after expending lots of energy
in creating art.  I don’t know why this is, really,
but it’s happened more than once so I at least know
what’s going on.  I usually veg out on the couch for a
couple of days with my dogs until I’m replenished and
can start in again.  Maybe I need more caffeine.

I’m really getting with spring right now.  The lilacs
are out and the lilies-of-the-valley are springing up
to replace the daffodils and hyacinth in the aroma
category.  My next big job is to dig out some black
bamboo I unfortunately decided to put in an area
bounded by sidewalk and my house.  I know that was a
bad move but I didn’t expect it to send out huge
spikes that threatened to remove the siding from the
house. Live and maybe learn.
Ta!

This is one of the colors available in my Ginkgo earrings. You can see other colors at www.lulus-ginkgo-designs.com. These are about actual size, maybe a little more.