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		<title>Earth Day Graphic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, this is going to really blow my (ha-ha) hip image and let you know how old I am.
 
The very first Earth Day I printed out posters from The Whole Earth Catalog and plastered them around my highschool.  Got caught and called into the principal&#8217;s office; kind of liked being a rebel then and still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Sushi For Me Thanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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You know us artsy fartsy types when we have an issue or want to express ourselves beyond words we make stuff.  Whales, dolphins, fish, sealife of all types, ocean, and water have all been a focus lately more than ever.  The amazing, stunning move &#8220;The Cove&#8221; receiving and Oscar, poor Orca at Seaworld, depleted salmon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trash to Doll Bank</title>
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Decided to start making recycled/trash banks for all the grandkids, real trash to treasure stuff.  Here is the one I did for Freya.  From the plastic bottle to the broken corkscrew everything except the letter fabric was on its way to a trash bin.
Here is a brief synopsis of what I did.
1. Cut the slashes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trash to Robot 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Stage 1 I showed a very basic body built out of trash, mostly things I cannot recycle.  You can use this concept to make all sorts of dolls/creatures.  I have plans to use a broken winged corkscrew for part of a fairy and an old switch mechanism for an owl.  The possibilities are endless!  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trash to Robot 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Right now my grandkids are really into robots; older ones like the changing kind a lot, all like the retro bots. Recently I saw an amazing collection of very fine Steampunkish sculptures made from leather and all sorts of machine parts, they were beyond cool and something I would love to attempt one day. How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forest for the Trees Canvas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Here is another recycled canvas that I am finally happy with aptly named, &#8220;Sometimes she doesn&#8217;t see the forest for the trees&#8221;.


On this I did the gesso plastic bag technique first, see previous posts about this so I don&#8217;t bore you all here. Next I painted in some blocks of color using Generation Green acrylic.

I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoned Dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has nothing to do about art and is all about caring for dogs.
Yesterday I posted on Twitter that we had found an abandoned dog at the dog park. She was a sweet young mixed breed that had spent the night alone in the cold and dark. Happy to see us she was wiggling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disclosure Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This policy is valid from 13 October 2009
 This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog does not accept any form of cash advertising, sponsorship, or paid topic insertions. However, we will and do accept and keep free products, services, travel, event tickets, and other forms of compensation from companies and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleanup Rag to Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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This piece is based on a scrap of muslin I used to mop up leftover ESF when I was monoprinting. I&#8217;ve had this in my stash for awhile waiting for the right project. I keep some fabric squares around at all times to wipe my brushes on or to clean off a stamp or stencil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recycled Sweater 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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 Here is an outfit I made for my granddaughter using a medium size sweater. Even scrounged enough to make &#8220;Big Baby&#8221; a sweater too. This time I did not felt the sweater since the size was smaller. I had to work to keep the stretch in line and use some FabricMagic here and there to [...]]]></description>
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