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final ...exam..in auto cad.  Be right back.....soon.... By the way....I'm having a tea party with my girls for the royal wedding...how about you?

The other day I picked up my mail and found this... And I was a little sad because I have been waiting for some kind of notification.... a yes or a no.  I had submitted a tiny doll for the tiny doll challenge.  I waited paitiently.  It killed me.  No e-mail.  No returned package.  No Dear John letter. So when I realized the issue with the challenge results had arrived my heart sunk a little.  I guess that was my notification.  My tiny submission would probably be returned to me shortly.  I would have to decide to buck up and remember you get a lot of no's before you get a yes. But in typical Chris fashion I had to peruse ADQ before I even got out of the car.  Yes, its that bad for me....I have no will power.... I have to give it a look over......I mean really, they had me at the cover!  That's artist Sherri Debow's art work.  All I can say to describe it is wow!  The detail, the concept, the color palette- I'm in ...

I thought the top moment of the day would be the moment I realized that my husband's tall truck wasn't going to fit under the bumperguard of the parking ramp. The one that said "Maximum height 6'3". The same one that had just bent his antenna into the shape of a banana. "Crap!" I thought. I won't fit and I'm only 2' away from being wedged under level six of the Community College parking ramp. "Crap!" I thought again. "That means I have to back up! Crap!" As I looked around I realized I was literally between some rock (OK, concrete) and a hard place (more concrete) I had just rounded a corner in his big red truck, right before I drove it under the bumperguard. It had already been a long day and I had just about had my fill of lovely adventures. Actually I was in 'numb' mode. Sometimes my life gets away from me and it gets so unbelievably convoluted that I can't even afford to get upset. I have to just put my h...

Me!!!! That's who! I got wireless internet today and now....no one is safe! I will be visiting your blogs and leaving comments like that crazy neighbor lady who won't mind her own business!!!!!! Fair warning everyone- I'm back and in full on internet mode!!!!!

I offer these two pictures as proof of life or existence of Sara Crewe; character doll for the storybook character challenge on Cloth and Clay dolls. You know, the one I'm hosting. Unfortunately, while other clever sculptors and doll artists have been astounding me with their talent- I, I have been blocked, stymied, unproductive and generally less than successful. But not unproductive as I have created head after doll head in attempt to recreate the Sara Crewe I see in my head. Apparently my head doesn't explain things well to my hands. Or my hands don't carry out direction well. Anyways, here is head number seven... attached to a body..... and thus it begins....the end to the madness... a clear (I hope) path to follow.

I'm at an awkward spot on the big little lady sculpture. (and yes, on other fronts, I haven't made a decision on a doll head but instead have made two more) I want to start working on the glass portion of her gown. Because--- it will be spectacular fun with amazing results! Or a complete disaster. Either way, the anticipation is killing me. But I can't start working on the glass until I have all sanding and messy stuff done. Who wants dusty glass, right? I must buckle down and do some hard things first. Like the hands. I don't know how to do hands of this size- haven't done it before. But I think...they should have some fair amount of detail and be somewhat realistic don't you? The fun part of sculpture is building the skeleton. Because--- it gets covered up in the end people don't know if you used wire and tape or tape and a milk jug to get the shape you wanted. There's green for you- reduce, re-use and re-cycle! When ever I paint I s...

Hey I belong to this fabulous group of artists called Cloth and Clay Dolls. All kinds of figurative works by all kinds of people. And...recently I decided to host a challenge wherein by a given date "we" those of us who decide to, create a doll based on a favorite childrens story book character. Easy enough- I chose my favorite "A Little Princess" by Francis Hodges Burnett. Nope, not so easy. Once in awhile I go completely crazy and this is one of them. I'm on #6 for doll heads. So far not one of them 'feels' like my Sara Crewe. To prove that I've really done six- here are the first five. If you'd care to vote on which one you like (but please tell me why) please do so.... > Are you Sara Crewe? The famous Sara Crewe of 'A little Princess" by Francis Hodges Burnett? She must be here somewhere. Why no, I am not. My name is Immogene or something very sophistacted like that. I'm French, like Sara, whose mother was F...