Birdwatching: Ryhme or Reason?

There was a young girl that was literally split into two. Her curiosity was such that it made her coo coo. She would climb up trees and dream of taking flight with the breeze. As her little feathered friend seems to share with some ease. Her friends were the woods and little woodland creatures that when she got lost she she wandered what a feature. Oh to be such a carefree spirited girl. Who had all day just to dream, fly and twirl!

Just a quickie today!

and a new blog head! Yeah! Will that make me keep up with my blog?
Maybe that and a stick of Dy-No- Mite!!!!! Lol. seriously I have a ton of new work and it will be at least a little while before I run outta steam! was going to try a daily journal too.... ok. one day at a time! Chow for now!

an old wive's tale........

going into another direction...... she makes her way with some apprehension..... making her way across the heavens knowing the direction she is taking is beyond suspension....... she must cut the ribbon with more perseverance for it has been holding her back for many a long years...... let the bird fly it's way and never to look back!


basically it's spreading your wings and soaring high ,learning to fly again way above the rest..... weeding out that personal garden so you can begin to live a life that is better than ever going into a direction where you can persevere over the obstacles that have been holding you back for far too long........

Like in Moline's blog it's just a reflection on doing some of some own personal weeding ........
it's been quite some time since I have done some personal reflection..... 10 years in fact and have lost a part of myself i am hoping to get back!

smells like a series of old wive's tales! lol.

Ok. I'm sorry.....

besides being a happy blogger slacker I have now set my flickr to friends and family ONLY!

My ex husband is into stalking and he doesn't deserve to "see" anything I have to offer!

But if you would like to become a friend... please note me and I will try to include you !

I only friend.... est. accounts so be aware I do ck them out!

anyway, here are some of my latest creations! hope you love'm! have a few more coming soon too! Mistresses secret pretty much says it all well.... at least to me! lol. but then who knows what I am thinking when I name these sometimes!

Ok. "winged Vanity" happens to be my total fav! I have been playing with this comp.

ohhhh forever! and finally I found the polaroid and BAM!her whole reason for being revealed...

I just *love* the feel of this peice and every part of it! Eventhough it is a bit more out of the box than my regular peices! maybe that is why I love her sad little face sooooo much!

and last but NOT least.... my subdew she's feels the lurking behind her..... but never to worry! it's more your imagination little lady!

Ok. I will try not to slack too much..... (no promises! :)) but I should have a few more montages coming soon!

Also they are now available in my etsy shop!

I AM A BLOGGER SLACKER!!!

well, since I seem to be so into my poor negleted blog I have decided to post some of my cool Alice series which I have yet to finish..... there are two more that I have been working on for awhile now! Yes, I know Slacker! Noooo, just a ADD child!

I get easily sidetracked and as of late... I have been hot on the heels of my genealogy project!

I am soooo addicted to it!

and I have been playing with my dolls! shhhhh

I have put up some new ababdoned work but pics on here will have to wait or HEY! you can view them on flickr!

this one is my fav! a female madhatter since it goes in with girlhood: and the land of forgotten dreams it only seems appropriate!!!

this is my other happy little favorite! I am sure some psch. has something to say about that! but hey! what do I care! I think it's sweet anyway! lol.

If you enjoy these pop over to my flickr and view the rest! WARNING you will be entering dollyland! so you will have to go into my sets to get a flavor of my photography and illustration!

Thanks for checking me out! and putting up with my slacker ways! lol.

see you in your dreams!

~ wOrN oUt pLaCeS ~

Well here I am again......
I have been so inclined by looking at other art and feeling like it was high time to get off my dead and do a few soulful peices that I have been wanting to create.
I ran across this picture of the older couple who are still close together and holding hands so warmly for their picture, it made me envious of their will....
wether it 's truth or just the fiction running amuck in my brain it would be wonderful to know you could have but one true love in this life.
Something that would stick like glue with a little hard work...... and just exist forever!
Hence the Name of this peice is "Promise of Love Everlasting".
In a throw away society wouldn't it be kvell to have such promise.....



I guess somewhere in my ramblings I should have established where and why this came about. I had done these pictures of old abandoned ..... worn out..... places many moons ago. They are my favorites and a series thet is near & dear to me.
It's a group I keep coming back to because let's face it they are how I usually feel anymore in this life.
It just seems to me that these are more serene moments where there is only you & your soul standing in the middle of nowhere, wind whistling, sunlight warm on your face and no more trouble of everyday life to procure.
Just you the sunlight and the wind wondering aimlessly about just happy to breath in and breath out, no cares , and no worries.
Of course it could be that I have been listening to Mad World by Gary Jules (Tears for Fears)

Anyway, the apples signfy love, prosperity, fertility, and growth. the feather is a uplifting of thoughts. The water signifies keeping their love above water and eventhough there are some ripples they can still see their reflection as a couple together still holding on. Life is about keeping it all afloat whether it is in the past, present or future ......
Some days it's sitting on that sill waiting for you to notice it's presence
but wherever you are, it's there waiting for you..... you just have look through the darkened room and notice.

OK. enough of this deep dark meaning behind my merky mind.
I hope that you will enjoy the images.

Now Open!!!

Here's the Banner for my new Etsy called the Striped Raven! I have alot of my artwork and some newly added dolly clothes Also I will be adding a liquidation of rubber stamps! along with a multitude of supplies! should prove to be quite a selection!

Here are a few ATC's I have decided to part with that are older classics!

Also I have some of my wearable art that is available still some are not posted that are available! so asking is a good thing! you may catch all of my stuff on flickr!!!! (please leave me a note there when possible I ck there more than my blog at the moment BUT things are getting pretty close to the iron on there and I am sure sooner or later I will be asked not to post my link to etsy..... Anyway! they are always trying to crush the little guy! OK. kids! see me! promise to be posting more Art work in the near future! these HOT days do absolutely NOTHING for me!

Come on FALL!!!!!!!!! who like sticky weather where you have to energy suck and there are bug galore! YUCK!!!!! I want it all ! nice comfy clothes, no coat, and fresh cool air! (ok. not the nuts winter air we don't really want to get crazy..... I just don't want to heat or cool my nest!!!! Bills with this economy are INSANE enough and let's face it folks it's only DOWNHILL! pretty scary and another very long rant!!! UGH!!!!

No Art for sale..... but just quirky words for the rated R group!

OK. sadly enough I have NO Artsy craftsy stuff today just words of a sarcastic nature that caught my fancy!!! Which I am finding hard not to be these days!

LOVE this slinky saying found on the Uncle fun sight!!! http://www.unclefunchicago.com/ufun.html this is a cool shop on Belmont in Chicago! I highly reccommend! they also have a sweet shop across the street called Paperboy lots of paper goods and other cool bean things!

HEY it's Slinky it's slinky it's such a wonderful toy! it's slinky it's slinky fun for a girl and a boy!

Raindrops on roses and angora sweaters

One-upping your colleagues and besting your betters Six-figure bank accounts Good sex that's kinky All these mean nothing unless you have Slinky.

and the 2 top fun sayings are a couple of favs and reference my life as it is today! (John being my not soon enough ex! so I thought this was fitting!!!)

anyway, love these 2 they are all in good fun & meant to be offensive to everyone BUT in a good way!!!! LOL.

Ohhhh Dam I have Spring fever!

Alrighty then here are my new mystical girls! Eleanor is the "nesting Faery she is soooo Poe! Still to me she is the most enchanting....I may just snag her for myself, however she is the finished product from "the head"!!!! Sounds like a Alfred Hitchcock film!!!!
Then there is Goat goddess she is really the one that takes care of the whimsical & fantastic ~enchanted land..... she loves to rest among the posies.

and my last girl she is the lands' faery priestess, regal to all she appears to......

I have so many charecters so little time ~I have at least a dozen little ladies to finish they have a face and are connected to a body whew! however, a whole lotta work goes into the final tag! it's a job trying to come up with thier little personalities! not to mention everything else! plus I have quite a few new flea market finds that have yet to go into"creation" ! yes, I just love making the faces...... some think I'm insane because all I do is play play play! hey that is what PS is for!!! and it so happens to be MY JOB!!!! (sort of... being a PS goddess yes, playing with my vintage pics no.... oops!) anyway, if you like my little freaky creations you have quite a few to look forward to~

I hope you'll leave me a line of what cha' think! I love feedback! like water it helps me grow!!!!

well, goodnight farewll so long and all that jazz! off to play! AGAIN!

shhhhhh HEY! what's that???

Just feel'n like shareing today...... Some have asked where I get my faces well this is typically how it starts! a vintage picture & what ever maybe in my head for the day..... sometimes it amazes me what transpires! I really love Eleanor can't wait to show the happy finished girl she has come to be!!! she is quite fanciful and had so many possible ways she could go..... (but seeing I have spring fever..... can you guess where I have gone..... well, of course silly!!!!
hmmmm she is going to be on one tag one locket and she will also be part of a larger collage I like her so much! Yeah! I always fall in love with some of my creations it almost makes me giddy! LOL. I almost think I should do just a whole wall of heads...... My children may go into protest they always claim they 're being watched...... is that a bad thing? (I have a few flea market buys of people I don't know hanging on my walls BECAUSE I like them! my oldest claims it's creeepy..... so far be it from me to make her more paranoid..... *enter evil laugh* moohahahaha ~evil mom! )
OK. anyway..... I don't go into steps they are mine as well as my creation so just let me infringe this is a copyright of mine just in case the zillion watermarks aren't reflecting that.... sorry but some people don't know that NO MEANS NO!!!!!



OK. here is my rant for the day ~since another blog brought it up (well about the gym...)
What is with people who go to the gym & wear the skanky-est cheap ass floral perfume??? seriously I'm on the next treadmill gasping for air here! OMG!!!! seriously when you sweat the stuff personifies!!!! I'm half way through my workout and unable to stop my pace and this chick who is super runner gets on the next treadmill with the worst cheap ass perfume..... dear god just kill me! WHOA! I would almost rather smell BO for godsakes! and the thing is your breathing deeply & can't hold your breath..... dear god just shoot me! (did I just say that again?) any how I go & do my thing after the gagging at the treadmill and I'm about to leave and three little girls are walking the track & one of them has some nasty cheap perfume on too..... and she doesn't just pass me they kinda linger so I canNOT pass them prolonging the torture! (it's kinda like being stuck next to a pig truck in rush hour while your extremely hung over!!! yes, I've been there too! right after the all you can eat burgers (don't know if those are good are not oops!) and all the beer you can drink for $5. nite it was seriously ugly!!!!)
BUT dear god was there a perfume giveaway or was there just a memo on how to torture me at the gym circulating without my knowledge???? DAM!!!!
and what is a potlicker anyway??? sorry a co-worker just said it & wouldn't give me his 10 min definition.... but then do I really want to know??? I'm going with Nooooooo. hmmm OK. I'm done ranting (I think)

anyway, so I'm off to the races so much time so little to see.... stop wait ~reverse that!

you can see how my day is going to be!!!!!!!

Me Bad!

Oh I have been away for far too long...... first I'm playing then I'm working & trying to create in between....... What the hell is wrong with this picture!!!! LOL. no happy mediums here in my world! (OK. down to the fun HEY! and I can't even type a simple word this is going well........ )

I've been stuck in a world of myth lately as you can see with my divine Ram girls! I have a ton of these frames BUT do you think I can find them all now that I have a use for them??? of course NOT! what is up with that??? they use to be used for old watch displays and being into textures.... I felt compelled to use them! Yeah me!

OK. I'm a bit giddy 8 hrs in front of a computer screen only to be followed by more hours at home I can almost see at night....... eeeek!

Here are my new and finest girls!!! in thier best of dress and flights of fancy....they have been taking on quite a folklore look or maybe it was my sweeney todd influence...... ( a very lovely visual movie scenic wise ...but they get a little carried away with the blood spray.... and the singing parts a a bit weak of course I have seen the original broadway play with Angela Lansbury.... so this kinda pails in comparison that way.... but the overall feel was quite the Tim Burton splender that I love...... NO you can never please me!!! LOL.)

What ever runs through my mind no one knows.... it's been rather crowded in there lately! LOL. with all the horned things and nested blings nature is keeping a hand this spring in the land of forgotten dreams!

Yes, it's true I always get spring fever & quite bad too! they always have to tie me & my change purse down so that we both behave!!! Not to mention my mind has gone amuck..... amuck amuck amuck amuck amuck amuck ..... OK. Stop that! at any rate all these have either gone to ebay or are there at present..... hoping they go to homes that will enjoy & delight and definatly appreciate in them as much as I have! FREE BIRD hey who has the lighter??? (the song free bird that goes on & on &on & on..... my not soon enough ex husband was a DJ and this song was a huge pet peeve! so I felt compelled .... part my little dark humor ~tee hee!!!!)ok. no wonder I have been getting into movies like war of the Roses!!! LOL.)

I wasn't quite sure what to do with this poor bald dear....... but she turned out rather fancy if I do say so myself..... she's a nature activist not that it doesn't make this little birdie quite happy! that this wild woman has a mean glare!!!

and what a bout this poor polka dotted dear! she is so properly waiting for her spot of tea my Oh my where can everybody be???

and finally I have some rather cool lockets.... if you would like to purchase any please go to my flickr page and mail me! they are $28. and are everybit as lovely as the tags and you can wear them everywhere.... Thanks & tune in soon! I have some lovely behive ladies & a goat girl among others to introduce right quick! you won't be disappointed!

OK...OK... I'm awake mom!

Alright I have been bad & lazy & playing with my blythe dolls far too much these days!!! (Fionna Skye, Ruby Cate, Sophia Grace, and Lulu Belle send thier regards!!!) So getting back at the helm is in the spring air!!! I have several creations in the works! & they are divine looking girls if I must say so myself! there are a couple of lovely ladies who are familar faces (my favorites of sorts.... I try not to pick favorites but but darn they are cute!) and a few new and some that have just been lurking in the shadows waiting for me to introduce them!
My my where are my manners!!! at any rate I have a few I can show off today..... Can you tell they are dieing for SpRiNg to have sprung??? (these lovely ladies went to a swap~ however they have some friends who are about to emerge on the scene they will first be announced on flickr and make thier appearance on ebay! somewhere towards the end of this week.... I Hope!)

I am also in the "experimental stages" of pickling these lovelies...... so they may accompany you and see the world! But I don't know as of yet if I have it all quite right! Hmmmm they are tricky little ones and it's hard to get them to sit quite right when they are wiggleing so much! I may have to wait & see when they are right between that place where they are awake & asleep so they will be more inclined to let me work!!!! But here's the girl who gave me a fight! Mercy! she was a tough one to pickle! but still isn't she lovely just the same? Hopefully I shall have some answers soon so these wee little ones maybe on thier merry way! (to ebay that is! you''ll have to watch my flickr for a heads up though..... you'll only have 5 days once they come out to play!!!) these look to be most promising too! she looks far better than her captured reflection......

Oh what is a girl to do!?!

Oh NO! it's your lucky day???

Pay It Forward
Yellow fairy bug Queen http://www.thefairyyellowbugqueen.blogspot.com/has invited me to take part in this Pay It Forward challenge.Why not!!!! I am willing to play! I will send a handmade gift/thingy/something to the first 3 people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this "Pay It Forward" exchange. I don't know what that gift will be, and you may not receive it tomorrow or next week, but you will receive it within 365 days, that is my promise! And truthfully, it will probably be later than sooner! The only thing you have to do in return is "Pay It Forward" by making the same promise on your blog with a link back to me. So basically, if you comment I'll send you something crafty that I'll make! Once you sign up, copy and paste the above paragraph on your blog, and three other lucky people will be the recipients of your handmade work. You must post this on your blog to be eligible.

Going out with a bang!!!

Hello everyone! Yes, unfortunatlyy I have not kept up my blog I've been bad ! However, due to alot of unfortunate events (divorce for one) I have been tied up & trying to get my life in order so I can start a brand new year. Fresh starts are my hope for 2008!!!!!

The little ladie on the left I made in honor of little miss Sophia who would have been 5 this year, she is my christmas angel, and heaven's keeper! so I appropriatly named this piece "Heaven's keeper" for this little angel keeps the heavens bright replacing and shining the stars so they always shine bright! and she is off to her new mom as we speak!

(she is a paper & plastic doily collage in a antique frame I did a rust treatment to!)

Also introduceing "Winter Solstice" she has star shine in her hair and glorious wings of olde she is a sweet little paper doll creation (of which I have one left to sell IF anyone is interested! please email me!) her arms and legs are all jointed and she is a original creation and one of 4.

My other sweethearts are my Queenie Belle tags! (One is up for grabs here! green floral) Her regalness dons a crown and a very pretty dress!

(All my work is paper collage with bits & pieces thrown in a few scribbles maybe some glitter or gold gel to make it look just right!)

and lastly I have my little snow fairies! aren't they quaint??? all snuggled in thier large stocking caps making sure we get all the prettiest snowflakes ever. They are gentle little girls who just like to play! they can adorn just about anything and look thier best! (two available~ midnight stars & old white scribe)

Well, my friends I'm sure I will have more later. I I will try to be more fluent with my blogs in 2008!!! OUT with the OLD & in with something new!!! and if I don't get the chance I would like to WiSh EVERYONE the happiest of NEW YEARS!!!! May this be the year of better things!

~All Hallow's Eve~

Ok kids! How can Halloween Not be a favorite holiday!!! I am into the obscure scenery of what the day has to bring so how could it not be the first thing that popped into my mind for my zetti postcard?! I'm hoping that all 5 ladies are enjoying thier girls!

~gRaCeFuL bAnTeR~

OK. I'm back! my life has been one nasty ball of wax lately so I have kinda been MIA! but then I'm never thrilled around the time my birthday hits! It's all rather sucky so I figure if I hide all of it will just go away & not find me! I know wishful thinking right!!! Does it take on a bad meaning when your cat dies on your birthday??? I'm sure that it probally means I'm cursed!!! NOW that I can contest to!!! Well kids I will write more later when I feel more chatty it's just one of those days for me right now...... Enjoy!

ahhhh It's a run by tagging!

I was tagged by http://www.sarahogren.blogspot.com/yesterday. Here are the rules…..1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.2. Share 7 facts about YOU: some random, some weird...all devastatingly interesting.3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.
Facts About Me.
1. I like to quote movies..... terrible habit! but didn't you just LOVE that in "mrs. Doubtfire"!!! (see post header! was run by fruiting! LOL.)
2. I’m terrified of Sharks and snakes & whatever is larger than me on the foodchain!!!
.3. I like using 50 cent words, like chiaroscuro. it so confuses the hell out of people! which brings me to the fact that I also now get corrected by my 19 yr old who is one of the few who isn't baffled by benivelent ways! (she also has been charged with gran·deur! because it rubbed off on her at a very young age..... 5 yrs old & she could use the BIG words properly even if she didn't quite know their meaning yet!!! my friend & I at the time, use to try to out - word one another! What can I say we were weird! I still like to do it from time to time!)
4. I am the most normal person in my family...... (as long as you don't ask the 19 yr old!)
5. I have an earned BA in Professional Photography ..... yet I had a portrait studio (yes, past tense HAD.... 6. Loved to shoot weddings HATE the mean and manipulative people! don't get me wrong not everyone was that way but you get a few a year & that was more than enough!!! the more money they have the less they also want to pay you & the more they want you to do! ~ Enough said!!! I do miss the fun & full of life Great people I have met though....)
7. I Loved my childhood & wish it was still that way for my girls.... however, there isn't much innocence left in this world anymore! makes me so sad!

OK. time for torture! Hmmmmm

Alrighty then!
1.) http://www.jenniferconway.blogspot.com/ Jen Conway!

2.) http://www.faeryyellowbug.blogspot.com/ Hi Norma!!!

3.) http://www.zanymayd.blogspot.com/

4.) http://birdandflowerpaperdolls.blogspot.com/ Elaine

5.)http://starlitnest.blogspot.com/ Alison

6.)http://faeriewindow.blogspot.com/ Lori

7.)http://kimandliamsblog.blogspot.com/ KIM!

have fun!!!! (((Smiles)))

vIsItInG fReInDs......

Still another web is weaved and we are walking across the dark intense terain of the land of forgotten dreams where nothing ,like real life, is anything but seemingly obsured..... still we must go out to visit our friends who reside in this strange land, for no one can live alone without any visitors , you silly thing..... First, Gertie who has just done up her hair for our visit.... isn't it just so divine..... you have just the right touch! What a beautiful flower! Oh my dear you look rather stunning today! if I could only look as divine it would be a even happier day!

Next, Stella this young'n loves to leave her hair down ! Watch out for that sweet little bee! Oh dear me! bUzZ bUzZ bUzZ........

go away you silly thing

it's time for tea and what a lovely day

for the likes of it too!

Sometimes us girls just have to let our hair down sip a cup & sit back and enjoy the cool crisp day! OoOoOohhhh! I can see it's better weather ahead! if only it would just get here and not pass us by so quickly!

and for those of you who like my versions of Gertie & Stella visit my flickr page for the ones to be traded or sold! & give them a shout as well! & I hope to see you back real soon!

OMG isn't it Friday yet???

I am so bored & into work avoidence probally because your just on that verge of a extra day off!!! Woo Hoo! I soooo get to sleep in! Won't that be sweet! anyway, I am so ready for the weekend & even more so for FaLL!!!!! oh I can just feel the cool breeze, the outdoor market shows a great cup of tea.... hear the russell of the changeing leaves! Wine tasting! one of our wineries makes a great hallowine.... (OK. I'm not super huge on wine but my occasional glass I like to dwell in it & really enjoy! and usually I don't dig wines this sweet but this is good wine! almost tastes like a wassel!) http://www.illinoisriverwinery.com/ only to be out shined by my fav Margarita wine.....Maria's Sangarita http://www.prairiestatewinery.com/Clients/PrairieState/PrairieStateWinery.nsf/b8c53a514ad55cf886256b0500569094/8492fe485fd787ed86257018004c73b7!OpenDocument Ugh.... in setting up the link I just noticed the wine tasteing is the same time as the Renegade art fest in Chicago! What is up with that???? It's simply NOT Fair! (((pout))) anyway, can't you tell I LOVE FALL!!! anyway, I know get to the art Woman!

Here are my beauties next I will be switching to full AuTumN mode!!!!

Summer Serenade isn't she lovely with the little tiny dancer (atc's with tiny dancers next!) a peek'n from here pettycoat! she is all some kind of paper or another with exception of her plastic lace, buttons & brads! Oh My! and lately I just have a fetish for curly hair! it just looks so fun! I can't help myself I swear a few of these almost have turned into rapunzel!!!!

and then my new ATC's because I have a mushroom & flower swap for the FAA lucky parcel swap.... well... I had to do something! and no these are what I had leftover I made cute swing tags for the swap! and they are holding lily of the valley! one of my fav flowers!!! but then again they also lack that "big mushroom"!!! just a hint! anyway, I need to pump out some work & quit my slacker ways! till another creation! Later gators!

Every thing's coming up flowers?

Only for these two lovely girl! But where oh where did thier flowers go??? OK who forgot them???? oops! I am the only one here... even I can only ever blame me ~ why is that??? Hmmmm something here is arye! However, it's good to see that Ida (Jayne's little sister ~) has finally come to claim her thunder! and has joined her sister ...... both have colorful floral dresses & hair ... everthing trimmed in some of my latest flea market finds! Don't you just LuV to find some happy little odditys that are just perfect for that creative inspiration..... however, in my true packrat form I am so sorry to see them go! (I so have large detachment issues!)

I just can't help myself sometimes..... OK OK all the time!!! I am a self proclaimed packrat don't you know! I am trying!!! However, since my pending freedom I have been getting better! I HAVE!!! However, I need to get rid of so much more! I'm going into the ddt's already! What do people do with empty houses??? It's just NOT natural I tell you! I NEED STUFF!!!!!
Anyway, enough of my gibberish! I hope you will enjoy my 2 latest girls I have at least one more in the wings! Ohhhh what fun! then off to my art dolls, then to my ATC's again!

However, like today sometimes there are just days when you would just like to have person reflection relaxation days! .... yeah like that will happen! but god, it sounds so good! Have a very happy Tues! (((smiles)))