Bits and Bobs
Often the most fun I have is from the random ideas that pop into my head when I'm supposed to be washing my floors or learning to use the oven, and when people come to me with unusual requests: "Hey, can you make us a centaur costume?" and me: "That sounds really, REALLY hard, so ... hell YES! Challenge accepted!". Need something weird made? Want more info on the random pieces?
The Centaur
For a scene from The Never-ending Story, the sewing for this costume was actually a breeze, the engineering drove me mental. I was rescued by a friend who knows her way around power tools, and she built a skeleton for it that was essentially a sawhorse on wheels. He scooted his way around the stage and enjoyed his fifteen minutes of fame, and now he waits quietly in my closet for the day when he can make his comeback.
I don't know if this is art, but it involved a glue gun and a drill so what's not to like? This is a clock I made for our games room, from an old wooden Monopoly board I nabbed at a thrift store and a clock set from the craft store. I'm forever on the lookout for another board like this so I can do another, but it was a rarer find than I realized at the time.
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A Valentine's gift for my husband. We're kind of, well okay, COMPLETELY geeky. If you get all the references we can be best friends. This is acrylic paint on canvas, vinyl lettering cut on a Cricut machine, and sealed with acrylic varnish. 16" x 40". Custom orders accepted, $75.
Also sometimes I make quilts.
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One of my sons has a lot of autism. When his school was collecting student art for an auction this is what we made. I loaded a paintbrush and pointed him at the canvas, he put the colour on, and I finished it off with the text. The best part is how it played out: there was a bidding war, my sister determined to win it and bidding against a stranger who seemed equally determined. In the end Auntie got scooped and lost it to the other woman. A couple of weeks later the school received a cheque from the winner with a note to please give the painting to his auntie as a gift from the winner. People are the best.
A more literary version of my geeky love tribute. Again, it's acrylic paint on canvas, vinyl lettering cut on a Cricut machine, and sealed with acrylic varnish. This concept could be applied to so many themes: music, comedy duos, classic movies, historical figures, and on and on. 16" x 40". Custom orders accepted, $75.
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