Hey Tomato--Catch-up!!

I am always amazed at how time slips away so quickly.  10-hour work days, birthday parties, weddings, refinishing cabinets, purging, relegating things to storage...there's barely been any creative time, much less time to blog about it all! 


But today, my muse has lead me in this direction so I could reconnect with my peeps out in the world :)  The result is a post that will rather be all over the place and involves nothing that is complete as of yet--but thats what spontaneity is all about, right? 


So let me start by saying HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!! Here in Illinois, Civil Unions became official on June 1. I have many  friends who will be taking their vows, and some that will be renewing them in the new future. I wish them blessed lives together with much love and happiness, laughter for the good time, and strength for the hard times.


For the holiday weekend, I headed up to Michigan to visit friends I haven't seen i a good long while. Now, as a sidebar note, my friends like to tease me about the only thing I am truly afraid of--sharks. They always tell me how good it is that I live in the midwest where sharks can't get me (and then i point out I could fall into the big tank at the aquarium...freak accidents happen all the time)...a week after my visit, I am having buyers remorse because I really should have bought this when i saw it:

Oh well--i guess I can either look for it online...OR sounds like an excuse to go back!  LOL!

I have discovered that when i clear off my dedicated "paper arting" table, I have no choice but to work on something! I am compelled! The first work in progress is my interpretation of Michelle Ward's Crusade 51--Home Sweet Home. The topic is a bittersweet one for me, and I didn't know at all how to approach it all month. But in the last hours of the month, the inspiration came. I'm not sure what I think of it so far, but the meaning behind every bit of it is very close to my heart.

My second WIP, is also inspired by Ms. Ward. I read this post several weeks ago (ok, i'm sure it was well over a month ago), and knew i had to do some "poppy art."  Did you ever notice how, when something is on your mind, it turns up everywhere you look? In the weeks while I was waiting for poppy art time to happen, poppies in my stash that i didn't even remember/knew existed, made themselves known, I've been seeing other people's poppy art, and even drove past a completely unexpected field of poppies on my road trip last weekend! If you've got poppy art, I would love to see! Please leave a link in my comments!

After all this talk about my works in progress, i feel compelled to get back to them! Guess i have to clear the table....

Happy arting and thanks for stopping by!