new aqua limpet triple: limpet shell, found plastic & vintage glass
new pillow pieces
acid green plastic from a turtle pool floatee and, pink plasticky fabric from my friend margaret....the pink ones are extra plump due to the fabric elasticity in the pink material, yeah pink puffiness :O)
happy 2009
happy 2009 my friends!! may this new year be challenging and fulfilling in all the right ways. xo
"the guy"
our sweet little friend sage made this beautiful drawing of "the guy".
i have a thing for you...
bert and ernie. this makes me happy!!!
all things clear....
i love all things clear....this wreath is lovely :O)
via design*sponge
ho ho ho who wouldn't know.......
that santa doesn't like to wear pants!!!!
we took this picture while visiting our good friends rick and kirsten while we were in st. louis. this is there little collection of holiday cheer. love the naked santas.
it's a christmas miracle....
my mom bought us a really beautiful celadon/chartruese colored christmas tree two years ago on sale after christmas. last year was the first year we put it up. it's one of those prelit versions that are no fuss. well, if the lights work, it's no fuss. but our christmas tree only glowed bright from a few limbs. i was bummin'. it was our first christmas tree in our new house. i guess it didn't like being stored in the attic for a year in a box :O( the more we messed over it the less lights actually worked. we would be hanging out in the living room and some more lights would go out....soon enough we just laughed at how ridiculous it was. last year chris cut all the lights off the tree so we could string some new lights on. SUCCESS!!!! we have a tree with lights from head to toe....and this time lights that actually work. we now have a well lit tree....yippy!!!!
happy christmas everybody and thank you so much for your support and kindness throughout the year. i wish you much love, creativity and large dose of laughter in the upcoming year.
rings...
i love the work of karl fritsch. i remember first seeing his work when i was in munich about 8.5 years ago for a show. i wish i new the name of the gallery we stumbled into and saw his work. that trip was incredible. my mom, aunt, and sister all went with me. i was in a show called "talente 2000" with a few of my very first boxes. here's a few of my favorites rings of fritsch's......
it's not christmas...
it's not christmas........without having some peanut butter balls to celebrate. i made an impromptu batch last night. most pb ball recipes take quite a bit of. time i didn't have, but pb balls are what i needed. i have made these every year as far back as grade school. my best friends mom would wait til as many helping hands would be around as possible since the recipe made so much dough. this would resulting in hours of ball rolling and a chocolate dipping extravaganza. i am not alone in my love for pb balls. they just so happen to be one of chris' faves too. here is the quick easy recipe i used...
1-16 oz. jar of smuckers natural peanut butter with honey, creamy
1 cup of powdered sugar
3-4 tablespoons of ground flax seed......you can't even taste it, so go ahead. everyone needs more fiber this year with all the sugar slammin' we're doing.
2 T of soy butter (earth balance), room temperature
1/2 bag of dark chocolate
1 T of vegetable shortening
optional: small raw salt crystal and cayenne powder
-combine first four ingredients with your hands.
-form into balls....i like mine about the size of a nickel but 3 dimension...not flat :O)
at this size it will make about 60 pb balls.
-melt chocolate and shortening together in microwave for 20 seconds, stirring in between, until smooth.
dip pb. balls in chocolate coating completely using a toothpick to submerge and then place on wax paper to cool. some people recommend refrigerating the pb balls for a couple hours before dipping.....but if you don't have the time, no worries, go ahead and dip away. i did and it worked out fine. sprinkle some with a few salt crystals and cayenne powder if you wish. the salt adds such a nice texture and the cayenne is really delicious. refrigerate til the chocolate sets up. pull off wax paper and store in a container in the fridge. eat up. enjoy christmas :O)
sugar.shit. on my christmas list
favorite pieces from "on sugar mountain. up shit creek." this show is at road agent gallery in dallas. see more of margaret's work on her website. the show runs until january 17th.
from road agent's home page...
"Last year, when the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth launched Pretty Baby, a compelling and disturbing exhibition of works exploring the darker side of adolescence and curated by the Modern’s own Andrea Karnes, Margaret Meehan was the only local artist included in a group of international art stars. And yet Meehan’s work—delicate ceramic sculptures and curious drawings of variously mutated young girls—played hardball with works by the likes of Nathalie Djurberg, Catherine Opie and Richard Phillips, and was unflinching in its presentation of what is inherently menacing, sad, strange and resilient about the experience of childhood. While some parents and teachers were reportedly skittish about Meehan’s unapologetically exposed creatures, children were fascinated and drawn to them, as though recognizing old friends they’d missed terribly but had been forbidden to visit.
Meehan’s concern with locating the sublime in the grotesque is as grounded in a traditional Victorian obsession with medical anomalies as it is with defying our more recent attempt to banish all nastiness and discomfort from our daily experience. In Meehan’s eyes, oily real life indeed seeps up into our fluffy, shiny world, and that’s where things finally get interesting (and often quite funny and absurd). Thus, Meehan directs an admiring gaze, full of defiance and poetry, at all the weird jolts and unexpected biology we call life. She adapts to those gruesome facts, celebrates them, lets the innocent collide with the monstrous in the most unsettling way to create a more rounded experience—a sensibility inherited as much from David Cronenberg or David Lynch as Louise Bourgeois. This is formal presentation tangled up in a knot of rank intestines. Beauty possessed by a Body Snatcher. Sugar laced with shit.
Meehan lives and works in Dallas, Texas. She received her MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle."
big hug. bigger thank you!!!
my new found friend/email pen pal and canadian artist, yael, mailed me this amazingly beautiful and stunning bracelet as a thank you. WOW, i was completely floored. it is so lovely in every way. i love the bright colors. it is truly perfect for me. recently, i mailed her a copy of ornament magazine that her and i were both featured in for "the ring show, then and now". she makes incredible work with glass beads, gemstone beads, sterling, resin, and fibers. for more eye candy and stunning jewelry click her name to go to her website. thank you so much yael. i will never forget your kindness and generosity.
new work
here's a few more pieces that i just finished up. most of the recent work i have posted is going to a trunk show at craft alliance in st. louis for valentines day.
limpet shell
vintage glass, coral found on st. pete beach, mother of pearl button
rubber grapes, vintage glass
glass, vintage glass
don't eat your meat....
wear it!!!!
check these fun crazy socks at ashidashi. meat?? NO meat socks?? YES!!!!! who doesn't want a pair of meat socks for christmas...bahaahahhaa
if meat doesn't tickle your fancy...they have pencil, intestines and the notebook paper variety.
these are hysterical!!!!!