And the winner is?

Thank you to all who entered my blog giveaway. It was great fun and I appreciate you all following what I am up to in the creative department. Without further ado, the winner is Christie Davidson as chosen by the random number generator.

Have a great week everyone.

River City Dollmakers Annual SHow

I wanted to let all my blogging friends, artists and doll people out there know about my local doll making guilds annual show. It is being held at The Newport on the Levee in Newport Kentucky on November 14th and 15th. The show runs 11 am - 5 pm on Saturday and 12-5 pm on Sunday. SO, if you live in the Northern Kentucky or Greater Cincinnati area please stop by and see me and a number of other fine doll makers. We will have some special challenge and viewers choice exhibits as well as a fun little make and take.

Today is the last day to get in on my giveaway. A big thank you to those of you who are following my artistic endeavors. Good luck to those of you participating. I can't wait to see who the winner will be. I plan on using the random number generator to determine the winner. I don't trust those pesky goblins to do it right. Have a great weekend everyone.

Over 75 Followers

Wow! The response to my pending giveaway has been awesome. So, in celebration of surpassing 75 followers of my humble blog I am announcing a giveaway. Pictured above is one of my Sea Goblins. He is excited about traveling to a new home. So, if you want to be in the running here is what you need to do.

1. Become or already be a follower of my blog.

2. Leave a comment on this post.

3. Make sure you leave some way for me to contact you if you win.

I will be drawing the lucky winners name on Saturday November 7th. Don't worry if you do not see me post a comment to this post as I am trying to not clutter it with responses.

Thank you again to all of my faithful followers and friends who visit my wacky world. You are most appreciated. Good luck.

Diabolical Diatoms

Happy Halloween out there in blog land. To all my artists friends and admirers of art and fun, BOO! Hope your day is filled with treats and a trick or two. Well, I would like to introduce you to a new line of crazy creatures I call Diabolical Diatoms.. These are the nasty guys that reek havoc in your body sometimes. Depending of course if are unfortunate enough to ingest any of them. They are polymer clay over a wooden armature. These are made as ornaments. I am planning a few more detailed versions of them as larger sculpts.. Above is number four. He is the tallest of the four I have made so far and stands around four inches. Sorry about the photography. I did these in a hurry again.

Here is number three. I haven't given them names yet. But hope to after I settle down from Halloween stuff.

Number two looking really innocent.

Finally number one. is wondering why I took his picture. There you have it. Hope you enjoy these new guys.

On another note, I realized that I am getting really close to having 75 followers. So, hopefully if I can get just five more in the next week or so, I plan on having a give away to celebrate the blogging milestone for me. So, tell your friends to check out my place and see if they will join in on the fun. I will keep you all posted. In the meantime, have a spooktacular Halloween everyone.

Halloween Fun

As promised for Halloween here are my finished Coffee Creatures the first two guys here. The last three are the first set of monster onries I have made. These are all polymer clay sculpts and one of a kinds.

The second Coffee Creature.

Monster ornie one.

Monster ornie two.

Monster ornie three and I will have several new characters to debut tonight or tomorrow. Until then have a great day and thank you for stopping by.

Creatures, Craziness and Bricks....

Well, I finally am able to share at least some in progress pictures of a few things I have been working on in addition to the charity projects. It has been a busy fall season so far. As weekends go this one was quite hectic. I went to the pumpkin festival in Circleville Ohio on Friday and as always it was such fun. Saturday was spent working on sculptures for the last few shows of the year. Of which I am showing the in progress here. Sunday was spent celebrating a good friends birthday at a brunch and then heading over to the Bricks Along The Journey bricks for breast cancer auction. In case you don't know, the idea was to take a recycled brick and transform it into a work of art. These are donated to be auctioned off to help breast cancer patients here in Cincinnati receive care and assistance. My brick was the monster head with the small figure of a woman on it's head. The top bid was around $300 which made me really happy. It is such a great event and I am proud to be a part of it.

Now as you can see above, I have been working on a few things. The two grayish guys in the coffee cups are coffee creatures and the brightly colored guys are my limited edition monster ornies. They are not done yet.

Here is a closer view of the coffee creatures, they have their first primer coat on. I will now go back and paint them up. Each creature is made over a paper mache sphere that I think is sold to make Christmas ornaments out of, but made the perfect armature/form. I had these two funky coffee cups I found at Big Lots years ago.

Here is a closer view of the monster ornies I am working on. I am trying out some new characters. I am hoping to have around ten of these guys and they will all be one of a kinds. I should have them done by the end of the week. Will post there finished closeup then. Have a great week everyone. I am co hosting a Halloween party on the big night. So, it will be a busy week all around.

Surprise Packages

Hope all are having a fabulous week so far. I wanted to share a picture of the wonderful surprise package that came in the mail today. It was from my Aussie friend Lorell Lehman of Not all Fae Are Beautiful. She sent me one of her Eerie Fae. He is so cool, along with some cards and an awesome bookmark. It is such fun having friends in far away places. It's nice to send little surprises to each other. I had sent her a Halloween surprise box a week or so ago and know that it got there safe and sound. Please check out her blog at earlier link to see some of her fun and awesome art.

Have a great Thursday and Friday everyone.