Pink Tuesday in July

We all gathered at Pinky's on the peninsula for our 5th of July meeting.  It was a gorgeous sunny day, quite welcome as we have not had a lot of those this season.  Above you can see Mary's creative mess which she turns into what you see below.

Mary's creative cards and tags. 

  All these gals are so good at combining papers, inks, stamps, embellishments and odds and ends, and turning them into beautiful small works of art.

Pinky enjoyed making her first crocheted rug so much that she has decided to make another.  Here she is, tearing an old sheet into strips.  It is a very dusty job!  Also in front of her is a pile of rubber stamps.  She purchased them unmounted from the going out of business sale at Scrolls Works.  Pinky mounts her own stamps and saves a lot of money that way.  Maybe she can explain how she mounts them, in the comments section.

Karen was also busy working in one of her journals.  She has been using images her father drew long ago.  He tended to draw cowboy type figures and was quite talented.  I guess we can see where Karen got her talent for art and her love of cowboy related things.  The drawn images are unique and show what a flair her dad had for these caricatures.

I'm sorry I didn't get a good picture of what April was working on but she too was working with  paper and making cards.  And taking a few notes too, evidently.

Jan finally finished her second crocheted rug after having to tear half of it out the first time around due to its overly wonky nature.  It lays fairly flat now.

After she finished the rug she went on to doodle in her book in some similar colors.

Rufus, Pinky's cat, slept through most of the visit in spite of the presence of Rocky.  Good thing for Rocky.

See you next week at April's!

Mugging at Pinky's

April bought us all mugs that opened up so we could decorate the insides of them.  The above photo shows the creative results.  From left to right are Jan's, Mary's, Karen's, April's and Pinky's.  They all turned out great and we had fun creating them.  Thanks for the challenge, April!

Mary was busy making hats on her little knitting loom.  The hats are for premature babies and she is donating them to a hospital.   Darling little things, Mary is quite the darling too.

Pinky's cat Louie looked so fetching as he lounged on the chair I had to snap a picture of him too.  All in all it was another fun day with the S&B gang. 

Pinky's New Project...

This is Pinky's newest beading project. She just started it today. It looks a little like Louie, doesn't it? She has just started the beading around the edges at this time and is not sure yet just how much beading she will be doing on it. You can tell she has a thing for cats :>)) It will be fun to see what she adds this next week. She was using seed beads for the edging around the cat. The neat thing about a beading project is that it is sooo portable and easy to bring.

DAWG Posting Winner!!!

I had to share these with you girls...In the DAWG (Designing Artist Women's Group dawgteam@spruz.com ) group that I belong to online, I was the winner of these three ATCs. Aren't they wonderful? The cat ("Green Sleeper") is by Sue Taylor Perez...the "Cherries" is by Joann Wheeler...and the little fairy is by Gina Sutton. They are all DAWG team members.

Pinky's Inner Child Key Challenge...

Pinky did a large mixed media collage that included a little mesh envelope with a message inside. It said Key To Your Inner Child. Take a close look at all the detail. She always amazes me. She also did an ATC with a key them. Both were just wonderful!

Also included is a pic of Pinky's finished beading project with cats.

Joan Feeding Her Buddies...

While we were getting lunch ready, Joan went out to feed her buddies. She has many llamas, peacocks, two dogs and two cats. She is a lady who loves her animals, for sure.