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Hello Artoids: While we are not getting together, check out this website. Call it a virtual Third Friday.

Thanks to Took for telling me about it.

No Third Friday this week

I'm sorry to have to cancel this Friday's Art Party. I will be at the doctor with an ailing family member that afternoon. First Tuesday should go on as scheduled April 7. I'll keep you posted.

Ist Tuesday...already?

Jeez, February messes me up! It's already first Tuesday tomorrow. Yes, the studio will be open. I've been playing with polymer clay lately, making some little shrine/house/window shapes for jewelry or embellishments or...something. I think I'll just leave that out for whoever is interested. There's clay, a couple of pasta machines to roll it out, some small cookie cutters, metal leaf, pearly metallic powder to brush on and other basic and less basic supplies. I don't think we'll cook them there; that can be done at home.

Other than that, there's always paper, glue and scissors. Books and/or collage are always possibilities.

No dolls tomorrow.

some weird and not-so-weird dolls

I'm postponing Weird Dolls, which was to have been tomorrow evening's entertainment. Life has been too chaotic around these parts and I have not had time to prepare. I think this will be a project that you'll enjoy and I don't want to go into it half-cocked, so tomorrow will be an unstructured drop in and do your own thing Third Friday. That doesn't mean you have to bring your own thing...there is plenty of stuff to do and plenty of stuff to do it with. One idea: if there are any books on my Book-A-Day blog that particularly interest you, I'll be very happy to get you started.

Thanks for your flexibility! Mental yoga is a good thing, right?

See you,
Liisa

GLUEBOOKS

Do I have your attention?

First Tuesday tomorrow...

... and it's your last chance to get goopy. Or is that goofy? I don't know. Come make Valentines for your loved ones, liked ones, secret crushes, boss, neighbor, neighbor's dog...others?

Enough stuff will be provided for you to have a good time, but if you have special materials you want to use, bring them along.

See you after 5.

Pie and Coffee..

No we didn't make pie and coffee - but, as it was only Lena and I, we worked until about 10 and then went out for reinforcement. Pumpkin pie season appears to be over, but the coconut cream was just fine.

Actually neither of us made Valentines because we got off on another tangent: discussing the selling of raw materials and supplies on Etsy. There is at least as much of that being done as the selling of hand-crafted items, and as I have decided to retire a lot of fabric I may give it a whirl. I'll probably put some big ziplocs of assorted scraps and short lengths out for sale at the studio, too. So if you're needing fabric (and not too much of any one kind) you may want to come to the next Third Friday or drop by some other time. It would be good to call first.

Running late...

...I am.

So I thought I'd say so. Typically no one shows up at Art Parties that early, but tonight would be the night, wouldn't it? I probably won't be ready for guests until about 6. But if I'm there I'll let you in. You won't freeze.

Third Friday coming up.

It's that time again. Rummage through the gathered red, pink, black (red & black!), lacy, mushy, hearty, wry and anatomical odds and ends to concoct loving (or not) greetings for your loved (or liked) ones. valentines are also your last best chance to send greetings to the people you forgot at Christmas card time.

There will be paper, lace (paper and otherwise) blank cards and envelopes, all the standard colorizing and mark-making supplies, glue, scissors, magazines to cut up, a bit of clip art, and embellishments. I'm also pulling out and photocopying all the heart images I can find - we're talking anatomical illustrations - and I have some good ones. Maybe I'll throw in some other organs, too. After all, what's a heart without a brain, or a stomach, or a spleen? I'll have postage stamps to buy at cost, and there is a mailbox out front of the building, though it might be a bit early to put them in the mail. But, carpe diem, you know.

SOMETHING DIFFERENT for 2009. I've decide to put out a piggybank (well, it's really a dog) and ask that attendees drop in a dollar on the evenings they come to play. It's an informal thing, and I'm doing it mostly because people have expressed discomfort at not pitching in, to which I can only say that you are a nice bunch! But, yes, there are things that we will eventually run out of, like glue, that can't be scrounged but have to be purchased. Please don't think you have to stop by the ATM on your way just because you don't have four quarters in your pocket; that would make me feel real bad! And don't feel that you'll make me twice as grateful by putting in two dollars; I'll just be embarrassed. OK?

Art Party tomorrow, January 6

Oooooh, squishy paper! Here's one sample of some paper castings I've been working on, this one done in a scallop shell with bits of a paper napkin. It's easy and pretty fast, and it's what's cooking tomorrow in Room 206, on the first First Tuesday of the New Year. I'll have everything you need to do some experimentation: molds, paper, and a toaster oven to expedite the drying. Water and paintbrushes, too. That's all you need. You just layer pieces of thin, soft paper on your mold using lots of water (that's what makes it settle in to the crevices), then let it dry and pop it off.

I think a garland of these shells would be gorgeous!

As usual, come any time after 5pm and stay as late as you want. BUT if no one is there by 8pm, I reserve the right to close up shop and go home. But I probably won't, because I have shell garlands to make! See you.