Things that are red in my home

Mushy Peas tagged me in this little game, and I discovered there is a LOT of red in my home! Color of Passion!

Memphis on my red couch.

Giant Red Gerbera.

Red Toaster!

Boudoir! There are alternating brown walls. Sexy like a chocolate strawberry!

and a red head! Well, chemically enhanced... :P

And in return, I tag, Blarm! and Get Plastered!

Won't be long now!

Less than two weeks till show time and things are coming together amazingly well! I dont' know how i'll cope when it's over! This project has breathed new artistic life in to me, and I hope the other artists have been just as positively affected by it as I have. I finished my very first canvas painting EVER, and am now on to my second one as well as finishing a scarf and a few other knitted cupcakes.

We had a wonderful article in the Telegram and the Current. All the posters are around town and we might just have some TV coverage on opening night! I am thrilled how this has all come together and I CAN'T FRIGGEN WAIT to see what everyone else has done! Since the Telegram article was published I've gotten lots of emails and messages from people who want to be a part of the show! I guess that means I'll just have to do it again :)

So One Week from this friday! Mark it on your calendars!

About time...

Well, I did it. I *finally* started the paintings I have been mulling over for the last month or so for the cupcake art show. Feels good. So far, not disappointed in myself, haha. Its amazing how you can be scared to start something for fear of failing before you've even tried. I have been so scared to start painting because I didn't think I could do it but I think tattooing has helped me approach painting differently, and I have a much better comprehension of it now.

With two and a half weeks to go things are really shaping up! Posters have started going out this week, we had a full page article about the show in the Telegram, an upcoming article in the Current, and CBC Radio's Ted Blades called me today after reading the press release and said he would be plugging the show as well! I'm so thrilled that so many people have gotten behind this show, loving the idea and wanting to contribute. I sense an annual event ....!

In Sickness and in Health

A severe case of Strep throat has all but taken me out but thank god for working with good, no GREAT people to keep thinks going when you cannot. We did a mini photoshoot with the wonderful and talented Sandra Elford, my amazing friend and most wonderful and dependable person in the whole wide world Denise was able to get our printed materials donated so the posters will be up and out this friday! Even though my throat is still swollen like a mofo and i can't get a good nights sleep or even talk or eat properly everything is coming together SOOOO WELLLLLLL. Now I just need to improve my own health so I can finish my own projects :P

The excitement is mounting!!

Its just one month till show time and i am sooooooooo excited! After several attempts I finally managed to successfully knit a cupcake (thought now i'm not sure what to do with it- suggestions?) and i have finally completed a piece (i keep starting things before I finish one) I'm starting to see everyone else's work come together and its hard not to be invigorated! Although yesterday was much less exciting. I called the A&C to check on the availability of tables and chairs only to find I had been bumped out of the gallery for some business to take over the space and no one bothered to notify my....WELL THANK GOD I DIDN'T HAVE THE POSTERS PRINTED AND POSTED!!! For once, however, and i really mean once, luck smiled on me as the space they offered me in lieu of works even better for us! Even fate loves a good cupcake ;)

So for now all is right in the world! The countdown is on!

the painting procrastination continues....

I've come to realize I am doing everything within my power to prevent having to start the paintings I want to do for the cupcake show... I've always been scared of painting. I can't tell you why. I just feel like i'm not very good at it. Even though i 'paint' on people every day for some reason I panic when i put paintbrush to canvas. I'm afraid it won't be good enough.

So instead i've been cutting, and gluing and knitting... but no painting. First I planned on using my 5 days off over xmas to start painting, or well, to start working on projects but I had envisioned I would at least start painting. That time came and went while empty canvases still sit unused in my closet. Now i have two more days off and swear I am going to start a painting tomorrow.

Maybe I have to approach this like I do a tattoo. Come up with a preliminary sketch, refine it till I'm perfectly happy with it, do a color study then move on to the final product. But on the canvas instead of skin. Well its worth a shot I guess. If you have advice for getting over this personal artistic hurdle of mine, i'm all to happy to hear it!

Let them eat Cupcakes!...with your eyes?

In just a little more than a month I am launching a mixed media art show entirely inspired by the cupcake.

I love cupcakes more than any human probably should. The soft, moist delicious morsel of tasty cake topped with a billowing crown of delicious sugary icing that is possibly adorned with glittery sprinkles! Heavenly. But cupcakes have also become a visual feast, creeping in to the things I wear and use. I have a cupcake belt buckle with a cupcake belt, there are cupcakes printed on my wallet and I have cupcake jewelry! Not to mention that cupcakes themselves have become an art form with the amazing things great bakers are accomplishing with icings and a lot of imagination! So i thought I would gather a group of creative people whom also share my love of cupcakes and put off a truly spectacular one of a kind art show. Oh, and this show is also going to be a fundraiser for the St. John's Women's Center Marguerite's Place (www.margueritesplace.ca)

Its been almost a year since i organized a show of any sort ( i used to produce vaudeville shows in the city) so I'm a little nervous. And while my mind is flooded with awesome ideas of things I can make/draw/paint, my execution is not working out so well at present. My plan was to use my 5 days off over xmas to really get some stuff done. Of course, through family visiting and obligations that time was a lot less of my own then i anticipated. I've definitely started, but true to form, I have finished nothing and am back to the daily grind in 1.5 more days. Thats the unfortunate part thing of creativity. You really can't force it and expect great results. It has to come when its ready to which often means you are up till 4 in the morning because you suddenly felt inspired and had to roll with it.

But I'm still confident everything will come off, i'd like to say without a hitch but that's just never the case. Through the terrible time of year for trying to do anything productive, and then the friggen swine flu, its been hard to get any one together but through diligent blogging and facebook contact we are all in the loop of whats going on and gearing up to put off an amazing show. Stay tuned for more progress reports :P