~Sadie Pink~

Vintage: Easter

2010-03-29T11:10:00.001-07:00

Vintage: Easter, originally uploaded by gill4kleuren.

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

2008-11-10T10:51:00.001-08:00

Oh boy...I almost hyperventilated when I heard about this! 2010! That's a long wait it seems.

~Halloween~

2008-09-29T15:26:00.000-07:00

Yeah!!!! This is the month.... Can't wait!

Anti-Crombie

2008-09-05T16:49:00.001-07:00

School shopping with my fourteen year old daughter means having to go into Abercrombie & Finch. Or as my 8 year old son calls it, Albert Conley & Fish. What is it with this store? It’s designed to drive older people out which doesn’t make sense to me since those are the people with the money. I hate this store just as much as my daughter loves it. The interior is so dimly lit that anyone with bad eyesight, such as myself, needs a seeing eye dog to get around.

The music is deafening. Heart pounding, annoyingly loud. Someone told me they knew they had gotten old when they went in that store and had to leave because the music was just to darn loud.

The last time I went there, I walked in and caught my breath. I couldn’t breath. I started to cough. “What the heck is that smell?”, I asked my daughter. “They sprintz their perfume in the air.” Spritz? Spritz? No, that is not a spritz. Either the salespeople are filling buckets up of the stuff and throwing it on the walls, or their distilling it in the back room and the vat just sprang a leak.

The shopping bags, have black and white photographs of a beautiful young girl and boy, both of which, by the expressions on their faces, look like an advertisement for anti-depressants. I can’t understand why they look so glum. If I was a size 0 I would be grinning from ear to ear.

World's Worst Mother

2008-06-11T12:37:00.001-07:00

There was recently a woman who appeared on the Today Show because she let her 9 year old son come home alone from Macy’s in New York City to their apartment. I don’t remember where they lived but the boy had to take a train and a bus to get there. She said her son had asked her if he could do this and she felt he was ready. He had on him a train and bus schedule and some change to make a phone call. The mom went into Macy’s with him and walked out without him. She went home and waited for him. When he got off the bus in front of their home, he was very excited by his accomplishment. Well, she is now being dubbed the “The Worst Mother In America!” The Today Show had a “Child Expert” on to tell this woman that she had harmed her child.

Has the world become a more dangerous place or just a smaller one? When I was younger, would the story of a little girl kidnapped in Portugal make it on our nightly news? Was the world safer than or were we just not aware of danger. My mom recently commented on the world’s worst Mom. She couldn’t believe this women let her son come home alone on the subway. I was surprised. I told her that she use to let me come home on the subway when I was 9 everyday! Times were different she said.

My kids love to hear me tell stories of what I did during the summer when I was their age. Of course to them it was a really, really looooong time ago! I remember staying out all day in the Summer with all the neighborhood kids. My mom would throw an apple out the window for me to catch, just so I would eat something. What she didn’t know was that we were stealing blackberries from Mrs. Erickson’s backyard, and rhubard, and wild concord grapes that grew in a parking lot. There was stickball, lemonade stands, kickball, and walking to the corner store. We would play freeze tag under the streetlights, sing Jackson 5 songs on the stoop and chase after the ice cream truck. It was time to go in when our mom’s would flick the hallway light on and off. Today, most kids in the summer are in camp or summer rec programs. Which is a lot of fun. My own kids can attest to that.

Hopefully, we don’t scare our kids to much so they can enjoy a little freedom in their childhoods. So they can discover and learn and just enjoy being a kid.

Quiet House

2007-09-04T09:44:00.001-07:00

CartBeforeTheHorse's Spelling Bee

2007-08-20T12:46:00.001-07:00

What a creative way to present ones' artwork. Cart Before The Horse is one of my FAVORITE artists!!!

George Lucas in Love

2007-07-19T09:57:00.001-07:00

Illustration Friday - Suit

2007-06-14T05:22:00.001-07:00

I know I posted this picture earlier. But it is kinda a suit. Well, maybe he got hot and his jacket is laying on the grass somewhere. Yeah, thats it.

Women In Art

2007-06-07T05:32:00.001-07:00

This is really cool. Enjoy...

House of Chuck

2007-05-31T07:34:00.001-07:00

Can you tell my kids LOVE high tops? Right now my youngest has me searching for a black pair with orange and red flames. They must be popular because I'm having no luck locating them.

Memorial Day

2007-05-27T16:03:00.002-07:00

I love this photograph of my mother in law. She's the one with the white rimmed sun glasses. Ah....those where the days when they thought they needed to get a sun burn to have a good tan and everyone smoked! I would love to have the two drink carriers on the table. Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend.

Beautiful Day!

2007-05-27T16:03:00.001-07:00

Eraser Carving

2007-04-27T10:46:00.000-07:00

Felt like summer this week in New England. I carved a nice breezy top from some Speedball "Speedy-Cut" and printed up some 3 x 5 cards. I'm really getting hooked on this craft. I've even ordered some linoleum blocks to try. I've heard they are harder to carve and you could end up with a trip to the emergency room. But I feel like living dangerously. ha ha ha!

Polar

2007-04-20T11:46:00.000-07:00

Just Took A Little Break.....

2007-04-03T15:51:00.000-07:00

Passion For Paperclay

2007-03-06T04:22:00.000-08:00

Do you have a passion for paperclay? There is a new group over at flicker. It is so much fun to check out everyone's work......http://www.flickr.com/groups/paperclay/

I just wish I had more time to make things with it! No time. No time!!!

~ ACEO and ATC ~

2007-02-21T09:50:00.000-08:00

I know that ATC means Artist Trading Card. But what does ACEO mean?

IF.....Gravity

2007-02-19T07:06:00.001-08:00

Music & Lyrics

2007-02-19T07:06:00.000-08:00

Saw the movie "Music & Lyrics" this weekend. If you are a huge fan of 80's music (and I'm a big one)... you'll get a kick out of it. Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore make a great team.

~Sold~

2007-02-14T08:50:00.000-08:00

I finally sold my girlfriend here. I had listed her last year on Ebay and she didn't get a nibble. I made her a paperclay mask and viola! She's outta here.......

Freezy Freezy Lemon Squeezy

2007-01-15T08:36:00.000-08:00

Illustration Friday ~ Buzz

2007-01-09T11:22:00.001-08:00

Buzz

Sleepy

2007-01-09T11:22:00.000-08:00

Where's Winter???

2007-01-05T12:50:00.000-08:00

This picture was taken a week ago. Tomorrow it will be 70 degrees!!

Lincoln, New Hampshire

2007-01-04T05:08:00.000-08:00

First Frost

2006-10-23T07:57:00.000-07:00

Tops Field Fair

2006-10-16T06:41:00.000-07:00

Incredible pumpkin carving at the Topsfield Fair!

New Summer Collar

2006-07-27T12:35:00.000-07:00

2006-07-19T13:36:00.000-07:00

Run away.....run away........

After The Rain.......

2006-07-12T05:31:00.000-07:00

Happy Fourth!!!!

2006-07-10T11:52:00.000-07:00

Snap Snap Snap

2006-06-15T14:52:00.000-07:00

Mama turtle....

Illustration Friday - TATTOO

2006-03-11T05:34:00.000-08:00

Sleepy

2006-02-22T11:03:00.000-08:00

Sleepy