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Took his royal Toadness to the aqarium today. It was too gorgeous out to be cooped up...

Inside the aqarium

One of the large tanks

The tide pool

The view from the tide pool. We live in a seriously beautiful place.

Shark bait!

Repo the genetic Opera/The Devils Carnival!

I have been swamped busy lately... in any case.... Toad and I are going to the Repo/Devils carnival event next week. We are of course super stoked as we love love love love both movies. The nerdiness is overwhelming, I know.

http://losangelestdc-repodoublefeatute-eorg.eventbrite.com/#

And since we take any opportunity at all to wear weird stuff in public, we are going in costume. This is mine:

 

It's kind of a Maiden of Woe/Hell's Harlequin sort of thing, the skirt is from a steam punk outfit of mine and obviously the top is one of my any corsets. I need to pick jewelry still and my make up will have a white based face. I just didn't bother putting on full stage make up for the trial run. It's a pain to wash off. The costume isn't exactly like one of the maindens of woe, mostly because I don't generally own clothes with those kinds of prints on them. We are working on a bit of a time crunch to put something together. But I feel like it will go with the feel of the event and work fine.

 

In other news, the count down to this years masquerade ball has begun. We've already got our tickets for Saturday night and I think we will end up going Friday too. We'll see. Friday is steampunk night, so we want to do both. I've picked my costume for this year, but haven't started making it yet as the supplies are still en route to me.

 

I'm going as Wick from the Devil's carnival. This is her:

 

 

The waist cincher, corset boning to make the cage skirt and the gloves are on their way. I'm on a mission to find the bolero jacket now. Wish me luck on that, I'd rather not have to sew one. Gauzy fabrics are a huge pain.

Unicorn Meat guide

Daddy saw a picture of a unicorn meat guide and decided the Toad needed it made into a puzzle.

I added glitter because as we all know, unicorns fart glitter. True story.

April events at Brazen Arts Gallery

Get out and support local artists and local business! I have a ton of work for sale here, as to many other awesome artists. :)

Family fun and update on the fairy house

Well boys and girls, I've been slammed busy lately... So I suck at updating. My bad.

In any case.... The fairy house is coming along.

 

 

And I took Toad and Rach to Scandia... As you can see we had very mature, grown up fun.

The highlight of this was he jumped on this singing "Shut up woman and get on my horse". He's our kid for sure.

(For those of you unfamiliar... http://www.shutupwomangetonmyhorse.com/)

There was a troll behnd me.

They were cheating like a mother f-er at mini golf.

A moment of gym induced narcissism...

For those who don't know me personally, I'm a total gym rat. We have one at my company and I use it religiously instead of having lunch every day. I usually do not post work out progress pictures, but I'm pretty proud of myself right now so I am indulging it. Getting a six pack after three kids is not easily done, to put it mildly. The arms and shoulders have been a huge difficulty over the years, women just don't have arm muscles like guys. I've been in total awe of Linda Hamilton's arms in T2 since I was a child. Nowhere near hers yet, but a hell of a lot closer than I was 6 months ago. I draw the line at posting pics of my ass/thighs, but suffice to say they look better than my arms/abs right now because they were already more toned to begin with and I can do more weight with them.

I've been doing a circut training and weight training regime for about 3.5 months solid, 5 days a week. I was doing cardio/weight training prior to that and wasn't seeing the results I wanted. We walk a couple miles a night, so I have cut cardio out of my day time work out completely. I wasn't sure at first if it was a good idea, but so far it has been amazing. I've been going back and forth between low weight for more reps and higher weight for less every other day. So Mon/Wed/Fri is low weight-high reps and Tues/Thurs is high weight-low reps. I do core training prior to every workout for my back and abs, then focus either on upper or lower body that day.

I haven't been doing any crazy dieting, we eat extremely healthy but I am not denying myself things I love. If I was, I'd be a lot more cut and I know it; but I like food and don't feel like I should live without things I like to get a certain muscle mass sooner. I still stock our candy dish, I still eat bread and drink wine. There are certain things I'm just not willing to sacrifice.

In any case, so that is my first fitness update on the blog. Now return to your normally scheduled posts....

Fairy house (work in progress)

This is a work in progress... I've been working on it for a week so far. I'm planning to sell it at the gallery when it is done. Thank g-d we have an orchard, I don't know where I'd find all this stuff if we had some cookie cutter yard with no trees. :)

I'll post more pictures as I go. It will be furnished as well.

Fairy Furniture

I made two fairy beds so far. They started as wood bases, I used bark and moss from our orchard to make the 'bones' of the beds. The rest of them is dried flowers, fresh water pearls and other random stuff I had in my art room. :)

Fairies

 

I've had fairies on the brain lately, no clue why. My usual fare is more towards dead stuff... in any case....

Finally finished a fairy house. The base for this was one of the dollar mini bird houses from Michaels. I papered it then made a new door. The fairy lamp is a baked marble and acorn cap. The mini snail is in a real shell.

Window in back has mica sheets as the "glass"

Finshed fairy village.

Art doll work in progress

Mini fairies for an as yet unfinished scene

Tiny cloche of toadstools

 

Thimble gardens

This technically isn't a fairy thing, though it does have fairy elements on it, so it counts. :) I made this for my mom. The beads are all done as individual wire wrap, there are charms at the bottom of each. Most of them I made, a couple I used store bought charms. The wood is from our orchard, we had to cut a few trees down recently in the older part of it. I snagged a few nicely shaped branches and some bark for later fairy houses.

Feb Gallery show

The event went great, when Toad and I left the place was packed. Such a great event.

Dicken's festival

Had such a good time... The costumes were awesome.

New gallery show is Saturday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't think I will ever get tired of seeing my name in a list of artists at a show. Ever. It's awesome and it is something not many artists ever get to experience. Happy girl.

 

This is a few of the things for Saturdays show, the theme is Love and Robots. So I have a few things for love, but mostly I have a few little things that they keep there all the time. I sold out of the last batch of potion bottles so I made more this time to try a few new things/sizes with them. We'll see how they do. I'm hoping people like them.

Unrelated but worth mentioning.... Learned a valuable lesson today about heat guns and label. Apparently if you accidentally on purpose hit an item with a heat gun and it has a label from a label maker on it, the label will melt to the project. Good times. Thankfully, I could salvage the frame and start over. 

Here is the link to the event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/335873766551606/?ref=2