A very very uncoffeepot

for more latte stands, etc.

Month of Boo! Click on Photo...

Don't forget to keep giving

Reminder to plant your good karma seed, illustration by Kim Carney!
Good news, artists making art to help katrina Lets keep it up!
There are still many needs to help Katrina victims. Flickr.com recently had 2 auctions to help raise money for Katrina, and this artist is using Ebay.
Don't forget Potters Rebuilding New Orleans, one of my favorites that is starting up! make your offerings here.

What is real......is not

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things . . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface."~ Brancusi "Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing." ~ Marc Chagal "We work not only to produce but to give value to time." ~ Eugene Delacroix "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." ~ Michelangelo "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." ~ Pablo Picasso "I am an artist... I am here to live out loud." ~ Emile Zola

Ho Hum! Vintage projects pick me up! Haiku for Monkey!

Here Monkey is reading his fortune in a chinese restaurant...Monkey is so fun! He says," now it's time for eating our fortune cookies. my fortune says:
"you never worry about the future."

i wonder what i will learn tomorrow.
(very wise monkey)

I need a bit of cheering up, so I am going to write haiku’s for Monkey. I have also always loved haiku’s!
Haiku's for Monkey:

"Oh little monkey who loves haiku, come to Seattle for hugs and chocolate kisses too!"

The monkey’s frivolous posed against white, look for Halloween costumes constructed at night.

Cookies, shortbreads and yummy limeaid, just a few things monkey has made.

Fall leaves rush now to cross the streets, tumbling headlong into hands meaning to keep. ( that is better)

A simple monkey sits on a page, coming to my loneliness with his holiness.
(That one made me cry!)



The last week I have been pulling my hair out with i-photo. It crashed, and I think I must admit defeat, and the loss of about 2000 nice photos. I have practically crawled in to my computer looking for my lost photos. Would anyone have noticed I was gone?

For me this is an omen, things are about to change, something that has been very involved in my life for a long while.

I have known it was coming, for a long time. Seems it will never get here, this change.
Funny life I have, not very grounded, but then I am an Aquarian, and I have little earthiness to my chart, Some Capricorn that grounds me. Big changes are brewing! Scare me!

And as if that wasn't enough...

A few sad hair days as well. When I went to get highlights, I ended up platinum, then went back to have it toned down, and ended up being a honey blonde! Soo, with all this going on, I have just decided to indulge in a little fabrication of lamp shades on some of my pottery lamps I have made. I used fabric from my vintage collection that I have had forever and ever.
Notice vintage ironing board, with vintage fabric, and vintage sewing machine in rear.The vintage machine must go! I got this when I was 16 years old! I admit, I made a lot of stuff with this machine, it paid for itself well!


Large lamps. Small lamps. Close up of fabric, detail...I cut fabric with holes in it and patched it first, one has a stain on the back...perrrrfect!
Someone here doesn't seem to appreciate my handiwork.... Gramdma woud just say that person is a SOUR PUSS!

I sure miss her, what a lady she was! Last member of my family of origin to die, I was 32 years old. I really didn't want her to go, but she did, and they all just left me here all alone. Imagine that? I would rather not!

Click icon for view of my sailboat fabric! ( Above where it says ,"large")
And check out...

vintage fabric group at Flickr





Monkey would say eat chocolate, I think!

Grandma’s fabric, some of it anyway. Did I tell you I have a huge button collection? But no one gives me buttons! {pout}
When I was a little girl visiting our farm in West Virginia, we played a game called “button button, whose got the button?” Familiar to anyone? Family, come back and play with me! Lets play button button, and Riddley riddley ree.. I see something that starts with ...B!

I want to be a little girl again today, today! I just want my family all around me, Grandma especially, but they left a long time ago, I miss them more instead of less as time goes on, and I feel like I am looking into a window watching other people belong, and I can only watch families. I don’t feel I am a part of a family.

Oh! Here I go, I am feeling sad for me! Watch out!
Poor me!

Oh well, here let me post my latest handiwork…blogging always cheers me up~smile!

Katrina Auction: Nicole, Electrifying Beauty, A woman's Smile

katrina relief auction pieces...slideshow

Starting bid on Nicole is 25.00
many photos to bid on!

Love my Dahlia!

This dahlia is huge! About 9" across! It is from a first year tuber, the plant was planted late, and was only a foot tall when it put this on recently.
Wow, I love my dahlia!

Latest from Monkey

In a recent e-mail from Monkey, he said," Chocolate..it's not just for breakfast anymore!" So go for it boys and girls, eat chocolate anytime!

Great food blog! Chocolate and Zucchini!

Watch This! And get your T shirt transfer here, as well as....

Coloring papers with the penguin family, and ....and...AND...A printable PDF ..FULL SIZE POSTER!!! Totally Cool, I am printing mine out right now, and one for a gift, too. It's only 42 pages!


Click to watch

This site is very extensive in products that are fREE to download; pages of The Penguin Family to color, screen savers with the Penguins, buddy icons, wall paper. Have fun!

Sonia Madruga..ART!

Carlos Arruza e Roberto Madruga nesta quinta 13-9-05 visitando meu atelier.
Carlos é o coordenador da UNAT da UGF e Roberto Madruga, meu sobrinho, médico trilhando brilhante carreira além de uma pessoa maravilhosa.
Beijos e bom fim de semana
Sonia Madruga


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