blehhhhhhh!!!!!! i can't get a good photo of this, or a good scan.......

i had originally planned to put the words 'you hold the key that opens the door to my heart' but no matter where i positioned the words it just did not look they belonged.......i will leave this alone for a day or so and see. i find that keeps me from boogering something up......i constantly have to tell my muse to take a deep breath and back away from the art........sometimes less is more....sometimes more is just right.....and sometimes a muse with adhd is a baaaaadddd thing! 

open your heart

this looks better when it is not squooshed up against scanner glass, but i could not get a good photo with the camera.....the paint is shimmery and it was reflecting light from the camera flash. 

here is the atc

using my 'by accident' background! 

~Studio Friday~ by accident

i have created lots of stuff by accident, an even mixture of good and bad.........i still save the bad stuff in hopes that someday it will be work in something someway.

the background for these atc size papers was one of the good accidents.

i needed a a background for my halloween atcs for a local group, see above photo of finished atc (which by the way is cute, and i normally don't do cute......)

i wanted something to look like the perfect halloween/autumn sky just as the sun was slipping below the horizon, leaving a glowing reminder of its warmth. i grabbed some cardstock, a metal tray and my black and orange pearl-ex/hairspray mix and began to spray first what would be the back of the atc, then flipped it over and sprayed what was to be the front. i was not real excited what the front looked like, so i flipped it back over to the back to try playing some more and was surprised to find what had happened in the process. the accumulation of hairspray and pealex on the tray helped create the patterns as the paper was lifted up! i loved it so much i played around with a few other color combinations! by the end of the day though i was a little sick of the smell of hair spray!

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a new day, a new start....

one of these days i am going to wake up an hour earlier than i have to, feel like i have slept a week, it will be just as warm and cozy outside of the blanket as it was underneath, my hair will not look like i have been through a windstorm and i will not discover my jammy shirt is on backwards and inside out, i will prepare a huge breakfast for the children, who bounced out of bed cheerfully, who don't drive each other nuts while waiting for the feast, the puppy will be waiting patiently to go potty outside, i will not discover my youngest sons sneakers caked with mud on the front porch an hour before he is to run to the bus stop, the laundry, dishwasher, vacuuming will be done.....the bathrooms spotless even after all 3 kids have been in them to get ready for school............... i go to shower and i am suddenly in a tropical paradise standing under a waterfall, a waterfall that is magical and washes the cellulite right off ones backside and reverses what age, childbirth to 3 babies the size of kindergarteners, and almost 41 years of living with gravity have done, and there is no need for zit creme AND wrinkle creme..........these were my thoughts in the 9 minutes between the two times i hit the snooze on the alarm.......and why is it 9 minutes........maybe because one gets so flustered trying to do multiplication while mostly asleep that they just give up and just gets up rather than remembering what 9 times 3 is....or was it 4........

karma baby......it will get you.....

this message goes to the woman who joined my yahoo group, signed up for the charm bracelet round robin, received another members bracelet and journal, decided not to play but did not bother to communicate it to anyone, ignored 7 phone calls, umpteen million emails, 4 numeric pages before she finally emailed and said she could not participate and would return what she received in the mail, and then did not do so, and then hung up on me today when i tried again to call her...........i was going to offer to meet her some where to get the package back, just in case she was having financial problems.......... honey, the next time you have a really bad day just think it might be karma bitin' you in the butt.

~SPT~ 'all of me'

my studio floor has.......have not seen the vacuum in about 2 weeks......the trash can over floweth.

had to take off the pepto bismol pink shoes to show off the paint job my youngest son did on my toes, he is a typical boy.....almost manly man boy but yet he loves to paint my toenails.....i don't know why, but it is the only time, besides when he is sleeping that he is quiet!
then there are the toe rings......i love them, but my mom told me the day of my dad's funeral that he hated them and she wanted me to remove them. i didn't.