Happy Birthday Woodstock...

In-Between all the hassles of life that have been hurdled in my direction lately...we did take time out on Saturday Evening for a small gathering to celebrate the 40th Birthday of Woodstock!! and what a fun time we had...Good Food, Good Wine, Good Talk ...and even a Cake!! Our good friends Kate and Tony joined us...it was all rather impromptu , just the way I like gatherings to be. Kate and Tony are from New York (living in Havasu for many years now) and Kate...bless her heart...was in the middle of the Whole Woodstock Nation...enjoying the 3 day festivities...and boy, what tales she can tell. I never went to Woodstock...wanted to very badly and came close...but the ride I had back there 'canceled' out (and YES...it was a Volkswagen Van)!!...so I instead headed to Southern , California (much closer) for my summer of Love as they called it...lol!

A&E has been running a wonderful 2 hour tribute to Woodstock ..and the new movies comes out next weekend...can't wait!!

About as close as I got that summer was to see the New York Broadway traveling Show of 'Hair' at the Aquarius Theater in LA... it was FANTASTIC!!!!

Yes...we did wear flowers in our hair... wore love beads (Kate is wearing her original ones from Woodstock in the picture) Bell Bottoms, gave the peace symbol every 10 minutes, smelled like Patchouli and did other fun type things of that period....it was innocent and we all seemed to be happy back then... a very creative time for many artists....

Happy Birthday Woodstock ...and "PEACE"...

Hugs Jodi

Been out of the 'Blog Loop' toooooo long!!!

AT LAST!!!! We finally got our auctions listed on EBAY Witch Hat

and our above doll "Batilda Batwise and her Emporium of Magical
Delights"

WHEW!!!! We have been through hell the past several days with a series of Misfortunate Events ...including Digital Camera going Belly Up , Car Issues, House Issues, and a whole slew of personal Private Stuff ... that it was starting to look like purposeful Roadblocks were being tossed in our way left and right... But Alas ... perseverance won out with a 'Where there's a will...there's a way' Attitude ... and we got it all handled...again I stress heavily a Great Big WHEW!!!!

So this is why I have been absent from my Blog...and boy did I ever miss it and all of you...

Now I must go and start reading to see what I have missed in Bloglandia....

Hugs to All...

Jodi

Cleaning out the Computer Files Again...

As we have established...I am a Fidgety Person...always looking for something to do...so when I am waiting for something on a doll to 'dry' , or waiting for Richard's part to fit my part (sounds weird I know) but it is doll related.... I hop on the Puter and 'clean' moving, shifting, rearranging, dumping and copying loose files and folders...of which I have MANY!!! I am forever running into 'past work' from several years ago that I totally forgot about...finding it again is like a little treat for me . I found my Shadow Box Folder of work I have done as much as 6-7 years ago ...thought I would pop on a couple of my favs. They are mostly Polymer clay, air dry clays, hand painted art papers , and even a found desert cholla. I LOVED doing these Shadow Boxes...each so different, each with a different meaning and purpose...and each I enjoy creating soooo much. I always wonder why I stopped when I see them again... Hmmm, maybe it is time to get back into it again...just dabble a little here and there...again, a good 'Cob Web' cleaning of the old Artistic Brain...

Have a Great Thursday...

Jodi

Be Gone Lazies...Be Gone!!!

Let's here it for Mondays...YEAAAAAH Monday!!!! The Lazies have hit the road and I am full of vim and vigor once again.

This little guy just makes me smile...he is part of a Halloween Miniature Doll Setting we are working on and I just wanted to post a quick picture of him... he is not finished yet...has one more thing to add ...but I do love this little guys smile and attitude.... and yes...he does have a slight 'hump' ....

Hopefully we will be through with the setting by this weekend...

I have the name for the main character already... still working on his... he stands about 3 inches tall.

Have a GREAT Week everyone

Hugs,

Jodi

Lazy Lazy Weekend

Did you ever have one of those weekends were you had many good intentions to get a gazillion things accomplished ...but by weekends end...you maybe (if lucky) got 1-2 things done? Well that was my weekend....LAZY LAZY LAZY!! It was nice I must admit...but it also drives me a bit loopy and brings on the overwhelming guilt's when nothing gets done. As I mentioned in past posts I just am not a 'Relaxer' ...some people are soooo cut out for that...my sister for one...but I...well, If my plate is not full with many things to do... I feel positively desperate for projects.
So for me to experience a 'lazy' weekend that seemed to pass in the blink of an eye..well, that is indeed one for the record books """"NEWS FLASH.. over rambunctious girl found sitting in corner...twiddling thumbs.... More at 11:00.
I did work on a doll...but in small spurts and then found myself just drifting off to 'Relaxo-Land' every chance I got... WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME!!! Even with my several pots of coffee I remain 'Zoned to the Bone'
I guess things catch up ...and my body is telling me to just chill...and yes, I guess I do deserve it...but I must tell you...I am looking forward to Monday Morning.... to kick off a week of normal fret and stress, work and deadlines....AHHHHHHH...I do love Mondays!!!

Hope everyone had a Super Weekend... and just an FYI...it took all of my strength to type this...time for a nap!!!LOL

Hugs

Jodi

Our Traveling Tipi

Just having fun with our TIPI ...I pretend we travel the world to places we would like to see... turn up the sound....

I have been 'Picture Challenged'

Well it seems that Picture Challenge has hit me...this fun thing has been going around and it is so cool to see all the misc. photos. Dear Nikki at http://nikkinikkinikki72.blogspot.com/ ... posted this challenge...and I believe it goes something like this.... I must go to where I store my pictures....pick the '4th' Folder ...and then the '4th' picture and post it and talk a little about it...

So my 4th folder in my picture file are my 'non doll' items to sell on EBAY ....the 4th picture is a silk Chinese jacket I am getting ready to list. WOW...glad it was not the '5th' folder....that would have been embarrassing!!!! Anyway... I have tons of weird and strange stuff under our other seller name and this is just one...

Now I am to pass this challenge onto 4 others...fancy that... another 4...actually this is a cool challenge as everything in life seems to come to me in '444' ...zowie another trippy coincidence!

So I pass to

Marie at http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/

Cindy at http://oopsdesperateblogger.blogspot.com/

Patty at http://oopsdesperateblogger.blogspot.com/

Lyndy at http://todaysgold.blogspot.com/

There ya go....'444' at work once again...

Thank You Nikki...that was fun! I always love to play along...

Jodi