Haloween Inchies & The Final Kelly Class

I was able to make my Halloween Inchies this weekend! (I was too excited to sleep:)


I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my Swatches: Little Paper Books that I made with Kelly this weekend! You can't fully appreciate them unless you are holding them in your hands but I have to share these photos with you.

More Kelly Fun!

Yesterday's day class with Kelly was What Come's Next. We were able to continue working in a journal that we had already started. We did lots of painting and collaged some too! We also went to get a Sprinkles cupcake at lunch time! It was a great part of the adventure. We were all on a sugar high at first and a sugar crash at the end.




In the night class we made an adorable little bound book that I LOVE! Ayesha and Leticia joined in on the fun! The best part of this book is that some of the pages were very long and got folded over to make little pull outs! It's too cute!



More Kelly today!

Thing ONe, Thing Two, Thing Three

Thing One:
I have been busy making a ton of necklaces from Tim Holtz stuff. A few of my friends at work asked me to sell them a few and making them is so fun I couldn't resist!



Thing Two:
Ayesha, Deb, Leticia, and I all took Rosie's button class on Thursday night. It was too much fun! We went to dinner at The Saddle Ranch before class. I LOVE their corn muffins and we experienced the new honey butter- Yum! (Yes, I'm really this cheesy!)


And you know I can't get enough of this button making business! It was also fun because Kelly was in the class! Watch for upcoming classes at Frenzy! Now you can make compacts too! Count me in!



Thing Three:
Kelly is in town! (In case you missed that in Thing Two.) Last night was Revelations: Revealing The Layers. We made a tall book that turned out to be a great size for collaging images from larger magazines. I had these pink girls saved in my stash from the last time Kelly was here. They were always too big before but now-watch out! Here come the pink girls. :) I'll keep you posted on more classes from the weekend. Come play at Frenzy!

AAEA Conferences Rock!

I had such a great time this weekend at the Arizona Art Education Association Conference. We stayed in cabins that had one common room and four bedrooms. This was great because it meant that all of the art teachers form Cartwright got to stay in one cabin giving us lots of time to visit and collaborate.

I LOVED my pinhole photography class! I'll be experimenting more with this idea for sure. I found out that one of the teachers in my district had done this type of photography with her kids and we are going to meet up to talk more about it! She is also an expert on glass fusing and she's going to teach me to set my electric kiln at school so I can do this with my kids!!! (My glass fusing class was just okay. I'll be really excited when my piece arrives after it goes through the kiln but I didn't really learn anything new.)


I also had tons of fun in my mobile class. I learned the magical thing to make mobiles really great is swivels. Most people were doing things from nature, I was making a spooky mobile. This is not a great picture but it shows how one of the other art teachers hung it in our cabin window-how cute is that?


I had tons of fun teaching my class. It was a smaller group which ended up being great because we had room to spread out all of our beautiful papers. Everyone really enjoyed teh class, they even clapped at the end giving me a big head. The best part though was that one of the ladies in my class got on the bus to go to dinner (didn't see me) handed one of my handouts to her friend and said, "It really is to die for , wait untill you see." She was so loud the bus topped to listen. Talk about a great compliment! :)

My weekend adventure!

After school tomorrow I am heading to the Arizona Art Education Association Conference in Prescott. Not only do the temperatures promise to be a high of 80 and a low of 53 which will be a nice break but We will be at a camp, and I'm signed up for tons of fun classes!

Friday
Pinhole Photography- learning to make a pinhole camera and darkroom in your classroom
Blogging in the Art Classroom
Mobiles- learning to build kinetic mobile sculptures

Saturday
Glass Fusing in the Classroom
Critique-E-Man- making art critique exciting
Dying Paper Towel- presented by me!

I'm sure they have tons of other crazy activities planned and there will be tons of art teachers from my district and it's always nice to get to "know" them because we get together so rarely. (This year we are lucky to have five meetings.) Yay Art!

Speaking of Yay Art-this year's conference theme is "Back to the ELEMENTS...but we haven't lost our PRINCIPLES" (because art teachers teach the elements and principles of art). After I explained it to Jim, he responded, "Does that camp your going to know they are going to have a bunch of geeky art teachers running around?" It will be great!

More Pizzaria Bianco Photos

Here are a few fun photos from Saturday night.



When Ayesha saw this one she asked Deb why she had to hold up the stamp pad like we were a Tim Holtz commercial. It was hilarious! (Obviously a few members of our party had partaken in adult beverages when stamping each other sounded like a good idea but, once your stamped you have to go along with the photo op.)

Sunday Night Already?

I swear not ten minutes ago it was 10 a.m. where does all the time go? I still feel so busy with school it is crazy but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will still get easier, it has to right?

After this weekend I can say...

I am 90% ready for my presentation at the Arizona Art Education Association Conference next weekend!

I am officially done reading the Twilight Series.

I have finished adding photos to the three little books that I made for Buffy and Amber.

I have eaten at Pizzeria Bianco. Ayesha and Tyler waited in line an hour before the restauraunt opened to put our names in and about an hour while we all got ready and drove downtown so that the rest of us could show up and wait about 20 minutes! The pizza was AMAZING! Definately the best pizza I have ever eaten. Worth the wait? Can you ever really say that it's worth waiting 2 1/2 hours to eat somewhere? I still can't decide. If you want to try it out I'd say go at an off time or late and reduce your wait time definatley worth trying out. (See Jim's approval. We took all the other photos on Ayesha's camera.)


I've seen Ayesha's new place.

I was hit on by a drunk guy while my husband was physically touching me. (Yes, realy.) This guy was petting my arm until my husbands friend, Rob, gave him the back off face. I turned and said did you need to get buy me thinking he really wouldn't be attmpting this while Jim was in physical contact with me (Clearly Jim didn't think he'd attempt this either). He couldn't talk to me he was so plastered but when the manager asked him if he'd called for a ride about 10 minutes later (he was sitting behind me at a table -I didn't even know he was still there) he informed her that we were going home together. :) The manager who knows us asked if we knew him. When I said no she informed him that he wasn't going home with me or Jim for that matter and told him he'd have to come up with a way to get home. It was humorous and I'm farley certain that he didn't remember it this morning.