The above photo is a great frame that a friend of mine made for me several months back. I was out thrift shopping and found these great bolts and nuts and thought if i had a whole bunch of them I could make this frame for a potholder rug myself and I called my friend and asked him a question about the bolts. He told me to come over. I showed him what I wanted and we built it together and then we had a great mexican dinner lol!! I finally got around to putting it together and had the fabric so i spent several hours cutting and then several more hours weaving and this is what I got .. after taking it off the frame its about a 5 foot x 7 foot rug. It's yellow. I love it .. Sadly my house is such a disaster that I don't even have a place to lay it. I have it folded on the bed. I'm planning to give it to my friends wife since he is the one that made the frame and provided the wood. My fingers are sore from the cutting. But I want to make more. Now that I know how it all goes together. It was fun! You know I get all happy knowing that I have talents and am able to draw and make art and create things out of peoples discarded things, but every time I try to sell these things it never seems to happen. I don't know why that is. I do have an etsy shop but I guess I haven't put enough on there. I have some things and I know that I can add more and more but I haven't done it yet. Here are some of my other works. The flower pot illustration is fun. I think I should make more of these. Little pots of flowers. Other artists do big canvases and make big bucks. Do I sound like I'm whining? I don't know if creative works go with brokeness. Perhaps I should say less and be more mysterious.
Love the flower pot!
ReplyDeleteWhat is your etsy link?
I think it's almost impossible to make a living doing creative things unless you just get lucky. There are just too many people, good and bad trying to do it.
This inspired me to add more to my shop but I haven't done it yet. Glad you like the flower pot. www.hennessyhandbags.etsy.com
ReplyDeleteVery nice! Do you mind if I share it on my facebook?
ReplyDeleteNo not at all .. thanks!!
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it automatically posts to my facebook as well;
http://www.facebook.com/tlm0000
Wow, this is so nice !!! Thanks, and I am going to put my shirts on my etsy site. Makes me think that I need to get busy and take some photos. It's crazy cause here I was thinking I wanted to be sort of anonymous or something. Maybe I should just be myself and work harder at promotion to get my stuff out there.
ReplyDeleteYou could always make up an online persona and just be that person online! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty forthright, and somehow became very public. If someone wanted to find out about me, it's all out there. Though, I am very very careful about what I say about work. I think if I could go back a few years I might do it differently.
Of course by being so public I ended making friends, which at the time I desperately needed, with some people online and have met them and hung out with them, and we are all now planning our second vacation together.
Like everything else, good with the bad.
Well i agree the good with the bad. I think that sometimes the rants that I would post on other blogs sometimes are just a place to talk about the stuff i'm going through and then when it comes to sharing about the art one affects the other but I'm not always wanting to share all the personal stuff with every person. I'm honest and so I want to be careful not to tell more then I want. I mean I love the name of my blog in a way but that has more to do with my heart aches and inside stuff and so it doesn't really represent the artsy person that I am. Maybe given our previous discussion about connections i'm going to change the subtitle of my blog. And so I'll just keep on posting. I've loved this so far, I should do it every day. I'm just trying to reinvent myself and keep making art no matter what negative thoughts pop into my head. That's the struggle. Thanks for following me here. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for allowing me to follow you. As you see, I am not a blogger on blogspot. It doesn't seem to have the same community type environment and when I started blogging I did it specifically to start communicating with people. I had been leading entirely too solitary of a life.
ReplyDeleteOne of the benefits to my Xanga account is that I have that I have the ability to a pulic post, a private post or a protected post. I have some family issues that I only talk about "protected" that allows me to have some people read it and others not.
I look forward to rants though! I do not have enough rants in my life.
And so I will from time to time rant. My friend Geoffs writing pokes me into the ranting sometimes because he says things that scratch that place in my heart that either needs a scratch or is so sensitive it reminds of the hurt in some way. It's not really a bad thing just an "i remember when" that hurt or oh that reminds me of this. haha .. there you go .. a rant .. haha .. Tomorrow I hope to start a new post.
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