I have been slacking again in posting on my blog here some of my creations I have been making for swapping and just in general having a nice creative outlet. They have all made it to Flickr on time so a nice thing. So..here is a smattering of things I have done in the last months, I will have some more to post in the coming days as well.

Vampire Handmade Postcard

The Tenth Doctor ATC

Vintage ATC with a girl

Boris Vallejo ATC

Artemis ATC

Sexy Wicked Witch Handmade PC

Burlesque Vampire girl ATC

Winnie the Pooh ATC

Used Postage Stamp ATC

Naughty Series, Leather ATC

Pumpkin Handmade PC

Handmade PC using recycled items

Vintage Paris ATC

Pretty Fairy ATC

Never ending Story ATC

Fall Sun Goddess ATC

Naughty Series Lace ATC

Vintage theme ATC

Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra ATC

I have tried my hand at a couple of handmade PC’s for friends and family members and the like but I had not yet done any for swaps. Well I decided to summon up the gumption and give it a try. It was a senders choice swap but my partner liked vintage style stuff, I do too so I was happy to make something vintage. I hope my partner likes it I am pretty happy with how it turned out.

For anyone who wants to follow along on Flickr I do post all my ATC’s right away but here are a couple of my favorites I have done in the past week or so that have been sent off to new homes or eagerly awaiting the new home. Next fun post will be some info on my Tardis project whoohoo..

It as been a while since I have flexed my crafty muscles but I am getting back into the full swing of it. And funny enough I have Doctor Who to thank for it. Ah well is there anything the Doctor can’t do? I think not. I mean really have you seen him? (I refer to Ten of course).

So back in the swing of things I decided I should post some of my creations and what I get as well from others. I just sent out my first larger than an ATC art project for Tardis Artwork. I am nervous I hope my partner likes it. Here is what I did.

I have fallen behind with all I have been doing on getting my braided and gemstone bracelets up and going really well. With June upon us I will have more time..towards the end of the month I hope to really catch up on those projects as well as with working on the Goddess creations website properly again.

I have also started making some designs for stationery I may list on Craft Star..I am debating about that bit yet..here is two examples of art going on the paper.

So I have epicly failed in doing my weekly Meme’s on this blog for a while. I would use the excuse that I am busy, which I am but it does really sound like an excuse. So I am just reminding myself that this is the year of blogging for fun and if I make the Meme’s I make the Meme’s if I do not, I do not and I am not going to be up overly upset about it. I feel better after I remind myself of that. There is also the fact that I am seriously very swamped and busy.

Readable Kingdom is officially up and running. I will make a separate whoohoo post about that sometime this weekend. That took a fair amount of time and still is while I work on promoting it.

One thing I have been doing is spending some time on Deviant art and looking through the stuff that people post there. A lot of really good talent is on there and I find the process of looking through things relaxing.

This right here has to be one of my favorite pieces that I have found so far. I love Pasha (duh) and this artist has truly caught the light and look in his eyes. Really amazing don’t you think?

I realized after looking that this post is rather belated. I have had this ink for several weeks now as I got it just about a week and a half after I got my Faithfully ink maybe two weeks. I love it no less of course I have just been a little bit busy with things.

While my Lilium tat was the next one I thought I would get I ended up needing to get a tribute to my lost animals before. So it went on my left arm for some balance on the sides and I have an appointment for my Birthday the exact day even to get Lilium.

Here is the work as I put it on paper:

and here is how it turned out as a fresh ink, I have not taken one yet since it has healed I will soon as well as my other one the Faithfully tat.

Once again Scotty has done a fantastic job on my ink. At the time I also got my ankh retouched he agreed with me that it had faded well. A true artist to the core he did the touch up for free. I have at least five more planned three of them have taken form on paper but the last two haven’t yet I will post at a later date to show the planned ideas.

So anyone who knows me knows I have ink and I am not afraid of ink. I think it is an artistic expression. There are some forms of ink I personally do not care for however. One of them is names, I think putting a name (unless its like your Mom a child or a lost loved one ect) on you is asking for trouble its like your asking for a break up. My Dad had my Mom’s name on his arm and guess what? Divorced. That said I am not against romantic ink for a loved one.

Hubby and I will have our 7th wedding anniversary in October and have been a couple for 9 years total now. That is a goodly long time yes? Almost a decade. He thinks the ink on me is sexy and I wanted to do some ink in honor of him. Of course I do not do the name thing. I also wanted something that would suit both us and my tastes.

This is the design I came up with..a Claddagh with the name of our song under it. Yes our song is Journey’s Faithfully. It is also a nice word in general to go with the Irish piece.

So I set up my appointment and was a very happy camper. I got my design put on Yesterday. I am SO happy with it. The Claddagh ended up being the main piece of a full anklet. The stencil application itself took 20 mins and it was another hour and a half or so of sitting in the chair to have the work done. This was the longest I have sat yet for a tattoo and a new place for me. I will not say it didn’t hurt because it did. However it is so worth it and I am proud of myself for not needing to stop and take a break at all. My Fantastic artist in fact said several times I looked to comfortable Ha ha. The pictures do not do this justice. The beads look real and the flow of the black is stunning the Claddagh itself pops with some white highlights I am SO pleased.

I already have planned my next work and have had it priced with my awesome Artist. It will be for my 30th bday (gads am I going to be 30 already?) It is an ode to my love of writing, to Thomas Jefferson and well..A little Knights Tale.

So there is my little bit of art for the week. I will of course post some ATC’s soon too 😉

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Another one of my wonderful pen pals send some great mail art. I really do love going to the mail box every day you never know what fun goodies you are going to find within it. I am still kind of bummed out about Saturday delivery going away, but at least we have sometime before it takes over so I can mourn.

Anyone this cute letter came and as you can see there is a very kinda of cool Paris feel to the envelope and a bright berry card. Makes me think of spring!

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Here is another one I got from Swap Bot. It was for a senders choice ATC and you can see the cute puppy dog stamped ATC there next to the envelope. I have to say while I liked the ATC and I did. The envelope really made me smile. The purple colors of course are a given with my love of the color. I also was drawn to the little portrait of the Lady and her cat. My first thought was hey that’s me! She even has brown hair and everything.