Who Owns Your Creativity Rights?

Lots of hearts for you!!

Who Owns Your Creativity Rights?
This is very profound.
I really loved reading it!
Please take the time to read it for you.
It is a quick read and very well written.
I think you will be pleased!

Wednesday Wonder-body part art

From Rachel's Esty store it is only 45$

OK, I have to admit that this kind of grosses me out and in a weird way I can not stop looking at it.
I wonder if she peroxides them before she use them.?
I think this does qualify for non traditional medium, even though we have been making brushes out of hair and lockets of hair to remember loved ones, but Fingernails?????????????
Does she only use her fingernails?? And toenails? Ewwwwwwwwwwww!
Do you ship your cuttings to her to work with? Ewwwwwwww!
Oh the questions in my mind are just jumping, nothing new though.
I am looking at my fingernails now and thinking ewwwwwwww!

This is from an Etsy shop from bettyraecase-Human Ivory & Other Objects of Curiosity. You know you have to go look now.



How about a Belly Button Lint bear  you buy 4 you get one free.
You know you want to. :-D


"Rachel Case was born in 1985 and raised in Lopatcong, NJ. As a child, she loved viewing and making art. Both of her parents were very supportive of her creativity and gave her complete artistic freedom in her bedroom. The walls were covered with doodles, messages, and image clippings. Childhood is a large influence in Rachel’s artwork today."
From the http://www.thatwomanmakescrazyart.com/rachelbiography

This is the link to her shoppe page
http://www.thatwomanmakescrazyart.com/shoppe


When I first saw this I somehow pictured a man doing it. Look at that judgement getting in my way. You go girl!



they really are amazing, yes?? all Photos courtesy of Rachel
http://www.etsy.com/listing/59400000/nectar-wasp-in-human-ivory-with-glass
THIS PIECE FEATURED IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010! Oh! And to think it could be yours!

 Know that when you order from Rachel it is going to take up to a month to get your special piece.



Fetus Skeleton



"AFTER HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A GUEST APPEARANCE ON THE TELEVISION SHOW "ODDITIES," I HAVE BEEN GENEROUSLY FLOODED WITH ORDERS AND CUSTOM PIECES! THIS IS A SUPER EXCITING TIME FOR ME AND I AM HAPPY TO HAVE ALL OF THE WORK. HOWEVER, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU KNOW THAT WHATEVER YOU ORDER HAS A PRODUCTION TURN-AROUND TIME OF 3 WEEKS TO A MONTH. MY PROCESS IS TIME CONSUMING (creating micro sculptures, the curing of resins, hand sanding, etc.) AND I TAKE CARE IN ALL THAT I DO. I'M HAPPY TO TALK WITH YOU ABOUT YOUR IDEAS, SO PLEASE CONVO ME. OTHERWISE, EXPECT A SWEET PACKAGE FROM ME IN A MONTH AND A FEW DAYS. AND THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!"

Check out Rachel's portfolio
http://www.thatwomanmakescrazyart.com/portfolio

And here some of my questions answered
http://www.thatwomanmakescrazyart.com/RiversideLetter



I love Wednesday wonders.

Monday Updates- How are you doing in 2011?

Me, I am gathering myself up! I feel like I am scattered from one side of the planet to the other.
I am having a hard time focusing on anything for any period of time.

We had a wonderful Christmas, it was all about Madi too! She got so many fun things to play with and some very cool clothes.



there is a very big grin on her face

 I think that children make the magic of Christmas. I miss that in my life, the excitement, the belief in magic, and the law of attraction. I felt like I could wish for almost anything and get it when I was little. LOL!! Didn't you? Why does that go away?

Madi gives that back to me and I loved it.
She loves opening presents. She will even help others open theirs. She even says cute stuff like awwwwwww! in a little munchkin voice.

I had an incredible Christmas, I have family that are very very dear to me all year long and they worked very hard to make this a wonderful Christmas for me. The thoughtful things just kept coming. It really helped to give me some hope for the New Year and a breath of light in my life. After the never ending drudge from the last few years, this was exactly what I needed to believe in magic a little again.
I need something to change the view I had been looking at for so long and that is exactly what I got. How can it get any better than that?
Now in to the 2nd week of this new year, I am feeling positive and looking forward to the miracles and grateful and know that when they come I will be able to see them!!
Thank you, all of you, I am very lucky to have you!

Happy Monday my friends, may you be luckier than me!! I wish that so much for all of you!
How are you doing in the 2nd week of 2011? Do you feel the hope?

Do not forget to enter the 18th giveaway either here http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-new-year-and-18th-giveaway.html
Oh and thank you so so much for all your prayers, healing thoughts, and well wishes for my friend Susan, she is doing really well and has a great attitude and is trying hard to rest and take it easy. It is hard to hold that woman down.

A little reminder about the Giveaway and the finished piece.

I am having a giveaway right now, it is the 18th giveaway. I am giving away this prototype piece.

You can still enter the giveaway on post
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-new-year-and-18th-giveaway.html
and
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2010/12/401st-post-unknown-give-away-that-makes.html
This giveaway closes on the 11th, that would be 1-11-11 at 11:11 pm.
Do not post here for your entry.


Here is the piece that developed from the prototype above.


this is Sacred Heart 3, it is in my Etsy shop now!
http://www.etsy.com/listing/65221454/sacred-heart-necklace-3-complete-love



And here is Sacred heart 2




Also in my Etsy Shop now http://www.etsy.com/listing/65159271/sacred-heart-necklace-2-mothers-love

Here is the story of these hearts.
This sacred heart necklace is inspired by a friend’s dream and I made what she told me.

“This is Mary's heart and all women's hearts being pierced but still able to love and feel joy and compassion and it is because of that piercing that we can do just that. The sword stands for a mother’s love. ”

Make your life like this heart!



Wednesday Wonder- Give me a hand, lend me an ear, read my lips, and in the blink of an eye

From Margaux's website. http://www.margauxlange.com/
Get your coffee/tea and sit a spell. Wonderful website with a multitude of fun.

Margaux Lange is one of the most interesting artist I have seen in ages. I am drawn to her work and I love looking at it. She is a red head, yay.
What is it about this art?
The work is impeccable for one thing, really well constructed. I love that she cuts Barbie a part!
My youngest daughter and I had many a row over her deconstructing Barbie and re-assembling her.
I wish I would have left her alone.
Even though I didn't want her to cut her dolls apart, I adored what she did with them.
Maybe this is why Margaux's work appeals so much!


Breast plates?? Pic from Margaux's website http://www.margauxlange.com/



As a girl growing up in the 50's, Barbie played a big roll in most girls lives.
In mine she was not so big, I was outside most of the time or watching cartoons, my friends, though, were bitten by her bug, big time.
She was the fashion diva of little girls. Everyone wanted to look like Barbie.
I see women here on the west coast still trying to look like her.
It is almost laughable, but there are woman running around with perfectly perkies and perfectly long skinny legs with permanently arched feet. ;-D

Can you hear me now?? Pic from Margaux's website http://www.margauxlange.com/

Margaux also has an Esty store here http://www.etsy.com/shop/margauxlange
Margaux's website http://www.margauxlange.com/
See Margaux amongst the parts http://www.margauxlange.com/profile-contact/profile/about/
Margaux's blog http://midgesmind.blogspot.com/
Places and Galleries where you can buy Margaux http://www.margauxlange.com/shop/

Read my lips? Pic from Margaux's web site http://www.margauxlange.com/

Give Margaux a hand, she is recycling and she is making art with a non- traditional mediums.

This pic is from Maurgaux's Etsy store http://www.etsy.com/shop/margauxlange

An incredible woman I know

My friend Susan is having a double mastectomy today. She has been in my mind for days. She knows inside, and is very resolved about this being the best way for her to go with this, I am backing her up.
Susan is a generous, loving, and caring woman and I am so grateful to be the kind of person that would attract a dynamo like Susan in to my life.
She is creative, she knits, she makes clay flowers, I showed them to you before here, and works a full time job and takes care of her incredible family too. I am in awe of the power this woman holds, I am also in awe of how humble she is.
She is also able to find humor in the best places, I really need to learn this lesson.
I got a note from Susan this morning I opened it up and it said

"I attached a picture of my prototype boobs.  I made them out of air dry clay from scraps, they will fit in a cami.  Better than Kleenex.   Because it is air dry they are light weight."

Along with this picture

Bless Susan and her strength. I love her.

Please pray to whomever you pray to for my friend.

I know this blog sphere is magic and you are all good at this.

Thank you so much!!

Happy New Year and the 18th giveaway

This is what I am giving away for the 18th. Sorry it took so long to get it up here.
This is a prototype for a new design I am doing and this is the first one.
This is New years day and perfect for the first one, the date is also 1-1-11, wow, I never even imagined living to 2011 or to be this old ;-D.
2011 sounds like sci-fi to me. Or it did before. LOL!
Rules of a sort!
1. Leave a comment on this post or the last for one entry.
Since I am feeling generous and it is a new year with a beginning number, if you leave a comment on both posts you will get 2 entries, one for each post.
2.Post this picture and info on your blog and you will get another entry.
3. tweet it and leave the link, another entry.
4. Be a follower or become one, another entry.

As long as I am playing with ones.
This contest will close on the 1-11-11 at 11:11 pm!
Wishing you all the best New Year ever.
Love and huge hugs.
Marie