Funky Art Gal

G2's Concert & Band Recording Session

2008-06-23T11:35:00.000-07:00

The band is a Community Klezmer Band, usually found in Jewish temples they mostly play secular eastern European music and other folk music from the Med and Europe. You do not have to be Jewish to play in this band it is open to anyone. This particular band has a wide variety of instruments and has members of all ages, of which G2 is the youngest by many years.

The contest was for kids 12 and under, G2 got 4th place behind the oldest kids who were 12. I made her outfit which has the character Olivia from the story books.

The recording session is one of several the band is doing making a dance CD as most folk tunes are meant to be danced to. G2 had the opening solo in the one song of which she is very proud.

G1 now considers herself G2's agent and is making business cards so she can be contacted for any performance engagements (lollollol) now that she is a recording artist.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Trip to FL!!

2008-06-18T06:41:00.001-07:00

This is a huge file so if your computer is slow it might take a long time to play or might play sporadically

Make a Smilebox slideshow

G1 Quilt and Painting

2007-12-28T13:44:00.000-08:00

G2 Quilt & Painting

2007-12-28T13:42:00.002-08:00

G2 Mirror

2007-12-28T13:42:00.001-08:00

This was a plain blue mirror with little pegs for hanging things under that we bought at a store and then recovered in this cool hawaiian print to go in G2's room. She has it all decorated in antique hand painted japanese paper umbrellas and all her beautiful dolls set up for all to see, I will have to get a picture of that on here because they look quite nice against the bright yellow wall! We loved decorating this room although it sat just yellow for some time until we could figure out how she wanted it. And so she now has flowers, asian and hawaiian influence deco along with the horses, dollies, calico critter village, little pet shop oh yes and the clothes that she regularly leaves on the floor whilst choosing what works best with what-quite annoying that she is only 7 and her mom's fashion sense consists of jeans, jeans and jeans with the occasional bright colored shirt.

G Shower Curtain

2007-12-28T13:41:00.001-08:00

G2 requested cheetah curtains in her bathroom but the fabric on sale was only a wee bit so I made panels and put a matching wallhell cheapo fabric one behind it on rings and then hung jungle animal table place holder things from the rings...looks rockin for them!

Magazine Trunk

2007-12-28T13:37:00.001-08:00

something I cobbled together from scrap wood to contain the magazines, I stenciled it on to the primed wood with acrylics--I made the stencils after seeing them in a craft book, so I did not design them but I cut them and adapted them---frog stencil ----fairy castle side, darn warped scrap wood--the top african scene my fav part of the whole thing, I just love this scene--the inside is just a plain color and the shelf behind it is a work in progress bookshelf/costume trunk

G Gauchos, Argh pirate girls ahoy!

2007-12-28T13:27:00.002-08:00

These turned out really cool. I had to work on the elastic again since it was old stuff I picked up at goodwill. And the sizes were not exactly right, I should have measured but live and learn and they like them. I made the pink ones for G2 for her violin recital and there was supposed to be a shirt and poncho that went with it but she decided she did not want to wear them all together. The girls wanted them longer than the pattern and wider (born in the wrong era eh?) and I like the pirate flair that the ties bring-I made those longer too so that they hung down. G1 wanted a pair also so she dug into my vintage stash and chose this polyester lovely. I think they look totally cool and were a lot of fun to make. My kids prefer to wear things they designed themselves! Craft on dudes....