Thje Blob Family

The other night l found lots of things in the blobs and so did Andrea from Paris but today l had to work hard to find anything, probably as l have not been sleeping well and the bad nights have caught up with me today, bad pain in my ankle and knee seem to wake me up as soon as l go to sleep.

What about this !!!!

I was looking for a new keyboard the other night and they were so high priced then at amazon found this with a mouse at only £14.45 and its a great wake up colour, only thing wrong is the mouse won't work with vista and its too small to hold but l am still very pleased with my pink keyboard.

Which is your main blog

Hi all, after a friend said she wasn't sure which was my main blog l thought l had better send a message, my main blog is this one 'Fabricholic' and now l just have one extra one called 'jillsmithart' and that blog is just for my new art as l do it. I have a website called www.jillsmithart.com but it has a lot of my older wall hangings and quitart and different art l used to do, Now my medium is acrylic painting I now don't put so much on my website as for one thing it goe's on a blog quicker and a big reason is it doesn't cost me anything but the website does. I was thinking the other day that l think there are more blogs now than website's and l wouldn't pay to have another one. Things have altered so much in the last five years. My Peppercorn Blog is closed l think !!! every time l have said this another of my lost blogs pop up again, now l have a lot on my dashboard but when l lost them blogger said they had gone for good, little did they know. This blog you can subscribe to with just clicking feedblitze at the top of this blog so then you will get all new posts as soon as l have wrote them. On jillsmithart l will get that done as quick as l can. I am also thinking about opening a yahoo group for sending a newsletter out and l would put a workshop on there as well but as it just popped in my head l will have a think first. This was a new year resolution as l normally just do things without thinking so haven't done to bad seeing as its May, its the first time l have kept to anything for new year. I would love to hear from you all so just tell me what your doing and any ideas you have for the blog just let me know.

Font bigger

Can you all see the text better as it looked ok to me before but a few blogger friends said it was small so have enlarged it and changed it to bold, hope its better.

Taurus Creative Star Sign

I have been reading coments in a friends art blog and in every profile but two they have the Taurus star sign, have also noticed going to websites it comes up as well so l want to ask the lovley blog readers of 'Fabricholic' if they have the taurus star sign. Have a look at your friends profiles and see if taurus is the most creative star sign

Flowers for your weekend

These are great and unusual and there from the blog http://yarnstorm.blogspot.com

On -going picture

Still haven't got the bobs sorted out as l started a picture and am sat here covered by paint, worse thing was l had done the hair but forgot background so had to scrub it and do it later. Keep reading as l am going to have a giverway and workshop this week.

Blobs and picture

Sorry but am a bit late sending the blobs in to show what l thought l saw but have had a very painful day trying to do things l am not supposed to do (a taurean that's stubborn and won't give in ) But l am going to upload a picture l have done but the shot is horrible and l can't get it right. It says at the bottom ' I told you it was too big' My son was trying to get it to delete last weekend and l should have remembered that he just clicks thing's and hopes he gets it right but this time it didn't work and he has took all my icons from the left side so its taking a rotten picture. Will have to take it in to the photo shop l got it from and see if they can get them all back so am sorry about this. You may be thinking 'well why doesn't she wait till its done' but i won't forget to take it in if l see it on my blog as was supposed to take it yesterday and got to the shop and guess what 'no camera'. Do any of you get like me and have to write notes for everything and another thing l hate is you get something in your head and before you get paper and pen you have forgotten what it was. Do hope there are others the same as me as l can't be the only one, CAN I.

The Blob Family

I bet your thinking 'what ever is the blob family' well a blogger friend got me thinking about paint that's left over that l normally throw down the sink. Well now l paint a blob on my sketch book of each colour and this morning looked at them and my friend is right, you can see birds or animals even objects in them. See if you can see anything in the blobs and try it yourself with your paint blobs.

What are you doing BLOG SHOWS

What are you all doing, any art projects, l would love to see anything when you have done. what about me having a online exhibition or call it a show and l get someone to judge it and the winner will get a goody bag from me were ever you live. I hadn't planned all that above but it would be a great idea and if online exhibition's or a show caught on and others joined in we could visit them all, blog shows, they would be great. It would be great for me and others that can't get out to see any much, the last show l saw was in 1992 when l was in college and we all went to Harrogate to see the Knitting and Stitching show, so l hope people will join in and the winner will send a big goody bag from me. Before l finish you will be asking what art, ANYTHING WHAT EVER YOU DO. till last year l ran a big group and we had online art shows four times a year and each one we had a theme or a word were you did some thing from it but we will just leave it open and you can make what ever you like dolls, art quilts, pin cushions , soft toys, just make what ever you want an another thing your work will be seen which we all want so its good marketing for you.

Art Online

I have been looking for hours for somewhere online were you can sell your art. Some are good then you read there not so have given up as have been looking all day yesterday as well as this morning. Do any of my readers know of any that are good, l would be so happy if your could let me know. I think its best if your an artist or buyer so you will know first hand. Thank you.

FREE ART FOR YOU

HI YES its true l am going to offer a mini print about 6ins by 6ins to every ten people that sign up for my email updates on this blog and my art blog http://jillsmithart.blogspot.com so if you sign up for both you have a better chance of winning an art print of me. This will be an original piece of art NOT A PRINT you may have to wait a couple weeks while l paint it as l am not doing a stack of them, it will be an new one just for you and it will be a ONE ONLY and it will be signed and dated so get going and just sign up thats all you have to do.

Colour of Life

Doing a Happy Dance

An art quilt l did over the winter has been accepted into a show and will be travelling around the US FOR TWO YEARS l did cancel a lot of shows as the hipping is very expensive from the UK. But its sunny and warm in my little bit of the world and l am happy dancing ( well tapping my feet to the radio ) The picture above is the art quilt.

Miss Sparkle Pants - new 12ins x 6 ins

latest Work

My latest work is on wrapped canvas and is a mixture of fabric and acrylic paints. The size is 16 ins x 12ins

Best clothes for Sunday

Do you remember when we only wore new clothes on a Sunday, used to hate it as you got into trouble if you fell over and got them dirty and l always did.

PLEASE READ THIS

GUILLERMO HABA CUUC VARGAS This is a name of an artist who does the following things in the name of art, how l do not know but we have to get it stopped, read the following,

I would like to be serious for a minute. I'll warn you now that this post might be upsetting. Last year, an "artist" (Guillermo Habacuc Vargas) took a dog from the street and tied him up in a display in an art gallery, where the visitors and gallery staff all watched him starve to death. Now, I'm all for freedom of artistic speech but I am absolutely horrified at the level of apathy and cruelty. Not only that, but he has been invited to repeat this cruel treatment again this year. Warning: the following link has some pretty upsetting pictures, but if you feel able to please go here to sign a petition to prevent this atrocity.