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Girlfriends! LETS GO SHOPPING!!! Handmade cards with Friendly Plastic

Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Well here it is....the day after Christmas and that means... SALES!!! What a day to go shopping!!! Mariah and I are heading out to do just that later on this afternoon, but before we go, we took some time to make some fun "GIRLFRIEND" cards with Friendly Plastic dolls. These dolls were a combination of my polymer clay experience and the inspiration I took from Lizzie Dolls by Liz Welch.








In our next FPTV video, I'll show you how to create a snowman card.....that's a little gift in itself! But for now, LETS GO SHOPPING!!! Who's with me???





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Not your Usual Friendly Plastic by Artist Phyll Beach

Friday, December 25th, 2009
I sent out a call for Friendly Plastic submissions and WOW!!! Look what I got in my email box today from Phyll Beach!

Linda,

This multi media shallow shadow box is 8 x 10
inches before it went into it's antique frame. I created it last
month, the sea turtle (other than the center agate) is FP, in fact it
was my very first effort with FP. I am absolutely sure I will be using it a lot
in the future in many wildly varied pieces. Much of the rest of this piece
is melted Tyvek. Thanks for your blog, I read it every day but took
several months before I ordered a slew of the stuff and decided to try it.


















This piece was for a secret winter swap. The challenge was to
incorporate the likes of the person for whom you were to make a gift. My person
liked the colors violet and blue, she liked fantasy, preferred a combination of
old and new in one piece, loved anything from nature, and her most
favorite thing is sea turtles. So though not my usual style at all, it was
fun to make. Probably because it was NOT my style!



I spent today with my teenage grandchildren making FP ladies
with curled wire limbs inspired by the work of an artist you featured a few days
ago. I'm sure their mother will love their creations which she will get for
Christmas. Thanks for inspiring me to try this.

Im sure their mother will love and cherish this gift for years to come! Handmade gifts are PRICELESS!






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Warm thoughts on a COLD DAY! Friendly Plastic by Pinderella

Thursday, December 24th, 2009
This is a photo that I took a few weeks back while Mariah and I cruised the Mexican Riveria aboard Holland America's Ms. Oosterdam along with our family. While it was only 23 degree's at home....in Mexico it was a WARM 82! This picture was taken in Cabo San Lucas where the Pacific ocean meets the Sea of Cortez! It's simply beautiful and inspiring!




While I was "surfing the web" I went thru my ever growing list of favorite plastic artists and sites. Among them is PINDERELLA's etsy shop. The photo below took me back to this picture of Mexico....a welcome thought on such a cold snowy day like today.



Pinderella's shop offers whimsical jewelry to fit almost any theme. If you are need of something special for someone special....take a trip to her shop! www.pinderella.etsy.com






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A quick CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS in Friendly Plastic

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
This month.....this YEAR has flown by!!!! While Im in the middle of putting the finishing touches on the next FPTV segment...Im sending out this call to you for submissions!!

Be featured on the blog and get recognized! All you have to do is send me some photos of your original work - published or not along with your contact information. I will feature you as a guest artist on the blog and link to your contact info. It's that simple! I have a couple more spaces to fill for next week so send them in!!!!

Thanks ya'll for your help!!!!

email me - click here

send me your suggestions too!!!!


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Friendly Plastic – Hope on a canvas by Jen Lowe

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Today's blog is a reflection....and how artist Jen Lowe uses her convictions as portrayed in her artwork. This also goes along with the Butterfly Project sponsored by AMACO with regard to the holocaust.
Here are Jen's thoughts:
Tonight's topic is Penance - thinking reflectively about your life's path--and what changes you might want to enact.

Penance is defined as a feeling of regret for one's wrongdoings. Last year,I talked about making penance art. But it was penance for what happened to the Jewish children killed in the Holocaust. My feelings of regret for what someone else did that was wrong.

Several months ago, I started tonight's project. There's over 80 hours tied up into the making of it. Not something you can do in a day. But I think huge, time-consuming pieces of art are necessary every now and then in order to make us stop and give thought to what we are trying to accomplish.



Notes of Hope - my gift to Amaco because of their generosity in supporting the Holocaust Museum in Houston. If you read my blog, you know that they have sponsored a contest for the second year - making butterflies, 1.5 million of them, one for each child who died in the Holocaust.





Notes of Hope - is a collaborative piece. While the design and majority of it was completed by myself, I have contributions from Linda Peterson, Jana Ewy and Liz Welch. And we all 4 have signed the canvas. It's big. 20" x 16". Considering that strips of Friendly Plastic are only available in 1" widths.....just imagine how much product was used to create this!!! And in the process of making it, I've spent many hours thinking about the art the world has lost in the death of all the children...and the children's children that they might have had.








Notes of hope - I have a lot of them!

This canvas represents just about every technique imaginable in Friendly Plastic. It is a labor of love!



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Plastic coyotes protect park from geese

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Geese have a way of bothering some park visitors, but the folks in Fort Smith, Ark., may have come up with a new way to keep the birds away. The city Department of Parks and Recreation bought six realistic-looking plastic...

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Vandal does $3 million in damage at Ind. molder

Monday, December 21st, 2009
A vandal did an estimated $3 million in damage on Sunday at injection molder Hoosier Pride Plastics Inc. in Fort Wayne, Ind. According to this report from The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, someone entered the plant and "cut wires,...

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First day of Winter and Jumping for JOY!!!

Monday, December 21st, 2009
Today is the first day of winter for the northern hemisphere....that means its the shortest day of the year....but it also means that from now till summer the days will get warmer! Makes me want to jump for joy!



That's what I thought of when I looked at this beautiful piece by Karine Collignon of Bijouxartcreation. Karine says Liz Welch was a big inspiration in helping her create this piece.

So jump for joy....winter is here....but that means we're one day closer to warmer weather....

What will inspire you to create today?







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Committed to cleaning the garbage patch

Monday, December 21st, 2009
Is anyone in the federal government working on cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Yes, according to The Washington Post -- and the point person is Holly Bamford, director and chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA)...

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Did Haitian turn down a deal?

Sunday, December 20th, 2009
Did Chinese plastics machinery major Haitian International Holdings Ltd. turn down an offer to buy a stake in an overseas competitor? That's the story from the Xinhua News Agency, which reported the item in a feature story about the tough...

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