Back from Hiatus

God Bless my sister!!! She's been away since Thursday night on vacation with her DH. That left me as DD or Designated Daughter to our 85 yro Mom. Mom's a kick but a handful at the same time and I TG all the time for my DS, Dear Sister, who takes the brunt of the hauling about since she has a car. Mom has a car as well but because of the arthritis in her right knee we don't like her driving any farther than around her local area. Thusly I became the Designated Driving Daughter for the weekend. It wasn't bad but was time consuming and now I'm off to play today with my faux food toys.
Hopefully I'll finally have something finished that I want to show off later today. Have a productive day everyone...that's what I'm wishing for myself as well. Just wish I'd gotten more than four hours sleep! :o

BTW...here is a new piece I did yesterday. She's from the Dipsy Diva series!

Faux Cupcakes and CATS!!!

Here's the stuff of which legends will be made:


I got the papers, doilies and ballerinas at the 1.00 Power Store. What used to be the 99 cent store until they decided that they needed to make more money and started charging up to 12.99 for what used to sell for a buck. *Sigh* fortunately or unfortunately, the cost of chocolate is still only $1.25 for a BIG bag of Dove or Hershey's Dark Chocolate Truffles. Ouch! My thighs are growing just thinking about it!

Oh and look who snuck in here to see what was going on with Mommy...my favorite furry baby boy, Sebastian.


Anyhoo..I'm planning on trying to make a few faux today. Then I want to photograph them in a vignette setting and we'll see where that goes. I'm still trying to firm up an answer to the question my DH asked days ago. I'm getting closer but still no definitive answer at this time. What will the wild gypsy still be doing in five years??? Stay tuned!

CUPCAKES!

Who knew cupcakes were so popular? I started out looking for instructions on how to make faux cupcakes and spent at least a half day looking at the most delicious looking faux foods as well as CUPCAKES.

Seems that while I was busy painting ACEOs the world has gone cupcake crazy. I never saw such a long list of bakeries specializing in the tiny little cakes I remember from my childhood. Let me correct this...these cupcakes were the kind that I dreamed about when I was a child. Gorgeous, artistic little cakes that have made my mouth water even tho' I knew that half the ones I was looking at were probably made out of some product found at Home Depot!!

I uploaded five new Halloween ACEOs I've painted over the last two days. You can see my initial paintings in one of my postings below and then today I painted two pastel colored ghosties. Here are Lonnie and Lou, the latest postings to eBay and starting at just 99 cents each. Am I crazy...guess so but I've got to generate some interest in my work. After all, didn't DH tell me to start a 5 year plan. Maybe I should just do cupcakes :)




OK...so it's time to head off to settle down for the evening. Think I'll dig out some cupcake recipes. Nighty Nite from Jersey.

Faux cupcakes and desserts

surfing the web looking for how-tos for making faux food is a great way to burn up the hours on a Sunday afternoon.

Of course, it's a dodge from answering a question I don't know how to answer. Last night DH listened to me as I moaned about how hard it was to make money on eBay and Etsy and then he said something so profound I wanted to hit him really, really HARD!
"Well, I think your problem is you still haven't asked yourself the question of where you want to be five years from now. You don't have a goal. No goal, no plan. No plan, no progress toward your goal". WOW! Why didn't I think of that?

Five years???...I should have asked myself that question 38 years ago when he asked me to marry him! I might have had a better answer then. Right now I'm stalled because I really DON'T know what I want to be doing in five years, other than being a Granny which may or may not ever happen given my daughter's predilection for dating hotties who are nottie good for her :).

Anyway...getting back to those faux cupcakes I found a lot of info on how to make them but I certainly don't want to go into mass production. I thought that I'd make a half dozen or so and then photograph them. And then do a paint over? Oh hell, I don't know anymore what I want to do or where I want to be other than at this very moment, sitting down to dinner. I'm hungry!! Too much wandering amoungst the fauxs to fix the food that will fill me up. So for now I'm off to find something to slap on the table in front of DH...where does he want to be in five years? In the kitchen cooking, I hope!