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The Schroom Pixie

I love schrooms of all types (here's a yummy stuffed portabella mushroom recipe). I was inspired by a new paint I found called Lumiere. This paint is good for a variety of mediums including fabric, wood and paper. It's wonderful....covers nicely and comes in the best metalic colors. I used Halo Pink on this collage. This collage took me about 2 hours to complete and I'm very happy with the way it turned out. I just kept layering papers, cutouts and stamps. My husband came home with a bag of Tootsie Rolls right when I was completing it and on a whim I made the pixie have a Tootsie Roll hat! Seems inspiration hit best when my mouth is full of chocolate goodness!

Fur Hats & Martinis & Bonnets & Cussing.....

Fur hats, martinis, bonnets and cussing...........do you see a connection or theme here? It's all about things you put on your head and things you do or consume that can be bad for you. But, you know, my motto is: moderation.......for all things good or bad! I really didn't consciously set out to make collages of kids in hats doing bad things, but after I completed them and took the pictures of them.....the connection hit me. Trying to interject humor into the smiling faces of the kids in these long forgotten photographs, these collages attest to the sometimes "real" stories behind the pictures. For example the Easter Bonnet girl.....so sweet looking but could probably swear like a sailor because she rode to school with her brother and picked up a few choice colorful words (yes, I'm speaking from first hand experience......that's what I did as a first grader riding to school with my brother who was a senior at the time!) Needless to say, I began to ride the bus when my language got a little too colorful!