Hee Haw!

(This girl looks like a Hee-Haw Honey to me)

I was born in Illinois and we moved to Kentucky when I was eight. My mom and dad never listened to country music and I still don't although my dad and younger son have moseyed over that direction a few times.  One television staple though was watching Hee Haw!  Yesterday, an ad came on for a Time Life collection of Hee Haw episodes and I found myself singing along to the goofy skits.  I hadn't thought of that show in decades but I remembered the silly songs from my childhood with no problem.  Now if only I could remember the important things. . .

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Big Hair Tale

In The Year in Janie's Diary our heroine is valiantly trying to look older and more attractive by, among other things, ratting her hair out to gargantuan proportions.  No wonder most girls needed an entire evening to wash and style their hair - can you imagine how much time it would take to wash out all that hairspray?

I haven't used much hairspray in the past decade or so but I will admit that in 8th grade I had some of the best feathered hair around - my technique was to curl and arrange the hair precisely where I wanted it to lay, hold it in place with clips, spray the whole mess into submission and then remove the clips once the hairspray had dried.  Worked like a charm until the wind blew or the rain fell.  LOL   What extremes did you go to for the perfect coiffure? 

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Sewer Flower

Good advice from the flora. . .

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Mixed Baggage

It has been an exciting, busy week - our oldest graduated from high school, we attended two graduation parties, enjoyed hosting family in from Seattle and seeing other family that was in town as well.  The days flew by in a blur but were so enjoyable - still trying to recover. . .

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buy me this

The weather was gorgeous this weekend!!  Way too pretty to be inside drawing so all I have to show is a quick flower doodle on a prepainted ATC card.  How was it outdoors by you??

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Absent-minded girl

I don't know if I'm as absent-minded as I am easily distracted.  Maybe they are the same thing - what do you think?

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Toast girl. . .

I must be peculiar - can't think of the last time I had toast - it isn't that I don't like it - just don't ever think to make it.  However, when we visited friends in England several years ago they totally lived up to the stereotypical idea of toast eating people.

Are you "toast-er"??

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Crinose girl

There was a cruel boy in class that would call her hirsute simply because he knew she preferred the adjective crinose.

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Price tag girl

I had drawn an ATC girl and tossed her on the table where she fell on a price tag from something that my son had bought - couldn't resist that pop of orange!

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29 Faces - All done!!

WHOO HOO!  Another completed 29 Faces Challenge!  Making most of my girls ATC sized made all the difference on being able to complete all 29.  Be sure to click on the 29 Faces link and check out some of the amazing artists that participated in this challenge!  Thanks to Ayala Art for sponsoring - can't wait for September to try it again! 

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29 Faces - Coffee Hair

During the last 29 Faces challenge (September 2014) I painted several girls on backgrounds that I had made from coffee stains.  Often I painted directly from my coffee cup - this time I decided to use the coffee to paint a girl's hair.  I would paint some and then dry it with a heat tool and then add a bit more.  

Ended up with a kind of tortoise shell look - cool for an ATC - not so much if it were real life.

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29 Faces - Serendipitous

The Brusho from yesterday's girl soaked through the paper and added some fun interest to the other side of the book from today's girl - serendipitous!

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29 Faces - Just tell me what you want done

Not sure where this creepy face came from - good thing it is only ATC sized - could you imagine how ugly the whole image would be??!!

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29 Faces - 'tis strange to be wanting them now

The weight of her hair appears to be throwing her head off-kilter - probably about due for a visit to the chiropractor.

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29 Faces - It's hard to surprise boys...

More Brusho fun. . .I seem to have sprinkled some of Kim's Brusho on lots and lots of my papers.  

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'tis brains I am needing - Brains!

LOL!  This is one of my most favorite book snippets ever!

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29 Faces - I never realized before that

"I never realized before that ________."

How would you finish that caption??

This is Caleb shoveling the front walk - we got over 8" of snow today and more may fall tonight.  A real taste of winter now that it is nearly over!

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29 Faces - 'tis to beg your counsel I am come

On Friday I got to go play with my good friend, Kim, at her studio and she introduced me to the most amazing new art supply - BRUSHO Colours from Colourcraft and Color Burst by Ken Oliver.

(I got inspired by the colors on this girl's robe)

They are teeny tiny color particles (powder) that mix with water to make amazing effects!  Just the tiniest amount bursts into fabulous color!!

I experimented on lots of little ATC backgrounds - here are some of my favorites!  I have got to get my hands on some of these for myself!!

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29 Faces - I could be fancy too

This girl looks Greta Garbo-ish to me - only with gray hair and a super pointy shoulder - LOL!

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29 Faces - So far, so good

10 days in and "so far, so good" - here's hoping I make it to the end.

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