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Altered Cigar Box Purse

I know this has nothing to do with this weeks theme. Just thought I'd share this purse I made. I found it in a thrift store and I altered it over the past few days. It was just a plain white cigar box. I added everything you see.

grocery store

Holy Beans !!!!

Theme of the Week - Grocery Stores

Choir East Arm Sling

Needs a Title

This is a collab I did with John Osgood. It needs a title.
C'mon, all you creative folks. Help me.

Dishpan Hands

It is so good to be unpacked (mostly) and back to work, I've missed you all!

Looking for a way out

Doggy Wants Trombone

Theme of the Week - Monochrome

Sloppy

I only had access to a camera for a day so... this is what I came up with.

Ticker Tape Machine

I tried to use things that I already had at home to make this assemblage.  The 1970s glass dome came from a thrift shop and it once held dried flowers and a fake butterfly.  The rubber stamp and tape dispenser are vintage office supplies from my collection.  I did use something new which was the Wall Street Journal.  I lifted the stocks off the page with clear tape and applied it to the old tape to create the ticker tape.

Taking Junk For A Walk

Stuff I picked up on walking to town and back. The road sweeper goes round on a regular basis so the streets are relatively clean so pickings were slim. Had enough to fill this child's wooden necklace maker set I found in a charity shop. Not sure which I prefer, the minimal arrangement without the necklace beads or with all the beads and letters added so uploading both.

The Knee Bone's Connected to the Thigh Bone

For this assemblage I used bits and pieces I already had. An old wooden box, celluloid doll arms, puzzle blocks to which I glued vintage anatomical images, flash attachment from a twin lens reflex camera, a marsupial skull and a bird bone found on a hiking trip to Tasmania. I used two different types of glue (strong craft glue and superglue) - the blocks are not attached and can be moved around and rotated. The "head" can also be rotated at the base of the flash attachment (for batteries) which has a thread.

Weekly Dose

Assorted pocket shrines

These are pocket shrines I made for a series called Icons.

Top photo is the front

Bottom photo is the inside

Face Box

I went looking for interesting flotsam and jetsam but didnt find much except lots of bottle tops and can rings. Hazel gave a cigar box of old metal bits which i have played with. The result is rather pathetic and I'm sure I can do better! Still, it's a start!

Theme of the Week - Assemblage

Make something in 3 dimensions.  Since this theme requires a little more time, it will run for two weeks. 

The Aging Magician's Pompadour Disappeared into Thin Hair

Lovers Coral

Kinda corny, I know but I still have a little time.

!Tons of positive creative energy sent your way man.

Lava My Life

when you dream in color

it's a pigment of your imagination

The doctor diagnosed a nasty bug

She was yarning for the good old days

You Fo' Collage?

Theme of the Week - Punwit

Our friend, Punwit, has been having computer and scanner problems. I thought it would be nice to make pun related postcard collages this week and mail them to him to tell him how much we miss him. Post them here and then mail them off to him. If you need his address, email me and I will give it to you.

I Remember When...We Didn't Wear Seatbelts

I Remember The Incident At The Canal Crossing

I Remember When We Lived In Magical Cities

I Remember Collage Back In The Old Days

I remember when just about everybody was puffing on a cigarette

I Remember When This Was All Fields

i remember when

Theme of the Week - I Remember When...

Robotella

I realise this is stretching the theme a bit until it breaks but I was trying to get a Flash Gordon feel to this and that serial from the 30's is very art deco I think.

Decadent Deco

Radio Factory

Coffee Messiah

La Palace De Beaut'e

Decorative art

The Kollage Kid

Theme of the Week - Art Deco

The Victorian Seaside Holiday Drawbacks No. 237

No. 237 The Beach Ambush By Crazed Deckchair Attendants

Noah's Submarine

Radio Daze

That Old Time Religion

Max Miller

"Max Miller, Britain's top comedian in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, was born in Brighton, on the south coast of England in 1894. He excelled as a stand-up comic playing to large audiences in variety theatres, where his skill was such that he could hold an audience in the palm of his hand. He was master of the double entendre. He was mischievous, brash and quick-witted; he dressed over the top and he certainly lived up to the name the Cheeky Chappie. Even the poorest jokes got a laugh; his timing and delivery were legendary.

Max Miller left school at 12 and, after drifting from job to job, was called up by the army to serve in the First World War. During the war he acquired a taste of entertaining whilst performing to his fellow soldiers and, after the war, he pursued his show-business ambition starting with the occasional gig in pubs and halls. His first break came about when he joined a concert party on the Brighton sea front as a song and dance man. It was good training for the future and, from time to time, he would get the chance to tell a gag or two. The occasional booking in a London theatre followed this. His talent developed and soon he excelled as a solo performer writing his own material and composing his own songs. He rose to fame and, in the 1930s, reached the top of the bill playing all the major variety theatres including the most famous of them all, the London Palladium."

Find out more about Max Miller at this website dedicated to him HERE.


Max Miller - In Brighton 1961

Coffee Messiah