Mucho Bueno

As requested by Mucho Bueno

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Art Turtorial and More Misty Jellyfish

A BIG post commin at ya!
This weekend was kinda a mixture of blah and eventful. Friday night I went out with some friends for my old coworkers birthday. We went for Ethiopian food, which is typically one of my faves. I dont know which part should have tipped me off: was it the fact that they didnt have the heat on? Or the mousetraps in the bathroom? But needless to say, all of us were a little green friday night and all of saturday.
On the plus side, Scott and I stayed in on saturday night and I had an awesome time eating my favourite coconut ice cream, reading Wide Sargasso Sea, and catching up on some much-procrastinated art work for our dining room.
It was so easy-peasy that I thought I would give you a brief tutorial! Here goes!

Get yourself a cheap map (mine was $12 bucks at Zellers) and a piece of MDF or particle board measured to just about one inch short of the border of the map. (Rona let us have this one for a buck and cut it down for us! Note to self: I owe Scott one dollar)

Using rubber cement or another adhesive that wont cause the paper to pucker, generously coat the piece of boad (tip: do this in small sections at a time as it dries fast and you are more sure to get a smooth and even adhesion)

Using a knife (or if you are fancy a wallpaper smoothie), section by section, smooth out the air bubbles.
When you are done, it should look something like this. I used my hot glue gun and folded the overhang of the map over the edges of the board and glued them to give it an even look.

I have been enjoying both sketching and Jellyfish lately, so I took the liberty of sketching some of my Misty Jellyfish to the board....which in hindsight kind of looks like sperm in photos.

Superbowl sunday was awesome! Not because I love football cause I dont, but because I got to catch up with some great pals at Glenns Superbowl Pot-Luck Gross out, and I got to chat with the lovely Liv who always impresses and inspires me with how creative she is. If you get the chance, saunter over to her blog and wish her well.

Be Well,

Rachie

Thats Bull (dogs?)

Hi Everyone,

My name is John and I am Rachaels stepfather. I like to send her pictures of bulldog puppies in the mail about once per month or so and she puts them up on her bulliten board. Her favourite picture is the one to the right, of the puppy in the quilt, even though you cant see it totally, trust me, its cute.

A Great Quote

New sketch: Misty Jellyfish, 2010, Rachael Speirs.

"You could be a rebel, a profound thinker and a rock n roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch , and dinner, have a baby and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends"- Pamela Des Barres.

Rachie

Be A Narcissist! Draw a Self-Portrait!

Some updates for you.

Over the weekend my mom was nice enough to give me an incredible upholsterd headboard...gets me one step closer to having my place on apartmenttherapy.com...a gal can dream right?

Seeing as disposable income doesnt exist in my life, its going to be a very very slow process of gatehring one piece at a time, like I did with my Owl-ey.

Owl-ey does love me so, just in time for valentines!

Have you guys checked out the awesome and cute valentines card idea from Elsie at A Beautiful Mess ? Its very cute and I hope to make one of some friends for valentines.

I remember having valentines as a kid in class and taping paper bags to the edge of our desk for our valentines. I plan on doing that for my coworkers this year!

On another note, Self Portrait!

I think I made my face to pudgy...and check out the feathered hair! You should try it out, its super fun.

xoxo

Rachie

p.s T looked at my self portrait and said it looks like a "very unattractive version" of me... I wonder if that reflects on my humility or my drawing skills. haha.

Been a long long time

Good morning!

So here is the good news; I am staying on my side of the desk. The bad news? Many others wont be. Its all just a waiting game.

This weekend I got a much needed time away at the cottage and found new ideas and inspirations to paint and create.

This is a photo I took from the front door, the snow was amazing:

Scotts sister, Leigh, recently went to vegas and took this amazing picture, which will be my next painting:

p.s If you havent heard this song by Alessi's Ark, please enjoy, sooo good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qoqmzvaSAI

xoxo
Rachie

Dont Give Up

My mom always said a recession is when your neighbour loses his job, a depression is when you lose yours.
Every day I insist I am not nearly as dramatic as my mother...I call her doctor doom and misery guts sometimes...respectfully of course.
But sometimes you cant help but worry.

See, I work in a field that exists to help others. As a social worker I work to help the unemployed and homeless to establish meaningful employment and a future. However thanks to restructuring via the government, we are worried. It seems that we are the ones who are stretched thin to help with the current employment situation and now we need to face the same demons.
I can tell you one thing for sure, its incredibly humbling to consider being on the other side of my desk at some point in the future.

In the meantime, watch this video by Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel

Happy New Year!

2010 is going to be one productive year, I can feel it.

Here are some things I am really enjoying so far:

Sipping hot chai tea all day long from my new thermos.

Reading Jane Eyre, my reward for finishing the book is to watch the movie starring one of my favourite acresses, Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Lookie-looing at houses and going to open house tours to get inspiration for my own home someday:

xoxo

Rachael

My most memorable christmas present as a kid

I remember being around 7 or 8 and man did I really want a PJ Sparkles.

Holy moly did I ever want that doll. Such an impracticall doll that lit up, but at that age anything that involved batteries was amazing.

I remember getting it and loving it for about a week, and then selling it for a dollar at our garage sale that summer.

Happy Holidays!

2 years and counting

Going through some old photos I came across this image of T.

There he is in his eyebrowed glory at the end of the table. I had such a crush on the boy that I took a picture of him from across the table to sigh over later.


I am also sighing over my Christmas list. The first one is major wishful thinking

Vintage Mary Janes
xoxoxox
Rach