Smeared and Smudged 2nd Annual Blog Hop!!!

SMEARED AND SMUDGED

2ND   ANNUAL

BLOG  HOP!!

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I Must Confess!!

I have something I need to tell all of my

blogging friends out there in web world! 

 I have been dreading this post

for days  and have put it off so many times

 but  now just seems the right time to do this! 

I am sorry but I am going to have to

stop blogging and making altered art! 

There's just not enough time in the day

to get everything done and I just don't

 feel the creative flow anymore!

I don't know what's wrong with me .

 I just don't want to do this anymore. 

Maybe I need to get a different hobby,

one that doesn't eat up all of my extra time!

 Either way, I am just burnt out on

 all of this blogging and art stuff. 

There is paper scraps and scissors

 and paint smeared everywhere!

IT'S A MESS ALL OF THE TIME!

There's junk all over my house and the

kids are getting into my supplies and

tearing them up and my husband

complains all of the time about the mess!

My altered art mess ends up getting strung

from one end of the house to the other!

I' ve just got to quit and that's that !

 I guess this is my last ever post

and I am ever going to write !

Oh, this is so sad but it has to be done!

 I am deleting all of my accounts today!

So goodbye my dear and faithful friends!

I will never forget your kindness toward

me and all of the wonderful art

 that you have shared with me! 

Good bye dear friends!!

Goodbye!

I will never forget you !

 I will treasure you for always!

Goodbye!

NOT!!!

You have just beeen punked !

April Fools!!!!

Did I have you going? 

 YOU know I  could never ever quit

 my blogging or creating my spooky

altered art and my vintage art! 

NO WAY!!

If I was in a body cast,

hanging upside down with a blind fold on,

 I would figure out someway to

keep doin' my art thang !! 

Like the body needs food...

once you start to creat art,

you open the door to your soul! 

As the body needs bread and drink...

a soul yearns to express the deep

neverending depth of what life is,

and through that life is art.

Art feeds the soul!

O.K.  People

Let's Party!

Smeared and Smudged is just the
greatest group of people around !
Our art is an expression of our feelings ,
our imagination, and our creativity!
If you ever want to be inspired daily
 by a group of wonderful people,
then go over and visit
Smeared and Smudged
and talk to our host, Terra!  
Come aad join in on all of the tutorials
and fun sub-groups that she offers!!

It's not a Halloween-- 
--365 days a year--
 kind of Art Group!

There are sub-groups for 
 journaling, altering books,
sketch challenges, a fairy group,
a ATC Swap Group,
and a Twisted Tutorial group,
 whose main focus is on finding
and learning new techniques to
use in their art projects!

It's a group that inspires you to dig deep within
your inner self to find the light and dark sides,
to discover WHO you really are!

 It's exhilerating to allow yourself the  
freedom  to completely give yourself over
to your creative instincts and to express 
the "real" you-- through your art work!

It's a discovery of the possibilities.
 Maybe you may have never had the 
 courage to completely let go
and truly express yourself when
you've created art before!
Maybe you were playing it too safe!
It's in the impossibilites that all
things can become possible!

 Trust me, once you really know who
your are and what you want, 
  the imagaination flows 
and the spirt soars!

If you love Rubber Stamping ,
then this is also the group for you!
Terra has her own line of stamps that she designs 
that are really out of this world awesome!

Just go to the web site on the Terra's
 blog button and you will see for yourself
all of the cool stamps she has in her store! 



Now to show you a few projects that I have created:


Since it is April Fool's Day,
 I am going to mix it up some,
give you a view of my altered art work 
 from the past , present, and future!!

"Flight"

This is the  poem that I wrote that

goes with the theme of  this art piece!

O, Woman,
Stand Straight!
Stand Tall!
 Go Forth!
Even though
ye be
filled with woes!

O, Warriar!
Be Brave!
Be True!
The Battle is Fierce,
Where the Heart beats
Strong within thy Soul!




O Woman,
Go Forth!
Good Courage to Thee!
Release Thy Fate!
Take Flight And Soar!

"TIME"

That's an image of "grown-up me" holding "baby me"!

KNITTING WITCHES KNITTING UP A SPELL!

 

How many knitting witches are in this art piece?

"Time Traveler"

If you are visiting my blog today

and you are not a Member

of "Smeared and Smudged",

go ahead and click through all

 of the links that I have posted below! 

 YOU will find some very amazing art

at every blog site you stop to visit! 

These special people are very

 talented and creative!  I know you will

enjoy visitng their blog sites

and seeing their work! 

 If you are visitng me and you are a

Member of "Smeared and Smudged",  

thank you for coming over to visit me

and looking at all of my spooky art work!

I also want to thank you for you kindness, 

 your warm friendship, and your inspiring art

that really g old art juices flowing!

  Big hugs to everyone! 

Have a great day!

Now Let's Go Blog Hop!!!!

Alison-

http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/

Kelli-

 http://cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com/

Meredith-

http://www.papercanteen.com/

Michelle-

http://mylifemydreamsmyscrapping.blogspot.com/

Kathi-

http://kathstales.blogspot.com/

Kim-

http://offthewallcraftiness.blogspot.com/

Lisa-

http://www.ldfdesign.blogspot.com/

Jean-

http://deepblackartbyartdoll.blogspot.com/

Danielle-

 http://www.scrappy-arts-n-thoughts.blogspot.com/

Alex-

http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/

Monica-

http://giddygreetings.com/

Sarah-

http://sarahscrazycreations.blogspot.com/

Erica-

 http://www.inkedupandreadytoplay.com/

Black Dragon-

http://lynsblogger.blogspot.com/

Steph-

 http://stephscreativechaos.blogspot.com/

Lady Brayton-

http://ladybrayton71.blogspot.com/

Barb-

http://haunteddesignhouse.blogspot.com/

Terra-

 http://www.moresmearedink.blogspot.com/