Habitat Art Auction March 15, 2018

I am dropping off my little framed Tea piece today for the Art Auction at Habitat!

Please go out there and bid on things!  The money raised goes to build houses in the Greater Baton Rouge area. 

The Art Auction is at 10300 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70810 from 6-8 on March 15, 2018. 

It is amazing to see the pieces and stuff people get from the ReStore and turn into art pieces.

My little frame cost $1.  It was scratched up a bit.  It is not wood, but made of plastic like maybe from the 60's or 40's. 

Japanese looking for sure.

I  will take pics from the Art Auction when my little Tea piece brings in the $1.7 Million dollar price! 

Come on baby, let's see those zeros!

Art Haul at Habitat ReStore

NOTE:  I am linking up with  Free motion by the River

 We have two Habitat ReStore locations here in Baton Rouge.  I love them both.  We bought a lot of stuff from there when we were flipping the houses.

They have an Art Auction every spring.  Jennifer issues $25 gift certificates to anyone who wants to participate.  You shop in the stores and create art with some things you buy.

The art then gets donated to the Art Auction and sold to build houses.

So I went shopping.  I had $25 burning  hole in my pocket.

Frank was the one who saw this fabulous frame.  It looks oriental, right?  Perfect for my Japanese Tea Bag piece.  I will decide whether it will go into the auction or I will keep it, later.  I want it, but it is perfect for the auction.

It was $3




Now, this is what I wanted to do last year, but was involved with the flood aftermath.  This year the perfect chair presented itself.  For $5 no less!

No, this is not hashish.  It is a bag of rusty nails!

Only I would want rusty nails, right?  Buck fifty for the three pounds of nails.  Got big plans for these guys.

 This is a copper thing.  No idea what they used them for, but I can see the copper becoming a mordant with rusty stuff and creating great circle stains on fabric.  Yes!

Now I have so many ideas!





And I found a Reindeer bib for Sawyer, or someone who dribbles.

I also got 3 packages of paint brushes, two nice paintbrushes and a pack of foam brushes.  Can you guess what the total for all this was?

I got 15% off for being over 55 and the whole bill was $16.58!

I could have gotten the chandelier I was lusting after!

Here is the rusting I did yesterday.  I used some smaller pieces and actually rusted it twice because the first one was not heavily marked.  This is not great but it is better.

I did see that I can do a leaf printing in the center and maybe double the impact for both rusting and leaf printing!

I am excited to get started on some ideas for the  Art Auction pieces.  I wonder how much they raise each year.  Let me see if I can find out.

Progress on the Habitat Piece

I had just a wisp of an idea of what I was going to do with the shibori dyed pillowcase and the mono printed pillowcase.

I took some time assembling my utensils, and when it appeared I could no longer put it off, I made the first cut.  I didn't fall out dead.

I took a chance at a second cut, and a third.  I ended up with a pile of 3 inch squares.  I sewed twosies.  Then I sewed foursies.  And then eightsies.  Or thereabouts.  I put them together and when the  seams fought I added a strip to calm them down.

Now I need to put it all together and start the quilting stitches.

Oh, and  by the way.....McGee ate a hole in one of the scarves.......

Here is what we are looking like now.

After i eat my lonely oven fried chicken breast with cream gravy (my fav) and the rest of the okra from the farmer's market, i will get working.  Frank is heading in from Mississippi tonight and we can walk the Bad Basset Boyz tonight at their regular time.  And I  will have someone who still won't talk to me, but at least he  will BE there!