Today I went to Giants Stadium!  It was super awesome, dudes!  I've never really considered myself a huge football fan (not that I don't like it, just that I don't go out of my way to watch it).  But it's one of those places that you can just feel the energy of the place, the electricity of the countless people that have passed through the stadium.

The grass is fake, and it's full of little black rubber balls made of recycled tires that you can see pop up if you slide your foot across the turf, and it has some spring to it..

I took a picture of the Doctor on the fifty yard line.

The Doctor is also in my pocket in this picture, though it's too small to tell.  I feel huge in this photo, but I'm going to pretend it's the sweater

And for actual art content... I made the thimble pots, finally!  I used string and glue and spun it around the thimbles, giving it a great texture.  I then painted it with... I think it's some sort of stain?  The light blue looks grayish, but the yellow looks fantastic.  It looks sort of weathered, which I really like!  This whole project was fully, 100% free.

Happy arting!

Today I brought the Doctor on an adventure in New York!  This is us on the Subway.  If you're asking about the face I'm making, you're required to make this face when you're riding the Subway.  I would've gotten arrested otherwise.

This is the tree at Rockefeller.  It was more squat than I thought it would be, but pretty neat.

We ate at a pub that had a burger called Oscar Wilde!  I had fish and chips instead.

This is me reading at a train station with my cane and Batman backpack.

And, finally, here's a picture of me and Spiderman in New York!  I'm no Mary Jane Watson, but hello tiger!  The only way this could be better is if I ran into Batman and the Justice League, too!

And... for some actual art content. I tried to work with the thimbles, but my ordinary go-to, nailpolish, wasn't really covering.  I'm still playing around with it, but no pics worth mentioning. Speaking of mentioning... feel free to comment! 

Happy arting!

So, everyone in the dollhouse got coal.  They all deserved it.

Otherwise, I visited Pennsylvania today!  It's so weird to travel an hour and get into a new state.  It takes an hour to get into Houston from my house!  It takes ten hours to get from all the way east to all the way west in Texas.  As long as sixteen hours diagonally!  You can drive all through daylight and still be in the Lone Star State.

And we went shopping at Odd Lots.  It's the first time I've ever been there, and I had a blast!

I got tons of scrapbooking paper for wallpapering the dollhouse, ten pieces for a dollar.

And I got a padholder that could work as a bedframe, a pack of tiny things that my sister found for the kitchen.

Tiny flowers, two packs for a dollar, scrapbooking frames that'll work brilliantly as dollhouse frames, and two thimbles for free that'll stand up on their own or hang up as planters!  Oh, my dears, tomorrow I'm going to play!

Happy arting!

Today is Christmas Eve, and as usual the Doctor is getting into capers.

All joking aside, there was a fourth wise man in the Christmas scene.

While the Doctor chatted with a young lady about politics (he's against politics, she's for them)....

...Van Gogh and Poe terrorized a tiny house.

Poe tried out the slot machine, but all he got out of it was some lousy Christmas cheer.

Van Gogh marveled at that strange square contraption.

The Doctor warned this young rodent about the dangers of tanning and...

...after that he flirted with a young lady that is way out of his league, and quite tall besides!

Happy arting and merry Christmas Eve!

P.S.  I'm sorry about all the editing!  This comp will only let me post one picture at a time!

OKAY SO!  I'm in the artsiest mood a person can be in, so this morning I made ornaments for the tree I bought at the dollar store!

And yesterday I made Santa hats for the three guys I brought with me (also, my lovely sister took all of these pictures for me).  Here is the result!

A closer look at both the tree and the books I made earlier in the week:

I made the hats with felt, as well as the gingerbread men ornaments.  The candy canes I made from bits of paper napkins and red thread!  I twisted the napkins into a thin snake, added glue and the thread, and kept twisting.  That gives it a fairly uniform spiral!

Happy arting!

Poe, the Doctor, and Van Gogh are going on an adventure today!  That is to say, we are in New Jersey, after a long and unperilous plane ride.

Here's a thing on how to bind a tiny book, at my grandmother's house.

I made two books on the plane, then one at the table.  It takes just about ten minutes to get it done.  I use a pushpin to make the holes in the pages, and a needle and some doubled up thread to bind the book.  The result is really nice!  Tomorrow I'll show you how the books look with covers, gotten from the in flight magazines.  And perhaps something a little more holiday-ish!

Happy arting!

Guyzzzz.  Today I painted some tiny people.  They can be the elves that live in the house, causing mischief.

I found them, plain white, at an art supply store, in the railroad section!  A darling friend of mine bought it for me, and I had an amazing time hanging out with my buddies all day Saturday.  I even made a new friend (hi!)

This pic might be a little clearer, but I'm taking it with my cell phone so no promises.

From left to right, it's Shirtless Guy, Old Guy, Hipster Guy, Two Face, and the Fifth Doctor (or as I call them, the One With The Celery).

I did the painting with a push pin!  Guys, painting these little people is more fun than a ticklish monkey in a room full of feathers.