Sooooo Disgusted at Wal*Mart

Today I am disgusted. I broke my good palette knife last week, and I live in the boonies. I went to our newly "improved" Wal*Mart and looked for a palette knife... and looked.... and looked.... THERE WAS NONE! Not even a place for them to hang. Lots of brushes and ridiclously small and overpriced tubes of paint (in a set of course!), but not one palette knife!

I am bummed, wanted to paint along with Alison Vernon of New Hampshire, who has recently enchanted me with her easy yet impeccable technique as I witnessed in a video series I found yesterday.

I think I am going to start avoiding Wal*Mart at all costs, literally... this giant has become a legal monopoly, and now, they are stifling creativity (they even got rid of the FABRIC SECTION!?!?!).
But HEY, look at the HUGE electronics section! If you want to be a mindless drone and not have one creative thought you intend to act on, sit on your ever-increasing obese booty and be inundated with other people's ideas that are ultimately one big advertisement, well then, THIS is the place for you!

Don't forget the heat lamps with the grab-n-go boxes of fried chicken on the left of where your hungry easily-influenced immediate-gratification driven self waits for the sub-speedy cashier... and the sodas on your right, right by the candy bars...

Grosssssssssssss...........

I am so digusted. I think I would rather pay 85 cents more for every item I would otherwise buy there than weaken my already wavering sense of integrity...

Please give me a frickin' palette knife, some paint, a canvas and a well-deserved half hour, frolicking with my muse...

Crystal Silk and Steel Brooch made of 90% recycled materials

~ Crystal Silk and Steel Brooch shines, shimmers, and lusters with fiery iridescent color in a soft pallette of prism and glow. ~

It is fashioned after a miltary award/bar type pin, wrapped in pale pink silk and adorned with two iridescent chandelier crystals and a few found beads. It is all woven together with crocheted stainless steel, the pliant strength surrounding and protecting the fragile beauty within.

This brooch measures a little over 3 inches wide and almost three from the top of the crystal to the bottom of the small hanging beads.It will arrive in a pretty silver Ravena Relics gift box.This item is shipped US Priority Mail with a tracking number.

* Crystal Silk and Steel Brooch is made of 90% recycled materials *
This brooch is made of recycled cardboard packing, curtain, blouse, brass wire, and chandelier with new stainless steel wire and a found safety pin backing.This is One Of A Kind and no one else will ever have one just like it!

If you like the hat you see here, it is listed :http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=22750327

Artfire Has a new Look and so does my studio!

Artfire has been doing alot of work lately. Artisans can now customize their studios, add widgets, and a whole lot more I'm sure I haven't gotten to play with yet :)

Check it out when you get a minute...