Space Invaders
I pick up lots of small items at sales, and I have always had a pretty vivid imagination. I like to create creatures out of objects. The TV tubes are the perfect example. At one point you have just TV tubes, (which are really pretty amazing works of art by themselves), but if you put eyes on them, you give them a personality. And if you give the creatures a landscape, you have a whole story. It’s true, one picture is worth a thousand words.
-Cheri
-Cheri
-Cheri
-Cheri
-Cheri
I love to craft, and I love to draw. There are a lot of creative endeavors that I like to pursue, and since we have started this blog, I have come to the conclusion that I even might like to write. But there are times when I am surfing on the web and I come across something that is so incredible, that is so creative that I am embarrassed. (For example, look at this Sarah Mensinga website.). Those are the times that I ask myself, “why can’t I do that?” “What am I missing, why can’t I create like that?” As I wallow in my own self pity, saying less than savory things to myself, I decide that I will never make another thing. Forget it. No way. My hands will not touch a paintbrush, a pencil, pliers, you name it. I am finished. I am done with that part of my life that gives me so much pain. As I continue to argue with myself, imagining that I am packing up everything to give it to Goodwill, there is a little part of myself that is saying, “stop being a baby, grow up, how are you going to know if you don’t try, you have faced tougher things than this.” And eventually I have to admit that this little part of me could be right. This part of me could probably be right. This part of me is most likely right. Okay, okay this part is right, and I get back to the part of my that I truly love, besides the wonderful art that people create gives me wonderful images to look at and maybe some ideas to try out myself.
-Cheri
I thought it would be a good idea to let everyone know, that yes, there really is a true Link. Justin brought him home from a summer spent in Indianapolis. It was only a short time before I attached myself to him too. Link is a one in a million cat. We have six cats and a dog. And I love each of them, but Link has this specialness about him. When he looks at you, you can feel how much he truly loves you. It is like, our house is where he was always meant to be. It is so unusual to have a cat that seems to go out of his way to make you happy. Most of the time a cat demands from you, but he is really not like that. Don’t get me wrong, he does have moments of being contrary, and being a bit of a terror. But all in all he is one awesome cat, and he inspired me enough to draw a cartoon of him each day for a year. What a cat!
-Cheri
-Cheri
