How to make a Plastic Bag Flower

Mine is not as elaborate as Tim Coffey's, but his tutorial is excellent for showing how to recycle plastic bags and make flowers.

Old yarnbombing image, but still used

It always surprises me when I come across an image of our Knit Knot Tree when browsing the web.  I don't know the person who took this photograph

 but it's used for the Yarnbombing Wikipedia  page. I came across it again in this  interesting article titled It's Not a Hobby, It's a Post-apocalyptic Skill: Space, Feminism, Queer, and Sticks and Strings.

There has been a LOT more tree cozies (amazing and wonderful) since the Knit Knot Tree gained international attention in 2008, but it's nice to see an old fave pop up now and again across the web.

When you get a Yen for something

You just have to go with it and I got a terrible yen to make my nana's Traditional Christmas Cake.  So my son and I spent Sunday baking up a batch. I knew ONE person who would seriously appreciate a cake, jafapal, aka KAOS Queen, Karen Jane Russell. She did remind me of one trick I had completely forgotten, soak the fruit overnight in tea. Oh well next time.  I dropped it off this morning and I was right.  

Karen has her own yen's going on

 and right now it's felting. She is going bonkers doing it and I am enjoying being the recipient of a couple of pieces.  I scored this lovely table mat in exchange for the cake. Trading is so FUN. 

She is currently working on the scarf below, and she wasn't kidding when she said her scarf looked like streaky bacon.

Jafagirls are getting Plasticized

at  Trash Fashion show and exhibit

Nancy will be modeling an original Plastique 

and MOI will be wearing a jafabrit original  called "pollution polly"

 modeled here by my skeleton in the closet Esqualita

Free Art Friday: BOX-isms

The jafagirls have started a new series of  Free Art Friday pieces called BOX-isms, which are a mixture of recycling,  found items, art, craft and creative altruism all rolled into one little box.

Kick OFF BOX

Hairy Man Thoughts

Made by Nancy Mellon

Box, cardboard, faux fur, old buttons, mini bird ornament 

 The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. Thich Nhat Hanh

Jafagirls have been leaving out free art since  2005. Jafabrit runs the Free Art Friday Blog highlighting free art being left around the world by groups and individuals, as well as links to the founders of the movement and various sites.

To view a slideshow of past jafagirl free art friday pieces click on image below

One of the pioneers of the FAF movement, los dave, shared some thoughts about free art friday with me HERE.

Jafagirls say BOO!

 Reverse Painting and collage on Plastic by Jafabrit

Have a fang-tastic night!

Archive:Hairy Mary at Bryan Community Center Gallery

in Yellow Springs, Ohio

as part of the

Women’s Voices Out Loud 

RECEPTION March 17th more info HERE

The Jafagirls would like to thank the Bryan Center for allowing women to have a voice and hosting Women’s Voices Out Loud.

We couldn’t think of a more appropriate event and month (Women’s History Month)  to share Hairy Mary in honor of Mary Wollstonecraft,  a pioneer and advocate for women’s rights and  wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. 

Hairy Mary Hairy Mary is a work in progress and is a Protest Mannequin.   She stands for a women’s right to be perfect just the way they are.

“One person’s expression of what it means to be human is for someone else the manifestation of something so repugnant or offensive it must be removed or destroyed.” 

-Jennifer Higgie, The Art Newspaper, “Free Speech”, June-August 2011

As reported in the Yellow Springs News complaints of obscenity by village employees