#faf Life is like a box of chocolates

It isn't always easy, sometimes it is bitter and unpleasant, other times filled with unimaginable joys.

May the sweet moments in life soothe and sustain you through the not so sweet times. And when you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Tomorrow is a new day, and a chance to create new joys.

FAFyes clue 

ART SWAP: Free Art Friday in Detroit

and they just posted a pic of the box we sent on their FB page.

 

This is for the Big Art Swap in January in Detroit.

Anybody can join in, and it's not just for the month of January. Click on the big art swap in the orange link above.

Edible MICE, #FAFyes and Ornaments

From Jafabrit

In between Nancy running the gallery for the YS Arts Council and moi drawing and plotting next years art projects, we play.  I've finished making the wedding crackers for my daughters wedding, and last Tuesday was spent making chocolate mice, a whole bowl of them. How we didn't gobble them all down is a wonder.

Nancy saw the idea in an old Family Fun magazine, and an apt title because it was FUN.

Nancy has been busy making felt ornaments and this weeks Free Art Friday Box-ATC Kit, which we left out this morning.

It was raining so we had to put the box in a clear bag, but if you are in town and see the yellow tag, it's finders keepers.

Have a GREAT weekend and thanks for visiting.

Nancy's Notes: Talking Trash

and we love trash
as in recycled trash that is.

Nancy has done quite a few pieces of work that creatively recycle odds and ends. This is a crushed can painting called "huh" that was included in several exhibits and a book.

This is felt applique on a hubcap for the landfill project.

I found this old ceramic from next to the trash one day and gave it to Nancy and it got collaged.

All those little itty bitty pieces of felt scraps are saved and used, so Nancy has a way of saving and using anything :)

Nancy is the gallery curator for the Yellow Springs Arts Council.

Happy Tree

What a glorious sunshiney day in 

Yellow Springs Ohio on Friday

and hanging out with Nancy while she's working at Village Artisans always makes me smile.

Smileys mostly around the Village

Ha Ha said the Fly to the Poop for Free Art Friday

Karma Box has found a home

Congratulations to Jade Wolf who found our Karma Box outside Ha Ha pizza.

Karma Box is made by corrine bayraktaroglu, with a hand embroidered fly, floss wrapped wire, altoid tin, vintage shag fabric and photo of sky. 

Olga the Traveling Bra Story

FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008

BUSTED! at the Knit Knot Tree in Yellow Springs, Ohio

Well, I guess it was inevitable...a big ol' bodacious Bra traveling around all by herself was bound to attract the attention of The Authorities sooner or later!

But who'da thunk I'd ever end up getting BUSTED

for making a public spectacle of myself in peaceful Yellow Springs, Ohio?

Certainly not me! But, here's how it all went down...

I was in Yellow Springs yesterday to check out a

unique art exhibit I'd read about on the Internet....

My Chaperon, Esqueleta (a very old but respected local artist) hosted a little cocktail party in my honor which was attended by several other localceleBRAties...But then Esqueleta (being a big old party pooper) started resenting all the attention I was getting (especially from a cute little bra-ling named Vicky)....
So she broke up the party and made me help her with her knitting!

Hmphf!...I did not think being a yarn holder was very becoming of one

so bodacious as I......so Vicky and I decided to ditch the ol' bag of bones and skipped off to see

what I came here for in the 1st place...the famous Knit Knot Tree!

Woo-Hoo! It was SPECTACULAR!!!I'd read about the Knit Knot Tree on the artist's blogs Jafabrit's Art andJafaGirlArt, and was so captivated by it's beauty, I just had to come and see it for myself!And as I hung upon the brightly colored tree branches, I felt inspired to release my own creativity...as well as my inhibitions...and so - I just let it ALL hang out!

Apparently this was quite entertaining for the local residents, as they were lining up just to get a gander at this wild and crazy bra hanging upon their tree...even Marco Comegys, Yellow Springs' famous local bra model, stopped by to have his picture taken with me!

But then....
I guess things got a bit too rowdy and I was BUSTED

for "wild flirtation with the local men" and being a "public nuisance"!

Oh the humiliation!

Luckily, the Police Chief let me off with only a stern warning

to "control myself"...

...then he stamped my passport to ensure I'd have a permanent record

of my very wild and breastly day in Yellow Springs, Ohio!

The artists/creators of the now FAMOUS KNIT KNOT TREE in Yellow Springs, Ohio are Corinne Bayraktaroglu and Nancy Mellon. They were inspired to start this project by a group of graffiti knitters, called Knitta, who tag inner cities with vibrant, stitched works of art. Corrine, Nancy, and the Tree all have become local celeBRAties in their own right - please read more about the Knit Knot Tree here and here, and see more amazing examples of other tree sweatershere and here!

And in case you're wondering

Why a Knit Knot Tree?

Here's what Corrine says:

"Well it's simple really.

Because we can, because it's fun,

because it makes people smile,

because it brightens up a dreary winter's day,

because children go ooooooh!aaaaaaaah!

because!!!!!! Life is too short to be getting yer knickers in a knot!"