Tea Party Fun!!!

Oh Everyone is soooo excited!
All the lacy dresses and pretty china and fine linens!
The Tea Party Has begun!

Scrumptious Snacks!
Delectable Delights!

And a nice warm Tea Pot to keep us going all night!!!

We're late! we're late! For a very important date!
Of course it wouldn't be me if I didn't run late!
The white Rabbit is trying to keep me on track!
Better late than Never!

"Colette" my Mad Hatter, is Running the show
Too much Jelly and Toast!
Time to be ladylike and find my little napkin!

Cheers to everyone! Enjoy the Teatime!

This is a work in progress for Jacqui at Odd dolls
She is going to be "Eros goddess of chaos"
Can you see the chaos in the background?
That is my life at this moment!

HELLO EVERYONE!

Here we are in the circus of my world!
Three days ago I had surgery
I was living in the cloud of Vicodin and the cloud lifted!
Now that I am recouping I thought maybe
I could get caught up on a few things!
So here we go!

I hung some new art in the middle of my play things!
Notice the little hands below that think they need
to help contribute to mommy's mini gallery!

This is my new art doll "Ferral Girl"
She is made by Anita Collins
She is based on Gary MCrozier's series "Broken Dolls"
I love her! I hope you can see what I see!
She is so fragile and soft and yet she is very wild!
She is fur, needle felted, polymer clay,glass eyes,hair& stockings

I would love to get inside of Anita's head and see her inspiration
Is this little one looking at her own heart?
Or the Heart of another?

Next I recieved a lttle treasure from miss Michelle Schafer
over at The Studio at Crow Haven Farm

She is jumping for joy that she made it all the way to
a house full of dollies.
She is so poseable and fun to play with!
She has a paperclay head,polymer hands
with a cloth wrapped wire armature body.
Her clothing is hand sewn with an adorable beaded belt
Her little covered basket has a bunny

Her she is serene in her new home
I can see that she is enjoying her pink surroundings!

Finally here is the other little giveaway I promised!
Tell me what you want and I will send you a little gifty!
Pick out one of these little items and it will fly your way

I will leave you with a final work in progress.
This is the beginning of a new doll...we shall see where she ends up!

Love to all and be creative in some way everyday!
xoxo Sheri DeBow

" All the Gurlz Again" at Eclectix!

O.K. so it has been a while since I have had two minutes to sit
down and give everybody the "What's Up?"
About the show at Eclectix! WOW!
What a great night! So much positive feedback!
I wish you all could have been there in person
but I will do my best to convey the night
so you will feel like you were there
So we are gonna do this Tarantino style
cause the pics loaded backwards
We are starting with the after party!
This is my girlfriends husband John
who took a ton of great photos.

This is John Mosbaugh My girlfriend Jennybird's Husband
And this is Jenny and I at the after party!

This is a handfull of my girlfriends
that made it down from Napa and Sonoma and San Fransisco
Jen,Amy,Carrie,Cari,me,Pam,Jennybird and Michelle

The show had about 200 people in attendance.
Over 40 people showed up just for me and
one of my girlfriends drove all the way from Oregon!

This is "Othello's Gift to Desdemona"
She was displayed on an antique nesting table.

This is the underskirt of "La petite Colette's ..." Dress

" La petite Colette, First Night on the Street"

The Catepillar and hand sculpted Mushrooms
Closer details of the "Allysin Wunderland..." Piece

The front of her little stage has a quote from the Madhatter
Basically about how he would make nonsense of sense
and chaos from order......and I completely relate!

"Allysin Wunderland and the Power of Suggestion"



"Wait I'm Not Ready"

This my Husband and I, feeling Joy and relief at the same time!
He was so proud of me and a great time was had by all!

If you want to see more you can check my Facebook
or go to Eclectix.com to check out the other artists
Sorry it took me so long to get going again!
I hope this great news was worth the wait!

Thanks for everyone's continued support!
xoxo Sheri DeBow

"La petite Colette,First Night on the Street"

Sheri DeBow artwork, originally uploaded by ostrich girl.

This is my newest sculpture!
She is going to be in a show at Eclectix this fri.May8th and the show runs until June 20th!
I am so excited and I wish that all of my blogging friends were going to be there
to see her in real life.As I walk through the door
I will be thinking of all the positive support you all give me!

The winner of the Giveaway is:
Kim from "Once Upon A Blue Crow"
CONGRATULATIONS and HOORAY!!!

This is just too much fun being generous for no reason
so I decided my next post will have to have a little giveaway as well!
I have some little springtime sculpted creatures
that need a loving home
so I will post some picks
and if you like what you see just leave me a little note
Also I think I will have to pick multiple people this time because
I can't stand leaving out any"Greedy Guts" who
are hoping to win!!! ( :
Love to all! xoxo Sheri DeBow

Crazy Mixed up Give Away Post!

This is my Sister-in-law Regina's birthday!
She is the one with the looong dark hair and tons of it!
Happy girl's night out!
This post is going to have my giveaway in it FINALLY!
It will be at the bottom,but I am warning you!
I loaded these pics at 3 in the morning
so this all has no rhyme or reason!

The end of the rain and the beginning of my roses!

Regina and I on birthday night!

Elli and Jeremy on Easter

My oldest Drew,my brother and his buddy Tim on Easter

Elli with her treasures!

My mom and my 3 yr. old Luke!

Pam & I on Regina's birthday!

Jenny and I with our toes in the sand on a 90 degree
day on a San Fransisco beach!

Cheers to you if you made to the end!
I have to explain myself a little,I normally have some point
But in this case I was trying to get pics to a friend,
cover the giveaway and stay awake at the same time!
So I have decide to send out a little painting!
I don't know what yet but something fun
that will make you smile!
I have a couple in the works
so I will post the pics when I post the winner!
Leave a comment if you want to win one of my paintings
and it is as simple as that!
xoxo Sheri DeBow

The beautiful Assemblage work of Jack Howe!

Stories of art in Santa Cruz!
Yesterday I had the most wonderful privilege
of traveling to Santa Cruz with my beloved friends
Jennybird Alcantara and John Mosbaugh
We went to see the show at Cabrillo college Art Museum
Which was an installation of Jack Howe's work

His work is put together to deal with current and relevant issues
as well as tell where he has been and what roads he has traveled.
All of Jack's pieces tell amazing stories

My photos of course do not do the work justice
as it is so wonderful to see
it all as a whole installation
but these are some of the smaller details.

Jack has a great and twisted sense of humor
There is definitely a dark side to his work
but it is balanced well with the light side of humor.

This is a piece that he added an old canvas to and embellished
her in old, beautiful jewelry you might find
rummaging through your grandmothers drawers

Many of the pieces include old war relics, antique photographs
tiny metal guns,medallions from the Catholic church
so many little pieces of literal representation
that you can get the meaning
and the feelings he is conveying just by studying
all the imagery he has chosen to bring together!

"My Forgotten Doll"
Is my favorite piece as I relate to loving a doll so much
as a little girl and then moving on to boys and so on
only to come back to loving dolls again as a grown woman
and wishing I had many of those dolls that were"forgotten"
Oh The Irony!

This is Jack Howe at the end of our wonderfully guided
tour into his mind!
Jack thankyou so much for the wonderful evening
and the time spent painstakingly assembling
your beautiful stories, boxes, shrines and treasures of art!

Jack Howe with "Heavy the HandPuppet"