50 cents for your soul.....

It's incredibly rewarding to take a week off work and dedicate time to doing art. This week, amongst other things I set myself a goal to at least start a new shrine - my fourth - and low and behold I completed it today. I started out with an old wooden box, a piece of chain from a chandelier, a few heavy bolts and a tibetan tin heart. Then things emerged and evolved, and all the little extra bits I found in my junk drawers led me to create this shrine to Marilyn Monroe. I've always thought Marilyn was cool, in the days between her demise (actually she died a month before my conception) and when her face became popular culture on hand-bags and T shirts. Some Like It Hot is one of my favourite movies, and I adore her with Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. There is of course something sad about her short life, a sweetheart icon persecuted by the press and old men (recognize those dinosaurs?).  Marilyn once said "Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."  She wasn't as blonde as you might think. 

New Fabric Books

as inspired by Ailie Snow. I'm getting the hang of the technique now and I've discovered that if you take a bit of fabric and your sewing kit on holiday you can work on these while away from home, particularly if it's raining which it did 5 days out of 7 on my summer break this year.  Not that I'm complaining because I can't do anything about the weather, and it enforced rest on me. Plenty of good novels and cups of rosy-lee. Could be worse huh?