Elisha is FIT for You...

I love this sweetie!!! I know that you can make wonderful art with her and I want to see it!!! She has such sweet, expressive eyes and chubby cheeks:)

This is my take on her, but I know that I will use her over and over. She is too cute not too!

This next photo is for my Mom. She found out last week that she has breast cancer. She had surgery yesterday to remove the tumor and biopsy the lymph nodes. The nodes came back clean and the surgeon feels very confident that he removed all the cancer. Now, after her incisions heal, she will have radiation 5 days a week for 7 weeks. We feel very thankful that things are looking so good. So this photo is for her. This is how I see you Momma. Kickin' cancer's ass with your sleeves rolled up. I Love You.

The Bride and A FIT That's Fit for a Thursday...

The Bride

Sorry!!! The week has slipped away from me. Thank you so much you sweet, wonderful friends for all of your support and words of kindness. James is doing better and hopefully they will get him in quickly to check out those lungs. And THEN hopefully we won't need so many "breefment treatments" any more. He melts my heart every time he says that! LOL!! The FIT this week is a lovely, young lady who I am posting twice. I am giving you the original photo and then a cleaned up photo so you can choose which one to use. I also used her in a digital collage. She has such lovely eyes.

The Time Keeper

The Time Keeper, originally uploaded by art-e-ology.

Time runs in fits and starts here lately. This is what I do in the late hours when everyone is asleep except James and I. Thank so all so much for your sweet words and thoughtful comments. He is doing much better. When he is totally clear and well he is going to be put under general anesthesia so the doctors can scope his lungs to see what exactly is going on in there. I hope they can find something, anything, that will help him. We were able to keep him out of the hospital this time so that is awesome. When the asthma specialist said that he would need to be admitted if he didn't improve in 24 hours I looked over at him. He was laying on the exam table looking at the ceiling and one single big, fat tear rolled down from the corner of his eye. That's all the fuss he made and I knew he was so very scared. My poor Sweet, Sweet Bunny.

I have FITs for you this afternoon. We are all getting back into our routines here. But I think I could sleep for the next month or two! LOL!!!

Good Boy

Good Boy, originally uploaded by art-e-ology.

Julia

Julia , originally uploaded by art-e-ology.

Lena

Lena, originally uploaded by art-e-ology.

I love Flicker!! LOL!!!

Sorry if I have been quiet. James has had pneumonia and David and my husband are sick also. We have worked round the clock with James' doctor to keep him home and out of the hospital. He was hospitalized in November for pneumonia and I did not want him back there. He was so sad/scared when he thought he might have to go again. Tired is my middle name this week:) So forgive my quietness. I plan to nap as much as possible this weekend;) Love, Jamie

Elizabeth

Elizabeth, originally uploaded by art-e-ology.

Just testing out my new Flicker account:)

Kewpie Doll FIT!...Thank You Sweet Friends!...

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter! It rained here for the 4th year in a row, so the Easter Bunny had to hide his eggs indoors. I may be finding jelly beans in the couch cushions for weeks!


Look at this living Kewpie Doll!!!! That hair!!! Is he not the sweetest thing?! I love finding cabinet cards that show the children smiling. He is clutching a little bell in his right hand. You know he was ringing that thing as fast as he could! LOL!! There was no identification for this sweetie, but the photographer was from the Schubert Brothers Studio of Chilton, Wisconsin.


I have had a really wonderful response about the new digital collage sheets and I wanted to share some of the lovely artists who have been so sweet to show the art pieces they have made using the sheets.

This first piece is from Sweet Lori over at My Faerie Window. She used the tintype collage sheet in a sweet tag for her spectacular burlap bag. I love the vintage handkerchief and vintage pearl jewelry piece she used as accents. Only Lori could make lowly burlap look so beautiful! LOL!!

She also is a genius with collage, paper clay AND needle felting. If I didn't love her so much I would be terribly jealous;)



These next pieces are from Sweet Nancy over at Vintage Papers. She used both of the tintype collage sheet and the Lena collage sheet. Nancy just finished her Spring Break and she made grand use of her time:) Look at all the wonderful pieces she created! These first three pieces are skinny collages. I see on the first collage Nancy also used the fabulous egg stamp from her Sugar Lump Studio's Heartfelt stamp collection as embellishment. I have that set and love it!!

The next collages are beautiful cards!! One using my Lena collage and one using a FIT!! I love it when I see those FITS in action:) I always love Nancy's art and the images she shares with us.
I love all of these so much Nancy! Thank you Sweet Friend.

If you have posted art using any of the collage sheets or FITs and I have not posted them then ring my neck and let me know! LOL!! Not too hard though;)

Having A FIT for Easter!...

I was cleaning out my piles of "old stuff nobody really cares about" (Thanks David! Way to support your Mom! LOL!!) and I found these Easter postcards that I had bought and then forgotten about. Organization at it's finest, People! LOL! I left the post cards worn and dirty just as they are, but they are high resolution and you can clean them up before you use them if you like:) They would make great Easter tags!

I'm not too sure about this one. Why does that little girl have a gun? Are they hunting the Easter bunny? Did He get away? These things keep me up at night Folks:)

Thank You Sweet Guinea Pigs:)...

Thank you so much for all of your help with the new collage sheets!! Your feedback means so much to me and has really helped me today. The collage sheets are yours to keep and use to create wonderful art. Love, Jamie

A FIT That's Fit for Your Mother...I'm Special...Thank You Guinea Pigs...

There are two photos for today's FIT. The first is a photo from France from the late 1800's. This sweet cutie has wiggled right out of one of her black stockings. I love how she is looking right into the camera. What an adult look for such a tiny thing!

The next FIT photo is included for Mother's Day coming up. It really is such a sweet moment captured between Mother and Child. I love the christening gown the little one is wearing and the proud look on Mother's face. I forgot to add yesterday that the baby's name is Hazel Louis Denny and she is 5 months old. So SWEET!!

Why am I special you ask? Well, it's because I am now the owner of an original art piece, "Maude and the Lucky Bug", from Tumblefish Studio. Wonderful artist Miss Marsha Jorgensen created the most vibrant and special collage piece using sweet Maude from the FIT images. I was lucky enough to grab it from her awesome ETSY shop and I LOVE it so much!!!! She hand colors her collage elements and they are truly works of art. Although this is my first piece from Marsha I know it won't be my last. If you haven't already visited Marsha's blog then get ready to be blown away by her creative moxie. You must be warned though, she is quite addicting:)

Maude and the Lucky Bug . . .Copyright by Marsha Jorgensen 1/23/09

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you to all the brave souls who fell into my trap...I mean, volunteered to help me with my digital collage sheets. LOL!! I will begin emailing them at the beginning of next week. It is not too late to send me your email at askarteology@yahoo.com

I am looking forward to your feedback. The good and the bad:) Love, Jamie

Running In And Running Out....

Just running in to post some digital work to get it off my desktop:) I have some really special FITs for you tomorrow and a favor to ask you gals who use digital collage sheets. I am making some for the store, but I would really love some practice in sending them through the email and getting some feedback on print quality, etc. So if you are willing to help me out I would love your email address so I can send you some sheets early next week. My email is: askarteology@yahoo.com

Thanks so much Ya'll!

Love, Jamie

Spring Is Busting Out All Over FIT!!!!...We Are Home From Disney....Disney Photos (indulge me:)

Spring has sprung officially in our town and I am FINALLY in the mood for it! The FIT for today is a beautiful colorized photo from the 30's or 40's. It is perfect for your Spring arting. We are home from Disney happy and tired. I have lots of photos to share with you when I get some time to post more. I just wanted to get the FIT up before it was a FIW:) I have missed you all and hope that you are all having some Spring too:) Love, Jamie

Wednesday
Ok. I am all unpacked!! Yeah! Here are some (about 1% LOL!!) of the photos from Disney World. It was a PERFECT vacation and we all had a fabulous time. My husband is a total nut and ordered ALL the Photo Pass pictures. (Disney has professional photographers at all the big attractions and character meetings to take your photo. Then they scan a little card and when you get home you can download them from the computer. For a price. Very slick, that Disney. They think of everything:) He says, "Their first trip is Once in a lifetime, Right?" Ok, Happy Boy, step AWAY from the computer. He must be still flyin' high on Disney Magic:) These photos are a combination of ones we took and ones from Photo Pass.

This is the inside lobby of the Animal Kingdom Villas where we stayed. It was so cool and we could see animals right outside from our balcony! They even had an animal check list with descriptions and pictures of all the animals you might see outside. We checked off ostriches, giraffes, zebra, Roan antelope, blesboks, Ankole cattle, Nyalas, wildebeest, East African Crowned Cranes and eastern White Pelicans. Oh, and a bunny. We made our own check box for the bunny:) All without leaving the villa. TOTALLY cool!

David and James enjoyed the warm weather and the pool. Of course James (who LOVES the ladies) made lots of new friends! LOL!!!

We spent the day at the Animal Kingdom for David's birthday. He wore a hat that looked like a birthday cake and I do believe that every person who worked at Disney that we saw that day wished him a Happy Birthday. They really go out of their way to be helpful and sweet there. He had a blast!

Here are the boys meeting Mickey for the first time. They got autographs from all the characters during the week. I know that James really believes in his heart that they are real. Swoon!

This is us in front of Expedition Everest which is a huge roller coaster in the Animal Kingdom park. David and my husband rode it first thing that morning and it was very foggy and cool looking. I did not ride it. NO.

James was chosen for Jedi training in front of the Star Wars ride in the MGM Hollywood Studios park. Really BIG deal and I know he got in because his father was yelling so loud for them to pick him! LOL!!!! Ok. First, I have never seen him so serious and proud. Second, I want to be a Jedi if that guy is going to teach me! LOL!! After they learned their Jedi moves then Darth Vader came out and they all got to fight him with their light sabers. HOW COOL IS THAT? That Darth Vader was about 7 feet tall and really scary and James fought him like a true Jedi. It was AWESOME!!

And finally this is James in the Magic Kingdom. They asked him to hold out his hands when they took his picture and then when we downloaded the photos yesterday they had put Tinkerbell in his hands. Magic. (I put the frame around him.)

Disney really is a Magical place. Seeing it through the boys' eyes was so wonderful. Having my Mom there was extra special. I don't think I have ever smiled so much. Ever.

A Whole Heap of FITS...Disney Here We Come!..Pitter Patter...

We are leaving Saturday morning for a week long trip to Disney World!! I have been busy packing and getting us ready. So I am posting enough FITs (Free Image Tuesdays) for this week AND next. The boys are so excited (and so is Momma!) and David will be celebrating his 9th birthday while we are there. We are staying in a Villa in the Animal Kingdom Park and we will be able to see the wildlife right from our balcony. They even give you night vision goggles so you can watch the animals in the dark!! How cool is that?!

First off, here is a FIT for my Posse of Paper Cowgirls!! We are going to have so much fun in June girls! This is a Real Photo Post Card. I have several of this same young lady at different times of her life. She is unidentified, but on the back of one of the post cards it says, "How do you like this one, Uncle? Love, Snookums" So, Snookums she is!

This Sweet Cutie is ADORABLE!!! I love the wilted flower he is clutching in his little hand. Sweet boys make me swoon:)

This Precious Little Girl is named Mildred Stowell. What is she doing in the photo? Well, the back tells us that, "Kittie scratched her" So she is looking at her booboo. Poor, sweet Mildred. I love the coloring of the photo and her big, pink bow:)

I included this Sweet Piece of Vintage Eye Candy for next week. He's so handsome and if you look closely he has a photo pin of his sweetheart on his jacket. Lucky Girl!

Now, this cabinet card is truly one of my favorites! As you know, I was a teacher for 10 years before the boys came and I loved it and still miss the classroom. This is a class photo of a teacher and her students. They look like they are very well to do girls. They are all so beautiful and dreamy looking to me. I really love the poses the photographer placed them into for the picture. I am sure they were a close group of girls. The added bonus to this cabinet photo is that all of the students and the teacher are identified on the back. It's a rare combo of a perfect photo and personnal identification.

A few weeks ago Sweet Colette asked, "What makes your heart go pitter-patter?" My antique/vintage flower frog collection made me happy this week. The boys like to stack them up and hang Lego men from them:) What made you happy this week?

Here's a Few FIWs...

Butterfly Boy

Digital collage using FIT images (boy and tintype) and antique butterfly print.

It's Free Image Wednesday! Sorry! LOL!! I guess it's better than a FIF or a FIS:) These are two Carte de Visita photographs from the late 1800s. They are not from the same family, but I think they look like Brother and Sister. Both children are beautiful and would make great collage subjects. I am working on one using the boy:) See above. My blending skills leave ALOT to be desired, but I am happy with how the wings turned out. David says they are freaking him out and that I am going to scare people away from my blog. LOL!!!

Things I Am Thankful For Today: My Health, My Family and My Friends