Texas Altered Art

Newest Dishwasher flip magnet Mod Cat

2011-06-17T08:07:00.000-05:00

If I say so myself my new Dishwasher Magnet turned out great! And no my cats did not design it just inspired it!

Mod Cat Dishwasher Flip Sign Magnet

New dictionary book page collage art prints

2011-01-10T12:28:00.000-06:00

I love books old, vintage, picture books, textbook, almost any books!

I love old paper and really love the old paper in old books!

I love recycling, reclaiming, upcycling and reusing!

So what is more perfect for me than book page collages?

Great way to show off wonderful vintage images like

Vintage Sunbeam Motorcycle

A Dog for everyone

Vintage textbook image of Pecan varieties

And of course Mr.Gustave Eiffel's Tower!

Many many more and hopefully something for everyone!

Txalteredart

Dictionary Book Page Art Prints

2010-11-19T07:03:00.000-06:00

I love vintage images, paper, books, and monochromes. So vintage images printed on dictionary pages are just perfect for me! Check out all in my Artfire shop Txalteredart!

Vintage cameras, ladies hosiery, chess board and so many more interesting and aesthetically simple designs.

Lacy Romantic Shabby Chic Cuff bracelets

2010-11-05T06:58:00.000-05:00

I thought I would sort my laces, ribbons and such after the move (still on going) to my new little "studio". I did pretty well the first 30 minutes or so. By the time the second 30 minutes had elapse I was deep into cuff making.
Combining this lace with that lace, digging out a little ribbon here and there. And totally destroying all my sorting previously achieved!
But I think it was all well worth it! My new cuffs are so pretty and I enjoyed my day a lot more creating than cleaning!

Customer requested resizing for Dishwasher sign

2010-10-26T07:36:00.003-05:00

Getting ready for the No Kill in the Hills Bike Run this weekend

2010-10-13T15:48:00.000-05:00

And no I am not building up my muscles to be able to handle a motorcycle, I am getting my new series of No Kill In The Hills T-Shirt ready for this years fund raiser. The fund raiser is for the Canyon Lake Animal Shelter Society aka CLASS which is our local No Kill shelter. I set up and sell my wares as well as fix up a Donate Station of nifty little items.
If you are going to be around Canyon Lake TX this Saturday where the river is tumbling along, the temperature will be warm and cozy and the bikes will run to raise much needed funds!
Check it out!
Canyon Lake Animal Shelter Society

All images and design elements are protected by copyright.

My newest Dishwasher Magnets

2010-10-12T07:39:00.000-05:00

My newest unique fabric Dishwasher dirty clean magnets! Perfect for the holiday when we all know that things can get pretty hectic. We don't want to be washing those dirty dishes over and over again!

And don't forget they are perfect for that "different" present.

If shabby cottage is not for you how about

Or who doesn't love cute kittens!

Weatherproof non-resin Scrabble Tile Pendant

2010-08-18T12:57:00.000-05:00

Birdcages, period furniture, and lanterns
Unusual scrabble tile pendants

I had to find another way to make scrabble tiles pendants that hold up to long term wear because I can not use resin.
These look great even without the heavy shiny coating.
And I do believe these are even much more weather resistant.
And I am very close to saying water proof.
I soaked a couple in a bowl of water for 24 hours with no problem.
Now I would not recommend this but they survived it so I am not too worried about a rain shower.

Txalteredart Facebook Store

2010-07-08T11:07:00.000-05:00

Love the Payvment Facebook stores! Easy, Fun and another outlet for online sellers to reach out to possible customers! And of course show off to friends and family all your great finds and creations.
Right now the stores are not crawled by Google, maybe that will come. But the in-store search has the option to search all of Facebook Stores so you might be found through other Facer's shops.
Stop by my store Txalteredart and then head over to Payvment to get your own Facebook store!

Are These Dishes Dirt?

2010-04-11T09:22:00.000-05:00

Dishwasher Clean Dirty Flip Sign Nightmare / Paradise

Flip Sign will let everyone know!

Packin' Totes

2010-03-20T08:27:00.000-05:00

My extensive experience of doing trade shows and such caused my friend to request I help him out on his first endeavors. He was doing the local firearm shows, not that he sells them, but he was trying them out as a venue to pass out business cards for his Enforcementt-shirts.ecrater.com which caters to police and other enforcement agencies. Well being the obsessive seller I am, I thought "Now what can I sell?".

Voila! My Packin' series of canvas totes.

Shabby Victorian Dessert Pin Cushion Warm Roses

2010-02-18T16:54:00.000-06:00

Cottage chic pin cushion in a vintage glass dessert cup for the sewing room or any where in your shabby county decor.
Doily, lace, reclaimed jewelry bits and pieces, floral fabric,and stuffing make up this rich little dessert!

It was too too fun to make! Might have to make another!

A little help organizing: Scissor and Needle holders

2009-12-04T09:18:00.000-06:00

Great way to keep your embroidery or sewing scissor handy! The ribbon lets you hang this scissor holder close by and what a great useful and decorative bonus the little needle book is!

Even great for those who don't often have need of their needles and scissors. Sure beats digging around in that old drawer!

Find these scissor holder and needle book at Txalteredart on Artfire or at Txalteredart on Etsy.

All images and design elements are protected by copyright. Copyright is not transferable with the sale of this product. The buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights.

Protest is Patriotic

2009-11-10T08:08:00.000-06:00

I was watching "US vs John Lennon" directed by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld last September right after all the hubbub about the "Tea Parties". I believe it was on a clip from the 1968 Democratic Convention that I saw a young woman carrying a sign that just hit me as one of those things that we just often seem to forget. The sign simply said "Protest is Patriotic".

Being a compulsive "maker" I had to make these pinbacks. Every once in a while when I am wearing mine I notice someone stop, do a double take, and I think "they got it".

Fabric Collaged Light Switchplate Covers

2009-08-06T09:05:00.000-05:00

What to do with fabric and lace scraps? Collage and alter those switch plate covers!

My new Business Cards Holders

2009-07-20T13:17:00.000-05:00

Colleged altered art Business Card Holders OOAK for sure!

Check my listing at Txalteredart Artfire Studio

and Txalteredart Etsy Shop

Vintage girls sewing patterns treasure trove!

2009-06-15T18:20:00.000-05:00

So many 50s, 60s and 70s patterns in this bunch it will take me all summer to get them checked out and listed!

What a trip down memory lane!

Petite Jotter Note pad Pendants

2009-06-13T10:30:00.000-05:00

One of the little jotter notepads that I had such fun making!

(Well maybe not so much the sore hand from punching all those little circles)

A week-end alone...well but for the cats

2009-05-26T08:55:00.000-05:00

And I got controll of the tv. Set up a folding table in the living room. Brought out my felt, thread, and hair clip suff. Put the cats in the back room!!! And had a great time making these Embroidered Felt French Barrettes! I even had the time to list them in my Txalteredart Etsy shop
Well as they say "all good things must end" and "too much of a good thing..."

So back to jumping up in the middle of working to find someones missing flip-flops, explain to the college grad why the shed key won't work in the back door, and deal with the ever "there's nothing to eat" (translated: COOK DINNER! I'M STARVING!).

Life goes on!

I needed to Cheer Up!

2008-06-13T11:48:00.000-05:00

I was being grumpy. I was complaining! I had a mean sour face on!

I needed to cheer up so I made these cheery, cheery bright little home and song bird brooches.

They made me smile.

What about you?

BACK IN FOCUS unique photography backdrops

2008-04-07T13:27:00.000-05:00

"one of a kind hand-painted photography backdrops"

If ever in need, this is the place to find that perfect, unique HANDPAINTED 100% cotton BACKDROP.

Check out this new and creative perfessional.

http://www.backdropshop.com/Home_Page.html

And remember let others construct

So you can create!

2008-03-18T20:16:00.000-05:00

Support Online Artist Communities and gain wonderful, unique life long treasures!

Again the sisters!

2008-02-27T16:22:00.001-06:00

These can be found on ebay auctions. Search 0120851 as seller I.D.

Sisters Romance and Magic Prim Little Fairies

2008-02-27T10:57:00.001-06:00

Sisters Romance and Magic

Let me introduce you to a pair of sisters. Romance and Magic are, of course, slightly primitive, lightly fanciful and alluringly whimsical fairies. They turn up in so many places, often when you least expect them. At times they are together. At times they roam alone.

These are original mixed media 2 ½” x 3 ½” ACEO
Watercolor paper is mounted on mat board and sealed.
I used paper, watercolor, color pencils, acrylics, ink, sealers and glues.

They can be found right now at the wonderful new auction site for artist, crafters and those looking of ORIGINAL AND UNIQUE works.

http://www.artandcraftauctions.com/index.php

(Just use the search term

Txalteredart)

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“It is when we take a moment from our day and let our dreams fly, swirling around that they grow into creation.”

Ellen Jane Shelton Richardson
TxAlteredArt

What a Cute Cute Cute little Hoot Hoot Hoot! Mini little felt Owls

2007-11-22T19:07:00.000-06:00

These little owls just seemed to there waiting for me to lend them a hand and stitch them together.

I got so carried away with making them that I totally blew off finishing laying the tile in our bathroom. Course now if you walk across the floor in there you sort of stick to the floor....but oh well!

DESTASHING - RECYCLING - SPREADING IT AROUND!

2007-11-04T09:22:00.000-06:00

"The time has come the Walrus said........"
Yes the time has come for me to start reducing my stash. I am starting on paper items mainly old book pages but, life willing, I shall progress towards the back of the room which holds.......well, I am not sure.

I saw the look of horror on my daughters face when I opened the door to my "work room". ( You know the room I did once work in till it got too full and now I have to work in the living room and dining room.) And I know what she was pleading for...."Please let Mom hang on till this junk is gone!"

So I am trying, I am trying, but I do get so distracted. I've got some good junk---I mean stuff!
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5339955

My Fairy Dancer (altered art collage) may be leaving home!

2007-07-24T14:11:00.000-05:00

THE FAIRY DANCER

Oh, I was not sure I would or could let her go! But she was created to light up a world other than this one of mine. So she is now out there looking for a home!

History of those quilt pieces in "Where the Wind Blows"

2007-05-28T15:05:00.000-05:00

The other day I listed a wall hanging I made using pieces of two old quilts. I wanted to tell their story or rather the part of their story that I know.

The first is the piece upon which it is all built:
My Grandmother, like many woman of her time, made quilts. From flower sacks, tailor scraps, from anything and everything. She made a quilt for each of her grandchildren when they were born. When my oldest daughter was born she was determined to do the same for this great grandchild. She was older, so totally deaf and near blind. But she made the quilt. No one, even she, ever claimed it was a masterpiece. It was good enough, as she did say, to just keep the little one warm. As my daughter and I went here and there while the years passed, one thing we did not let go of was that quilt. And when my daughter had her daughter they often shared the warmth of that old quilt.
Now that is a sweet story, but, though true, there are many more stories than just this touching bit of history. There is the story of the picnic where my daughter threw the old quilt down on the ground (black gumbo) for the baby to play on. There is the story of the ice cream that melted when they fell asleep watching tv, snuggled up in the old quilt. There was the new puppy that just had to be kept warm! And there were a few stories that remain a mystery to me, (my daughter still refuses to tell them to me and I guess I have quit asking about them sometime in these last twenty years). Yes lots of stories and one basic fact. My daughter always had a washing machine.
I don’t throw much of anything away. When my daughter brought me this old raggedy thing, asking if I could “fix it up” and I realized what it was, I said, among a few choice other words, no. I took it to my work room and put it with another tattered piece of an old quilt.

The second piece is the small piece that is the young girls dress:
I hate shopping and am now physically very limited in the amount of walking and stuff I can do. But I live for garage sales, estate sales and thrift stores. My passion (other than grandchildren, pets and chocolate), is to reclaim, recycle and recreate. So what is better than “junk” sales?
This sale was listed as an estate sale and unlike many such listed really was an estate sale. I never got a name. I did talk to the elderly lady who seemed to be in charge and did find out a little bit of story. She told me it was her sister who had lived there. Well, step sister. She told me they were not close. She told me her step sister was a b.... well you know. I started wondering which one was the b... well you know. After looking around, gathering up a few items I went back to this charming elderly lady and asked how much. When she saw the old dilapidated quilt I had selected she said “Don’t know why you would want that thing? She never could sew worth a s..... And look how she ruined everything.” I smiled sweetly and again asked how much.
As I walked out of that home I swore to one thing and prayed for another. I swore that I would some day take a little piece of this unknown lady’s handiwork and again give it life. And I prayed that when I go and strangers are digging around in all my stuff someone is there saying just a little something nice about me.

The Story of How My R and R Cards Were Born

2007-05-04T20:07:00.000-05:00

I have started a new group of altered art mini cards. I call them my R and R Cards. And here is the story of how my R and R Cards were born:
I have had many different businesses in my life and awhile back when I was trying to clean and organize my work/junk room, I found myself holding a couple of boxes stuffed with various old business cards. And as is usual in my pathetic efforts at organizing all that stuff, I told myself to either do something with them or throw them away! Then I crammed them onto an already over stuffed shelf and basically forgot them. That is till a few days ago. I was still laying on my back, taking muscle relaxers and trying to recover from the back injury, (which without a doubt, has convinced me to never try to clean and organize again). Now even though I often can not remember how or why one thought has led to another, this particular day seems to have been a real wild free-for-all in the old thought association process. (Ever taken muscle relaxers? Ah, maybe...) There was Truman. I was reading one of Margaret Truman’s books. There was Mash. There was Hawkeye on R and R. And there were those boxes of old useless business cards. And that is when it happened, my great idea for R and R Cards. Not Rest and Relaxation Cards. No! Revive and Revise Cards! Revive: to bring back to life, give new vigor. Revise: to change, to alter.
I would like to say that I jumped up, rushed in and created my first R and R Cards. But I didn’t, I just went to sleep. (Ever taken muscle relaxers?) But when I was finally able to stand, even for just a little while at a time, I started creating R and R Cards! And as I created I realized there must be rules for R and R Cards.
I hate rules. I can’t remember rules. I try to follow size rules on other art cards but mine seem to always stick out to far somewhere or shrunk up somehow. My favorite pics are too large and that perfect text in that perfect font from one of my old ads is just too small to see! I just hate rules when I am completely engrossed in a passionate outpouring of creativity!
So I decided to have just one rule. An R and R Card must start with an old, no longer any good, business card and must end having been brought back to life with new vigor, changed and altered.
Reclaim, recycle, upcycle, recoup, retrieve, rescue or just plain salvage those old cards and MAKE ART!

Free Free Fonts Fonts Fonts

2007-03-25T09:47:00.000-05:00

Alway looking for that perfect Font! I love Fonts!
Todays Kim Kamando's Cool Site of the Day (http://www.komando.com/) is
http://www.creamundo.com/index.php?lang=en
9800 Free Fonts!!!!!!
Bye now I still have 9790 to check out!!

The Hitch Hiking Fairies Trip

2007-02-02T00:18:00.000-06:00

Just a note that the girls did make a long trip, arrived safely and I do believe they are very happy in their new home.

I got those Hitch Hiking Fairies!

2007-01-18T08:30:00.000-06:00

It may have taken some really weird weather here in the Texas Hill Country, like frozen water coming from the sky and covering the trees, the porch, the road and worse of all for some people the electrial lines!!!! But it was during these strange days that I at last was able to get those hitch hiking fairies!

So this could be called an altered art mini quilt I guess or just quilted art, or reclaimed textile visual art, or pieced mixed media textile art, or....

What ever you call it check these little fairies out 'cause I am sure I will never catch any more hiking across my mind!

New Year New Petite Verses

2007-01-14T14:37:00.000-06:00

This year I am presenting my petite verses in new ways. I think I like the ACEO format the best even though they are really ACEO with a twist.

But since I just love little bitty maybe the tiny little altered art book-lets made from slides is my new favorite.

Of course some of my poems are so perfect for the squared mixed media format. I use 4 inch square and as I most often do, I used some of my favorite fabric in this one.

If Kim Komando says it's cool...

2007-01-07T07:42:00.000-06:00

And yes Etsy is a great place to shop and support a unique group of artist and artisans!
http://www.etsy.com/index.php
And don't forget me and mine!!!!
Txalteredart
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=72974

ACEO ADVENTURES

2006-12-30T23:12:00.000-06:00

There is a story behind these collage altered art cards. Want to know how they are related to Tom Sawyer? Check them out in my Etsy shop. Reclaim then you too can create new adventures!

A Cat I Now Call Friend

2006-12-18T12:55:00.000-06:00

I was visiting family in Austin for a few days last week and Donny and I became friends, not close friends, but friends. I have always liked those older men.

Merry Christmas Collage Art Card

2006-12-12T08:17:00.000-06:00

My collaged Christmas Card for 2006

And a Merry Christmas to all!

No not the hitch hikers yet The moon got in the way

2006-12-02T19:53:00.000-06:00

"On a moonlit night I understood"

Explore my sites

2006-11-26T12:53:00.000-06:00

http://www.txalteredart.com
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2006-11-26T09:08:00.000-06:00

The Idea
explodes forth in a magical, awe inspiring moment of pure creative energy!
So it’s early morning, I don’t have to get up, not for a few hours. Nothing really I have to do. So I grab my book, blob-up all the pillows and there goes Inspector Alleyn running into a New Zealand hotel chasing a revolting, rich young cad who had given his the slip. But as Alleyn was locking the door my mind is just a little too much on my old pair of jeans with the hole in the leg. Now I don’t like to shop….unless it is a thrift stores, garage sales, or craft and fabric stores… and never for clothes to wear, so I need those pants since I just have two other pair. I guess I will do what I’ve done for 30 years and patch them (Oh I could do a little crazy patch)… to bad, if I junk them I would have the pockets, which are nicely rough and worn, and could do something with them…. Oh, (now where did Alleyn go all dirty and tired?) the idea!!!! a pocket and a hitch hiker….more than one hitch hiker, let me think…and of course some flowers……..

Tune In
for the first glimpse of The Idea as a reality
hopefully coming soon, maybe next week. I could get started right now… but it’s been so long since I have read this Marsh book (and who did cause that champagne to smash in his head?). And I do so love these slow quite mornings that would be just perfect with…..Oh my! I need some pancakes......