Christmas Countdown 18: Christmas Tree #8

Christmas Countdown 18: Christmas Tree #8 - What's afoot?

Advent Blog Day 8 - What's afoot?

A shoe tree - no, not that kind of shoe tree that makes your shoes fit better - a Christmas shoe tree. These designer shoes in appropriate Christmas colours make a spectacular display especially with the sparkly shoe on top.

http://dustyburrito.blogspot.com/2012/12/christian-louboutin-high-heel-christmas.html

Do you think trees of thongs ( flip flops) and hiking boots stack up as well?

https://twitter.com/exeter_students/status/540473848572178432

http://thebwd.com/palladium-christmas-window-display-2012/

Ballet shoes, particularly pointe shoes, seem an obvious choice for dance companies to recycle worn shoes. Given the Nutcracker Suite is a favourite ballet of the Christmas season, a ballet shoe tree shouldn't really be a surprise - this video shows what an English ballet company did.

https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/127086020708886031/?lp=true

From Tripadvisor photos

We all don't have so many shoes which match ... Here is what a village did in Bali. This massive charity tree was created from abandoned and second hand shoes and after Christmas, any shoes in good shpae were donated to children and families in need.

https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/christmas-tree-made-with-thousands-of-old-shoes-created-by-news-photo/458220185

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And in this festive season, let's not forget our animal friends - you might just have a few horse shoes lying around to create this fun tree.

I'm happy so many are counting down to Christmas with me - I'm enjoying this and I hope you are too. What might tomorrow's Christmas trees be created from?

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In the Pink

At Tag Tuesday . Pinky O' Hagan is hosting a tag challenge which asks for 'a bit of pink".... not so difficult if you like pink. I don't use a lot of pink in my work, so it was quite a bit of a challenge when I thought only of pink - my thoughts went to pink roses, pink hearts, pink confectionery !!! Then I referred to this week's colour prompts, #coloricombo by artists Este MacLeod.... pink with sap green, dark tea, and sea green. I'm not sure I got the colours in this palette exactly, but here is my tag, a stylised landscape - The collaged background of the tag has torn pieces of watercolour art rejects, painted magazine pages and a little bit of gift paper. The tree silhouette is decorated with paper dots, cut with a hole puncher.

Wednesday's Children and Others.

STITCHED UP is now in its third week of exhibition and breaking all records of visitors - such an overwhelming response - so it is inevitable that a few people have had their photos taken with Wednesday's children, the stick doll installation.... First of all, Ben, a member of the amazing installation team at The Lock-Up. Thanks for taking such care installing 'the girls' - the digital laser level worked wonders and did I hear you talking to a few them? Ben from the installation team The Lock-Up Wednesday's children up on the wall. Then, of course , my own family - not all positive critiques, but you can't win them all! Many of my friends have been really supportive.... they have even visited a few times. Here are some of my Rotary friends on the opening night. Members of the Rotary Club of Wallsend-Maryland - Clarice, Cia, Sandy, Wilma, Christine Unexpected visitors even dropped by las...

The Sea - for Tag Tuesday

For the current challenge "The Sea" at Tag Tuesday, I made a couple of painted/ hand drawn tags . These were created from a piece of watercolour paper which had been sprayed with acrylic paint - blue, yellow and quinacridone gold. I then sketched over the top , trying to follow some pattern created by the splatter and then add some felt tip pen lines watercolour pencil to highlight the shapes. The tags represent the fantasies of the hidden city of Atlantis and a mermaid. With this theme in mind, I also add a free motion stitched tag I made earlier this year for 29 Faces -

Empress Wu Designs with Wilma

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