Art City Austin 2011

Art City Austin is where Wendy and I tend to buy our matching art work every year, and this year was no different. What made it so great this year, was that this man, Rick Abrams was working in our medium - PLEXI! (He called it acrylic. We just aren't that fancy.) Here's Wendy's. Super cool. Here's mine. He does a collage in the back and then paints on the acrylic. There's spacers in between and it gives this crazy 3D effect. And then I saw my neighbor,and guess what she had. A brand new pink lady to go in her pink bathroom. Inspired.

It's raining .... graffiti style

Angry red curbside rain.

Chunky blue potty rain.

If at first you don't succeed ....

Drop a lot of f-bombs and keep going.
We pretty much have the art of making address plaques down to a science. Occasionally, we have to do re-do one to get it perfect, but generally ... ya know ... we get it done.

Until 6121 vertical coke bottle color. Man, talk about drama!

When we went ordered the plexiglas, we were told they were temporarily out. Upon searching their warehouse, our supplier found a scrap piece of plexiglas in the same color, but a different version that was supposed to be more durable, and they'd give it to us for the same price. Perfect! And they went so far as to cut the scrap into three pieces for us. Fast forward to assembling the plaque.

Take 1: Drill out the piece of plexiglas... go to pull the protective paper covering off the plexiglas before attaching numbers - bam - train wreck. The paper will only come off in small shreds. I find out orange oil dissolves the adhesive glue holding the paper to the plexigas. After this (tedious) process ... as soon as the last piece is finally scraped off - I see a scratch. Sigh ... yes a scratch.

Take 2: Move onto the next piece from the original three pieces they gave me. Drill ... then go to remove the protective paper, again a total cluster f*&# to peel the paper. Eventually I get the paper off only to see yet another scratch. This is version 1,2 and the third piece we opted not to deal with.

Take 3: March into said plexiglas distributor and freak out about what has happened. They work magic and "find" a piece of the original plexiglas we wanted. Take home, drill, and finally ... a beautiful plaque is born!!!

Now that IS wrong

"Deep diving with Wendy O."

These boys are looking to score some real pirate booty.

Is it Wrong???

"Army of Darkness" Collage art for glitter artist extraordinaire Sue Zola. A whole lotta dysfunction going on.

Austin Modern Home Tour 2011

Going to a modern home tour is kind of a double edged sword. Amazing eye candy and inspiration - but in the same breath - crushing because the houses are so rad it makes me, um, strongly dislike my house and green with house envy! But they have sh** like everyone else. I know because I stepped in it.

I really appreciated how the tour covered a gamut of house styles. All modern, but within the idea of modern, there was a full range. Here's a few we checked out.

Had a teen girl crush on the 9th St. house. An amazing mesh of modern and natural.

Open, sunny, and airy.

The division between interior and exterior living is seamless.

The Mary St. house had mad personality. A really fun house, from the building to the decor. I wish I had a picture of the front door, cuz it was fabulous. Of all the homes we saw, this one felt the most "Austin."

I was really pumped to check out this one. As I loved how they managed to give the exterior a modern, but still very mid-century look.

However, the interior was a let down. It was nice, but felt way to track home-ish. Did have some good accents and rad art though ...

While not on the tour, we did come across this house. Face it ... this house is ridiculous!

And then came the mac daddy. The most tricked out amazingly perfect thing I've ever seen. Everything about it kicked ass. Perfect ... drool worthy ... the biggest house crush a person could have.

Beautifully open, endless window walls, perfect location. Seriously, the whole package.

Meeeeoooowww.


Thanks to Scott & Tom for photos.

The Motherload of New Collage Art

We are so excited about our new batch of art. Not to toot our own horn, but really, we love love LOVE every piece and think they're all kickass! Been cuttin' and trickin' it all out for weeks. All available on Etsy.

"Miss Divine Peacock" did it in the study with the knife. Now she's swimming with the fishies.

"Mad Men Vampires" Hot women lusting for blood. Each a different 'fashion' of vampire.

"Jailbait" was beginning to show her age, so we gave her a bit of an ... overhaul, a little nip and tuck ...

"Torrid Latin Love" ... his manly urges got him in trouble. Now, he must beg for forgiveness.

"Legwarmer Warrior II" These fierce 1980's ladies don't play. You touch their legwarmers and they'll cut ya.
"Hot Pants" ... the perfect background to accentuate a hot ass, agreed?