Georgia Murray and Tony Day (my son) week 2 TV show competitor, very exciting!!.

Hi Everyone, LAST DAY for this week...you must be tired of me but I am begging again. This is the last day to vote and look at Georgia Murray's, my son's partner and their band performing during last Sunday's TV show Cover Me Canada's performance on youtube. Your looking today might allow her to get immunity for this Sunday's show.  Thank you everyone, Jean

The video on the bottom is an acoustic version of the song that Tony taped one night in Toronto. I love it!!

Georgia Murray and Tony Day (my son) TV show competitors, "Very Exciting News"!.

 Georgia Murray singing  "Up" on the TV show Cover Me Canada.



Georgia Murray, and my son Tony (D Whiz) were one of eight bands of over 3,000 bands that were chosen to compete on Cover Me Canada. John and I are so very proud of their achievements. The winner will win $100,000 and a record deal with Universal Canada. Pretty awesome so if you can vote and feel you want to, please do.

They have worked so hard on their music creating a very unique style. We really wish them the very best and respect all of their hard work. It must have been difficult to Georgia who loves Hip Hop and R&B to play Shania Twain's "Up". It couldn't have been farther away from her genre and comfort zone. I thought Georgia was fabulous and the rest of the band really ripped. 

Artie, their adorable French Bulldog is staying with us while they are in Toronto, we really enjoy his company so much. Artie is sending photos of his adventures with us each day to Tony and Georgia because he knows they miss him terribly. He saw geese the other day and has many people petting him. He went out past farms with pumpkins to a garden shop which he also enjoyed.


Their talented band includes the awesome violinist Kytami who wasn't scared to jump off part of the stage while performing!!
David Parfit on lead guitar with Jayme Langen bass guitar and Travis Nelson playing drums. Our son Tony is a producer and works the turntables.
This show is very different than other talent shows in that the judges have mentioned in their bios that they are interested in Creativity!!! To me uniqueness and creativity are really so important. The show and voting will also depend quite heavily on social media which seems really fair compared to when shows depended on multiple phone calls from viewers.
Tony and Georgia also released a 6 track EP called "Just a Dream" in June. 

A Mini Miniature Show on line this Weekend! Awesome!!

I wanted to make sure you have all heard about Shelly Norris' Miniature show on line that ends today.

Shelly is well know for her MOA Miniatures Only Auction Site.

The show is so amazing, there are so many artisans represented and selling their miniatures that I still haven't seen them all. I saw many dealers with quarter scale as well as twelfth scale represented.

Please go have a look.....at the show today....here is the link.
A Mini Miniature Show

I'm offering all of my kits at 25% discount through the show as well as my digital downloads for miniatures are on sale.

Above is a photo of a new digital download I'm offering for sale at the show. It is an altered art miniature Paris themed Album. I also sell it through my Etsy. I tried to make it creative for customers so each album can be very personal and you can add your own mini embellishments and you can make as many copies as you like.

Hugs, Jean

Free Printables, Slumber Hold Me

I loved this image from one of my antique children's book and thought you might like it too. Just click on it to enlarge it and right click to save it to your computer. It is also shown in black and white. If you would like to use it for miniature just reduce the image in a print program. Might be nice on the wall of a nursery. Hugs, Jean

Free Printables from a 1909 Life Knowledge book

Free Printables for July. 

It has been a while since I have offered any new free printables. Here are a few you are welcome to use, as with all of my free printables these are for personal use or may be used after or to be used after they are added to your own piece of tangible art work you might sell. 

To save just click on the image to make it larger and right click to save to your computer. I liked these images which are from my antique Life Knowledge book from 1909 that is about pregnancy and raising babies. I also have a Collage Sheet digital download that shows wonderful images of the anatomy of pregnancy available for purchase through my Etsy.  You can find the image here. 
http://www.etsy.com/listing/69956321/digital-collage-sheet-life-knowledge

Steampunk Article

June 14 will be International Steampunk Day!!! I've recently joined  Steampunk Canada's blog.  It is very interesting and got me thinking about the article I wrote about my miniature Steampunk Inventor's room that was published in the September 2010 AIM online magazine. It also was wonderful to see my Steampunk photos and contributions in two other miniature magazines as well,  Dollshouse Miniatures Magazine and American Miniaturist Magazine. I was delighted to be included in the wonderful articles and Galleries by Martha Puff, thanks so much Martha! You might enjoy reading Sally Watson's introductory article to miniature Steampunk in the August AIM magazine.


Here are jpgs of the article I wrote and formatted for September's 2010, AIM Artisans in Miniature online magazine magazine. You can find it in the archive of the magazines here, I have also included my project for that magazine as well about making a steamy ceiling.
I have not included the page I also formatted in my article of other miniaturist's work since I do not have their permission to republish it. Have a great week everyone, Cheers, Jean
PS I've added two more photos on top that I took recently.

 

AIM Artisans in Miniature free Magazine is out for June/July! Life of an Artist theme

Since we have just recently come home from a cruise where we visited the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Louvre, I was excited to format the Smaller Scales and Gallery for this month. What a wonderfully talented group the Artisans in Miniature members are and their contributions to this months magazine are fabulous. I've embedding the magazine in case you have not had a chance to read it yet. Great projects and articles to keep you reading for quite a while.

I'm hoping to get some photos up in my blog of some of the places we visited on our cruise that crossed the Atlantic and landed on the Azores, then went around Great Britain. We visited Ireland, Scotland, England and France.

Mini Hugs, Jean

Aim Imag Issue 35 June July 2011

AIM Artisans in Miniature free Magazine is out for May! Castle's Issue.

This month, with a Castle theme, there were so many fabulous contributions from the AIM members. Castle stories, projects and features, each so inspiring. John and I really enjoy our being part of the Editorial team and working towards such a great on line magazine. It is 140 pages this month that you can view below or through the AIM web site. http://www.artisansinminiature.com/   You can download this magazine as well. Through this link you can also view previous issues of AIM.


Thanks for looking!! Hugs, Jean



AIM Imag Issue 34 MAY 2011

Patty of Mini Babies is having a Contest

Patty of Mini Babies is having a contest to celebrate one year of blogging. I've always enjoyed her posts and love her hand sculpted babies. You could become a mother to one of her babies.
http://patty-petit-orphelin.blogspot.com/

Hugs, Jean

I've been designing more digitals for Etsy

I've been having a great time scanning and designing digital collage sheets that I sell on Etsy.

Since I have a tremor that has been bothering me more as I'm getting older, sad to say, LOL, I'm finding real pleasure with designing on the computer. I have such fabulous vintage images from my antique books and postcards. It is wonderful to find a way to share them. These make great gift cards, good for scrapbooking and other art crafts. The top image was from the cover of my French antique book La Maison De Lili that I have also made into a miniature book. The bottom two images are from an antique children's shaped book called Jumbo, I love them so much. The lady's holding the young girl are my photo shop art collages, very fun.  Hugs, Jean

AIM Artisans in Miniature free Magazine is out for April! Wonderful Bridal Issue!

AIM Imag Issue 33 April 2011

New Digital Downloads and A Miniature Show Online

 

 

 

Digital Downloads on Etsy


There are a couple of things I wanted to share with you today. I've really enjoyed working on digital downloads that I'm selling through Etsy, a few of them are shown above. My Etsy link is on the upper left corner of my blog homepage These would work well for either scrapbooking, miniatures, gift cards and some for pillows and quilts after ironing on an iron on transfer. These can be used for commercial tangible items you might make from these images to sell as well as personal projects.

First Miniature Show Online

Shelly Norris is having her first Online Miniature Show and Sale which will take place March 19 and 20. Over 650 people are registered to attend the show (you can win door prizes for registering) and there are over 40 dealers who will be selling. There are also workshops and roundtables. I am going to be a dealer and will have some of my kits at discounts during the show.


The registration form to the show is on page link below.
http://aminiminiatureshow.weebly.com/index.html
Cheers, Jean