Free Offer to the 500 th follower on my Blog!

Since I have 499 followers, as of this blog post, I would like to offer a free Victorian Lady in a Presentation Box kit to the 500 th follower of my blog, if they would like one. If my 500 th follower would please email me your address, we will send out the kit as soon as possible!! I still remember when I had 3 followers of this blog for the longest time and Debbie Wright suggested I bite the bullet and add the gadget for followers, I'm pleased she did! Thank you so much to everyone who is a follower, I have enjoyed looking at all of your blogs, if I can find them through your link.  Mini Hugs, Jean

Georgia Murray's Thank you!

A short thank you from Georgia Murray that she posted on Youtube. You can see our son Tony and Artie too. I would like to also thank everyone who supported Georgia by looking at her youtube and voting for her to keep her on the show. You are the best!!

Georgia Murray and Tony Day (my son's) "Silver Lining" on Cover Me Canada!

 

Georgia singing Sunglasses at Night 

Aside from the very obvious benefits for Georgia and her band being chosen to be on a Nation wide show, when reviewing Georgia's elimination on TV again and in particular the comments that were made by the judges, I found something I had overlooked.

Ron Fair said to Georgia "Who are you... Georgia and Kytami or are you Edith Piaf? and in and earlier comment he mention being like Mick Jagar and Keith Richards. I took these as compliments for Georgia.

Since I've always tried to be a positive person, I got to thinking that most likely Ron really thought about what he was going to say to Georgia for quite some time. What a great choice... I've always been a fan of Mick Jaggar and Keith Richards! Edith Piaf is my favorite singer of all time!! If you have not seen the movie "La Vie En Rose" you really must!!! What a tremendous voice and I remember mentioning to Georgia years ago that Georgia reminded me of her in the way Edith loved to sing for the sake of singing and so soulful...what a soulful crooner, very much like Georgia!! What a choice.... of course I hope she continues to be the Georgia we love!

Georgia Murray and Tony Day (my son's) Last week on Cover Me Canada!

Here is the song the producers of the show chose for Georgia and her band this week before the judges voted them off the show.

Thank you everyone who watched their videos for your support the last four weeks.

It was really difficult for me to watch members of my family and other band members being voted off the show. It has been such an interesting experience for them and probably has helped fix in their minds the exact direction they want their careers to go. Since Tony is a producer, I do think they already know what they want, this just was not the venue for them to express themselves. Georgia is such an amazing singer, writer and performer.

I have enjoyed other reality shows and I usually agree with the judges but not with this show.  Many of their comments about the various bands have sounded like they were not talking about the live performance at all. This is very strange... and wouldn't happen on America's Got Talent for example. Ron Fair mentioned Georgia had an attitude? I didn't see this in her performance. I understood the team of judges were going to be encouraging to all the bands but they really haven't; far more criticism than effort to motivate the singers.  Every band is unique in their own way and this uniqueness should be encouraged. The songs the show chooses for each band should enhance the singers and bands to bring out the best talent imaginable for each group. One of the judges sounded surprised to hear Warren Dean Flandez rapping.... very creative and what I thought the show was supposed to be about. If a group has come this far to be on the show, they already know what genre they prefer and there are a lot of Canadian covers to choose from that better reflect each of the band's various styles.

I loved Georgia's version of this song, although I had never heard the song before; each of the songs the other bands sang were very familiar. Please listen to Georgia's performance of  "Home for a Rest" by Spirit of the West. Georgia was very gracious at being eliminated, in spite of the fact the song they chose for Georgia really sounded like she was going to be sent home....

Hugs, Jean

Georgia Murray and Tony Day (my son) "Cover Me Canada" week 3 TV Immunity Yeah!!!!

 

Thank you so much to those of you who watched Georgia's video last week. She won immunity for this week, which is so awesome!! Georgia and her band performed Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at Night" and they were so fabulous. Georgia sported a new hair style and upped he game with a very cool dress.
Georgia actually got to talk to Corey Hart on the computer and he says he will be watching! Our son Tony actually had his hat off tonight.
So.... we get to have Artie, their one year old French Bulldog, staying with us longer, yeah. They are really missing him. We love taking him for walks to the beach, except he ate seaweed today! It might be healthy except for all the added sand, but that might be just added roughage. He lays down  under my blanket while we watch TV. He is such a sweetheart. Our cat's noses are a bit out of joint...  they are very old and quite set in their ways but they do seem to be tolerating him.


Hugs, Jean

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