SooZeQues Arroyo Junkers and Other Resurrections: Velvet Pumpkins

My art is an infectious need for me, sometimes a burden but most often a blessing.

This blog is about me and my obsessions, my loves, my need to create and my need of JUNK. I'm addicted to thrift stores, estate sales, flea markets and all roads leading off the beaten track to discover that perfect piece of junk. I recycle old license plates, old shovels, wheelbarrows, saw blades and anything else that's funky using my hand held plasma cutter. I love working with steel, sculpting, photography, watercolor painting, stained glass, and turning everyday utilitarian objects into art. Junked cars ~ I will always veer off the path to search out the beautiful wrecked Arroyo JunKers throughout Arizona, New Mexico and anywhere else the road may lead. When I'm not searching for those JunKers

I ~ RESURRECT ~ STEEL

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Am I Super Late or just So Way Prepared?

For Thanksgiving 2012 that is! I'm gonna opt for "SO WAY PREPARED"! I saw velvet pumpkins on someone's blog a few weeks ago and fell head over heals in love with there velvety, sultry, elegant look and I just had to figure out how to get some. If you look at the prices of them you kind of go.... Oh Hello... Expensive. So, I had to figure out how to make my own. Let me just say I can't sew, so anyone can do these.

I started searching for how I was gonna find Pumpkin Stems to make them look Real.... but Halloween and Thanksgiving were over and alas could not find them. However, all autuum stuff at Hobby Lobby was 90% off!!! Eureka I found something that I feel worked great. Notice the little spark-a-lee crocked neck squash as the stem.

Please don't look at the trashed kitchen table in the background - Artist at Work!

I'm totally in Love with these! Now I just need to find Velvet at 90% off and I can go crazy! Now that I've got this one last thing I wanted/needed to do I've got to get busy finishing up the Christmas Shopping Extravaganza! Well, perhaps it's not an Extravaganza ~ but I can dream!