Happy Flickr Foto Fun Friday!

Beautiful eye candy from talented artists in my groups, more info by clicking here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12448123@N07/1827190983/

Never Enough Pink!

Here are some fab photos from my Flickr friends in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Passionately Pink for the Cure- a Flickr and Yahoo! endeavor for the Komen Foundation. Thought I would share them with you. What's better than doggies in dresses and cupcakes with an edible bag to carry them?!

More Flickr Faves Eye Candy

1. Lobster Pot - Salt Rose, 2. Flawed beauty, 3. Vanilla Daisy Cupcakes, 4. TMNT cupcakes, 5. Sophie Dandridge! Sepia!, 6. Wand for Halloween swap Oct 07, 7. 1 Cat 9 lives, 8. Loni Sugarplume's Magical Garden!, 9. paper+dress+swap+007, 10. Art in Motion, 11. Archway, 12. polka dot tea set, 13. fish-88, 14. As requested ........, 15. SOLDERING scrabble letters, 16. nest girl assemblage, 17. Fairy, 18. DARE TO BE ME, 19. Bathing Beauty, 20. paintings from my daughter Gen, 21. "Jar Fairy" front., 22. Halloween Swap - Faerie Zine Group, 23. Follow Your Heart, 24. Midsummer Nights Tea! Neon!, 25. Green Bottles Line Up, 26. ahh to be 16 again, 27. Pink Ribbon Rose, 28. Sneak Peek for Teah, 29. Special Order, 30. Princess Claire

Hello Fellow Bloggers & Bloggettes & Readers

I've updated my blog and website links on the right to include more of my favorites and fellow bloggers. I have been thrilled that some of these folks have seen fit to include my blog on their site and link to here. If I have missed anyone or you have a blog you would like me to list here, just let me know and we'll trade links!

Meanwhile, enjoy the new blog toy/psych test. I've also cleaned up my other links and blog candy, to keep it fresh for you, dear reader.

Stay tuned soon to see what posting a comment for my 100th post will get you. Photo of goodies/prize(s) coming soon....and herein is a photo for fun, just because, from ClaresCupcakes.

If You Can't Bake 'Em, Join 'Em

After all the eye candy at Cupcakes Take the Cake http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/ and at Flickr here http://www.flickr.com/groups/cupcakestakethecake/, I am having a faux sugar rush! So, here's my own little faux contribution, appropriately titled, I think.

Pastel wedding cupcakes

Pastel wedding cupcakes
Originally uploaded by Crumbs and Doilies

One more pretty bit of eye candy. If I'm not careful, I'm going to blog my art right off my own front page! These are by "crumbs and doilies." I am just in love with pastel cupcakes, so come along, dear reader. It's fun, and there's no calories for looking! Cupcakes are the new wedding cake, according to the thousands of members of this group! Fine with me!

Some close-up eye candy

little snail cuppie
Originally uploaded by be cheery

Isn't this snail adorable? I just admire people who can work wonders with dough and in tiny proportions! So cute!! Love the grass and mushrooms!! Did I mention the snail? Love the colors, too! Who thinks of this stuff?

The Cupcake As Art? Definitely!

These are just the most incredible, sweet, beautiful things I have ever seen! Who could eat it? Wouldn't you want to save it to show everyone?! These were made by ( karen ) of Flickr and Cupcakes Take the Cake group fame here http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenilagan/1428592838/in/pool-82187133@N00/?addedcomment=1#comment72157602126486018. I am so glad she gave me permission to share them here. I am in charge of a baby shower at work. I don't think mine will look like this! Such talent!

The Cupcake As Art? Maybe Not.

The cupcake bug has really bitten me. I love looking at the beautiful works of art on Flickr as I have mentioned before. In fact I've requested permission to post another incredible work of art; meanwhile, here is my somewhat lame attempt to decorate Halloween cupcakes.

It was fun; they are colorful. But, they look nothing like the creations from my cupcake group! I guess practice could help in any arena!

I was amazed to see this is my 78th post! Getting close to that all-important 100th post milestone which means prizes! drawings! free goodies! just for commenting. A time-honored blog tradition. Stay tuned.

And still more cupcakes, or is it eye candy?

While I'm on the subject of cupcakes, and what a great subject it is, here is a link to the most wonderful blog, which goes with the Flickr photo site below. http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/. It is amazing the art people can create with these tiny little cakes. I do like to make and decorate cupcakes, and always have. But, I am waaaay out of my league here. Still, I love to look. Believe it or not, the creator of the mosaic below is not a professional baker and has only been decorating cupcakes about a year. That is some crazy talent!


I am feeling behind and bogged down with all of my art projects. I want to create, create, create, but work and life have to come first. I have so many things due in October, from Zetti postcards to a witch hat to 27 handpainted book pages to.....I forget. I have the ideas and the supplies, but....


Another ridiculously frustrating thing is that I have to put away virtually all my art supplies every night. Not because I am an anal tidier, which I am, but because my cats will eat anything. So far they have consumed parts of the following: paint brush, wooden ruler, sandpaper, feather, ribbon, paint water, yarn, rubber band, rubber stamp rubber, glue-like crystal effects liquid and more. Mind you, I do not want them to do this for their sake, and I try to keep it out of their reach. But, they try to do this when I am sleeping. Grrrr, just when I was starting to embrace clutter! (just a little clutter on my art table, that is).

Finally another shout out to two of my special groups: ZNE http://zneiscrafty.ning.com/ and ARTchix http://groups.yahoo.com/group/artchixstudio/. These are such wonderfully supportive and talented people and fun and active groups!!