Izabella's Blue

Fear Sucks So screw it Let's Ride!!

I love this new Harley Davidson ad campaign..the koolest!!

"Over the last 105 years in the saddle, we've seen wars, conflicts, depression, recession, resistance and revolution," "We've watched a thousand hand-wringing pundits disappear in our rear-view mirror. But every time this country has come out stronger than before .... If 105 years have proved one thing, it's that fear sucks and it doesn't last long. So screw it, let's ride. check out there latest ad campaign...love it!! http://tinyurl.com/6kug35

My first Hannah Grey design

Come visit Hannah Grey's Diary for more photos & instructions~  See all the other artists designs too ;)  Hannah Grey  xo!!

Happy Mother's Day

Tom Green headed towards Vegas!!!??

Tom Green!! I believe he is on his way to Vegas!! ;)  You can follow him on his live broadcast http://tomgreen.com/

holocaust project

Announcement...

Jillian Curtis doesn’t want her children to bring hate into the world.

So she and her sons, Jarrett, 10, and Josh, 11, are building a Holocaust memorial — their first major undertaking in their first month of homeschooling — to remember the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust.


Jillian Curtis, 32, of Winona, and her sons, Joshua, 11, left, and Jarrett, 10, have received nearly 500 stars in the mail, including one of their favorites, center, depicting Schindler's List, from artist Angela Matteson of Chicago. Curtis posted a request for stars, which each represent a Jewish life lost during the Holocaust, on her blog a month ago as a home-school project for the boys. The stars will be displayed as a memorial in their garden. (Photo by Melissa Carlo/Winona Daily News)

The project is inspired by the movie “Paper Clips,” in which students at a Tennessee school, wanting to know what the number 6 million looks like, try to gather 6 million paper clips.

Instead of paper clips, the Curtises are asking people to send them stars.

“We started with the Holocaust because that’s the world’s biggest tragedy,” Jillian said. “They need to learn acceptance and not to be bullies or start fights. I want them to be good people when they grow up.”

Jillian, 32, posted a request for stars, representing the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany, on her blog, blog-me-til-midnight.blogspot.com, a month ago.

So far, about 500 stars have arrived at their home from as far away as Australia and China.

One, a blue card with a yellow Star of David on front, included this note: “What a wonderful thing you are doing! I designed my star to look like the sun in the sky because the brightness of those who died in the Holocaust still burns in my heart.”

Josh said thinking about the Holocaust makes him feel sad, and sometimes angry, because of all the children who died for no reason.

His favorite star so far is a cloth one, which is the biggest sent yet.

“(I was) wondering where the stars would come from, what they would look like,” he said. “I was hoping for a humongous one.”

For now, the family keeps the stars in a popcorn tin with planets and the words “Stories in the Sky” pictured on it.

This summer, Jillian’s husband, Robert, will help his kids build a wooden casing in the shape of a star, either a five-pointed star or a Star of David. They’ll put the stars inside and place the memorial in a flower garden next to roses.

Jillian said they don’t know whether they’ll make it to 6 million stars.

“We’ll see how far it grows,” she said.

Anyone who wants to send any kind of star to the Curtises can request the mailing address by e-mailing jillianmcurtis@yahoo.com

Tom Green on the road

I ab~soul~utely adore Tom Green, he is so crazy hillarious!  Right now he is traveling the states in an RV broadcasting live from the road, you can follow him from his website.  http://tomgreen.com/  oh my gosh, that boy makes me laugh ;)

playing with photoshop

Here is the original vintage photo ~ the other is altered in photoshop~

new art

new art up for auction on ebay http://tinyurl.com/33extm

Susan Tuttle Exhibition 36

I am very excited to share with you the cover of Exhibition 36: A Gallery of Mixed-Media Inspiration.  My art is published somewhere inside this book!  it is so suspensful to have to wait and hold the book in my hands.  I know Susan put her heart & soul into the creation of this book & I feel so honored to have been asked to contribute something. It is my first ever written article...and the artwork submitted is pre photoshop...I wish I was creating with photo shop before I was asked, I would be alot happier with the piece I created for her book~ but I am so excited for Susan & the other amazing artists in this book!!  can't wait to see it!! 

the book is now available for pre-order on Amazon here:

http://tinyurl.com/6myfh3

According to the details on Amazon, it looks like it will be available 
at their warehouse December 2008.  Exhibition 36 should be 
available in stores shortly after, in the US and abroad.

ZNE Convenzione!!!

oh my!! I am so excited... Lani is going to be singing at the gathering!!!

and Pam Garrison will also be teaching, that makes 13 lovely teachers!!

you check out the info on the ZNE website http://www.znestore.com/page/page/5796195.htm

Are you going!?  xo!!

new art on ebay

New art on ebay ~ http://tinyurl.com/33extm