I am timing out on all these websites that want information about me…..well you guys can forgot about that! I am tired of sitting at the computer making sure I  use proper grammar and number sequences…I will however show u the new stuff that I’ve created since we last chatted….does anyone ever read this blog? ok you crazy Russians I know you are lurking trying to bust into my office website and steal valuable info but u are not getting into briedah’s word press account thanks to my watchdog JEB!

I was bored a couple of weekends ago-so I went wild on www.deviantscrap.com my former haunt when I was on Nancy’s design team. I bought 8 of Tumblefish Studio’s kits of vintage images. It took me all day to open and sort them into files that I can view by category.  above title: “fashion guide for the hopelessly ignorant” images from Tumblefish studios and Rucola Designs.

The Sour Companion

Edie & Francine went on the Grand Tour in 1920 and although they considered their voyage and subsequent romp across Europe a success, Francine ditched Edie in 1923 for a German Count named Willie and refused to acknowledge her existence for the rest of her life.
digital collage images Rucola Designs and Tumblefish Studios.
Stay tuned for more illustrations from thier ‘journey’.
painting and manipulations by artiste Sour Companion by briedah

wide awake club part two (do u remember wide awake club?) I was up way too late working on this collage….it was for the weekly contest held by t42goller from flickr.com. Similar to Collage Play with Crowabout that was Nancy B’s famous hangout, “collage circus” is open to the public and due to it’s young age (3 months old) has not the celebrity status of CPWC. Anyone and everyone is welcome to play and make a collage out of these images that t42goller puts together. right now there are only 32 members

collage circus entry for week 11 based on this collage sheet from t42goller:

cREDITS:

Check border – Buglady1104
Coffee lid – Candyn29**
Ticket – cindyiscrafty
Diagram – Double-M
Home Arts Cover – clotho98
OK label, Cock-I-Too label, Stained glass Windows – Dover Publishing
Cats fishing – EmmaPaperclip
Background – magpiearts
Butterflies – marceedugger
Woman w/ camera – Not Your Average Sock Monkey
Boy in hat – sassyarts
Phone dial SassyBellaMelange
Fish – ArtsyFartsyQueen
Cherries postcard and Numbers – t42goller

I was not able to add text to the images I posted earlier. Maybe I need to add the test first? Anyhow…..below is a resized digital collage from last month and a collage sheet for valentines day.

what to do in an air raid-digital collage, starring Jess (again) this time in a different dress…

I am sorry that I was unable to add text to the images below.

1. Mystery Gift: a 8×11 digital hidden image game for Jessica’s birthday (starring Jessica)

2. she’s berry late for our date: my entry for Week 3 of “Collage Circus”, a new collage group I was invited to by the administrator, t42goller, on www.flickr.com. So nice to be part of a collage group again, since CPWC disbanded about 18 months ago. So much has changed since then….

Did WordPress change the format or am I lame? Likely the latter. More soon.

August is the birthday month-I share my birthday with Terry, my nephew. His is the 15th and mine the 8th. Sydney turns ONE in just about a week!  I scored the Target gift cards and Terry inherited the JVC Karaoke system from “Aunt Mary”. Parties all the time…and best of all once the pool closes I’ll be working at Good Samaritan Hospital! I’ll miss chasing the ducks out of the pool….but time to go back to work....

To get back into the swing of things, to connect with humanity, to feel confident about myself and to feel productive I volunteered here to be the pool checker twice each day and several times on the weekend. Our community is large but there are only two real volunteers that help out with stuff that needs to be done to maintain a 220 unit complex of condominiums. I have finally been released back to work and so I am looking for work and also checking the pool until I can find a full time job. More about that later since it’s time to check the pool chlorine and ph levels right now…

my roommate left for nyc to pursue bigger opportunities. we are sharing a journal ’round robin’ to  express daily activity that enrages us or scandalizes us. so far the first five pages are done from my side of the country. this is page one.

is that edgar allen poe? vintage lingerie. digital ATC by briedah

going to keep it simple this christmas; lots of anxiety lately. these digital Artist Trading Cards are quick, easy and fun.

went to a cookie bake yesterday where we did almost 3000 cookies. today i have to do typical housework and laundry. does not really feel like christmas with the grim news about lay-offs. i guess i could join the occupy movement but i like having my own space…which i am sharing again with Jess. this is a good thing as i get lonely this time of year.

maybe trading cards will be in your mailbox someday?

just did not get enuff sleep last night. Jess came over last night and we spent like crazy as usual at our favorite stores. I had to finish cleaning my room and pay bills when we got home so I was up till 1 am trying to figure out how I could make $793.00 appear in my checking account. I am exhausted this morning. But hey it’s a short week! Thanksgiving at Deb & Jeff’s new house! got to go the work now…this digital collage was buried on my old computer from my days w/crowabout studio b….

Last night I had company! It’s been a while but it was time Sydney got to hang out at her great Aunt Mary’s house. She was delightful company for a two month old and she slept most of the evening until it was very late and she wanted to party. We had schmizza and pepsi and watched a ton of tv. she enjoyed “Up All Night” and “Toddlers & Tiaras”.

It was a wonderful feeling holding an infant and snuggling and listening to her breathing and feeling her heat glowing out of her burrito like blanket. I was amazed she could stay up that late. I was so intoxicated from baby scent and pepsi I hallucinated UFO’s in this odd series. digital collage. images from nancy baumiller daurrogotype ville, flicker comms.

Here is poor Maddie Dodd, born Madolyn Francine Dodd in 1868, in Portland Oregon.

this mixed media collage is about 8x 9.5.

Wouldn’t this look nice in your office?

thanks, sincerely, the artist, briedah

My dad was born in Hartford, Connecticut. This collage was made from some of his stuff that my family sent to me after the ‘files’ on each of my siblings was discovered after he died. Apparently, he spent some time in the Phillipines. Perhaps while he was in the service. These photos span his “young americans” look to his early 50′s. I always thought he looked like movie star and never understood why he did not quit his job with the FBI to move us all to Hollywood.

Happy Birthday Dad!

digital collage with images from CPWC, flickr commons. Mrs A. Baltimore of East Sedgewick took a lover, Mr S Jamison, her literature professor. Jamison was very attentive to her but dismissed her student fiction as ‘elementary, cliched, and dull”. Her husband, Archibald, found the two while in a compromising position in the drawing room at their Manhattan townhome on 31 October 1899 and enraged, drew his revolver mortally wounding Jamison.
It is said that his ghost still haunts the home on 5th Avenue and 91st.
from flickr, posted 10/22/11

My photo albums are basically plastic containers with snap lids. Not all photos make it to the plastic container. Occasionally I come across a stash of photos in a shoe box or some small wicker basket with crap that should have been trashed years ago. My idea of organizing is finding bigger boxes to throw the smaller boxes into and then shove the new box o crap into my closet. My system was working fine until Jessica moved in last June to save a little $ for her road trip to Austin or Nashville. Consequently boxes were moved to make room for her boxes o crap. It was like an episode of Hoarder’s Celebrity Death Match. But lo and behold a photo was found that I had little recollection of and I set it aside for months until I decided to work with it.

Here is a 4×6 mixed media collage of my dad and step mother in heaven. It needs a shrine box but I am having a difficult time finding such an irregular shaped box. I will leave it on my mantle for now with candles and incense. They would have approved of that. Very Roman Catholic.

Sorry I have been missing again. Let’s pretend I was on vacation in Hawaii…I could tell you what’s going on but I haven’t much energy today…who needs details anyhow? I’m pretty sure this sold at one of my shows….