Showing posts with label 12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 12. Show all posts

Monday, January 24, 2011

Monday Meet the Neighbors, Starter House

Welcome to a new Happy Homemaker addition called Meet the Neighbors that I hope to have every Monday. It's a chance to introduce and showcase other 365ers and artists by whom I am inspired and with whom I am collaborating.

For my first Meet the Neighbors, I am exhibiting the fantastic stylings of my day 12 Starter House by these creative people.

To start, here is what I made:


And here is what Heather Addley of 365 Days of Me created with it:

And here is 365 ~ Trees Please Misha's take on the Starter House:
 

My good friend Angie of Simulacrum cut out the windows and replaced them with stained glass:

Tara at Sun a Day made the house bright and cheerful:

While Phil at Micrograves made it Southern Gothic:

Pink Bayou, the creator of The Little Glass Fish, made a house for her fish, Ralph:


The amazing Amy (Amyzing?) of Snow Globe 365 made a snow globe. How cool is that?

Thanks so much, everybody, for playing along. I love the way they all came out. I think that I just might make another collaborative house. And please let me know in the comments section if you have a collaboration that needs participation.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

House No. 12: Starter House


House No. 12: Starter House
ink on repurposed chipboard
9 in. x 6.5 in.
012/365; 01/12/11

Today, one of my coworkers gave me starter for a friendship cake. A friendship cake, for those who are unfamiliar, is a recipe that calls for a starter that ferments for 10 days, after which you can make additional starter as well as bake a cake. This new starter is then passed on to friends, and they start the process again in ten days. In theory, I suppose the starter could be passed around for generations. Actually, perhaps I shouldn't think about that.

The friendship starter got me thinking of a creative starter, which is exactly what Noah Scalin's 365: A Daily Creativity Journal is doing for many of his friends. People are sharing their work, connecting and even setting up monthly forums. Pretty cool.

With all of this in mind, I created my house today as a creative starter for collaboration. I am inviting everyone who is interested to use this illustration to make something for their own 365 projects, or any project at all. Then please send me a link to your post or email it to me at Madonna {at} TheHappyHomemaker {dot} org, so that I may share it next Friday here and on The Happy Homemaker Facebook page. I can't wait to see if people use this drawing and what they create if they do.