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Sunday, July 25, 2010

How To Help With The Oil Spill Crisis

How To Help With The Oil Spill Crisis

Thursday, July 22, 2010

C. S. Alexis hunting driftwood on Wells Street Beach

The week in Chicago had to include a driftwood gathering. C.S. loves to hunt for the driftwood she uses to make her artwork and some of her handcrafted jewelry. Combing the beaches is so enjoyable. C.S. says it is one way to put life into perspective.

The impact of the Gulf Oil spill is weighing heavy on her mind. She could not help but think of all that black goo making death a certainty for the innocent victims, the wildlife. The tragedy was center stage in her thoughts as she gathered the driftwood.

Growing up near a lake like Lake Michigan and spending countless hours combing the shoreline has marked this artist for life. Marked in a wonderful way, C.S.has an outstanding positive attitude about nature, the elements and all that life on the shores of a Great Lake have to offer. She remembers when you could not walk on the beaches because the pollution was killing the fish and the dead fish bones were impossible to cross in bare feet.

Lake Michigan is so much better now that we humans have taken some actions to protect her. More could and should be done on Lake Michigan and around the world to protect and nurture our Mother Earth. Shout it from the top of your voice, learn as much as possible, teach our children and practice healthy environmental conservation on a routine agenda. Join forces and walk the talk. It is all about the love.

 
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Watch for this piece of driftwood in a future post as C.S. transforms her feelings through her mixed media makings.




Monday, July 12, 2010

C.S. Alexis doing private jewelry show in Chicago next week

Really looking forward to traveling back to visit friends and family. Most of all am excited to take a new line of jewelry to show at a private gathering. Will be hooking up with good friends, creative types, artists and writers and a mixed mash of remarkable folks to show my latest BPB jewelry line.
This one is dealing with the monster at large also known as The Gulf Oil Spill, BP's botch. The ultimate screw up, saying it politely. I am an avid outdoor type. I love nature, take me fishing, I am happy on the water. I love the wind, the waves, sunshine, flowers and wildlife. I live for it. It is there for me.
How much longer? Will we be able to watch the grandchildren play in the ocean? At the rate things are going it makes me sick. What can I do about it? I really am not 100% sure, but I feel I have to do something.

 
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Alternative energy is the long term answer. Sick to death of "big business" and "drill baby drill" trying to hold back the progress of what we should be doing about energy.
A few weeks ago my auto insurance company sent me a complimentary gift because I am a new customer. A nifty little radio, flash light combo thingy. No I don't need it but it is cute. What's so damn cute about it?

 
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The same thing that pisses me off. I can set it in the window ledge and the solar collector on it keeps it running. This pisses me off soooooo bbbbaaadd. Why?
Because I know that if technology has gotten this far with gadgets that we could be using these sources for way more than we are.
We need to pay attention here folks.

 
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Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social FeasibilitySunforce 39126 246-Watt High-Efficiency Polycrystalline Solar Power KitSunforce 44444 12-Volt 400-Watt Wind GeneratorSunforce 50044 60-Watt Solar Charging KitSunforce 39110 123-Watt High-Efficiency Polycrystalline Solar Panel with Sharp ModuleSunforce 82250 Solar Motion Light - Pack of 2
So my new line of jewelry is going to be my way of trying to do something about it. Wildlife is being massacred by big business and this tree hugging crazy old lady is about to go nuts. Time to get up and fight for what we know is ultimately RIGHT.

Friday, July 9, 2010

PBPFish

The water is a place to fish a place to relax a place to gather driftwood from the shore, C.S. Alexis loves the water, refreshing, cooling, calming, crashing waves

 
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Long days playing in the sand, walking on the beach, catching fish and swimming

 
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She likes to take her dogs to the water's edge, chasing sticks and biting waves, running hard and fast, kicking sand and shaking it all over everything

 
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The children love to wade and they never mind the warnings about getting their shoes wet, let alone their clothing

 
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picking up sea shells and laughing in the sun, wind blown hair the going style

 
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they imagine giant monsters living in the deep blue sea, sharks and whales the size
of ships

 
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finding bits and pieces of passers from another day, another lifetime spent upon the sands

 
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no thoughts of darkness lurking, boiling, burping

 
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miles from the beauty basking on the beach

 
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storming, thundering thick and black and dark so dark

 
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aweful, ugly, oozing, seeping sadness

 
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devastation pouring pounding drifting draining out

 
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pretty bad pretty bad pretty bad

 
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going black, killing everything in it's path

 
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PBPBPBPBPBPBPBPBPBPBPB....Go Fish

Thursday, July 8, 2010

From driftwood to artwork at Adrift Art Studio

 
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One thing C.S. loves very much is driftwood. She found her first piece on the south shores of Lake Michigan and she has been hunting for unique pieces every since. She collects it. She cleans it and she makes artwork out of it.
 
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Sometimes the pieces are small and she turns them in to jewelry pendants. Sometimes the pieces are very large and she has been known to turn them in to all kinds of things.
 
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One thing for certain, she never gets bored with making the driftwood creations and she never gets bored with hunting the driftwood.
 
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One of her favorite ways to be creative on driftwood is to add the technique of pyrography and color it up with acrylic paints. Sometimes she uses a small amount of acrylic paint and sometimes she just paints the night away.

 
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This piece tells a story.
It is a very sad story. One that has not yet found an ending.

 
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But she is sure it started with care less greed! Pretty Bad, Pretty? Bad? Pretty Bad......Pretty Bird, dirty bird.
 
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