art of the day * jan 5, 2012

I knew it would eventually happen where I would start something, and I wouldn't finish. tiny frustration- it's 10:20 and this old lady needs some rest to face tomorrow. Welp-there's always tomorrow. Today's art (or craft?) is a work in progress now- My husband had an old QTron box in his things that I was allowed to decorate, so it could still be used to hold that amazing funky guitar pedal...I decided to keep it's musical integrity and go crazy decoupaging the entire thing in vintage ticket stubs and musical stuff. Also a small nod to NJ's musical past.

The origin of all these cool musical pieces of paper admission came from a friend of my mom's- she was a realtor and one of the houses she was selling had an estate sale years ago. All this musical stuff was found years later in a dresser my mother had bought. I feel terrible not even knowing the man's name, but he saved EVERYTHING. and his musical tastes went from Liberace to Zappa, to the Grateful Dead to Jackson Browne. This guy saw a lot of shows. as well as sporting events, and he saved programs from the old Garden State Arts Center, the Capitol Theater, and more. It's nuts how much he kept. Newspaper articles, stickers, pins, handwritten setlists  and the list goes on. I had a few of his old tour shirts too. So his treasure became recycled into an all over salute to MUSIC envelope filter box.
I still need to seal it all and giveit a few hours of love and eyeballs, but the tickets are placed and i think it looks awesome :) Not sure yet what I'll do with the top sliding part of the box, but it'll cap it off into something nice. I love this box!

I really can't wait to finish it up.

yay music!

till tomorrow~*
b