This first Mermaid will have leaves for scales. I have some cool ideas for the arms and face and hair too. :-)

So far, well for right NOW, this is my favorite thing I've made! I just love humpback whales. Seeing them is the #1 reason I moved to Maine. I love steampunk too. I just think it's groovy! So to put the two together was and is a thrill for me! This guy has a blowhole that I've put a teeny-tiny little vial in so you can add flowers or anything that will fit. You can add some water and use fresh flowers or herbs, whatever you can think of...incense, matches, a magic wand... This guy has real barnacles from my beach glued to him.

I've stamped the words "Leviathan" and "Whaling" into the leather and added the coordinates to Eastport Maine. He carries a compass so he won't get lost during his migration. There's a door on his side you can open to discover our own Diver Ed of The Starfish Enterprise fame!

So now I have an even more fun inspirational idea. A GHOST SHIP!

I've gotta get on that. That's the REAL fun stuff! making something new!

But of course I love making copies too because they are ALL unique and man what a charmed life I lead!!

Winged Motivation will be selling wares at Pine Cone and Tassel Emporium right here in Eastport, Maine! 

Mostlly I want to put my nautical stuff in this very cool shop. I'm working on a funky unique take on a mermaid atm. I also want some more boat ideas along with the other nautical stuff I've been accumulating. I'm so tickled and honored to be included in this venture. 

Winged Motivation will be selling wares at King Richard's Faire in Massachusettes this year! I have been spending all of my time working on inventory! Here are some pix of mass produced, singularly by me (HA!) various pieces. 

I'm also itchin' to make a new curvy Pirate Ship shaped like a woman's body. My ships don't need to be sea-worthy. They just need to be...whimsical!

I have finally begun working on a more traditional looking pirate hat. It's been a long time coming and of course it will be a bit different than your completely typical Pirate Hat. 

Do you want to see a whale or two? Of COURSE you do! Well I cetainly do!  Travel to Head Harbor Light, on Campobello Island, Canada and you're almost sure to see one or two or three... From Eastport, the easiest and most fun way to see whales is to go on an Eastport Windjammers Whale Watching Cruise. I've gone with them an embarrassing number of times. But the whales are what drew me here, so I'm only a little embarrassed. 

The lighthouse is lovely. I decided to make a Dianna model of it with my unique spin(s). Here's what I have so far. I've made the basic shape and I've carved lines in it to represent the siding. I want to make windows and figure out what to do for the top. I made a lighthouse on top of a whale a couple of years ago. That existed only in my mind. The model for this one really exists! You could go and see it! with whales swimming nearby and seals and sharks even!

I finally finished the lighthouse. I LOVE it! When I make another one, I will make it more Cattywampus. But I love the eyes for lights. I put little nautical charms in all of the windows. 

This was a challenging project! angles and architectural details are not my forte. They aren't even my piano...That's a big part of why the next one will be more organic. PERFECTLY IMPERFECT. 

This fish is made of a ton of leather leaves that I dyed to look like fall colors. I love his face and his lips make me laugh-out-loud! He's a unique friend who seems to have a secret. 

I'm so honored to be able to display some of my art in the Pine Tassel Emporium on Water Street in Eastport. I definitely think the Octopus should be in there. The problem is I've fallen in love with him! So I decided I better make another one, a bit smaller might make sense. Here is the result. I love him too! 

I'm making these super cool flying sheep!  Somewhere, sometime in my childhood I KNOW I heard Monty Python say, "Look! It's a flying sheep!" I can't find it online anywhere, but I know it exists, if only in my mind. These sheep rock. You pull on the sheep and the wings and the sheep bounce around. It's adordable! The wool is actually angora goat aka mohair! I now own two angora goats! WHAT??? Yes I do! They are the sweetest cutest animals you can imagine! I got the wool for this project from the same place I got the goats! I've needle felted them and added a leather face which I shaped to look like a sheep face and I am giving them leather wings, so far angel and bat. I tried butterfly, but that looked funny. Next year I will  use the wool from my own goats!

I'm also making my own springs to go with these, because I frankly couldn't find any to buy. So it's a learning process and I keep learning! These sheep are just the cutest! I hang them on driftwood I gathered from my beach.

Now that I am in Maine, I have shifted (yet again) and am making a series of nautical sculptures etc. I've decided to call them Nautical Nonsense. Right now I'm working on this prototype of an octopus sculpture. It's always so fun and challenging to make something I've never made before. I keep going back and forth on the details but I'm diggin' how it looks at the moment at least. 

Update: I kept this guy around for so long without ever attaching the eyelets/suckers that I kinda fell in love with him just the way he is. I've made another smaller one with just a few differences, but no eyelets. Oh well. It wasn't meant to be. When a project is DONE,  I simply have to move on. 

I am thrilled to be designing a few masks for a ballet company based on Alice in Wonderland! So far, I have finished the Cheshire Cat and The White Rabbit. It's been so fun working with the artistic director for this project. It couldn't be a better fit with my lifelong bond with "All things Alice."

 This page will showcase what I'm working on NOW in whatever capacity that might be. I hope that this will encourage you to share what it is that you are "working on!"