Little Green Oddball

Westmoreland nesting Lion

Okay, it's taken me a good solid week to recover from my Dad's visit.

The visit itself was actually quite nice. It was the week before that really

effed me up. My Dad was a first sergeant in the Air Force. One of his weekly

duties was to inspect the barracks for cleanliness. He pretty much white gloved

every one's room in search of an infraction. And usually found at least one.

Welcome to my world. 

Imagine growing up in a household with a weekly inspection of sorts. 

Inspections I usually always failed. Always.

Scratching Dog Stone Animal

Fast forward some 25 years later, and after seven years apart he decides to come

visit. He hasn't seen me or my family in seven years. We left Texas on bad terms,

and it wasn't until the death of my Mother almost two years ago, that we began 

speaking again, and healing our fractured relationship. My Dad and I are 

ridiculously alike. Hence the wedges we both drive...

So to say I gave my house a thorough cleaning would be overstating

an insurmountable task. But I did do a pretty good job of making everything

appear to be tidy and dusted. I have a shit ton of chotchkies and dust collecting

collectibles, and crap, so dusting in itself is quite a chore. Plus, we have

three dogs, and two long haired cats, who produce their own miniature 

replicas out of shed hair every other day. Makes ya wanna come and visit my

hairy dust bowl of a curio shoppe doesn't it?

My Mom's wedding ring and everyday ring

Anyhoo, after a nice 4 day visit, good food, and an expected apology, I had to 

take a few days off to rest my aching back, and start going through all 

of the treasures my Dad brought me that belonged to my Mom. He was quite

generous with this delivery. I got all of her jewelry, her stone animal collection,

photo albums and scrapbooks that she made, a couple of pieces from her 

Westmorland Nesting animals collection, and various other cherished items.

 My Dad's stuffed animals from his childhood.

I think we're in a good place now. Finally.

Now I'm ready to get back into create mode and make some art!

I am a new fan of Oddball Art Stamps. I have a few of their images,

but haven't played with most of them yet. This little guy came with

a cool demon girl, but I wanted to use him all by himself for this ATC.

How cay-oot is he? Soooo cute! I have a thing for voodoo dolls.

Always have, just ask my husband...

"Can I have a lock of your hair?"

"What for?"

*snip!*

I popped this guy up on foam for dimension, after coloring him with Copics.

I used some Halloween paper scraps and skull glitter tape from

Recollections at Mike's. I found two punched hearts in black and 

added Firefly Stickles to make them sparkle. Added the "love me"

from Smeared Ink's Love Li'l Grumpies rubber set, 

and this ATC is fini.  

I'd like to enter this ATC in the following challenges:
Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge - #149 Going Green

Oddball Art Challenge - Love

Naughty Or Nice challenges - It Aint Easy Being Green

Left of Center challenges - Good/Bad Luck or LOC

(I think this might qualify for both, depending on how ya look at it)