What is Life?

If you've been following this blog, you will know that I collect sayings and incorporate them into my art. Before I started the company I did a lot of mixed media pieces. This is a piece I did from our Guerrilla Art class that we did many years ago. 

I like to do up a series of canvas, usually with leftover paint from a project, and keep them in a pile for when the moment arises that I need them. This saves a lot of time when I get the bug to do something on canvas and half the work is already done.

This piece was done with a lot of left over elements (wallpaper, cardboard and spackle paste).

On today's TTV we've gone back in time (to last year) and rerun one of our most asked questions "How do you add spackle to a piece of metal?"  Why are we rerunning you ask? Well, FedEx delivered our tapes to the wrong address and they were returned to us a week later, so our "IT Editor Guy" didn't have them in time. So, we could do one of two things, scream at FedEx "WTH, don't you guys know who we are?" of which they would have said, "No."  Or... run a past video. We decided to go the zen route! Are we still going to have a giveaway this week? Well, of course we are. Comment on this posting of how spackle has changed your life in 300 words or less (this is a joke) and we will pick a winner on Friday. What do you win? I have copies of six different mixed media pieces, so, this week we will pick six winners who will each receive 1 piece. (These pieces are approximately 7"x9")

This Saturday, National Scrapbook Day, I'll be teaching out at Mitchell Resort in Perrin, Texas being sponsored by Cat's Creation Scrapbooks. We will be creating little Mini-Me canvas art and I really look forward to driving out to the country. Have a great week and eat TACOS!

Comments

[Helen]

let me count the ways spackle has changed my life:
1. The obvious, I use it on the back of my metal.
2. I use it for an anti-aging face cream.
3. Scratches on your car, take some spackle and buff those suckers out
4. when my teeth are looking a little yellow/reddish due to my chain smoking and red wine drinking, I take that spackle and use it like tooth paste. It's the best whitening nontooth paste out there!
5. when my kids say any curse words, I take that spakle and wash their mouths out. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone, they get white teeth too!
6.with a little water, it cleans out any red wine I might of spilled on the carpet.
7. Watch out fido, you need a bath and spackle will get the smell out!
8. i can't think of anymore. But this is a good start!
Love the videos and love you too! Everyone needs a little break and it never hurts to watch an old video again!!!

[Kathy Otero]

It's Taco Tuesday and I would not be able to finish the week without seeing your faces, hear your laughs and getting some insperation. (even if it is an older vidio). Because I can always use a brain refresher.
Thanks

[geezee]

I don't use spackle, just watch Cheryl and Megan use it. That is how it has enhanced my life. Besides I am starting a wall of Stuff and TSS art will be great Centerpieces.

[Denise Cook]

It's not just spackle that has changed my life. It is varying art of Cheryl Darrow and Megan and your wonderful personalitys! Really miss being around you two! Don't ever change you two are GREAT!!!!
Denise

[Lori]

I think Helen, the first commenter should win something just for thinking up those items for spackle, those are freakin' hilarious. I try to avoid using spackle, since that would mean home improvement, and I'm totally done with that part of my life (at least I would like to think so). Ashamedly, I don't use it on my metal, I just take my chances.

[JeanneLee in MD]

Helen, that list is a riot!

I can only say, WHY did I throw out my last container of DAP Spackle!!
Seriously, I threw it out a month or so ago, because it was slightly hard and didn't spread well. If I had only THOUGHT to add water like Megan suggested(your TIP has changed my life, NOT the spackle)...duh, must have been a blonde moment for me. Yes, I went to WM and replaced the container...I won't be throwing this one away anytime soon!

[DeannaC]

Just started working w/metal and haven't ventured into my hubby's workshop in search of his spackle stash---yet! The day will come, I'm sure-ha! Thanks for the video. I am now armed w/the how-to of spackling when I am ready. Thanks for the laughs along the way ladies!

[peggy mcdevitt]

Spackle you say. I just enjoy having it sit around, people actually think I do something with it. When I tell them I put it on the back of my metal they just look at me funny. Keep those taco tuesday coming, tuesday has become my favorite day of the week. Your the first faces and voices I look at and hear on Tuesday. I always make sure I have a empty bladder and a full cup of coffee before I watch the video cause I laugh so hard. enjoy Peggy

[Dani Larcom]

I just know the fat man has some spackle around here somewhere . . .

[Anna]

I have this hanging in my scrap room! from when you gave me a copy while I was working at Scrapbooks Forever.

[Silvia P.]

I have not used spackle on my metal yet. but, I JUST BRUSHED MY TEETH WITH IT!!!!!jk.
hahaha. But now I know what to do with it.

[laura]

it's good to laugh. love you two and your funny followers. love the art. who cares if the video is old, still funny and inspiring.

[Ink-Pattie]

Spackle changed my life the first time I had to move out of an apartment and fill in one little tiny hole. In my next apartment, I nailed everything that didn't move to the walls, and tried them out in two or three places until I liked the placement. No problemo with extra holes--that's what spackle is for! And why use a stud finder if you can just hammer a nail repeatedly into the wall every half inch until you hit something solid? With studs every 16 inches, that means no more than 31 holes before you hit it right. Spackle! Love the stuff! Send me something to hang on the wall; I'm getting the nails out now.

[Marita S]

I too learned something new about spackle. Add water to it when it get's dried out and don't leave hotel key/cards in the room because your info is on them. LOL You two make my Tuesday's!!! Tuesday's my watch Taco Tuesday TTS and Biggest Loser night and you both inspire me - Always!! Now to go get the coffee stains off my teeth with spackle! Too funny!

[Wanda H]

Love this canvas you are showing and I'm sure all the rest are just as fabulous!! Teeth, huh!!! I don't think so!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Angie Hall Haviland]

Ahhhhh Spackle.....YUMMY Stuff LOL

Thanks for the refresher!!! Silly FED EX ... Go figure!

[Debby]

Spackle huh? Well I actually wanted to go to a hardware store with my husband so we could find the stuff. And he actually helped me find the stuff. So spackle brought us together. LOL.

[Lisa]

Spackle??? Ohhh... I know YOU use it but I'm not that advanced!! Now, that I have watched an oldie but goody, you have opened my eyes to yet ANOTHER technique that I have to add to my list of new things to give a go. I'm very sllooowwww, but am gonna head out and buy some!!!you Both " crack" me up, thanks for the weekly laugh!! Have a good one!!

[Mimi Martyn]

I have used spackle through a stencil but have not tried what you show in your TT Video's. I will soon though. Love the both of you.
Mimi

[Michelle Daschel]

Cheryl, I love all your art pieces. I really like the idea of doing up canvases in advance for when the bug to create with canvas bites you! There are times all I want to do is play with paint and this is a great idea.

Now for spackle. After one of your classes I went out and bought myself a small container. I love it. I can really go to town sanding the metal once that spackle is dry. And I love using up all those hotel room keys I have (I travel a LOT!)

[Carla H.]

A great laughing refresher course for our trusty spakle..Helen your comments are a hoot ; )

Have a fabulous teaching visit! Until next visit..xoxo

[Sharron Higgins]

Ways spackle can improve your life:
1. Will hold your dentures in place
2. No time for a mani or pedi? Spread some spackle under your fingernails for a faux French manicure
3. When the kids are bored, lay the shower curtain on the floor, spread with spackle and let them make snow angels
4. If your husband is feeling frisky and likes Asian girls, spread it on your face for that geisha look
5. Spread on your thighs to cover cellulite
6. Mix some with food color and tell the kids it's play doh
7. Moldy caulking around the tub? Cover it with spackle
8. Trying to make points with your mother in law? Take an empty cookie tin and cover with spackle like icing - "I knew you were coming, so I baked a cake." This only works when she's on a diet and won't really want to taste it. Might want to light that vanilla candle also.
9. Make several different sizes of spackle "globs" - let dry and then use them under your table legs to make it level (adds to that shabby chic look)
10. Go out and buy all the different colors of metal, all the molds and tools and get busy creating now that we know what it's really used for!!

[Ruth Ann Landry]

BWAHAHAHAH....funny you should ask...I just spent two days with three of my best friends from high school...we hadn't seen each other in 30-40 years...On the way, (I gave a ride to one of them) we were discussing that #11 mark we get between our eyebrows when we hit a "certain age...." (I tried to tell her it was from squinting too much in the sun...) Well, i suggested we could use spackle! Funniest part of the conversation was that she thought it was some new kind of face cream and got really excited about it until I explained what I meant!

[Linda Coppolino]

Not only do I look forward to the videos on TT, but the comments are just as entertaining! The refresher reminded about using wood putty. Have to try it on jewelry pieces. Thanks all!

[Lisa C.]

Spackle? Of course I have spackle - I have a 4 year old son. Holes & dents are a rite of passage for little boys. Thanks for all the great tips - when to use wood fill, etc. You gals always crack me up -- if I need a good laugh, I just pull up one of your videos. See you at Inspired.

[Patti Michels]

OK love the video HATED the FALSE INFORMATION.
As a hotel/motel owner for the past 30 years and a user of the magnetic strip key cards for 15 of those years you have it all WRONG. 1st of all the only information encoded on the strip is the individual hotel identity information; the hotels room number; and the time period in which the key is valid (check in and out information). The key lock manufacturer are responsible for the programing which encodes the key cards, they would never leave themselves responsible for your private information to be available on the key cards. It would also be unwise for the hotel/motel owners as well. Your faulty information comes from a uninformed source.

[Susan Chong]

Well, doesn't spackle hold the universe together? Without spackle we would all just float away into nothingness. Forget Einstein's theories.... it's all spackle. There is no big bang or wormholes or expanding dimensional vortexes. Just spackle. Ask me how I know. THEY told me. Yep. They did. And THEY know everything! Yep.
Oh, you know what else??!! THEY told me that all of our personal information is encoded on each and every hotel key card we have ever been assigned. Really. It's true. So, if you every forget your drivers license number, your birthday,social security number, or your mother's maiden name, just call the Holiday Inn. They got it all!

[Bonnie Belk]

When I was a college student, and later an apartment renter, I always filled my nail holes with toothpaste. Now I know that is what spackle is supposed to be used for, but with my own home, I never fill holes with anything! There is a container in my studio, and I'd love to use it if someone would come over and help me find it. It must be under some of those piles somewhere. There's hope! I just found my guillotine paper cutter under one. Maybe Megan could help me find it when you come over to film on your next roadtrip to Maryland.

But here's why I really wrote -
AND I SHOULD WIN A PRIZE JUST FOR THIS!
Cheryl and Megan are BOTH right about the hotel room keys. They don't have personal information on them, but it's not safe to leave them lying around, either. As someone whose credit card number was grabbed and encoded on a "blank" by someone shopping in Thailand, I know! The link to Urban Legends is below. I copied the last paragraph of the article for you.

So go ahead and send me my prize! I have a box full of hotel room-keys, and some embossed metal ready to go as soon as I find the Spackle.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_hotel_keycards.htm

That said, it's worth noting that law enforcement officials still warn that lost or stolen hotel keys can be put to ill use by identity thieves in another way - namely, re-encoding them with stolen personal information and using them to mimic ATM or credit cards for unauthorized purchases and withdrawals. Prudence therefore dictates returning key cards to the hotel registration desk upon checking out or destroying them to prevent their falling into the wrong hands.

[LK]

Go Bonnie go! You tell 'em, girl!

[Bonnie]

I think the Fedex and the UPS company should merge. We could call them the FEDUPS. hahaha