Thanks for having a look at my good and sturdy art from trash. Here is some of the art I posted in October, November and December of 2011.

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THUNDERBIRD

5" x 5" $45

Ingredients: shelf from the old hollywood video store in yucca valley; branches from a nearby tree; scraps of wood, etc., from my collections; letters from donation creation in JT and John Luckett's artist yard sale in flamingo heights; brass wire from the yucca valley swap meet; pom poms from some old trim i've had for a long time, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Michael Wolfe in Kansas City, MO, we were once neighbors in KC, MO)

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO HAVE A HAPPY CHILDHOOD

18" x 16.5" $200

Ingredients: old board from the desert; scraps of wood from my collections; stuff i found on the ground; wire from an estate sale in santa monica with jack and brian; letters from friends, sales and the thrift stores of my life and also ebay; butterfly from a thrift store and which used to be on my refridgerator, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Trainer Tim Green in Los Angeles, CA)

JESUS

4.5" x 5" $23

Ingredients: piece of cabinet from my airstream trailer; wire from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Jack Pierson in NY and Wonder Valley, CA)

MR. BIG

2" x 3.5" $20

Ingredients: scrap of wood from my collections; bead from bobby furst of JT; wire from the yucca valley swap meet, love and cher from shari

SOLD (thank you Susan Kuhlman in NYC and Center Moriches, NY)

BATHING BEAUTY

5" x 5" $50

Ingredients: board from jack pierson's garage in wonder valley; old metal blind from the desert; lovely bowl i broke last week at my cabin and which was from a recent thrift store; my old make up; pom poms and thread from sandy crouse of ohio, wire from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Betty Tand in Houston, TX)

I BELIEVE IN ME MERMAID

5" x 10.5" $50

Ingredients: board and scraps of wood from my collections; glitter and craft rocks from some yard sales in the desert same for the threads; wire on back from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Michael Hall in Boston, MA)

REMEMBER TO PLAY EVERY DAY

3.5" x 6" $45

Ingredients: scrap of wood from jack pierson's garage in wonder valley, california; crayons from sandy crouse of ohio; wooden bead in split in half from a yard sale; wire on back from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Joyce Davis in Culver City, CA)

DOG PRINCE

3.5" x 7.5" $50

Ingredients: scrap of wood from jack pierson's garage in wonder valley, california; spool from sandy crouse of ohio; bead from a yard sale; eyes are rhinestones from bobby furst of joshua tree; tin foil from leftovers; ribbon from ramona otto; trim wood from my collections, love from shari

SOLD (thank you John Helgeland in Minneapolis, MN)

LOOK INTO MY EYES...BRING ME A CHRISTMAS COOKIE

5" x 5" $45

Ingredients: shelf from the old hollywood video store in yucca valley; scraps of wood from my collections; letters from jon luckett's yard sale; plaster letters from donation creation in jt; watchband from Ramona otto; wire from the yv swap meet; eraser from old pencil; love from shari

SOLD (thank you Jamie Frey in Meadowbrook, PA)

IT'S GOOD TO GET A NEW PERSPECTIVE

8" x 8" $60

Ingredients: board from Chantale Doyle of mt Fuji general store in jt ca; scraps of wood from my scrap pile; my old paint brushes; piece of my airstream trailer; wire from the yv swap meet; love from shari

SOLD (thank you Eva Born in Palo Alto, CA)

STRIPED CAT

4.5" x 4.5" $45

Ingredients: shelf from the old hollywood video store in yucca valley; old spool and crayons from sandy crouse of ohio; brass wire from the yucca valley swap meet; wire on back from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Eva Born in Palo Alto, CA)

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO HAVE A HAPPY CHILDHOOD

5" x 5" $45

Ingredients: made in joshua tree ca; old shelf from the old hollywood video store in yucca valley; old crayons from sandy crouse of ohio; my old paintbrushes; wood scraps from my collection; wire from the yucca valley swap meet; love from shari

SOLD (thank you Jamie Frey in Meadowbrook, PA)

HAPPY BiRTHDAY

8.25" x 8.25" $65

Ingredients: board from jack pierson's garage; old hose from the desert; scraps from my collections; pompoms from sandy crouse; wire from the YV swap meet; glitter from a KC, KS swap meet; love from shari

SOLD (thank you Jamal Hammadi in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, CA)

SOMETIMES I HAVE TO ASK MYSELF "WHAT WOULD CHER DO?"

14.5" x 11.5" $50

Ingredients: painting which constance was taking to the thrift store, frame from some sale; glitter from donation creation in joshua tree, love and cher from shari

SOLD (Thank you Melanie Austin in La Conner, WA)

THE JOY OF LIFE

9.5" x 9.5" $77

Ingredients: painting that one of the kids at the Living School of joshua tree made recently in my monday classes for them; old shelf from the now closed hollywood video store in Yucca Valley; frame wood was an old drawer from a dresser at art queen; glitter from a kansas city, kansas swap meet; old hose from my cabin; pipe cleaners and pompoms from sandy crouse of ohio; eyes from ebay; piece of wood and wire from the YV swap; craft rocks from a yard sale; love from shari

SOLD (thank you Dr. Pat Allen in Newport Beach, CA)

I HAVE A PURPOSE

24.5" x 21.5" $200

Ingredients: board from an estate sale in santa monica with jack and brian; frame wood from constance walsh of pioneertown, calif; rope from a long ago yard sale; real freshwater pearls from teri wilkes of champaign, IL; craft rocks from hospice thrift store in JT, calif, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Ragna Larusdottir originally of Iceland and living in Palo Alto, CA with her lovely family including Atom her son who really liked the welcome lady, too)

HERE YOU GO, BOY

6" x 8.25" $77

Ingredients: board from an estate in santa monica with jack and brian; scraps of other wood from my collections and " ladies, group of, 2"; old nails from the old wood i find; wire from the swap meet; love from shari

SOLD (thank you Dr. Ron ("Indy") Amos for his new office in Yucca Valley, CA)

GO WITH THE FLOW

14.5" x 11.5" $111

Ingredients: board from Chantale Doyle of Rimrock, CA and MT. fuji general store; frame wood is scraps from my recent project: "Ladies, group of, Z", and that was an old shelf from the YV swap meet; wire and small board i cut the surf board from are also from the swap meet; pompoms from sandy crouse of ohio; eyes from ebay; pipe cleaner from sandy also; puffy friend made by Harper and my art class for the living school; love from shari

SOLD (thank you Nichole Fromm in Madison, WI)

MR. SUN, SUN, MR. GOLDEN SUN, PLEASE SHINE DOWN ON ME.

16" x 13" $85

Ingredients: old board from chantale doyle of pioneertown, calif; my old paint brushes; dried up paint that was the original coat of paint on the world famous crochet museum, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Tim and Faith of 29 Palms, CA and who recently visited the Crochet Museum with Faith's mom and gave me a bunch of their moving boxes and paper and then came to my raw food class. They also picked up some What Would Cher Do? t-shirts at open studios in Joshua Tree last weekend)

ABSTRACT (EGGS)

7.5" x 4" $55

Ingredients: board from jack pierson's garage in wonder valley, calif; brass wire on back from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Lisa O'Brian in Los Angeles, CA)

ROLLER COASTER (OF LOVE)

6" x 6" $33

Ingredients: old drawer from art queen; pieces of a shelf from hollywood video store in YV; brass wire from the swap meet; love from shari

SOLD (thank you Dr. Pat Allen in Newport Beach, CA)

PEARLY SINGS FOR JESUS

22" x 27.5" $250

Ingredients: wooden thing i found somewhere; cans from beans and stuff; old chord from something; wire from an estate sale in santa monica with jack and brian; scrabble game from a recent church rummage sale; necklace from a thriftstore, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Marty Thomas in New York, NY)

note from Shari: I met a real nice lady named Pearly in the women's restroom at a church i went to recently. i told her Pearly was my new favorite name ever. i wanted to find a gospel choir to sing at art queen for my high desert test site project and i am hoping that the choir Pearly is in will be that choir. i ended up having to make my own choir and it worked out pretty good.

KNOCK KNOCK. WHO'S THERE? JESUS. JESUS WHO? HA! YOU GOT ME!

12" x 14" $85

Ingredients: decoupage jesus picture from a long ago thrift store and which has been hanging in my house for a long time, love from shari

SOLD (thank you John Cassidy, creator of Klutz.com)

WELCOME TO PARADISE

13.5" x 14.5" $100

Ingredients: broken pieces of furniture and stuff from art queen; paint brush once used to paint the iggy pop "bless you" guitar i made; rhinestones from sandy crouse of ohio; things i found on the ground like a broken green cup that was too pretty to pass up; necklace and spring from bobby furst of JT; wire on back from the swap meet; golf tees from ramona otto, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Laura Sibley of Wonder Valley, CA, her first Elf!)

TAKE TIME TO CONNECT WITH NATURE

9.5" x 11.5" $40

Ingredients: picture from the mother load thrift store in lake elsinore, CA; plaster movie film title letters from donation creation in JT, CA, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Tim and Faith of 29 Palms, CA and who recently visited the Crochet Museum with Faith's mom and gave me a bunch of their moving boxes and paper and then came to my raw food class. They also picked up some What Would Cher Do? t-shirts at open studios in Joshua Tree last weekend)

JOY OF JOYS

9" x 9" $80

Ingredients: board from the desert; pencils from a flea market in kansas city, ks on my road trip in 2009; scraps of wood from my collections; pull tabs from cans; wire from the yucca valley swap meet; googly eyes from sandy crouse of ohio and a thrift store in JT, calif, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Vala Mohr from Milwaukee, WI)

TOOTHBRUSH CAT

9.5" x 11.5" $65

Ingredients: my old tooth brushes and some i found at yard sales; my old lip stick cap; eyes from ebay; pieces of paint brushes (ears); old rusty washer from the ground some where; end of a wire brush (tail); scraps of wood from jack pierson's garage, love from shari

SOLD (thank you David Dodge and Emmit of Joshua Tree, CA)

NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST

15" x 31.5" $275

Ingredients: old dresser from art queen; old hose from the desert; my old nova color paint canisters; watch bands from ramona otto; caps and pull tabs from jars, cans, and bottles; wire from an estate sale in santa monica with jack and brian, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Trixli Weber in Switzerland)

HERE ARE SOME BUTTONS FOR YOU TO PRESS

6.75" x 7.75"$60

Ingredients: board from a recent estate sale in santa monica with jack and brian; wire from the swap meet; scraps of wood from a los angeles violin maker and from lisa gelber and for my art class at the santa monica museum of art; tiles also from lisa gelber, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Alice Clementes from Los Angeles who came out for HDTS, or else her friend Ann bought it)

SOMETIMES ME AND CHER LIKE TO RIDE MY IMAGINARY HORSES, YIN AND YANG

10.5" x 12" $55

Ingredients: picture of horses in a corral from a desert thrift store, same for the frame; wire from the yucca valley swap meet, i added me and cher and the words, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Mark from the Art Car event at Art Queen)

CIRCLES (ABSTRACT WITH THREADS)

9.5" x 9.5" $85

Ingredients: old shelf from the old hollywood video store in yucca valley, CA; threads from a friend; plastic ring toss ring from a friend; wire from the yucca valley swap meet; board from jack pierson's garage, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Nan Ottenbacher in Nashville, TN)

RALPH, DOG OF INNER PEACE

7.5" x 8"$85

Ingredients: board from jack pierson's garage in wonder valley, calif; frame wood from an old dresser; beads and glitter from donation creation in joshua tree, calif; scraps of wood from my collections; wire from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Marta Kepes in Santa Monica, CA)

DOG MARRYING HERSELF

6.5" x 6.5" $50

Ingredients: wood from my studio; wire from the yucca valley swap meet; wood plug from a yard sale, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Dianne and David Waldman in Palm Desert, CA)

PEEK A BOO

18.5" x 20" $100

Ingredients: metal thing I've had for a few years from the desert; wire from an estate sale in santa monica with jack and brian; painting by Elise Baldwin from the yucca valley swap meet; pull tabs from cans from leslie mariah andrews' concert at art queen; board from chantale Doyle, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Dianne and David Waldman in Palm Desert, CA)

HAPPY DREAMS PONY (GO AHEAD, MAKE A WISH)

9.5" x 6" $75

Ingredients: board from Jack Pierson's garage in wonder valley, calif; frame wood from an old dresser at art queen; letters from donation creation in joshua tree; pony from a friend; piece of a ruler and piece of a necklace; wire from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Dianne and David Waldman in Palm Desert, CA)

PINKY

10.5" x 13.5" $85

Ingredients: circle board from chantale doyle of mt fuji general store in JT; glitter from a church rummage sale in yucca valley; balls found in the desert by john luckett; pieces of wood from my collection; pull tab from a can, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Marc Carter in Baldwin City, KS)