APRIL 6, 2014 Hello Friend. Thanks for having a look at my good and sturdy art. I love to make things and I love to recycle. And sometimes I sing a little song I wrote. Something good is gonna happen to you today!

Chris and Chad with the new floor they put in my airstream! Super Chad on the roof!

Here is what the back of some of these look like, I write the ingredients and the date each piece is made:

Prices below include postage within the USA.

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Shari Elf Gallery 2

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email: shari@sharielf.com

 

BINGO IS MY NAME-O

14" x 15" $144

Ingredients: cupboard door from my studio when i recently decluttered and took some things apart; scraps of found wood from my collections; bingo games from local friends and sorry, i forgot who it was; pull tabs on back from ebay; wire from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

I want this

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KITTY

9" x 11" $55

Ingredients: old frame from patty at the yucca valley swap meet: baord from a JT estate sale and the tuxedo cat painted by Leslie Mariah Andrews of ARr Not WalMart in JT, CAlif.; i added the details and birthday stuff; wire on back also from the swap meet, love from shari

I want this

JESUS SILK SCREENED ON FOUND ALUMINUM

11" x 5.5" $22

Ingredients: aluminum thing found in the desert; wire from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

I want this

LEONARD COHEN (WITH FRAME)

9.5" x 9.5" $44

Ingredients: old peg board free from fred and his house for sale and which i silk screened LC onto; frame from patty at the yucca valley swap meet where i also got the wire on the back, love from shari

I want this

JESUS SILK SCREENED on old drawer

9" x 7.5" $25

Ingredients: piece of an old drawer i found in the desert, it was lined with this great old green vinyl, in varying states of weathering; wire on back from the swap meet, love from shari

I want this

JESUS prints on boards:

I want "call your mother"

I want silent jesus

I want "i like myself"

I want "heart"

I want "how 'bout a game of yahtzee?"

I want "LMA painted jesus"

I want plain jesus, taupe board

I want plain jesus, green vintage vinyl board

I want plain jesus, butter colored board

I want plain jesus, 2 toned board

4.5" x 5" average size $15 each

Ingredients: old boards from a recent estate sale in joshua tree and from the swap meet and from my collections; wire on back from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOMETIMES I JUST NEED A NEW PERSPECTIVE

5" x 6" $77

Ingredients: wood and board from some local yard sales; crystals (the brown ones were mined locally) and wire from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Lauren Embrey in Dallas, TX)

SPACE DOGS

("THEY CAME FROM THE DOG STAR AND THEY WERE SIRIUS")

4" x 4" $55

Ingredients: wood and board from some local yard sales; crystals and wire from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Fran Katzman in New York City, NY)

I FEEL SO SPARKLY MERMAID

6" x 11" $99

Ingredients: old shelf board from ann magnuson and john bertram of joshua tree and los angeles; wood on back from a JT yard sale; frame wood is from my studio shelves which i took apart some of; turquoise from our friend at jack's christmas dinner and they were found locally; sequins and glitter from the 5th dimension, from shari

SOLD (thank you Lauren Embrey in Dallas, TX)

MERMAID IN THE NEON PINK SEA WITH HER FISH FRIENDS

made with local turquoise, crystals and real fresh water pearls

9" x 11" $155

Ingredients: old frame from patty at the yucca valley swap meet; wire on back and 3 crystals also from the yucca valley swap meet; turquoise from our friend at christmas dinner at jack's house; sequins from sandy crouse of ohio; real fresh water pearls from teri wilkes of champaign IL, love from shari

SOLD (thank you anonymous in los angeles, calif)

I LIKE MYSELF MONKEY

5.5" x 5.5" x 2" deep $88

Ingredients: sweet little box from a yard sale, same for the wooden post i made the monkey's nose out of; giltter and vintage yellowed googly eyes from sandy crouse of ohio; wire i found somewhere, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Lauren Embrey in Dallas, TX)

DOG IN HIS SPACESHIP

3" x 5" $44

SOLD (thank you Fran Katzman in New York City, NY)

I AM A PRECIOUS GEM

5" x 5" $55

Ingredients: wood and board from some local yard sales; crystals and wire from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you anonymous)

I WANT WHAT I HAVE COWBOY MONKEY

4.5" x 5" $55

Ingredients: wood and board from some local yard sales; crystals and wire from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

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

LITTLE ANGEL

4" x 4" $44

Ingredients: wood and board from some local yard sales; crystals (the brown one was mined locally) and wire from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Nan Ottenbacher in Nashville, TN)

WORLD FAMOUS CROCHET MUSEUM

8.5" x 9.5" x 2" deep $99

Ingredients: frame from my friend at the yucca valley swap meet; pull tab on back from ebay; board from glen, steve and chris; original painting by leslie mariah andrews of art not walmart and of joshua tree; and i added details, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Anna Marie Steidl in Los Angeles, CA)

WHAT WOULD CHER DO? prints on boards

19" x 12" and 17" x 11" $33

Ingredients: top of a table that broke; piece of an old desk that was sitting around art queen for too long; wire on back from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Kim Ward in Long Beach, CA)

I want WWCD? on the right

JESUS WITH HIS KITTENS SILK SCREENED PRINT on old drawer

9.5" x 7" $25

Ingredients: piece of an old drawer i found in the desert, it was lined with this great old green vinyl, in varying states of weathering; wire on back from the swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Sherry Mazzocchi)

I KNOW WORRYIN' WORKS CUZ EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER WORRIED ABOUT HAS NEVER HAPPENED

6.5" x 7" $25

Ingredients: recycled t-shirt and recycled washed pillow, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Christina Frary in Cathedral City, CA)

FOCUS

14.5" x 15" x 6" deep $144

Ingredients: drawer from that great estate sale i went to last summer with emily and zaza and josh; letters from pam and sue's great estate sale in yucca valley, CA and donation creation in JT; O cut from a box found on the side of a road in a truck marked, FREE STUFF with teddy quinn after our dear friend vince's memorial at the Palms in wonder valley; wire on back from the yucca valley swap meet; piece of wood and metal scallop trim from that same yard sale, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Kurt Einstein and Robert Greenwald in Jamaica Plain, MA)

I MAKE NEW FRIENDS WHEREVER I GO

14" x 16" $111

Ingredients: painting from a local thrift store; frame from my good friend Cidne; googly eyes from sandy crouse in ohio and the thrift stores of my life; piece of a wooden post (3-D nose) from a recent joshua tree yard sale; pull tabs on back from ebay; wire on back from the yucca valley swap meet, love from shari

note from shari: one time a friend of mine on maui told me when we look at the mountains we should also ask them to have a look at us, we've been doing that in yoga class at paula's dome.

SOLD (thank you Ming C. Lowe in Palm Desert, CA)