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February 5, 2010. New works are here with some works by my new band mates, Jimmy Buster and Ryan Erskine (our band is "The Kittens"). Ryan and Jimmy are surfers from Long Beach now living in Joshua Tree and this inspired our many surf pieces this week. Thanks for stopping by! Something good is gonna happen to you today!

I'm happy to be sending 10% ($170) of the $ made from sales of my art from my posting 2 weeks ago to Partners in Peace, a charity recommended by Alicia Bay Laurel and her friend, Tom McNally, jazz guitarist who has deep, long standing roots in the Haitian community in LA and is involved in rescue operations in Haiti.

Partners in Health offer free health care in Haiti and have since the 1980s. They have 11 hospitals that are still standing, because they are outside of Port-Au-Prince. They employ an all-Haitian hospital staff.

Thanks for visiting my good and sturdy art gallery. My art is 95% trash, made from stuff I find on the ground, at yard sales and thrift stores, broken stuff and stuff friends send me. This art is made in my studio at Art Queen in Joshua Tree, California, assisted by my feral kitty Inky.

World Famous Crochet Museum, Moby Dick Sculpture garden in front and Art Queen, the pot of gold at the end of this rainbow.

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DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY (CATS)

19" x 7" $160

Ingredients: old broken drawer from a dresser a lovely family gave me at their yard sale in joshua tree a while ago; wood scrap i used for the frame from constance walsh of pioneertown, calif; spools from a friend; wire from the ground; eyes from ebay; pull tabs from some cans; beads from friends, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Joyce Carlson)

LATER THAT EVENING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE FIRST LADY SHARE THEIR OWN PERSONAL INAUGURAL DANCE

17.5" x 12" $150

Ingredients: cool old piece of metal i found somewhere, maybe even when i lived in los angeles or kansas city, i have been saving it for far too long for the perfect piece, so this is it; nova color acrylic paints, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Michael Blackwell and Randal Black in Palm Springs, CA, and of "The Undies" comedy troupe which I am a proud member of)

BE GOOD TO YOUR FRIENDS

16" x 10.5" $150

Ingredients: piece of cabinet from my airstream trailer; scraps of wood from my collection of those; pearls and necklace from the thrift stores of my life; eyes from ebay; bead from something; pull tabs on back from some cans; wire from sandy crouse, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Constance Walsh in Pioneertown, CA)

LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE

11.5" x 12.5" $150

Ingredients: board and frame wood from constance walsh of pioneertown, calif; glitter, sequins and eyes from sandy crouse in ohio and steve's office supply in yucca valley, calif; letters from st. mary's rummage sale, ebay, sales and friends, buttons from sales and friends, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Jean Shreve in Friday Harbor, WA)

RELAX, DOG'S IN CHARGE

15.5" x 15.5" $120

Ingredients: piece of cabinet from my airstream trailer; wood from my collection; bead from bianca juarez; my old pink spa sandal (tongue); glitter and wire from sandy crouse of ohio; wave painted by ryan erskine and tongue idea and execution by ryan erskine, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Lelde Gilman in Portland, OR)

DOG IS EVERYWHERE

15" x 11.5" $150

Ingredients: board from my airstream trailer old cabinets; spools from sandy crouse of ohio; eyes from ebay; sand from a yard sale in yucca valley; wooden bead (noses) from bianca juarez of chicago, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Kelly Williams in Vienna, VA)

DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY

11" x 22" $60

Ingredients:wood from my studio;old paint brushes are from leonard knight which he used to paint salvation mountain, out by the salton sea; broken broom found in the desert; eye from sandy crouse of ohio; pull tab on back from inky the art queen kitty (actually she is the "art queen") love from shari

SOLD (thank you Laura Archer in Calabasas, CA)

IF YOU DREAM BIG, MAKE SURE YOUR SLED'S IN TUNE

14 " x 12" $150

Ingredients: board from constance walsh of pioneertown, calif; frame wood from a fence i found in venice, calif, years ago; glitter from sandy crouse of ohio; other piece of wood from my collection, which jimmy cut for the dog nose. title, idea and wave by jimmy buster, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Nicole Fromm in Madison, WI)

SMALL DOG WITH A BIG DREAM