RIP Lou Reed

March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013

Calling All Ghouls & Boogie Monsters..

Saturday, Oct 26

12-4PM

Come Join Us For A Halloween Craft-A-Bration

Art in a Box Company

31 Main Street @ One Station Plaza

Ossining, New York

Baked Ghoulies...

Keeping in the Halloween spirit this year I baked a bunch of Vampire and Voodoo Doll Cookies for the Studio's event...

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We’re Baaaack!

After some minor

reconstruction & renovation,

the Studio has reopened!

Now running our Fall Classes:

Wee Artist

Recycled Art

Basic Drawing 

This week in the Studio:

Wee Artist: 

Pizza Pies: Texture boards for little hands

Recycled Art: 

Layered Frames 

Cardboard History & Info.

Create a Layered Picture Frame

Basic Drawing: 

Experiment with simple drawing tools

See you Soon!

Art in a Box Company

Located in Westchester County.

31 Main Street @ One Station Plaza 

Ossining, New York 10562

An Art Studio for Everyone! For ages 4 - 84+.

 Hours 4-6pm for Afterschool Sessions

(Opened on Friday Nights & Weekends for Arranged Groups)

We provide the space and supplies

for your artistic creativity & exploration.

With Projects based on recycling

paired with go-green information & fun.

Summer Time Sessions:  Come in Fill a box with supplies and unleash your inner artist.  Not so sure of your abilities, then Pick a project bag with minimal instruction.  Or sign up for a workshop, with material background  information and hands on instruction.

In the Fall Season:  Sign up the children for fall classes.  Try some Family Time.  Unwind with a Ladie’s Night. You can Celebrate a Birthday or you can even schedule a Special Group gathering.

Check out our blog:  www.artinaboxco@blogspot.com

or Email: outrecylcedbox@yahoo.com

There is an Artist in all of us.

Let There Be Light

After 1 and 1/2 years I am finally settling into my new, smaller apartment and after culling, culling and more culling finally at the point where decorating involves more than trying to decide where to put what and what to get rid of.  Of course with the cooler weather comes my tendency to nest so the first place needing attention is my bedroom. 

While at the Christmas Tree Shop (Have you heard of http://www.christmastreeshops.com/  ?) with my mother and sister I found all I needed to make some really amazing hanging lamps that would bring both style and mood to The bedroom space.  For a mere $30 I purchased 2 x 12" metal candle lanterns and 2 x white electrical light kits usually used with paper lanterns. I already had metal snipers and the fine metal wire from the 99cent store that would make converting them into hanging lamps simple and easy. 

After removing the candle glass holder it was quick and simple to center the bulk holder between the 3 hanger prongs by looping 3 wire twists around the bulb holder and twist tying each one to a corresponding hanger prong. Luckily the leaf pattern on the lantern allowed for a few simple snipes to make an opening to run the  chord and plug head through

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After adding a 60 watt bulb to each of the lamps

Voila! There was Light!

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Now I have to find some interesting wall hooks to hang them from...sigh

My New Favorite Place

It's been a long time since I've been in school but that doesn't stop the urge I feel this time of year to buy notebooks & sharp pencils, new jeans & new leather satchel.  So when I came across the E.L.F Cosmetic Store at 741 Broadway (between 8th Street & Astor Place) I felt no shame or hesitation as I filled my goody basket with their amazing make-up and nail polish in the new fall colors. 

I've purchased  E.L.F. Cosmetics from Target and their online site but being able to browse and play with their entire collection in a clean, airy, well lite space was truly a treat. And walking away with concealer, 3 eye shadows, 3 lipsticks, 1 eyeliner, 2 lip balms, 1 blush for under $35 totally fulfilled by fall Shopping urges.

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It's That Wonderful Time of Year...

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HAPPY AUTUMN!!!

Keep Moving &...

Follow Your Arrow 

Something to Remember...

The Verrazano on A Sunday Morning..

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Been Caught...

When You Pray For Change..

A Place To Rest

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Those are $3.99 roses from Trader Joe's on 21st Street & 6th Ave, NY.

They actually smell like roses. 

I was pleasantly surprised.

Today's Meditation was one of the senses.

False Flags - Massive Attack

Thought of the Day

If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Atlanta, 1967

How Do We Measure....

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Brooklyn Recall

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Lately I have been trying to remember the Brooklyn of my childhood by pushing pass the sentimentality and romanticization of memory. It is hard; with the constant change of landmarks and boarder line and definition of neighborhoods reaching for an ideal that never was makes it much easier to believe the fairy tale. In the end the more that things change the more they stay the same...sneakers hung in tree

So Excited..

My sister finally opened an Art Studio for Kids in the town of Ossining, New York.

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Ossining, New York 10562

(up the block from the metro-north Ossining train station)

In addition to working with all kinds of re-cyled materials, including but not limited to various types of papers, fabrics, crayons, chalks, paints and sculptural mediums there will be weekly workshops that explore art history and art/craft techniques including print making, fabric collage, book making, simple puppet making techniques and musical enjoyment.

If you live in Westchester, NY or want to take a short day trip up the Hudson 

head over and join the fun!

I even started a blog about it - artinaboxco.blogspot.com

Music Video Break...

History Lessons....

"Sometimes

I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. 
It merely astonishes me. 
How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company?
It's beyond me." 

- Zora Neale Hurston

Tuesday's Mental Musings...

I have been wondering about beauty. I have been staring at the world around me trying to determine if beauty can be so painful that it becomes deformed and ugly. I have been asking myself if I look pass beauty that is simple and direct if what lies beneath is even more breathtaking or simply more grotesque...