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cafebara

Today's coffee print .. looks enough like a capybara to call it cafebara. Am quite happy with it.

Teresa Sings

Cry Me A River



Whatever Lola Wants



Crazy



The Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down



What Are You Doing New Year's Eve



Ol 55



Downtown



Everything



Queen of the Jungle



Let it Be Me



Je te le dis quand meme

Everything

Teresa singing Everything in the style of Michael Bublé

I Love Coffee

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy New Year of the Rabbit

In 2004 I created multiple versions of a card with a rabbit on it .. the background changed in the versions, but not the rabbit. I love the rabbit and this background works best.

You can buy this image as a greeting card or print at imagekind.com

Happy New Year of the Rabbit.

If you're looking for your Chinese Astrology sign and forecast for 2011 check moonslipper.com. I'm a tiger and according to moonslipper 2011 will be a positive year for tigers.. yay!

Downtown in the style of Petula Clark

One of my favorite songs to sing, hope you enjoy it!

Head and Feet Coffee Print

Latest Coffee Print

The Year of The Tiger 2010

wooo hoooo this is the Year of the Tiger .. and that means great things for me ... right?

Here's the Tiger from The Smoking Moose Film., in this scene he is smoking his stripe and listening to the automated voice system at 9-1-1 :



HAPPY YEAR OF THE TIGER!

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Concrete Garden Sculptures

Rhu, the original cement lady, made by my sister Kathy, watches over a garden in Churchs Ferry, North Dakota.

See Kathy's other garden art here. I liked them so much I wanted to make one with her.


In September 2009, I travelled to Wolford, North Dakota, where Kathy lives to make a cement lady.


Step 1 - Prepare the molds. These are plastic lingerie mannequins bought on ebay. We greased the inside with vaseline.




Step 2 - Look for treasures to line the molds. I wanted rusty stuff and we found rusty farm equipment parts, rusty screen, rusted wire and rusted metal.




Step 3 - Choose what to line the molds with. In addition to the rusty metal stuff we found we added dried leaves and a bit of dirt.




Step 4 - Get the Mortar and the Concrete. This is my sister Kathy bringing the bags of mortar and concrete.




Step 5 - Measure and Mix the Mortar. Since we didn't need a lot of mortar we mixed it in a bowl. If I remember correctly the consistency of the mixed mortar should be similar to sour cream.




Step 6 - The Mortar goes in first to hold the treasures in place. Mortar is smoother than concrete (who knew?), so Kathy recommends the ladies have a first layer of mortar before the concrete.




Step 7 - Mix the Concrete in the Mixer. I suppose the concrete could be mixed by hand in a bowl too, but if you or your sister has your own cement mixer, you may as well use it.




Step 8 - Add the cement to the mold. Although I wanted to call them poured concrete sculptures, we didn't really pour the concrete - we spooned it into the molds with a wooden paddle.




Step 9 - Let the mold sit and set. Smaller molds may take 24 hours to set. This size should take 48 hours.





Step 10 - Turn the mold upside down to slip the sculpture out. The cement had set quickly - probably because it was quite hot. We turned out the sculpture about 36 hours after filling.




Step 11 - Scrape into some of the objects and add a bit more rusty wire. The surprise was that rusted screen reacted to the mortar and was cleaned by it - coming out as silver rather than rusty - it's ok it will rust again. Also a nice surprise were a few dandelions that made their way into the dead leaves. We added a rusted chicken wire bodice and secured it with rusty wire.



Step 12 - Let the sculpture set. In seven days Kathy will apply a sealant and then the Rusty Lady will set for 30 days. After which she can be moved to where she will stand - in front of a tower in my sister's front yard.

The KARAOKE CHannel ONLINE Video Demo Tour

Burning Love in the style of Elvis - karaoke recording

These are my buddies Keeron and Charles singing Burning Love in the style of Elvis... aren't they great?

Still drinking coffee

more coffee prints

recent coffee prints

J'te l'dis quand meme / Patrick Bruel

One of my goals of singing karaoke is to add to my repertoire of French songs. Here is a song I "discovered" recently in the catalog, that I really like. Even if it is a bit sad. Hope you enjoy it!

Karaoke, I've Been Everywhere, in the style of Hank Snow

This is for my friend Glen who has been everywhere. Happy Birthday Glen!

The KARAOKE Channel Download Store

Hey friends,

For those of you who don't want to sing karaoke online you can now download your favorite karaoke tracks at The KARAOKE Channel Download Store.

So many songs to sing, so little time!

Hope to hear your voice soon.

Teresa