My daughter wanted to name my blog “The Painted Shirt”. She came up with that when I was agonizing one day as to what to name the blog. I had asked her “what’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of me?” That was her answer. “The Painted Shirt”. Of course I denied and went on to naming it after what I love doing…playing with clay but after cleaning out my shirt drawer today and discovering over half of what I own has paint on it, I’m now seeing her point! I’m still keeping my clay name but I think it’s time to invest in an apron (the real question is would I wear it?-maybe I should just get used to paint on my clothes)!
About Me
- Jenene
- I am an artist. If you don’t believe me, the company I work for listed me as one, so therefore, I am now an official artist. I have to laugh about that because I’ve always felt too insecure to call myself one since I am self-taught. Because of that I’ve been perfectly content being called a crafter. I like being a crafter and the dictionary says that “a crafter is someone who’s profession or activity involves the skillful making of decorative objects”. Wow, that’s me. I love to make decorative objects (for the holidays especially). Of course, now that I have my artisan title, I had to see what the dictionary said about that. An artist is “somebody who creates art, especially paintings or sculptures”. Okay, I do painting and sculpting so I guess it’s okay to have that title too. Now I can be happy with both titles and live my lifelong dream.
Court | August 22, 2011 at 3:37 PM
haha!! i love all your painted clothes. grandma mcghie #2!
Jenene | September 18, 2011 at 8:16 PM
OK...I haven't started painting flowers on my clothes yet...but who knows, that could happen in 10 years or so!