adulting with whimsy
Owner of Marie Young Creative: I create devilishly sweet handcrafted art, home goods, jewelry and accessories in my rural Pennsylvania studio.
February’s Full Snow Moon peers through my kitchen window. Her aged, knowing voice whispers, “Embrace the stillness. Winter is a time to hibernate my little one. Conserve your energy for Spring.” Every tired cell in my body yearns to return to bed. Yet with an all-knowing impudence more appropriate to a teenager, I do not listen. […]
“Mine” is the first piece that I’ve had shown in a museum! She was accepted into the juried show “Artist in Our Midst/Art in Common” at theĀ Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Altoona The exhibit is running through Feb. 9. It is a great show that highlights local talent. The other artists are light years ahead […]
Evette is coquettish, spirited, and glamorous. In other words, she is the exact opposite of introverted me š It is hilarious to picture me snuggled up in my favorite pink hoodie while I sculpted her big blue eyes. Sure, I can find a little sex appeal for a night out with the hubby, but for […]
Technology is great…except when you are wired into your office 24/7.Ā It’s my fault, really. I’m am enabler. Years of playing “whack-a-mole” the minute an e-mail come in from management “off-hours” just to prove that I’m paying attention, has trained them well. Let me back up for a second. If you are here to see […]
My husband is a huge sci fi fan and we attend several “Cons” each year. While he looks at phasers and starships, I wander around checking out the fantasy artists. This weekend I’m going to be on the other side of the table with people checking out my wares at theĀ Sci Fi Valley ConĀ in Altoona, […]
My muse is an interesting gal. She disappears for weeks at a time and when finally she shows up for work, she doesn’t hand over her creative secrets all at once. Yet, there are times when this serendipitous path is pure magic. Le Corbeau et le Renard (The Fox and the Crow) Ā This piece […]
In my last post, I shared how interesting wine corks became the inspiration for a series of whimsical “wine cork hugger” sculptures. I thought you might also enjoy seeing a video of how I created the polymer clay fox from wire armature through curing. All four sculptures have been adopted!
Over the years I’ve saved interesting wine corks for when the right project came along. Being a hoarder has its advantages at least in terms of crafting supplies! This new sculpture series of “Wine Cork Huggers” resulted from my cork hoarding. Like many of my projects, they fall into the category of weird whimsy, but […]
If you have been following my creative endeavors for any period of time, you know that I gain tremendous inspiration from my kitties, particularly Emily. She’s 16 now and she starts every day with a syringe of steroid for her irritable bowel syndrome. Since her enema this week she’s rounding out the day with another […]
My friend Kristina asked me to create handcrafted Christmas ornaments for her children. She liked the ones I showed her where I turned hollow eggs into animal ornaments. As they rattled off a list of animals that they liked, “giraffe” piqued my interest. I had never tried sculpting a giraffe and the shape provided a […]
