Right now my house is an absolute mess. Totally and completely. My refrigerator is empty too, which has forced me to live on a scrambled egg white and turkey bacon diet for the last few days. Remedying both of these problems was at the top of my to-do list this weekend but you know what? I didn't do any of it. Instead I spent the entire day Sunday watching movie marathons on tv and catching up on my crafting projects. Regrets: zero; New pieces of artwork: 2. This is a before and after post, so don't be scared by this first picture:

I found this bandaid colored mess at the thrift store last Friday and was really digging all the pattern magic that was happening. The flesh tones, not so much. So I dug out my box of paints and paint brushes and grabbed a sharpie then went to town. The results?

A brightly colored laser-light-show wonderland that isn't nearly as blurry in real life as it is in this photo. I know, I know, I've been laser light show crazy lately, but at least I put a new spin on this with the little black triangles scattered throughout. It was a risk, but I think it paid off.

Here's a closeup of my master work:

The polka dots weren't here before, either. I also added the red, blue, yellow and green because those were the only decent colors I could find. Seriously, I don't know where all my good paint ran off to.

I had such a grand ole time sprucing up the print, once I was done I decided to move on to the 3 dimensional project I've had on the docket for quite some time now. I found this creepy madonna and child sculpture at a thrift store in Ft. Smith, Arkansas over Christmas break. Having wanted to play laser party on a sculpture for a while now, I figured this was as good as any to start with. One Tom Hanks movie later and here's what I got:

I have to admit, I actually tried this project right after Christmas with decidedly different results. I originally taped off all the areas I wanted to keep white then spray painted the exposed portions with black paint. Despite my meticulous taping, you know that paint bled and it was yuckytown USA.

I repainted her white and started from scratch. This time, I bought chartpak tape, a thin, high-gloss tape that comes in every color of the rainbow (even metallic gold!). The lines you see here aren't paint, they're actually tape. Once the chart-pac tape was applied, I sprayed her with clear-gloss spray paint to keep everything in place. Here are more views: