2017 Little House Silent Auction

2017 Little House Silent Auction

OffCenter's Albuquirky 2017 Little House Silent Auction will be held this year in Albuquerque at the Sumner & Dene Gallery at 517 Central NW on Friday, May 6 from 5-8pm.  Help fund OffCenter Community Arts Center by coming out to the grand event and purchasing one of the 100+ little houses donated by Albuquerque artists.  The silent auction will be in conjunction with downstairs openings for artists Frank McCulloch and Friends.

My submission to this year's silent auction is a little out of the ordinary for me.  It is titled "Surfer Girl" -- I've never been on a surfboard in my life, but I have lived next to the ocean . . .

You can take a look at my post from last year to see one of the 4x4" "blank" wooden forms provided by OffCenter.  And, if you want to see most of my submission to the Little House Silent Auction over the past years, click on the "Little House" label to the right and all of those posts will come up.

Here we go with this year's submission:

For the 2017 auction, we were limited to a "footprint" of 6" x 6" -- so my 4" x 4" little house sits on a white sand (handmade paper) 6" x 6"base.   I really wanted to have the little surf shack be in white sand, but didn't want to create a mess, and was extremely happy with how well the handmade paper worked!

I roofed the house with pieces of extremely skinny bamboo -- a little over 1/8" diameter pieces.  The window frames and front door are also bamboo.

Each corner of the house is covered with tiny little white shells.  I made a front door mat that has people footprints and kitty foot prints.  (Surfer Girl's kitty is sitting in the shade under the clothesline on another side of the house.

I found a package of really (and I mean really) cute flip flop embellishments.  A pair of purple and blue polka-dot flip flops sit by the front door, and another pair is on the clothesline side of the house.  A pair of sunglasses sits on the windowsill next to the "Hang Loose" front door.

Surfer Girl's clothesline sports two bikinis -- one with a shell bra and a polka dot bikini to coordinate with her palm tree flip flops.

Her surfboard is propped up on the side of the house next to the windowbox, along with a pair of her swim fins.

And, finally - the fairly nondescript back side of the house with a palm growing out of a pile of shells.