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My latest digital collage

MOUNTAIN GOATS ARE PEOPLE TOO ??

 While I was in Las Vegas last month, on the way back from Hoover Dam we stopped at a park in Boulder City. The mountain goats come down from the hills to cool off.

The one standing on the bench must think he is a person!

 They congregate here and eat the green grass.

Can you see the heard lying in the shade here?

 You can actually walk right up to them and they don't run away

I would be a bit cautious if I had a child though since some of these goats have some pretty bit horns.

Some have been tagged and they are protected. I think they know this because they are very laid back and just go about their business of eating and resting

Hoover Dam

 While I was in Vegas my oldest Son took me to see the new bridge at Hoover Dam

 The drought in Vegas has caused the water lake to be down further usual, as you can see

 The last time I was actually at the dam was in 1996 on my honeymoon. The water was gushing over the dam then.

Lake Mead is still as beautiful but look how far down the water line is. 

 

 From the other side of the old hwy

 

This is the new bridge over the dam. 

 

Pretty big I would say!

This was taken from the old hwy.

Meet the Rev Tony Garbarino

 This is my youngest Son Tony. I recently attended his graduation from Seminary. I am so proud of him. Theology has been his life for the past four years and now he has graduated with a Master and will soon be pastor of a congregation. I wish him all the best and where every God sends him I will be visiting that is for sure.

 
That's my boy!

Congratulations my Son, all your hard work and study has made your dream come true.
So proud of you.

This is my newest "Made To Order" Creation and it is in my Etsy Shop

 Recently I received a special order request from a young lady in North Carolina. She is attending a couple of Steam Punk Conventions and wanted a special box to carry her credit cards in. Her costume has no pockets so this card case can be carried on her wrist and she won't have to carry a purse What a clever idea!

This tin was inspired by her and created in a steam punk style, especially for her.

This beautifully altered tin box measures 3.5 x 2.75 x .50 inches and is a made to order piece.
There may be a slight difference in your piece as each one is custom made and hand embellished. Please allow 24 hour creation time.

It is covered inside and out with special order fiber paper. Trimmed and accented with two different sized chains, both brushed antique silver and embellished with a metal clock face and metal bronze and brass gears. A brushed antique silver chain measuring 5 inches is attached to the box making it easy to slip on to your wrist.

Sealed on all sides for protection.

This lovely tin can be used as a little hand created piece of art to sit on a desk or dresser or as a special place to keep jewelry, stamps, paper clips, buttons, barrettes, keys, medication, change, business cards or give it as a gift with a gift card inside. The possibilities are endless.

Would make a great gift. Fill it with candy, a special piece of jewelry or a love note.

Send one to your steam punk friend !

Signed and dated by the artist.

All Rights Reserved © 2012

To see more Steam Punk tins click here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/AlteredStateofTin?section_id=8019377

Altered State of Tin will be happy to take custom orders. Please contact me with details.
A small fee may be charged on Custom Orders depending on what it is that you want.

With your purchase you will receive a 10% discount card to use on your next purchase. Please mention this on your second order.

FREE USPS SHIPPING to US and Canada
PRIORITY USPS SHIPPING add $5.35 (per your request)

Insurance is optional. Your invoice will be adjusted at the time of your purchase if you decide to add insurance. Convo me before the final purchase.

Have any questions? Contact the shop owner.

Donna Summer the Queen of Disco

As some of you know or maybe you don't know, I was a disco dancer back in the 70's and 80's. 

My husband and I competed in many competitions including The Victor Drew Dance Competition at the MGM in Las Vegas before it burned. We won first place in New York Hustle, East Coast Swing and Salsa there as well as many other dance contests during the disco days. Disco was a wonderful era. The disco's with the disco ball and the strobe lights, the clothes, the music, the dancing...I don't have my dance partner any more so I found a substitute for dancing...Zumba. the closest thing to disco without having to have a dance partner.

Donna Summer was a big influence in the disco era. She was a beautiful person and had a voice as smooth as butter. I am saddened to hear of her passing. Another Great America Icon gone.

Rest in Peace Donna

Donna Summer, the R&B songstress known best for her far-ranging voice and late ’70s dance floor ballads, who was dubbed “Queen of Disco” at the height of the genre’s popularity, died Thursday, from complications of cancer. She was 63.
Famous for her singing abilities as well as for her songwriting talents, Summer scored consistent hits at the height of her career with tunes that still get frequent radio airplay like  “Hot Stuff,” “Bad Girls,”  “MacArthur Park,” and “On the Radio.”
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A source from Summer’s family confirmed her death midday Thursday. She had been living in Englewood, Fla., with her husband, musician Bruce Sudano.
Born LaDonna Andrea Grimes on Dec. 31, 1948 in Boston, she grew up in a working-class household with six siblings and began singing in church choir, developing her voice as a fan of gospel legend Mahalia Jackson. As a teen she moved to New York so she could find work on Broadway, and at age 18 she landed a role in the touring company of Hair, moving to Europe with the production.
While living and performing in Europe, she met and married actor Helmut Sommer, with whom she had one child before divorcing in 1976. During a recording session, with Blood, Sweat, and Tears, producers Pete Bellote and Giorgio Moroder (with whom she would go on to record several classics) fell in love with her voice and quickly convinced her to work with them. Summer’s first single, “The Hostage,” became a minor club hit in Europe.
But her clear breakout was a 1975 17-minute slow, but bumping soul groove that all but simulated a sexual encounter — and featured Summer’s own moaning — called “Love to Love You, Baby.” It hit the top of U.S. charts by 1976.
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From there, Summer began to ride the worldwide disco wave and became arguably the most well known female performer of the genre, rivaling the Bee Gees in popularity. In 1977 she released a hit that served as a precursor to modern techno music entitled “I Feel Love,” which made her among the first female artists to use synthesizers in a recording.
Despite her appearance in the flopped disco film “Thank God It’s Friday,” she still won a Grammy for the most popular song on the soundtrack, “Last Dance,” which also earned her an Oscar for Best Original Song.
“Music just evolves, people just get tired of it, and they move on to something else,” she told The New York Times in an interview. “In that period people were in a dance mood. They wanted to be lifted up, they wanted to have fun, they didn’t want to think.”
The 1980s brought further success for Summer who by then was married to Sudano, when she released The Wanderer, which did not chart as well as her previous albums. But producer Quincy Jones collaborated with her on the self-titled Donna Summer. She was still required to do one more album for Cassablanca records, which she was attempting to leave. The title track, a working woman’s anthem entitled “She Works Hard for the Money,” charted at No. 3 on U.S. in 1983.
Her last major hit came in 1989 with “This Time I Know It’s for Real,” which reached the Top 10 on U.S. charts. She did however have some continued success with a 1994 collaboration with Moroder on 1994′s “Melody of Love,” and 1997′s “Carry On,” earning the first Grammy for Best Dance Recording.
Summer continued to tour and perform through the 1990s and 2000s. She was diagnosed with breast cancer, but remained private about it as she was preparing a new album. “If I can do it at my age and put myself on the line, I don’t know what will come of it, but you know what, I’m going for it,” Summer told ABC News in 2008. “I’m going to kick this ball as far as I can and hopefully I’ll kick it out of the stadium.”