The Challenge:

1. Create a single piece of art.

2. Use everything in my junk drawer.
("Junk drawer"... "Fun drawer"...
It's not really junk,
just stuff I couldn't seem to get rid of
but never really did anything with.)

3. Use only building materials I already
had around the house or in my studio.

4. Make it light up,

5. Make it tell a story... my story.

The Materials:

• my grandfather's "One Man Band" business card,
• Los Angeles Lakers game ticket stub from 1986,
• all of my school ID cards (middle school thru colleges,)
• bookmarks from cities visited while living in Israel,
• one of my grandmother's mini paintings of the CA beach,
• my Eurail pass from 1992 and collected foreign coins,
• map of the London Underground,
• Corpus Christi/ Oxford school badge,
• business cards from places all over Europe,
• fabric: art show displays, flower-girl dress,
• Captain Picard action figure from Star Trek convention,
• my grandmothers oil paint brushes,
• theatre tickets from England, concert tickets from CO,
• Obama sticker from the 2008 election,
• my favorite cat's dog tag,
• Time Capsule award card from HS essay contest,
• a neglected blue dildo,
• a Wilson tennis ball lid (I love to play,)
• my kids' letters to the tooth fairy and their baby teeth,
• a watercolor painting of my husband rock climbing,
• the Duncan family (Mom's side) tartan,
• a poem from my daughter to me, a pin from my mother,
• the ultrasound pic of my twin boys heads,
• branches from the apple tree in our back yard,
• a wine rack from my neighbor, a Buddha statuette,
• plastic tubing from my father-in-law's oxygen tank,
• a rope used by the minister at my wedding,
• ribbon from my mother-in-law,
• the floaty pens I collected as a kid from all over the world,
• a thermostat, a cool house tile, sand paper,
• silk flowers, glass beads, stickers, candle holders,
• wood dowels, jewelry, glass, string, ornaments,
• game letter tiles, paint, frames, shelf brackets,