Fun mail day :)

Jane LaFazio posted about this felt heart that I sent her on her blog

she drew the most amazing Pitcher of my Heart, she took my art and turned it into her art! how cool it that!
She sent me this really cool fabric post card with a vinyl heart on it :) we both really love fabric and vinyl, its always so much fun to find someone who loves to play with the same materials as you! :)
I just fell in love with Jane's work in cloth paper scissors magazine that features her interview and "Ralph's Letters" quilt. It's the January/February 2007 issue.
I have been her #1 cyber stalker ever cents :)

HELP!

its not so easy to go from a black blog background to a light one because so many of my back post have light text that does not show up now... and I really do not want to go back and edit every post!!! so if someone has a easy way please share :)

oh my!

my blog will be beautiful again :)
but for now it has a little hangover :)
till I have a little more time :)

Merel's The Portrait of SELF

All the girls who have worked in this book have added there own self portrait.
I did a lot of pockets and details with pull out's in these pages so there are a lot of close up shots!

Pages 1 & 2 for Merel's RR journal.

Pages 1 & 2 details:
I added the red heart with vintage book text to a small golden locket that had a pic of me in it, the little tape talk pocket has a little pull out tag with kids on it and a mother of pearl bead with vintage book text
Pages 2 & 3 for Merel's RR journal.


Pages 3 & 4 details:
A 2 sided fabric pillow tag pulls out of crescent moon pocket. A little pic pf me with the reverise side has my name. The Red heart has some batting behind it so its a little puffy and there is a vinyl 2 sided pull out tag behind it.

I had fun working in this book I just got it on Saturaday... this is a new world record for me!!!

words of wisdom deco

These are my pages for Nancy's RR deco titled "words of wisdom" Nancy is my Best friend that moved away to Reno last year... I miss her so much! She and I will be at artfest together so we both can't wait! She really got me into mixed media and she is a amazing assemblage artist!


These two pages have words by Brian Andreas They are two of my favorites story's by him
this deco was a child's board book so it was Strong and I took advantage of that, the wings are stuffed with batting I sewed the wings onto the page so when you open it it pops out! :)

Nancy this is in the mail! :)
sorry that I was late! but I did do 7 pages more then was called for!

My Altered Asian Victorian Calendar

Back and Front covers of my book

I sent out my Asian Victorian Calendar January 31st 2006 and this started an amazing round robin calendar art project That I was part of, it was headed by Kathy Wasilewski .

How it worked was we all got a 8x6 engagement calendar and for the month of January we all work in our own books before we sent them out then after each girl got to work on the calendar till the end of each month then they sent it on to the next girl.

Amazing still I just received my Calendar on Saturday January 20th almost exactly a year to date!

You can see the work that I did in all the girls calendars here
I was in shock yesterday when I got a H U G E 12 x 14 x 12 Box ... it was from Sharon so I knew it was my supper fat calendar!

I was almost afraid to open the box!
But I over came my fear quite fast once I got a knife in my hand to open the box!
It was amazing in so many ways to see something that I started over a year ago ... this was my first RR so little did I know what kind of a journey this would become when I started it!
I think about how much my style has changed along the way and how differently I would have construed my book had I done it now :)

The book is a little over 9 inches thick! and all of your art is so amazing along with all the details that I have yet to soak in! I have still to really read all the words I have only been able to just see the art... over the next few days I will soak it all in :)
Thank you all so much for your work and the time it took to work in my book this was such a big project and at times I know we all had mixed feeling when we saw that box at our door!

but in the end it was so worth all the work!
you can view this amazing book as a slide show!
and see all the girls work! if you click on a pitcher during the slid show it will stop and tell you who did the page :)

This was the Rotation list:
(and links to the girls sites)

1.DAWN SUPINA (Canada)

2.BETH ROBINSON (Pennsylvania)

3.SUE BERRY (UK)

4.Liz Smith (UK)

5.CAREN MCNEE (New Zealand)

6.CHRISTINE SHEBROE (Florida)

7.LORRAINE GEORGE (Texas)

8.CECE GRIMES (Texas)

9.JENNIFER ROWLAND (Texas)

10.SHARON WISELY (Missouri)

11.RUTH RAE (California)

12.MARCI GLENN (Oregon)

Tip in page with all the girls name's on tags :)

Happy Day!

Today was such an over the top great day!!!
Kelly and I got together to hand deliver the just simply charming offerings to Michelle Flores the editor of Belle Armoire ! which included one of the original 20 bracelets along with the work of Carrie Edelmann Avery , Crystal Neubauer, Lelainia N. Lloyd, Deryn Mentock and Jerri Reimann

This is Kelly and I in the lobby of stampington and company with all the boxes full of books all over the place!
Could it have been possible for us to look any more happy!?!

The stampington and company head quarters is a wild place with stacks and stacks of magazines and art work in box's out of box's on rolling pie racks! but it seamed that at every turn we encountered art from our friends! there was Crystal Neubauer's house getting ready to be sent back to her that you can see on page 116 of this months Somerset Studio and then some upcoming soon to be published work of Judith (cheek out her new blog!) Michelle Flores was so nice and took the time to share some wonderful upcoming art and even showed us a manuscript of an upcoming book that Deryn will be in! it was so wonderful to be able to see the behind the scenes workings of all the magazines and books that we all adore!

I am still smiling from ear to ear!
It was truly an amazing day!