Snow Storm

I took this picture from my car window on my way to school this week. The snow storm made everything into a fairyland.

See the pretty snowflakes
Falling from the sky;
On the wall and housetops
Soft and thick they lie.

On the window ledges,
On the branches bare;
Now how fast they gather,
Filling all the air.

Look into the garden,
Where the grass was green;
Covered by the snowflakes,
Not a blade is seen.

Now the bare black bushes
All look soft and white,
Every twig is laden, --
What a pretty sight!

Icicle #2

This one looks a bit better I think. I printed out "you were never ordinary" on photo paper and inserted it into an organza sleeve. I had received a little card with that written on it when I bought a little something on eBay. It was so sweet and quirky - it's now posted on my fridge.

Icicle doll?

My friend, Angela posted some of her beautiful "icicle" dolls to our artists' website.
She had gotten the pattern from Belinda at Bel's Nook.
I love them! I tried making my first one over the weekend . For some reason mine looks a bit carroty. I'll try making another today.

More Altered Postcards

Altered Postcards

These are my first altered postcards - I have such a large collection of old postcards! It's great to find something creative to do with them. I'll be trading these out at Paper Traders. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Paper_Traders/

Mandalas

I finally learned to create a mandala using Photoshop. I took a photo I had taken in Jamaica and used a section of it over and over. I made some color adjustments and used a filter on the finished piece.

Mandalas

I used a photograph I took of a Dale Chihuly glass sculpture . In Photoshop, I rotated and flipped a section of the photo and then applied filters and lighting effects.

This one is created using a Clare Goodwin pattern I downloaded from her site. It was in the Virtual Coloring Books, Volume I.

http://www.abgoodwin.com/mandala/mandala-store.shtml#coloring-book
I used the template to insert pictures I took on our trip to London and the Cotswolds.

Journal Spread

This is for Nick's gorgeous journal about all things old. The quote is from Shakespeare's As You Like It.
" And I mine. I remember, when I was in love, I broke my
sword upon a stone, and bid him take that for coming a-night to
Jane Smile: and I remember the kissing of her batlet, and the
cow's dugs that her pretty chapp'd hands had milk'd: and I
remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her; from whom I took
two cods, and giving her them again, said with weeping tears,
'Wear these for my sake.' We that are true lovers run into
strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature
in love mortal in folly."

Recent Journal spreads

This one is for Janine - her journal is about Our Muses. I used the quote by Delacroix because my anti-muse is perfectionism, lol. I guess my muse says "just do it, you fool".

Recent Journal spreads

This one is for my neice Molly's Journal about song lyrics.
This one is based on REM's "nightswimming", one of my favorite songs.

Card Catalog Challenge

My friend Cynthia hosted a swap where we were all challenged to create original works of art based on discarded catalog cards from a library. Cynthia sent us each 20 cards. I noticed mine were mostly about psychiatry (was that a hint?). It was a fun callenge and I'd do it again in a second.

Card Catalog Challenge

My second entry.

Wendy's Calendar Project

These are my two calendar pages for my friend Wendy's calendar project. Six artists created two months and made duplicates for each participant. This is December.

Wendy's Calendar Project

January

Rust

This is a photo I took in Vermont. I just love the peeling paint around the rusty latch. My daughter and I were exploring an abandoned site ... it was an old amusement village called "Santa's Land". The new one was across the street.

Altered cabinet card

I've collected vintage photos for years, but this is the first time I've altered one. I hope the woman in the photograph doesn't mind. I tried to keep her dignity :-)

New Journal: In My Next Life

I'm currently working on a round robin journal project with my family (sisters and nieces)
This is the cover. I tried a bit of sewing with this one.

In my next life ...

Inside front cover