Altered Book: Grunge

28Apr08

Here’s my entry for the altered board book round robin. The book’s theme is grunge, with rust, black and white, and the owner likes Grinch green! I’m not quite sure this really is grunge, but I like it. The white fringe on that black stuff at the bottom was a totally unexpected surprise that I [...]

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4 X 4 Song Lyric pages

24Apr08

What I learned:

Old habits die hard. At 3:30 this morning, I was reminded of college. Usually between 3 and 5 am, mere hours before a major paper would be due, a similar scene would be taking place. I would be writing and my good friend would be typing behind me. His paper had been finished [...]

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Metal Inclusions

24Apr08

I’d been wanting to try fusing some old watch gears into glass for a pendant for a while. Only recently did I have the watch gears. So I dug around a little bit and read about other people’s experiences with this. Then I realized their information was about specific types of metal. Having no clue [...]

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Altered Book: Bad Girls

08Apr08

Here’s my entry in a Bad Girls altered book. This is part of the round robin I posted about before. My “bad girl” is Theda Bara.

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Orange flower

08Apr08

I took this at the Mission at San Juan Capistrano last week.

Doesn’t it look like you could crawl inside the yellow part?

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