On the Table

A few shots of my studio table,

with little piles here and there of possible upcoming projects.

The "marinating" stage as things
come together and get acquainted.

It's in the Stars!

 I saw this cool star made from a vintage folding ruler, from the studio of Susan Stoddard (drooling over those drawers!), in the new Where Women Create Book of Organization.  And I thought, I have vintage folding rulers!

 It took me several tries (though I'm an assemblage artists I've never had much luck with "some assembly required"!), but by looking at the picture and adjusting the arms of the ruler,  I finally got it!

I wrapped all the joints with thin pewter coloured wire.

And now it has pride of place on one of the
pullout shelves of my library card catalog.

New Project - Done!

 Journals waiting for date tags

Last week I showed you the beginnings of this project and promised you the end result this week.

 More waiting journals

And here it is.  I have journaled voraciously since junior high, but only art journaled since 2004.  These journals now are aligned on two bookshelves in my library.

Voila!  All tagged

I am always wanting to revert back to certain ones, but then can't remember which one is which month of which year without opening to the first page.  As you can imagine this can take some time - especially because then I get engrossed in each journal and start reading and ... you get the picture.

Easy to find

So I had one of those lightbulb moments and thought "AH!" I could put the dates on the outside of each book, but many of the spines aren't the right shape, wide enough or whatever to put the date right on the spine - so that's when I had the second brain storm and decided on tags!

And quite stylish 

(if I do say so myself!)

They're working out great - the starting month and year on one side, just the year on the other.  Tied on and visible.  Now I can find what I'm looking for quickly.  But I know I'll still find myself lingering now and then and delving into ones I wasn't looking for - just because it's fun!

New Project, Part 1

Busy using fun techniques I learned in
my recent on-line class with Tim Holtz.

Distress Ink in several different colours and
then manipulated with water -
sprayed, flicked and picked up off the surface.

With the addition of stamped dates,

They are ready for the second part of the project - next week.

From War to Birds and Billiard Balls

After seven months of producing work for the two exhibitions of The Pity of War, I now have piles of supplies on my art table for a new project.



As usual, these will sit there and marinate for awhile. I'll pass by, rearrange stuff, add, subtract, think about palette, get ideas, discard them...


...and then one morning I'll start to work, it will all come together and art will happen! I'll keep you posted.