Category : Creativity

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I finally bound some old tip-in and smaller size pages into one book this week.

I’m on a mission to finish all these UFO’s (unfinished objects) I’ve started somewhere along the line.

I was chatting with a neighbor just this evening over the bonfire about memory and lack thereof. Is it Adult-ADD or short-term memory loss but whatever you want to call it…I’ve got it!!! Geez… I can’t walk down the 2 sets of stairs to the basement and remember what the heck it was I went down there for!
OK…I think I’m on a tangent now….

My original point was…I have a ton of projects started or even nearly complete but never seem to tie up all my loose ends. THAT is my new mission.

With that said….haha…I have started a new project or more of a challenge. It’s a call for art from Somerset Memories magazine. It can be either a group or an individual using ONE IMAGE to create a multitude of art. Of course since it will be up for submission I won’t be showing what I’ve created until I’ve heard the news either way… I hope to get my projects in the mail next week for consideration.


It just occurred to me that the last few posts haven’t had much to do with art…

I am doing a bit of creating. I am working on an altered book about my dad. I’ve had this idea for at least a year but haven’t done anything with it. I have a book that he had gotten as a young boy. His signature is in the front cover as a kid. I thought it would be an awesome book to pay tribute to him in. Since Dad’s stroke a couple weeks ago I had been thinking more and more about this book. I want him to see it. I don’t want it to be something that is at his memorial service somewhere down the road. I think a big part of me didn’t want to make the book because it seemed as if it was a “memorial”. Now I see that it totally isn’t!! I want to be able to know those stories in his own words and hold on to them for my children.




My Road Trip themed round robin book came home today!

Isn’t it fantastic!?!?!

I couldn’t be more pleased with the end result.

Thank you to all the wonderfully talented ladies that worked in it.

I’m a bit frustrated that I’m working on an altered scrapbook of memories but am not comfortable showing my completed pages with the world.
I am quite protective of my children’s images (and my hubby is “off the charts” security wise, so showing pix is out of the question.

AAAGGHHH!!! I love the latest spread I made but if I blurred the photos on a graphics program the post would be completely meaningless.

Sorry, I guess I just needed to vent…or let people know that…yes, I am still working on stuff, along with spending countless hours outside in the heat watching my kiddos play. Ok, I’m whining but with the high temp and humidity it feels like forever!

After finally getting around to ordering a ton of digital pictures, I figured I should really have somewhere to put our memories.

This is the title page.

I’ll likely add a picture of both kids below the word Cherish.

I tend to do a *summer memories* book each year but I’m not going to limit myself to that this time. I’m not really sure how this altered book/scrapbook will evolve. Since I’ll be including photos of family and friends I won’t be showing many pages. I will show the completed book, at least from the outside, when finished.

I had a chance to play a bit yesterday.

I mostly worked on putting the tip-ins I’ve received together with my own pages in a patriotic theme book. I think I still have a page or 2 coming so I can’t say I’m done with that one yet.

Although I did make one new spread in my just for fun altered book.




I decided to drag out my coffee themed altered book over the weekend to try and get a few more pages done.

Here’s what I came up with…

When I decided to do this book I thought it would be a breeze.

I LOVE COFFEE. How hard could it be, right?!?

Apparently I like drinking my coffee, not creating art about it.

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