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    Colors swap pages

    After a long delay on my part… I finally finished the first set of pages in the colors round robin.

    I was so surprised at how difficult just having colors to use was for me. Without a theme, I was spinning my wheels and not able to focus on the task at hand.

    The colors were chocolate brown, turquoise and ivory…we could splash black if needed.

    This first page was the only one I had in my head from the beginning. This is actually the middle of a signature. These pages will be sewn into a plaster page book for a class, if I understand right.

    These swirls are on the back of the signature. You can see the fold mark down the middle.

    This next set I actually started with the back. I had the papers picked out long ago. Of course the scan isn’t showing the color properly. I messed around in Photoshop a little trying to fix it but only seemed to make it worse. So imagine the colors are proper…which they are in real life. 🙂

    This is actually the inside of that signature. I liked the poem and the color was  right.

    So for all my fretting about these pages, everything just sort of fell together when I put my mind to it.
    I sure hope this is what Marilyn is looking for in these pages.

  • Blog

    Wee Bit Wednesday on Thursday

     

    {one} have you ever been stuck in an elevator?
     

    Um…no. I’d be a basket case.
     

     

    {two} have you ever ridden on an elephant?
     

    YES!!  At the MN Renaissance Festival about…
     

     Well…lets just say a long time ago.
     

     

    {three} have you ever met a well known celebrity?
     

    A couple people I went to high school with are semi-famous now…
     

    but they were just typical kids back then.
     

     

    {four} do you have any food allergies?
     

    Yes…chocolate….doesn’t stop me though. 
     

    I just sneeze my head off for a minute or two
     

    then its all good. 🙂
     

     

    {five} do you know how to sew?
     

    Yes…I wing it most of the time though…I’m not good with patterns and instructions.
     

     

    {six} did you get an allowance when you were young?
     

    No. I did start getting paid when I mowed our couple acres of yard though…of course, my payment was directly deposited into my SAVINGS ACCOUNT.
     

     

    {seven} how often do you fill up your gas tank?
     

    Maybe once a month…I don’t drive much.
     

     

    {eight} have you ever been stung by a jelly fish?
     

    Um ..no…I don’t really care for the ocean. Too many things that can eat you in there.
     

     

    {nine} have you ever been robbed?
     

    It’s funny…a long time ago, my VW rabbit was broken into…
     

    everything from the glovebox was on the front seat…
     

    they took NOTHING…I guess I didn’t have anything good.
     

     

    {ten} what is the worst haircut you’ve ever had?
     

    Hmmm…it would either be that haircut my cousin gave me when I was 4 and she was 5.
     

    She tied me to a chair….seriously. 
     

    We stuffed my hair into a Kleenex box…yeah, like that would hide it.
     

    Or 
     

    maybe the time I thought I could give myself a haircut. 
     

    You see, my mom was a beautician so I figured I could do it. 
     

    Yeah…not so much… I went I to get it fixed and said that a “friend” did it. 
     

    I couldn’t confess that I’d been so dumb. 
     

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