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    Bottlecaps

    November 16, 2007 - By 


    I’ve been saving bottlecaps for quite a while now…my neighbors and family even save them for me occasionally. Nice to have people like that even if they do think I’m odd.

    I was inspired to make these bottlecap magnets aftering seeing a post about some Christmas ones on Ali Edwards blog.

    I only had very thin sheet magnets at home so they aren’t really strong enough to hold up anything but themselves. Who said art had to be practical, right?!?

    I have 16 more sitting taking up precious table space while the Crystal Lacquer dries. Next time …hopefully…I’ll remember to put them on a tray or something so I can move them outta my way!!

    UPDATE: Here are the 15 that turned out…

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    BahHumbug postcards

    November 10, 2007 - By 


    Here is my postcard poking fun at the chaos of some peoples Christmas. I’m glad our family has the “keep it simple” policy. 🙂

    The second one is giving a little jab to some of the clueless husbands out there.

    Glad mine isn’t one of them. Love you sweetie!

  • Art - Blog - Creativity

    Altered book pages

    November 10, 2007 - By 

    I picked up a this book at a local thrift store the other day. I had originally intended it for something completely different but decided since it was small that I should just dive in and play!!

    I really like 3 of the 5 pages. The other 2, I am not so pleased with. I don’t actually hate them enough to cover them up but may go back and revisit them later to see if I can make any good changes.

    Can you guess which ones I like??

    I still have plenty of room to play some more in this book. It’s very freeing to work without a theme…at least for today. 🙂 Sometimes I need a theme to get me started. In fact this book was planned to be a book in which each spread dealt with one of the senses. Yeah…that changed pretty quickly.