Thursday, October 29, 2009

pennies to some, copper-plated blanks to others . . .

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Been playing with my new doming block and metal punch sets. It's so much fun! Unfortunately my craft time is usually when Elliot's sleeping, making hammering straight out.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Metalsmith's Delight

So. Much. Fun.
classwork

Granted, an entirely different kind of fun than the altered book class. But fun all the same.
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Clearly, they didn't have too hard a time getting along without me while I was at the class . . .

Thursday, October 15, 2009

other books (not mine)

so it finally occurred to me that craftster would probably have things about altered books - which of course they do - and one of the first (and prettiest) completed projects I found was this

in an unrelated note, the Scrap Exchange's annual fabric sale is next Saturday! must . . . not . . go . .

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

more altered book goodness

these are pictures from the book I altered in my class in September - some of the pages have changed significantly since these photos were taken!

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the outside
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the popup
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the honeycomb
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the butterflies
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the pockets

Monday, October 12, 2009

Sunday, October 11, 2009

vascillation

call 2 recycle


Can't decide: if you're not good at something, should you still 'waste' time with it? especially if there are other things that need doing? is art for its own sake worthwhile? is it still art if it sucks? if it's pretty? if it's derivative?

I don't know.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

musing

One of my many problems with creativity is that the image in my head is almost always miles and miles from what I actually am able to produce.

Also, I might get more posts up if I didn't have a computer trying to actively sabotage communication with the outside world.