Altered Books and Scrappy Weekend

Altered Books

The woman in the green shirt made an awesome cloth bag for everyone's altered book. The one she made me is ORANGE! I LOVE it! (See previous post for a better look).

And to celebrate my birthday, I gathered some of the coolest people I know to make art and scrapbooks at one of my favorite local independent scrapbook shops! It was soooo fun. I gave everyone an orange cup of treats when they arrived. I also had plenty of Coke and Sunkist Orange soda on hand!

Scrapping is very serious business!

Oh, and it is also so much fun to see what everyone is working on.

Book Arts and Random Pics

Experiment/accidental flash

My husband and I were walking one night this week. I saw our shadow on this old sign. I thought it looked cool, but the first shot accidentally was used with a flash. I like the second shot a lot better, but it is neat to see the two shots together.

Minnesota Center for the Book Arts lets us use their space for our Visual Journal Collective meetings. Roz Stendahl is the "rad" facilitator for the group. Here are the pictures from our altered book round robin that some us participated in.

Altered Book Round Robin concluded Monday, November 16th, 2009

That night, we also had a guest talk to us about calligraphy. It was really amazing to see how easy she made it look. We got to try a bunch of different calligraphy pens and tools. My favorite was a little piece of balsa wood taped to the eraser end of a pencil! My other favorite was a Pilot Parallel Pen with a big nib (3.8mm).

Guest Calligrapher-Christine

Making ink for calligraphy

Rosemary Riskin's Art

I just love this, don't you? You can see more of this talented artist's work at www.rosemaryriskin.com or on flickr at this address

New Papaya Art catalog

I was thrilled when I went to my mailbox this morning and pulled out this beautiful sales catalog for PapaYa Arts. Anahata Katkin and her mother have been working on their business since 2003. Now they sell their products all over the world. This is the first catalog I have received/seen, so it might be the first one. Go to the website and get completely inspired!

I love Sabrina Ward Harrison. PapaYa has started carrying products with Sabrina's art! They are WONDERFUL!

Etsy Update Tonight and Tomorrow!

Yeah! I am finally getting into the groove, if you know what I mean. I am updating my Etsy shop tonight and there's more to come tomorrow!

Check it out at www.orangespiral.etsy.com

And as always, thank you for your interest and support! I am ever grateful.

Peace,

Briana

Mason Jennings

If you don't know the music of Mason Jennings and you like folk/alt. rock music, please check out his new album. I just ordered it today, and can't wait to get it.

Go to his website here and play the video about his new album. It was really inspiring for me to watch. You might like it, too!

Holga 35mm

Do Not Enter and Police Car Lights

No. 34 and The Moon Shooting Across the Sky!

Hello Everybody,

You may have noticed that I have been away from "computerland" for awhile. I do have some exciting news to share, however.

One of the things I have been doing with my time is taking pictures with my new Holga 35mm camera. I love it sooo much. I have taken and developed 2 rolls of film already. I don't really know what I am doing, but I know that I am having a blast! I love photography, and I love to use my photos in my art and journals. Here are a couple of shots that I took this past week.D