the small object

i forgot to share something with you!

this weekend, actually as of thursday, i became obsessed with the work of an artist who created "the small object" company. i saw these at Dick Blick, but didn't buy them . . . yet. this woman's work just cracks me up! you have to go to her website and see more for yourself!

Tazo

Thank you Tazo Chai and Milk Frother-I LOVE YOU!

State Park Finale

State Park and Cute Guy

Would you like to live in there? I wonder who actually does?

State Park Photos

St. Croix River

Peace, Love, and Happiness to YOU

Thank goodness for state parks!

Look at that cute guy in the state park! See why I like to frequent them?

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