Happy 4th of July

I am proud to be an American and I want to thank everyone in all branches of the Armed Forces for their dedication and sacrifices to keep us free ......

Finished the Mobile for Nursery

ok the colors don't come up quite right with my camera today so just think lime and lavender with a little clear, white, cream and pink ........ click to enlarge

Went to an Art Retreat in Grapevine

An online group I am in has an art retreat each year for 4 days, it's such fun getting together and laughing and creating art ..... the theme this year was GIRLFRIENDS ... anyway these are some photo's of the projects we did ..... the corsage on the front was one of the small projects then the book was the big project (I am only posting 4 of the 7 spreads) and then we did a German glass edged slide that went into the book (the lady that showed us how to do it gave us each one with our name on it and I put mine on the front of my book), the back has some of the stuff from the weekend - my bunny slipper tag, a large decorated tickets for entrance to a party one night (we all decorated these tickets and then blind drew them after the event and I got this super one) .... we made an autograph book and each of us signed it , I am posting the front cover ... we also made this wonderful little pin nib butterfly and the background is Glimmer Mist .... and then this AWESOME wand was a drawing prize and I won .... enjoy .....

28 weeks today or 7 months for us old ones

well this is what I have been spending all my time doing lately ..... expecting a first Grand baby is so exciting I am sure each one will be but since this is our first I will have to wait to know ..... the nursery is still in progress .... the window is missing it's shelf rod to drape the swags and hold pretties, the rocking chair, in which the baby's Great Grandfather's rocked her mother and her uncle, corner is missing the chandelier; the changing table wall (which there is no photo this time is missing the shelf above it and the curved changing pad and the pretties for the shelf; the crib wall is missing the shelf above it (these shelves are antique from the baby's Great Grandparents mantel of there home) and the things that will go on it .... the colors didn't come out good in all the photos but the walls are lavender, the shears and recovered the rocker and stool (we did these) are soft lime, the black design on the walls I cut with the Cricut in vinyl and it was sooooo easy to adhere to the walls ... I will post more photos when it get finished ....

Thank You for your Service

I wanted to THANK all the service men and women in our armed services today and in the years past for there bravery and watchfulness of our country and our freedom .... THANKS so much for taking a part of your life and giving it to us and special THANKS goes out the the families who gave the greatest sacrifice of there loved ones to us ...... Linda F

Chandalier for Nursery

ok so you know I will alter anything ...... so guess what I did ... I took this baby chandelier and added the colors our daughter chose for her baby's nursery, lime and lavender .... I may still add some more to it but this is how it stand right now .......

Spring family B-day/Anniversary Cards

Our lives have gotten so busy that we now do one large get together in the Spring and one in the Fall to celebrate birthdays and anniversary's ... this just happened for the Spring and I made some cards and thought I would share ... I forgot to take a photo of our son's card before I mailed it he's in CA now ....... click to enlarge

Doing a little Grandbaby stuff

I have crocheted a lavender baby blanket and now I have done a center piece for a shower and a Mother To Be pin for the shower also ...... so my art has taken a different turn lately

Free Images

Sorry my art has been so scares lately hopefully soon I will get back on my game ...... in the mean time here are a few images I hope you can play with ....... click to enlarge .....

Altering Spoons again

These are two spoons I just finished ... the butterfly one is done with Swarovski crystals, jade beads and mother of pearl circles the flower-vine on has Swarovski crystals, glass beads and pearlized flowers with metallic gold vine ... click to enlarge ... enjoy

Getting together with Friends

Had a wonderful day with friends and we did some projects I really enjoyed ........ the ruffle around the Scotties is of gathered pattern paper ........ and the background of the lady is textured wallpaper .... click to enlarge

Altered Book Retreat is over for 2009

They worked so hard but I think everyone had a good time and learned lots of Techniques ....... go over to my Teaching blog to see them working so hard ..... Altered Book Retreats in Texas

Think I am ready

or maybe I should say I hope I am ready for the AB Technique Book Workshop/Retreat I am doing from Thursday thru Sunday .... this is the work table so far .....

GREAT mail day

You remember the Wand I posted earlier well yesterday I got my swap wand in the mail and this is it ........ The title of the wand is "Time Flies" don't know if you can tell but the ribbons and feather are flying in the wind ......

The spoon is from the mingle I did my two spoons for .... it's so awesome ... the lady that did it knows me so well she used an Elephant and the main color is green - it's me all over ......

Now I am waiting for my second one and I will post it when it arrives ..... click to enlarge ...

Altered Spoon #2

This is the other spoon ..... these are for an online mingle so I will be posting the spoons I receive also ....... click to enlarge

Altered Spoon #1

Couldn't sleep so I did some altering ........ yep it's an old silver spoon from the Albert Pick Hotels cir 1942 ... just did a little wire and bead work then some flowers and a butterfly ....... click to enlarge

Time to Share

something to use in your St. Patty's Day art .......... click to enlarge

I received my last pages in RR

Today I received the last pages in the RR I was in were everyone did my peach color ... I decided if I posted it with the rest of the photo it would all be out of order so for right now it's in a post all of it's own ....... Linda

Wand Swap

This is my "Queen of the Maypole" ... I am in an online swap and we are doing wands ... Maypole celebrations go back long ago in history ... in the 18th century it took the form from traditional and 'art' dance popular in Italy and France ... these were exported to the London stage and reached a large audience, becoming part of the popular performance repertoire ... adopted at a large teacher training institution, the ribbon maypole dance then spread across most of central and southern England and is now regarded as the most 'traditional' of May Day's traditional characteristics ... click to enlarge

Happy Valentine's Day

I hope is a warm wonderful day for all of you .... much laughter and chocolates ...... Linda

Getting ready for my Altered Book Workshop/Retreat

I have made the folders for the handouts and the memory booklets for the retreat ..... now to get the studio cleaned up and make up kits and print out the handouts ...... the hardest part will be cleaning up the studio ... lol .... as of 2-11-09 there is still one seat left if anyone is interested just click Altered Book Retreats in Texas ... click to enlarge the photo's

RR page Book

Well you have been watching the page's I have created for others and you saw the cover and such about 9 months ago BUT now you will see my book .... I still have to receive one page and tag to have it complete but it SOOOOOOOOOO very close .... my theme was houses, birds, Victorian and colors scheme was peach any shade of, antique linen, slight touch of walnut ink and since my fav. color is green it could have a little of that .... I love it and the artist I did this with are each and everyone super ........ thanks a million ... Linda click to enlarge

RR page

This is the last of the RR it's been so much fun working on everyone themes and color choices ... needless to say it has stretched me some and I have found out there are a few things I probably won't do again ...... when I get my book all put together I will post it ...... this theme was birds and vintage fairy children ... the color scheme was forest blue/green with sepia/browns ... click to enlarge

Shabby Chic Altered Book

I thought there would be no problem doing Shabby Chic but when it got right down to it I kept trying to put deep rich colors into the book .... here is the results for me this is very pastel I am not so sure others will think so ....... click to enlarge photo's

Published online

Altered Arts does an "E" magazine and I have been honored by being in there latest e-magazine .... just click to go to their website Altered Arts then in the right hand column close to the bottom you will see NEW INTERACTIVE E-MAGAZINE section and in the last of that you will find a link to the Mailbox Muse which is where you will find the link to the e-magazine my Chinese Slip Book in on the cover and the first article in the magazine with instructions on how to make it .......

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays to you ....... I wish everyone health, happiness, love and laughter ... Linda

RR page

This is the one for December ... her theme was Women of Times past and her colors were black & white and our choice of one accent color - I choose mauve ...

RR page

This is the one for November .... her theme was Friendship and the colors were Lime & Hot Pink ... the swap ends in January 2009 so I will have 2 more to post ...

RR page

I kind of got behind on posting some of the RR pages I had done in the RR swap the last one I posted was back in Sept. so here is the one for October ....... her theme was Fairy's & Vintage the colors were antique white, foliage green, turquoise & rusted tin ......

Blog give away for new book

Susan Tuttles new book Exhibition 36: Mixed-Media Demonstrations + Explorations is for sale at Amazon you could look it up or click on this link for the book: http://tinyurl.com/64h9tm . She is having a contest/give away on her blog so just click the link and join in the fun ... http://ilkasattic.blogspot.com/2008/12/book-give-away-contest.html#links

Christmas Tip-in also

I used a Sizzix die to cut out a grunge board tree sprayed with 2 colors of green Glimmer Mist ... laid on the background of red Glimmer Mist and stencil ... added a strip of hymnal page and jingle bells accented with the poinsettia at the base of the tree ... I did just a little shadow work on the edges of the page with the negative of the tree grunge board cut out .... stamped Merry Christmas with Versa Mark then embossed with fine gold embossing powder

Christmas Tip-in

This is a pure joy to make .... it's a tip-in instead of a Christmas Card ... I used red Glimmer Mist for the background with a stencil and 3 greens sprayed over each other for the tag .... then took a page from my hymnal and crumpled it and used distressed linen inkpad to do direct to paper on the high spots then over that I used metalic gold inkpad to do some of the high spots, heat set that ... used ARTchix German scrap wings behind my lovely image and embellished with fabric poinsettes and ribbon then added just a little bling ....

Seasonal Free Image

I just wanted to share a couple of images you might want to use this Holiday Season ... click to get full size ..... enjoy