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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 .......