Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

March 13th, 2008

Lazy Girl Designs!

Art Attack Thursday! 
Don’t you just love the name of this blog? Joan Hawley is the Lazy Girl, and she has generously shared many free lazy tutorials. Since I happen to be a person who is always in seach of the perfect bag, her quick and easy style really appeals to me. I especially like […]

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February 12th, 2008

How to make a scrapbook wrap

Technique Tuesday!
Like I told you yesterday, I can’t complete this wrap until the album itself if finished, since I don’t know how thick it’s going to end up being. So what I did was to cut a piece of base fabric several inches longer than the current width of the entire album when it is […]

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February 11th, 2008

Scrapbook wrap

Last year my family and I took a wonderful trip to Guatemala to see where Nate, our son/brother had been living and working. We visited the orphanage where he was the schoolmaster and electronics fix-it guy. As it happened, Nate fell in love while he was there, with one of the daughters of the directors, […]

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January 11th, 2008

Another photo chosen for Life Images!

I’m so excited! I had two pictures chosen to be included in the premiere issue of Life Images, and now another of my photos has been chosen for the second issue. This is one that I took when we were visiting my son in Guatemala.

The next deadline is coming up in March, so think […]

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August 13th, 2007

Altered book cover frames

Make Art Monday!

I recently got intrigued with the idea of using the covers of older books, especially those covered in cloth, as picture frames. There are obviously a few challenges inherent in doing this, and tomorrow for Technique Tuesday, I’m going to share a few tips with you in case you want to try it. […]

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January 26th, 2007

Guatemala, Day 6

Day 6: Sunday,01/07/07

Dani spent some time sketching out in front of the hotel while we waited for our morning pick-up. This morning we were going to eat breakfast out at the house and then go to church with them in the center park square of Santiago. Tom and Susan tried to find an established church […]

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January 26th, 2007

Guatemala: Day 5 (part 2)

At the hotel, we picked up our ice cream and headed back to the house to stow it away for dessert. The kids were outside playing games—Susan likes to have them get out of the house every afternoon that the weather makes it possible!—so it was pretty easy to sneak it inside with the unexciting […]

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January 24th, 2007

Guatemala: Day 5 (part 1)

Day 5: Saturday, 01/06/07
Tom’s birthday!
We woke up early again, this time to the loud sounds of an animal scratching in the roof of our cabin. We poked around, but couldn’t find it or get it to stop, so we gave up and got up! Mike went out in the yard to wait for Dani and […]

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January 22nd, 2007

Guatemala: Day 4 (part 2)

Still Day 4: Friday, 01/05/07
Out to the house, finally! The kids are in the middle of game time, so we join in.

Dodgeball, or Matado

I did a little bit more work on the school books with help from Gladys, but supper still came way too soon. Tom and Noe hadn’t yet returned from a trip […]

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January 19th, 2007

Guatemala: Day 4 (part 1)

Day 4: Friday, 01/05/07
There were earthquake tremors overnight!

I woke up really early again, and this time Mike joined me going down to the lakefront. We met Salvador, one of the grounds-keepers, and Mike practiced his Spanish on him. I think he did pretty well too!

We ate breakfast at the hotel again. Dani and I both […]

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