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cabinet of curiosities.

Hi! Despite the fact that less than an hour ago, I was down for the count due to an unplanned root canal today (sadly, part 1 of 2), I've gotten in quite a bit of bloggin' AND eBaying tonight! :-) I stayed home from Algebra, snuggled up to a couple of Vicodin, and slept on the couch for a few hours while Glen watched C-SPAN or "the span" as we call it. When I woke up, my face, jaw, and tooth kinda feeling close to normal. Unfortunately, I remembered that while I was "under the influence," I called my Mom and told her and my sister about my ordeal today. Just hope I was only my normal weird self and didn't confess anything incriminating! LOL!

Yesterday, I got the "inspiration" page done of from the Cabinet of Curiosities challenge that Kari and Bonnie are co-hosting so I wanted to share that with you!

To do the letters, I "inked" rubber stamps with PVA glue, stamped them,and then applied LOTS of glitter! Fun! Since I want to eventually hang this on the wall, I bought some aersol sealer at Michael's and sprayed it, hoping that this will keep the glitter from becoming a nuisance! We'll see! I did attach this to the other pages but didn't snap that picture yet. I can't wait to work on yesterday's prompt for my next page for the Cabinet of Curiosities. The prompt is "collection." Uh, I've got a few of those! (Did I mention I just bought two "lots" of buttons on eBay? )  See ya!

more cabinet action.

So I didn't get near as much "art" time in today as I thought I would. Late morning after reading the paper and coffee, Glen and I went to work on my car and did a thorough cleaning of the inside (thanks again, honey!) Well, after that, we were going to drive it over to the car wash but then it wouldn't start! It had been hard to turn over this last week so this actually wasn't a big surprise but OH DEAR, I'm just SO thankful of the timing of when it completely conked out! Glen was home and we were in a "taken care of the car" mode. I wasn't in a dark parking lot, late at night, in the cold!

So with that all out of way, dinner done, we're now enjoying a cozy Sunday evening. In between watching the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet, I've been playing around with my assorted artsy projects. I did; however, have to flat out stop what I was doing to watch the Kitten Half-time Show!

Okay, so I completed the "curiosity" prompt today of Cabinet of Curiosities that Kari and Bonnie are hosting. Bonnie just posted this week's prompt, "inspiration," over on her blog so that means I am now officially caught up! Yee-haw!!!

So here's curiosity.....

My goal for these "pages" is to NOT have them match. I am not taking into consideration the colors. I'm trying to do one as if it were going to stand on it's own. Each page has the prompt stamped on a label in the same font and that is the ONLY thing I want to be the clue that these pages belong in the same "book." I WANT that montaged, patchworked kind of look. I think I'm gonna get my wish! Here are the first four prompts stitched together...

Since I'm caught up, this week I MUST figure how I'm going to hang this. If I don't do that, I'll have to start standing on a chair to get the entire hanging in my camera's view finder!

I wanted to reply to a comment that Kari left asking what type of glue I was using for this and if I was using any other adhesive or fusible webbing. I'm not using ANY glue or type of adhesive. Everything is sewn on freestyle. Doesn't that sound like fun??? It really is! Here is what the back looks like...

I really love the look this technique is creating on the front of each page.

Okay, I'm off to go finish up my Circle Journal that Andrea is hosting! Right now I have Claudine's CJ. Her theme is "Back Where I Come From." Fun fun fun!

cabinet of curiosities.

Whew! I finally had a chance to play around with the Cabinet of Curiosities project that Kari (aka artsymama) and Bonnie are hosting! I'm almost caught up!

I've really been thinking a lot of the format I wanted to try. I knew I did not want to go the altered book route. I was thumbing through a fabulous book called Artists' Journals and Sketchbooks by Lynne Perrella and was completely inspired by a journal that Lynn Whipple. It was in a vertical format.

I got the prompts all mixed up so I completed three of them but they're not in order. I did explore, wonder, and dream. So I just have to do curiousity and then I'll be all caught up...until tomorrow! Yee-haw! So when I'm finished with this challenge, I want to find a place to hang it in my studio (yeah right! Good luck with that Michelle!!) and use then refer to the word prompts as inspiration.

So here's my take on it...the first word was Explore...

For whatever reason, I thought Wonder was the next word...

and then did Dream...

 

I'm using canvas paper and wallpaper with lots of ribbon and fabric. Just as a challenge I'm avoiding glue and sewing everything. I'll be sewing them all together then to make one long wall hanging. Here are the first three laid out. The "dream" page isn't sewn yet because the bling wasn't quite dry yet!

Since we're not football fans in our house, I do believe I'm going to be able to get in some more ART time tomorrow! Wow!!  :-)