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LITTLE YELLOW BIRD COLLAGE ART

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I can’t seem to get enough of birds these days.  I love it  when I’m sitting by the window and see the cardinals eating the dried seed heads in the garden, or hear the nightingales singing in the trees.  A few times this summer, when I was awake in the middle of the night, I’d hear one lone nightingale off somewhere in the dark singing its beautiful song.  Lovely.  I guess I’ve gotten to that age where these simple things make me smile.  Along those lines, I offer this collage.

FLOWER BASKET COLLAGE ART

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FlwrBsktPrintFinally back at work on some new collages.  This is a digital piece, all done on the computer, using much of the old books pages, letters and images I’ve been collecting and scanning.  The flower basket is a black and white image that I hand colored.  Hope you like it!   Oh, and I’m having some blank notecards made with this design, as well as an 8″ x 10″ print ready for framing – they’ll be available for sale soon.

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Oh, Summer. How you have kept me from working and writing on my blog.

I can’t really blame myself for taking the summer months off. They’re so fleeting and I’ve just been enjoying the time spent outdoors with family and friends. And the laziness on those hot, humid days.

These abstracts done with tissue paper have been sitting on my work table since July and I’ve finally gotten around to scanning them.

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FABRIC BITS NOTE CARDS

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Going through my bins of fabric today, it occurred to me that sewing together some little scrappy bits and attaching them to card stock would make cute note cards.  And writing a few encouraging words, or a funny Mae West quote (“too much of a good thing is wonderful”), would give them some more interest.  The text from a book on the green linen fabric just struck my funny bone and could certainly be used to describe me too many times!

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MORNING GLORIES

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I must say, I’ve never seen red morning glories!  The blue is one of my favorite flowers.   Each year, at the end of the summer, I like to collect and save the seeds to use the next year in planters near the back door and for the garden just outside the sun room window.  Although, this year it looks like they’ve taken care of themselves and self-seeded in the garden.  Morning Glories are easy to grow and are so beautiful climbing up a trellis.

This collage was pieced together and scanned into the computer, then I digitally added the scanned morning glory image.  That came from a set of “Flower Power” cards I got at a flea market.  The set of cards is pretty interesting, with ancient herbal remedies written on the back of each.  I’m going to use some of these for a set of notecards that I’ll post as soon as they’re complete.

Enjoy the weekend!