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ART and SOUL

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I’m off to Portland, Oregon for the Art and Soul Retreat this week.  Yay!  It’s something I’ve wanted to do each year I see it advertised.  And with my daughter living in Portland now, I thought it was time to jump on it.  Over a four-day period, I’ll be taking different collage workshops, two days with artist Donna Watson and two days with artist Jane Davies. They are both favorites of mine, and I’m excited to get a chance to learn from them.

Here are their websites:                                                        http://www.donnawatsonart.com/                                                                                     http://janedaviesstudios.com/

Can’t wait to spend time with my daughter and to dive into creating!

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PROJECTS IN THE WORKS

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These last few weeks I’ve been asked to make some invitations and notecards.  First there was my niece’s baby shower.  She’s expecting twin boys and is decorating the babies’ room with an elephant theme in khaki and light blue, so I used that to design this invitation and thank you card for her.

ShowerInvite   ThnkYouHearts

Another project was to make notecards for a tennis player friend to give her girls, who also play tennis.

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I made lots of sketches and decided on these as samples to show her.  We ended up using numbers one, three and four to personalize for the three girls.  They were printed on a cream-colored card stock with matching envelopes.

Next up is a wedding invitation suite for a couple who will be married in July. More on that in a future post!

A NEW YEAR

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I’ve just spent the first few days of the new year “cleaning” and trying to organize things in my art room. (Again!)  It’s great going through bins and drawers and shelves and rediscovering things I’d forgotten about.  But I’ve decided that this is the year I am going to have to weed out some of my supplies!  I have collected so many odds and ends – cabinet cards, atlases, maps, dictionaries, wallpaper books, songbooks, letters, postcards, stamps, fabric, paper, paper, paper – with the intention of using it in my collage work, but there is just no way I could possibly use all I have in a lifetime.  I have so many old books that I could never bear to rip apart, so I would scan the pages I wanted to use.  Not quite the same feel, though, as the real aged paper. So rip old books I will!  (Nothing valuable, of course).  And I will use the ephemera I’ve collected and hoarded. Enough of holding onto things!

This is a quick little assemblage I made with some of the scraps I came across.

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