A belated Happy Thanksgiving to one and all. Lou and I spent the day with daughter Monica in Evansville IN. She did the cooking and had everything done and ready by the time we arrived at 2. She gets up so early because of work that she wakes early automatically all the time. She figured [...]
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December 9, 2009
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September 23, 2009
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What a great class Thursday the 17th. We are not a big class but a dynamic one. We spent the afternoon making the painted patterned paper, the crinkled paper and the rubbings which are all on the blog under techniques. One thing had given me trouble where the rubbings were concerned. As you know they [...]
August 28, 2009
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Here are selected pictures from the books I made for my grandchildren. I made 5 books, each taking roughly 80 hours each. They were what I called “pocket books” because each had a quantity of pockets made out of the pages of the books meant to hold money or other stuff. The first 5 are [...]
April, 2009
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Hello to any who might still check in on me. It’s been months since my last thoughts were published! So sorry. Since my last post I’ve finished teaching one session of collage at Evanston Art Center, and am into the 5th class of the second session. Had a fun and interesting class on Saturday morning [...]
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January 30, 2008
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I’ve been trying to figure out how to get my pictures from Kodak Easyshare to my blog. When (and If) I figure it out I want to share pix of the 5 altered books done for my grandkids. In the meantime hi to all you friends. I hope you are keeping warm. Don’t know about [...]
December 1, 2008
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Hi to all my friends. I’ve really been here all along….just never enough time to ‘talk’. Hope one and all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. Lou and I spent the day with Monica in Evansville, with Michael and the girls and Lou’s brother Rick. Monica has a very tiny bungalow….but we had a great and [...]
October 22,2008
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Well now I will try again to post a note. I lost my server in the middle of my first attempt.
If an altered book can be called finished, then this one is done except for the cover. I had cut a window in the cover before covering it with a crumpled paper pattern designed paper. The opening [...]
October 6, 2008
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It was a sad with the Cubbies going out in 3…….but happiness reigns with the Bears. My altered book continues, but today I took time to write out “about me” which you can read by clicking on that page.
October 1, 2008
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Wow. It’s the first day of my 69th year.,…and I was just getting used to 68! Yay Cubs and yay Sox. I’m so looking forward to tonight’s game, Cubs against Dodgers.
At the health club in conversation with Liz, she suggested that that $700 billion bailout should be given to the tax payer to spend instead [...]
