Author: lauramchugh

This is the one I like best of the 18 I made yesterday. Okay, well, these are the two I like best. Technically, the second one is not a book cover – it is made on book pages, a leaf, from a book.

See them all here, on my Picasa WebAlbums page.  They’re for an upcoming Christmas Faire at Harley Farms, where they make fabulous artisnal goat cheeses.

Tonight I was notified that I will have a space at the upcoming Annual Christmas Fair at Harley Farms. This event is on December 11/12 in beautiful Pescadero, just 10 miles south of Half Moon Bay.

I’ll post more details when I have them. I’ll be selling correspondence cards, journals, and other items, all hand made, using ephemera I’ve collected from all over the world.

These items are  affordable, collectable and very special gifts for your friends and family. They are similar in design to my boxes from last year that sold out!  I can still make boxes if you want them on commission/special request. Just drop me an email.

I have a new Photojojo partner, who shall remain nameless until I receive instructions on how to do the attribution.

For now, here is the photojojo for today, October 30, 2010.

Today is a day off from work so I got right to the art. I woke up feeling so much better than yesterday, so I went through the ribbons I got at Antique Trove. I washed them (ugh – vintage years of dust and that “old” smell washed away with lavender soap), then ironed them because several were folded over. Ironing them while still damp was just the trick, then so they didn’t look too good, I crumpled them into a ball for a few minutes and voila! nice ribbons for later.

I put away buttons, game pieces, and tore up some maps I bought and went through and cleaned up from doing some art with company last week. Then, I was all ready to make some new stuff.

First I did some glass baubles using packages of $1.00 magnets from Michael’s. I took the images off that came with the baubles and replaced them with my own.

Here they are:

Then I made some bookmarks using the cards that the seam bindings came on. They were the perfect size and I topped them with the fresh ribbons I made after coating them with the ‘wax.

Here they are:

I had bought this really cool 4th grade math book at Antique Trove. I wanted it for the math problems and images. It was a 1956 book, used by a Louis Wright in 1962. I didn’t notice in the store that Louis adulterated every drawing in the book. The one with the baby is especially creepy. (Click on the image if you want to see more detail.)