10 posts tagged “collage”

Compliment of the day for Sunday and Monday:
Lavender, you believe that everyone has goodness in them no matter who they are on the outside.
Thanks Me.
Lavender you also know how to comfort yourself when you are sick.
I do know how to surround myself with comforts when I am ill.

Look! I can also do a collage! I made myself a warm cuddly one because my throats soreness has only got worse in the last few days. Last week it started off as just fatness, but not sore. Now I have a raw, swollen, icky feeling throat, and my sinuses are filling to the brim with ookeyness and it is draining down the back of my throat and out of my eyes. I need to make myself a lightbox so I can take pictures of my teapot and other comfort items I pull out of the china hutch at this time.
Saturday I found an advertisement on Craigs list that some guy was selling some old windows, so I bought 5 large and two small for $55. I am going to clean them up and have Mr. Lavender put those hooks in them so they can be hung, then get some photos printed and stick them in the windows for sale. I hope to sell them in the Yoga Studio.
Sunday I found that helping Mr. L gather wood from my pop's place did not help my throat fatness. I woke up to soreness.
I grabbed my giant sudoku book, boiled water to fill teapot with pomegranite green tea with a large spoonful of local raw honey, remote control, hand made afghan from my grannies sister (gift for our wedding), mug that looks like me, sweat pants and sweat shirt, fire blazing in the fireplace, and I sunk into my soft squishy sofa. I finished a puzzle that had 5 puzzles intertwined (took me all day) then cooked a huge pot of vegitable barley soup for dinner. yesterday was all about rest and trying to get rid of my sore throat. I felt better when I went to bed, but awoke this morning, with a more sore throat. This explains why I have been so tired all week though! Haha! So today I will do some work, but I think I might snuggle in the couch for lots of the day too. Maybe nap since I drank so much green tea I woke up in the middle of the night and could not sleep.
 

I participated in a swap, I make 26 pages of art and 26 other people do the same, I send it to a lovely woman and she binds books out of the art, I will receive a book with 25 other artist pages and one page of my own. So here are my pages.

1. a)distorted history B) man in the window C) 3 little birdies

2.A)a little birdie told me B)free C) rebuild

3. A)Fairy flower #1 B) fairy flower #2 C) what I keep in my birdcage

4. A) tied hands #1 B)tied hands #2 C) she was somewhere else

5.A)such a good boy B) dreaming of castles in the sky C) never above a whisper

6.A) doll #1 B)doll #2 C) doll #3

7. A)heart B) royalty C)going nowhere #1

8. A)Fairy with doll flower B) she keeps her own key C) the three kings

9.A) going nowhere #2 B) class picture




I made these using old books, photos, papers etc. Things I find at thrift stores, garage sales, etc.

The first one is about a hypochondriac I know, she shall remain nameless, because I think she can kick my ass. She knows where I live and I see her often.

The second one is made with a couple of my photos I have taken. So there it is.

I took these photos yesterday and composed this lastnight.

I have wanted to make one for a long time. My Best Friend bought me a copy of the Frida Kahlo journal years ago for my birthday. It is amazing! I never thought I could make something as beautiful as that, well, mine will be pretty in my own way. I have seen so many lovely examples of artist journals latyely and I guess it is the universe telling me I should do it NOW! so here is my first page, kind of a self portrait.

I made this collage out of childrens books, sheet music and childrens magazines. It was fun.