Final entry for the Art Garage collaborative - "Terra Incognita"

This is the final book that I work in for the Art Garage Traveling Journal Round Robin. I am done with all Round Robin commit- ments for now (aside from a year long ATC swap commitment). I think this will be the last Round Robin involving entire books that I will participate in. While I love the idea of working on such collaboratives there is far too much work put in to these books to have

them carelessly handled or lost. Several went missing for months at a time. I believe all but one have been recovered. I think I will stick with tip-ins and ATCs in the future. This spread is titled "Terra Incognita" and is influenced by the book "Hippolyte's Island" Written by Barbara Hodgson. I found the quote online a few days ago and for the life of me can't remember where and don't know who to credit it to.

Just a few journal pages

I just learned of a " Call for Sub- missions" for a book tentatively titled "1,000 Artist Journal Pages". That just sounds too wonderful! So, here I go again, setting aside the collage dolls AGAIN to work on something else. Although I have to admit journaling is my favorite thing in the whole world to do! Just a few days for this and then back to the collage dolls that are going oh so very well. Spent the past few days making up a bunch of wire wings for them. But only after searching all over "MFE" for new solder iron tips, only to learn they are ONLY available on the Internet for $10 a piece! I don't think so! Ended up buying yet another soldering iron and several new tips as well. I swear, if it isn't one thing it's another!

For more journal photos -

http://WWW.IngridDijkers.com/galleryaltbookspage10.html

FINALLY! a somewhat completed collage doll!

I was REALLY beginning to lose my patience with these darn collage figures that I have been working on forever. I am working on 4 large ones that are giving me all sorts of construction problems. Admittedly, I am getting very frustrated with them. I have however, come up with a small (8" X 12") collage figure that I am quite pleased with so far. Still needs a bit of work and some experimentation, but it's getting there. I think I would like to add some more collage work to the body. These will be "The Bug Collection - for Serious Bug Collector" and will replace the old Bug Collection.