It's such a busy time of year for me. Workshop prep, making flight/hotel arrangements, travel, teaching, unpacking and then getting ready for the next trip. I try to schedule at least 2 weeks between workshops and that gives me just enough time to clear my head, get some household things taken care of and start prepping again. I basically hit the ground running every time I come home. Unless you teach workshops at retreats, you can not truly comprehend the amount of time it all involves. Not to mention trying to squeeze time in for sending in class proposals for upcoming classes, coming up with new workshops, ordering "stuff", photographing work, let alone trying to do a little journaling. I am late answering emails, I don't keep in touch with dear friends as well as I would like to. Most understand, some don't. Phew, I get tired thinking about it all! Really, I am not complaining because I absolutely love every part of it, but often I have to put a lot on the back burner, and many things just end up not getting done at all. And I guess that's just the nature of this sort of life. In the meantime, I made some badly needed time to do a little journaling this morning and it felt really great!
Just a reminder that I will be in New York City next week at "The Little Bird Studio". I'll be teaching "The File Folder Journals" (This workshop is full) and "The Journal Obscura" (Still 2 spots open in this class). I am looking so forward to this event. Last years trip to New York was one of my favorites.
It's finally out! Jane Davies newest book "Adventures in Mixed Media" was well worth the wait. I just got it and am loving each and every page!
I feel very honored to have two of my mixed media dolls "Fly" and "Time" appear in this book.
I hope to be offering Workshops with Mixed Media figures similar to these in the near future. Too many ideas, too little time to get it all together!
I have put together 3 of these little books I have been working on. They go together quickly and easily (as I had hoped) I did however take them a step further and edged all the pages (which took a surprising amount of time) and did some beading on the front. The beading was done on the ends of the waxed linen cording that holds the pages in place. This is not required, but I just love adding
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.
