book's in the mail

here's the page i added to the book that came to me for april.... should be to Melissa soon!

Book 1 on its way......

Well if you remember what Traci Nelson said about her book. "........Journal filled with 60 pages in hopes that each artist will share words and/or art on two pages each day of the month so not only a book exchange also an art-a-day challenge no matter how big or small the creation and reflect the artist and mindset of the day."

I tried to take that literally and here are a few pics of what I added. I work with fabrics for my art and also with buttons and interfacing and thread. So my contribution has bits and pieces of most of the handbags I created in April and some earlier. I have boxes of scraps so everything came directly from my workroom. Some other pages just reflect in words what my day was like...... the map and earth page are part of the original book .........

And I definitely found it a challenge altho I probably doubled the weight of this thing but I look forward to seeing other contributions -- Jan

Birds

I received Celia's handmade book, and I nearly forgot to snap some pictures before I sent it off today.




And one a little more pleasant...





-julie

Book #2

Adding to the index card art is addictive! So many options. This book is so welcoming. When it first arrived, it opened up its playful world to me.

Book #2

I received Jan Cohen's book to work on for the first round. I loved the fabric samples and chose a sequence of pretty green pages to work on. I liked being able to do a little sewing/beading- a nice change from a paper book! Here's my pages:

Book #2: Swim Naked, Defy Gravity...

I received Nicole Bruno's book and have been having a lot of fun working on it...

Inspiration!

Thank you to whoever brought the plastic bead organizer to the swap at Maryjo's! I was reorganizing all my beads with it tonight and came up with the perfect thing for Colleen's book. The burlap was perfect for beading and I absolutely love the way it turned out.