October ATC trade

I wasn't able to be at the trade this month, but, I did my cards. So until next month.

Studio Projects

This is what the beginning of a project looks like in my studio. Fairly organized.

Once I get started though, it turns to chaos in a quick hurry. I end up pulling nearly every art material I own out just to have it on hand "in case". Here I am beginning to work on my Aunt Madeline's memory book. I've been trying to get it done for a few years now. Every time I decided it was time to work on it, I knew it would be like this and I hesitated. The house will stay like this until the last picture is pasted in.

More memory book work.

Here is a box with hundreds of vintage photos of my family going back to the early 1800's. I scanned every one of them and will copy them to a disk as well as the finished pages of the book itself. I am going to send them to the family members so they can have their own book if they want to print them or they can view them on the computer when they choose.

When I have to stop to squeeze a small project in between pages, I clear out a 10 x 10" space in front of me and dig in. Here I am working on the ATC cards for our September trade.

More ATC's

The two photos above are of my studio storage space.

Every thing under the sun and the kitchen sink too!!

"Say good nite Lynnsie"

Work in the Studio

Me, Tara and Annie at my birthday dinner at Chihuahua's in Ferndale. Yum!!

Studio space looks great here, but a few hours later, OMG!!

The table Ruthie and I take up residence at when we go to the Calophon in Fairhaven.

I've been spending a lot of time in the studio and it looks like a bomb dropped. I'm working on Madaline's Memory books. Long, tiring, eyes hurting, back hurting and very satisfying work. I've also been doing a lot of work for friends. Lots of birthdays this time of year. Susan sent me a gift card from Michael's. Ohhhh yeaaaaaa ! Later

New Art in August

Here is Susan's Birthday gift. She told me she had been thinking of putting together something like this for all of the families bathing suits throughout the years. Good idea.

It's baby steps to gettin' yer grooooove back . . .

2 weeks ago we had an Atc trade at our local craft store. Before we went we took our friend Diana to lunch for her 75th birthday at Billie McHales. We had a great time and the waitstaff sang happy birthday to her in front of all the people in the restaurant. Oh well, you only turn 75 once in a lifetime. :O) Then we went back to the trade and Diana had a demonstration on photo transfers.

Lil, Helen & Cheryl

Helen made these wonderful birds for another trade she goes to. Talented lady!

Helen's beautiful birds

Helen & Cheryl, Lynn in background

Lynn, Lew & Diana

Diana cringing
She'll hate me in the morning. Oh no, she's gonna hate me right now!!!

Who did this to me?

My little friend Lily next door and I were doin our thing this afternoon.

Next is a cartoon for my brother Layne.

These are the photo transfers that we did at our trade. I'm going to use mine to decorate my heritage albums. Should be fun!

Nana and a friend in those lovely swimsuits in the 1920's
Here are Madeline and Mom (Bobbie) at the beach sometime around 1930

Recharging

These are two 2 x 2 inch paintings that were part of an art challenge. The first paintings or art were to be 1 x 1 inch. Then we'd go to 2 inch art and so on. I kind of lost momentum. I'm working on some sketches and ideas for my new ATC's so I am actually working. Very little, but working. It feels odd not to be creating every day. I feel lazy. I always tell my students that after a big push of creativity you need to slow down and recharge your creative batteries. To process what you've just done so it sinks in. It gives you time to fill back up again. Maybe that's what's going on. Hmmmm?

Guess what we've been doing? And more games, books, and fun 2 1/2 yr old ideas.

Claudia

This is a doll I made for my friend Lucy aka (Zorriah) This is her inner persona.