PAGES 35- 38 The next 4 pages developed together. I worked on one then another, then back to the first. The images on pages 36 & 37 came from an ad for Portland's Craft Festival. the flamingo particularly enchanted me... The ceramic skull and the hanging flower pot are equally interesting...  wish I got the artists' names... 

TOO MUCH TV !!!!!
Page  35 is a basic scrap collage, with a tangle design, "connectors" ( one of my dependable Tangles) filling in the background.

p 36 is a book stitched on the left side of the green with two more drawings from the same ad as the flamingo. I'm thinking the same artist. 

The striped paper  on page 37 is from Dina Wakley's " Collage Collective".  It appears again in pieces on the next page.

And page 38 was the least satisfying although I  now like it -- the focal point never came clearly out at me...  I used a Bic white out for some accents. I was attached to the diamond shape  and I think that was the problem... 

"Build a Journal" uses several pockets... and includes tags.

AUGUST ..........
Pages 33-34
it's a 3 phase pocket... with 3 tags,

 corners are folded to make flaps, attached to a tag punched to add to journal

The pocket is a page from a recent Scholastic publication...this shows part of one side. 

I like the colors so I cut a window in the tag which goes onto the binding.

no wood stacking today - coffee with a long-time friend, and too hot out. 

here are the most recent pages...
these shoes intrigued me... for all the show lovers out there... not sure what was so interesting, but... they have glue dots to attach them so sit a bit higher on the page

page 26

The diamond shape was cut out from another page. I added the missing letters freehand. And the shape of it showed on the next page as the beginning.  

And here again is "higgins"or 'huggins"a "Zentangle design. 

I have created a Silverpennystudio facebook page for my work.... here's a photo of the seed pods for lunaria (silver pennies) 

And here's s scanned copy of the workshop information...

New flyer for artist in residence projects

July 27
pages 15 & 16  
THREE days'  work !!!!!!

Page 15 is a watercolor paper index card from joggles.com with an old book file card attached to flip up.
The file card had a print of a spiral on it. The blue piece opens for a part of the spiral. I made a spiral - which gives me two, and they are glued on the front, with gold dots for fun.
Adding dots, or dashes to an already finished page provides both details and some time to get my art brain ready to start a new page...or ponder how to fix something "finished ".

 The top is my least favorite part

although with the bottom section it looks quite nice. The colors are highlighters. 

This is the inside - my favorite part. It took several steps to get to where I was happy with it. the layers cannot be seen clearly