Archive for October, 2007

2 more tikis

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

I’ve finished 3 tikis except I forgot to take photos of one of them before I sent it off- oops!  This one left today-

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And this one is the latest I have finished-

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Also,  I put my extra school picture atcs in my Etsy shop here.

atc swap

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

We had a great swap/potluck-

We laid all our cards out on the dining room table-

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and then the hard part- choosing!

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these are the ones I got-

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I put lots of photos on flickr and wrote up something for Boston Handmade.

report card envelopes

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

I am making little envelopes for my School Picture artist trading cards. I’ve decided to get some use- and laughs- from my old report cards. They sure put all the school issues my kids have had into perspective. School was pretty much torture for me.

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That bottom one says- - Mimi must exert greater all around effort- attentiveness, completeness, neatness, accuracy. That was 6th grade (12 yrs old).

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This one (below) is from the year I lived in London. I love the Needlework grade- D+. But I really improved and by the end of the year I had a B-.

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envelopes-

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Facebook and other things

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

I joined Facebook a while back- my husband is on it, my kids are on it… but I still haven’t figured out how to use it in my world. At this point I find it very confusing- so many applications, so few that work the way I expect! It takes me a while with these things- it was maybe a year before I realized how Flickr had expanded my art/craft online life. I am hoping that Facebook will also enlarge my community, but I haven’t found the way yet. Any thoughts?

Internet love- I found Elsita’s blog, Rebel, when she left a comment. Then I found her shop. Now I have a new little friend!

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atcs- school pictures

Monday, October 1st, 2007

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I like having a theme when I do something like a group of artist trading cards.  I knew I wanted to do a group with faces.  As I started putting them together, they looked like school photos to me.  That really helped me think about them while finishing up the project.

These are for a swap next weekend with members of Boston Handmade, the etsy street team I am part of.  Fun!