Steep in 5 Minutes

Steep in 5 Minutes

I scored big time last night at the Enumclaw flea market.  It was one of the best markets of its kind in the area.  Although there was mostly antiques that I was not interested in, tucked away in between things were treasures to be found.

After an hour I was done and ready for food which we found in a great little restaurant in town.  I had an excellent apple and roasted chicken salad with goat cheese.  Yum!

Steep in 5 Minutes is a continuation of my postcard series.  I found more books at the flea market with excellent fodder for more works for examples for my workshop next Friday.  Happy weekend!

Just What Do Goldfish Dream?

Just What Do Goldfish Dream?

Off today to a flea market in Enumclaw, WA.  We have to pay $20.00 to get in tonight.  I hope it is well worth it.  No matter, it is an adventure.  Do I need more ephemera?  No, but I seem to keep collecting it.

The Goldfish piece above is in my friend, Jan's journal.  She has not seen it yet but will this afternoon.  It completes her journal and what a great day to get a finished journal returned.  Many of the artists who worked in this journal are getting together in a week to share our completed journals. I have not had a RR celebration like this before and am looking forward to seeing all the journals.

Crash

Crash

Going through old family photos I found several of my mother bowling.  I actually have memories of spending a great deal of time in a bowling alley each week.  Eventually I was on a team myself.  The two women in the photo are members of my mother's team.  This postcard is another in the series that I am presently doing.

Douze Nuits d'Amour

Douze Nuits d'Amour

I am having way too much fun creating lately.  Some weeks are like that, pushing out more and work works.  Other weeks are less productive.  Personally I much prefer being prolific.

Peter Rabbit

Peter Rabbit

If you have not experienced Crystal Neubaurer's work make a journey to Pinterest to search her out. Since taking her class in March, I have continued to come back to creating using vintage materials in a different way.  About a month ago I got a free box of old Life magazines.  They smell terrible and I have to take a day to sort through them, outside of course.  I am thinking that I will put the saved images into a plastic bag with a dryer sheet to see if I can reduce the smell.  I know I have this treasure in the garage and I do need to "dig" to find gold!

PAL

PAL

Next week I am teaching another workshop at Edmonds CC and we are going to make snail mail again.  Faculty and students sign up for the workshop which is one hour shorter than the two ten days ago.  So I had to come up with an shortened idea for the postcards.  We are going to do vintage scrap postcards. In the class each student will make two cards, one of which they keep and the second one they send to a class member.  After all snail mail has to be sent doesn't it.

I am making samples galore which you will see here over the next few days.

May 2016 RR Envelope and Two Collage Inserts

RR Envelope May 2016

Sticks

Secret Weapon

The envelope with the two back-to-back collages goes out in the mail tomorrow to Ontario, Canada.  I worked on these three pieces off and on throughout April.  They all finally came together this morning and are sealed and ready for the post office in the morning.