Virgin Mary Fatbook page

Here are my finished pages for the Virgin Mary Fatbook...I used a photo of

the Virgin with Jesus and handcolored the b/w image and then stamped

and collaged on top....The back page is pretty simple, I just hand colored

a stamp that I have of the Virgin and added my name and email info...

Mail Art

I just sent this mail art out to my friend Randi Feuerhelm-

Watts. For those of you not familiar with her work check out

her website at http://randifeuerhelm.com/index.html. She

is an amazing artist...She is the one who introduced me to

mail art and now I really love making fun little postcards to

mail out to friends. I can't help but think it brightens the day

of whoever receives it and also gives the postal workers

something fun to look at for a change. I send them in clear

plastic envelopes with bright labels and fun stamps. Try it!

On a different note, I am hosting a new fatbook over at

Chubbyville if anyone is interested... The topic for this fatbook

is "Six Feet Under" - 4x4 pages that pay homage to cemeteries.

Anything graveyard related goes...tombstones, statuary, crypts,

shrines, etc. If you are interested and want to play, you can either

go to the polls section of the Chubbyville Yahoo group and sign up

or leave a comment on this post and I will contact you. The

due date for the book is Nov. 17th. I have always had a morbid

fascination with graveyards...whenever I travel, I look

for cool graveyards to photograph. New Orleans, Savannah, GA

and France have been my favorites so far...

Altered Cabinet Card Fatbook finished!

This is the cover for a fatbook I just
hosted over at the Chubbyville Yahoo
Group. The theme was altered cabinet
cards and the art work I received for the
book was really amazing. I will share
some examples of the artists work who
participated below...

Lisa Martinez

Maija Lepore

Beth Kelsey (left) & Lucy Lee (right)

The BIG 4-0 !!!

Happy Birthday to me.....My husband and daughter have

been celebrating my bday for the past four days. They are

calling it "four days of turning 40". I have been showered

with gifts every morning for the past four days leading up

to my actual bday today. I have received the butt mug

(shown above) which they thought was hilarious. An action

figure of Capt. Jack Sparrow ( the closest I will ever get to

Johnny Depp, apparently), various candy, a cookbook, a

video, and beautiful dog sculpture for my front porch. What

a wonderful way to welcome a milestone...I don't think 40

is going to be so bad...I have my health, a wonderful family,

four crazy dogs and I still feel like I am 18 years old on the

inside...It's all a state of mind I suppose...

My sister's new "puppy" Lily...

I'm sorry I have not been posting very much lately...We are getting used to a new routine at my house with school starting back up and I have not yet found my groove. This is Lily, she is an 18 week old Great Dane with huge paws who thinks she is a lap dog. She is a very sweet girl!

I have been working feverishly on completing a fatbook that I am hosting called "Altered Cabinet Cards". The work that I have received so far is awesome and I think the book is going to turn out quite nice. I will post some images of the book when I have it completed...More later.

Back From Art Unraveled!

Wow....what a week! Art Unraveled was wonderful. I met some really nice people and over loaded myself with new ideas and techniques. I can't wait to get busy in my studio to start processing some of what I learned. Below are some photos from my various workshops....

Uber Self Portrait with

Traci Bunkers

Mixed Media Backgrounds with

Kelly Kilmer

Voo Doo Doll with Michael De Meng

Then Is Now with Sylvia Luna

Art of Repetition with Juliana Coles

Transfer class with Traci Bunkers

My partner in crime, Cindy....Thanks for being such a great friend/host!

Two More Cabinet Cards

Getting Ready For Art Unraveled in Phoenix!

Here are some of the ATC's I've done for AU...I have

hand colored some of my favorite photos and attached

them with eyelets to a painted background. I never know

how many trades to make...I am going with about 50 this year.

This is my first attempt at altering a cabinet card.

I use the same sort of technique when I hand color

my pet photography photos, so I automatically loved

doing this! I usually don't use rubber stamps on my

photos, but this has got me thinking...why not?

I can't wait to do some more!

Only an artist ...

This is Astro and his owner dyes him blue

with Kool aid every month to keep him

"vibrant"....

Happy Birthday Caroline!

I made this cake for my daughters birthday party.

It is of our dachshund "Daisy" who Caroline LOVES!

I had so much fun decorating it that I didn't want to

cut it after she blew out the candles....

Happy 4th of July!

Here is another page that is a little bit more upbeat...My crazy liitle dachshund named Daisy. She is one of my four dogs...I will post the other dogs pages later!

Here is a page from my journal....I have been doing really stupid things lately, like booking the wrong dates for my vacation...twice...or forgetting appointments, etc. so this page was just a place to vent my frustrations....

This is the completed Mermaid Fatbook that I hosted over at Chubbyville. I think that it turned out really nice, with a lot of great artwork from all over the U.S. and Europe. I have one of them posted right now on Ebay with the proceeds benefiting Bernie Berlin's "A Place to Bark". Check it out if you are interested!

This is a postcard I just did for a swap with my local journaling group. The theme obviously was March...in like a lion, out like a lamb or in this case a sheep...It's the only photo I had.

"Why We Love Cats & Dogs" Fatbook

This was my first time hosting a book and I absolutely loved it! This is a topic near and dear to my heart, so I guess that probably helped. The book turned out really nice and so far we have auctioned off one of the extra's to benefit the Humane Society of Southern Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

"Tree of Life" Fatbook pages..front & back

"Going Postal" fatbook page - back

"Going Postal" fatbook page...front