more new pretties

it's been super busy over here. lots of paper and stamping and making.....flowers and tags everywhere. lots listed at Magpie House on madeit 

stackoholics anonymous

over at Seth Apter's wonderful blog The Altered Page are some great links to Seth's Paper Stack Project. artists and bloggers were invited to submit photos of the stacks we have in our studios. so here are some of my stacks (I'm a little late posting but never mind!) ...there are always lots of stacks at my place...

old books on the ironing board waiting to be reused as journals, collage, tags....too bad about the ironing!! this is just a small stack of old books I have...can't stop finding lovely interesting old books...and of course I have to bring them home...

a close-up of stacks of paper and books on the bookcase...

stacks of old music scores...I love these and found some huge stacks in an op shop a while back for a really good price...couldn't get out the door quick enough with them before the ladies changed their mind on the price!

and a close-up of the music scores - aren't they gorgeous? I think this would work well as a texture for digital art..

so these are my stacks for today. I actually took more photos of other types of stacks but might show you these on another day.

don't forget to pop over to Seth's blog to check out all the other artists participating in this project - there are some wonderful stacks to behold....! 

bundles revealed

weathered photo and fabrics

nails peeping out from their bed - wake up!

some beautifully rusted lace

it's a little past the official reveal date but this morning I dug up, cut down, collected and revealed my erosion bundles......here are a few of the delights found inside. of the four bundles I made and placed in my yard one didn't quite make it. it was the one I buried in earth and I almost couldn't find it, but after a little digging I did find some bits and pieces. most of it though has completely eroded into the earth! I'm going to attempt to put lots of images up on a separate page (when I figure out how to do that) in the near future, but for now here are a few so you can see the changes....some really interesting things happen out there in my yard!

journal moments

I bought some moleskins when I was in Sydney recently. they have lovely grid paper in them and I have been mostly collaging in them...just bits of paper that come through my house and hands each day...pay slip ends, pretty japanese origami paper, messages, shopping lists, product labels, envelopes, leftover scraps os paper from other projects, wine catalogues, napkins, airline tickets, bar codes. I love bar codes...in fact I'm going to start a new one just for bar codes! and there's some drawing as well. a great way to store all the bits and pieces I can't bear to throw away....here's a few pages from the one I'm currently using.