Some old and hope for some new.

This was a print I did last summer and never posted. I love polka dots and so I added some white and red polka dot fabric to the piece. I think it turned out pretty nice.

I got some Daniel Smith etching inks for Christmas so I can do monotypes at home and I'm hoping to do some printing real soon. Now I just need to get some good concepts going.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's day!

Album Class!

My Album class is tomorrow and here is what we are going to make. I just finished this Paris album.

I love my Eiffel Tower end papers!

Wish me luck tomorrow!

Super Easy Book!

I am teaching an Album making class at Paper Source this Saturday and I'm pretty excited about it. I've been using Paper Source's fine paper and book cloth for about five years now and love it. I haven't really had a chance to use their text blocks and book cloth tape so I sat down this week and gave it a chance and man did that journal come together fast.

Sushi wanted to model the final product!

So if you are new to book binding or just want a fast way to make a cute book I say check it out. There is also a video of how to do it that I watched while putting this journal together.

2am Magnets

I couldn't sleep last night and at two in the morning I decided that I needed more magnets on my fridge. Here is the final product of my middle of the night craft project.

The M's Made Necklaces

After Christmas I went and visited my in laws in Idaho and my sister in law Miriam had made all the girls there really cute necklace pendants out of old scrabble tiles. Each pendant had a picture on it that was picked personally for them.

This is the one that was made for me and it has one of my art works inside. Well we all just loved ours so much that we decided that we should make some together. So Miriam showed me and her sisters Meredith and Maureen (isn't it cool how we all have M names) how to do it. For these we didn't use scrabble tiles but wooden oval shapes work just as good. This is my favorite of the ones I made. I have worn it almost everyday this week.

You can check out the rest of them on my sister in laws website Made By Marzapan!

The Holga

This is my first attempt at using my holga camera. I got this camera last year but I have always been a little afraid of using it. I took one photo class my first semester of college and wasn't very good at it so after that I stayed away from photography until now. So we will see if I even figure this thing out. Here were some of my photos.