another year almost down…

“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”  ~Peace Pilgrim(1908-1981)

 

Another Christmas has come and gone.  It was a quiet one for us here.  We planned two trips before Christmas and didn’t get to go on either one of them.  We have put them off until next year.

I have been working in my Let’s Boogie altered book journal.  This is a book of cartoons that I have using as a visual journal.  The quality of this photo isn’t the best…the words say: “It’s me again.”

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I left the original dog in its place on this page:

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Several months ago, I made a 16-page journal as instructed by Teesha Moore. (Instructions for making that can be found on YouTube).  This is the cover of the book:

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Two pages from the above book:

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This is a pair of pillowcases I made for one of my sisters.  I really dislike  purchased pillowcases…no matter how expensive they are they always seem too small to fit the pillows.  I plan to make some for birthday gifts.  If you can sew a fairly straight seam, you can make these pillowcases.  There are many videos on the internet with instructions for making these cases….this is the one I chose to use>  Pillowcase instructions.

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This will be my last post until next year.  Have a safe and happy new year!

 

The Winding Stairs

“We must laugh and we must sing,

We are blest by everything,

Everything we look upon is blest.”

~William Butler Yeats~

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The above quote is from the Yeats poem, The Winding Stairs.

I worked on this collage this morning.  I think it’s the first collage I have made starting with a white background.  I see some things I should have done differently.  But mostly, I’m happy with it:

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some crazy sketchbook glimpses…

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close up

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“I guess it can be anything if you don’t know what it is”  quote by me 🙂

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