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Altered Book - Clorox wipe tie-dye cover
It is August in Florida and the rains seem to be spacing apart. Guess that means fall is approaching and with it a break from the heat and mugginess. A break from mosquitoes and excessive sweating. Every-morning I find myself cracking the backdoor in expectation of a cooling breeze, one that wont come for another month or two. It is in this anticipation that I have listened and finally decided to publish this blog. It is something I have sat-on for quite some time and avoided the plunge.




Nov. 2012



As I finish my first altered book I check the first few pages for a date and find that I began making entries on October 5th, 2012.  I could stretch it and keep meddling in it until the 5th of next month, but I wont, I need to move-on. If not for anything in particular except that I have quite a plethora of viable candidates waiting to take its place.  Watercolor sketchbooks with deeply textured pages, square books for those perfect mandalas that call my name, elongated ones that would allow for some writing next to the images, folded mini-books with their compact frame... this will take awhile so I will check back-in once the successor has been named.



July 2013
In the mean time I will leave you with the last entry into the altered book I have carried in purses and backpacks. The one I've carried to classes, workshops, and meetings. Its been to vacations, and holidays, weddings, and oh-so-many road trips. It was more than a little ignored this last summer while in Seattle for the Annual Art Therapy Conference where I explored my first mini folded book that took 13 days to complete (avidly making 1 entry every day or so).






Endings - Completed on 9/21/13 with NuPastels, Gambisol, and Prisma Color Pencils. This is a mixed media using a magazine image and brown paper, the piece was completed on the pages of an altered book that were pre-coated with craft acrylics (leaving them rough).

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