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Thinking about flowers today.

week of polaroids

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rubberband man

Having felt partiuclarly low these past few days I thought I would try to cheer myself up and make something that was just a little bit on the unusual side and so here we have it! Made up from cuttings all taken from the same Saturday magazine supplement with a No more Fish in the Sea, protect our oceans ad campaign, strawberries advert, a monkey-shaped peeler and my favourite The Headington Shark, one big fish that definitely isn't in the sea no more!

My sweetheart and I drink a lot of tea, especially on the days when we're both working from home. Today featured cups of licorice, yerba mate, peppermint, and chamomile. I giggled a bit when I noticed "Peppermint" labeled as "Formerly 'Peppermint,' now 'Purely Peppermint.'"

June 30, 2011. Final day of June and here is some real chocolate for a
ChocoGlam card, sent to Marie in Japan to cheer her up! It is one of
the few cards that has some glued shavings from colored pencils:
recycle!

This page was the most labor intensive of all.  The black & white image was made up of a collage.  After tearing and gluing copies of the collage down, I scanned them, tore them again into two pieces and glued them into the book.  The red you see is silk paper that I then sewed by hand with embroidery thread and glued it over the other images.  If only I could have captured the depth of the original collage, I would have been ecstatic.  This page faced the page 2 and worked really well with the color combinations.

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I am slowly catching up, although Mim is mighty far ahead... :)

Created for a swap in the Handmade Postcard Club on Swapbot.

Index from Crockett's Victory Garden, tree paper napkin ( from Fi, I think), and a vintage carrot picture.

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Created for a swap in the Handmade Postcard Club on Swapbot.

Index from Crockett's Victory Garden, garden deisign from the same book and paper napkin wisteria.

My wisteria has but one bloom left...

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Another one of those cards with bits of everything!

Vintage stamps library book card, fruit sticker, bits from a 1960's cookbook, stamp selvedge, bit from a 1915 children's magazine, atlas, fish from a 1970 aquarium magazine, EKG, junk mail duck decoy, duck and salad from a russian phrase book, old math book bit and a antique ledger page bit.

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Simple.

Painted cereal box with old book page, 1915 children's magazine bit, shell from Michele, vintage cancelled stamp, and a teabag overlay.

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This card just kindof fell together and I love it!

Acrylic paint on cereal box, 1929 Nat Geo car ad, clip-art snail, grass cut from a 1915 children's magazine, fish from a 1970 aquarium book.

Helen's leap registered a 9.27!

Here we see little numbered mailboxes, waiting patiently to be fed; mail in mabb's box, #19, including an invitation from granddaughter to her 1year birthday bash; and shots of the Cohoes NY post office.

June 29, 2011. More of the sea and a bit of sandpo. This card goes to
Winged Heart in Canada. And I have recently received a most beautiful
"mini" card in reply! Ya gotta love Mail Art!

Esmeralda checked to be sure someone was joining her for lunch in Tiny Town.

The lunch guests had no idea that someone hadn't finished painting the inside wall.

Baby Leo didn't like watching the hounds chase the fox.

James & his brother took the Tiny Town short cut to visit friends.

More paper play but out of sequence.

Two of my favorite things.

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