From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Favorite Objects

20 July 2008

These are match boxes. I buy them in Oax­aca Mex­ico. The actu­ally come with matches in them. Though I have to throw them out before I try to bring the boxes home. I got these two boxes in Cora­zon Zapoteca in Alcala street in Oax­aca. Both are approx­i­mately 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 innhes. La Sirena […]

Tagged as: inspiration, match boxes

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TGIF — Gothic Arches">TGIF — Gothic Arches

18 July 2008

Two new/old gothic arches. I found these while I was purg­ing the work­ing projects piles. They aren’t much to look at being just a cou­ple of exper­i­ments with back­ground cre­ation tech­niques. The birds and flow­ers was based on a piece of paper towel that I had used as a wiper for water col­ors in another […]

Tagged as: collage, gothic arches, paper

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Elise’s Box

18 July 2008

I made a box for my friend Elise. She wanted some­thing to keep her needle­work sup­plies in — Some­thing that she could leave on the liv­ing room cof­fee table. This spine box is 9 x7 x 2 1/2. The box is made of Davey board and cov­ered in an Ital­ian paper. The spine and inner lid […]

Tagged as: boxes, paper

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Reusable Grocery Bag

11 July 2008

Every­body is doing it. Even here in the “bub­ble.” Using those ugly green reusable gro­cery bags. Heart­warm­ing eco-points 8. Style points 0. I won’t even men­tion what they chose to fill it with for this image. Yuck! I made this one yes­ter­day. Heart­warm­ing eco-points 8. Style points 6. Maybe. It’s still bet­ter than some vaguely poly­ester green […]

Tagged as: BurdaStyle, patterns

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Words found Today

8 July 2008

I’m a lit­tle behind in my read­ing and writ­ing. I found a scrap of paper on my desk this after­noon. It says: I am not wear­ing my good girl shoes. I remem­ber laugh­ing hys­ter­i­cally when I first read it but now can’t remem­ber where. Oh well.

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Clouds

8 July 2008

Word clouds are a fun way of find­ing out what’s really on your (blog’s) mind. The Gen­er­a­tor Blog pointed to Wor­dle this morn­ing and I’ve been hav­ing fun mak­ing clouds for var­i­ous blogs I read/write. Here’s one based on ms. shoes: I think I spend a lit­tle too much time writ­ing about the chick­ens. Though I […]

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