June 2012

Imaginary Worlds

June 29, 2012

There are a lot of nations we all live in. The real one, for instance.  And imagiNation.  (Which is where the Artist pretty much lives full-time, obviously, despite physically being in the Cottage-on-the-Plains.) And if you’re like most of us weirdo artpeople, you’ve probably dreamed up all kinds of craziness over the years.  Imaginary creatures. [...]

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Random Artbits

June 26, 2012

We tried to scan the smashbits. Really, we did.  We sat a monster at the scanner and fed him some sugar, and came back later to find him comatose and all his hair pulled out in tufts.  Apparently, the smashbooks and the (9″ x 12″) Soul Restoration journals just don’t fit on the scanner glass, [...]

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Challenge Yourself: Zine in a Day

June 23, 2012

Back in the wayback days, the Artist used to be an obsessive zine-reader.  (And before that, if one wants to be technical, a zine maker, though she didn’t know they were called “zines” back then.)  Some of you might even know about her artzine, IN(ner) QUESTION, that came from it — all about creative living [...]

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Quick little admin note…

June 22, 2012

Before we get on with the journal page scannings of Happy (the Artist gave up trying to fit the 9″ x 12″ pages on the 8″ x 11″ scanner and recorded a flip-through instead), the Monsters needed to pass along a quick public service announcement: The mailing list sign-ups are being persnickety.  The Artist is [...]

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Tape Obsessed

June 15, 2012

We admit it:  We are obsessed with All Things Tape. (As if you couldn’t tell, right?) The monsters, however, have hidden the Artist’s VISA card.  There may or may not have been An Incident involving some spray ink and the Cute Tape etsy shop that resulted in the whole stable full of monsterousness being fed [...]

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Journaling the Summer

June 13, 2012

Taking a brief break from the Epic Scanning Marathon of 2012 to let you folks know about this: Natalie Malik is again offering her IN THE SUN journaling class via a dedicated blog.  Every day or so, there’s a prompt (or technique), with examples from Natalie’s own summer journal, and weekend photography prompts, to boot. [...]

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Getting Smashed with the Artist

June 9, 2012

The following is a message straight from The Artist: (we don’t let her off her leash that often.  Let us know if she breaks anything.)  Hi. Whee!  What does this button do? OW.  Okay, fine.  I’ll just type.  You can stop biting my toes now. ::deep breath:: You folks probably know by now that I’m [...]

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Art? Craft? Whatever.

June 7, 2012

Not all Making is fluffy and impractical and just decoration. The Artist has been wanting a set of day-of-the-week embroidered kitchen towels for about as long as she’s had a kitchen.  But since embroidery’s one of those things that she’s a complete neophyte at…well, let’s just say that the paints called louder than the threads. [...]

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Brand New Inspirations

June 5, 2012

We’ve been under a bit of a rock lately, as far as the digi world goes. Not really intentionally, but with all the drawing and a whole buncha paint-and-ink-stained fingers going on over here, the Artist has been just a bit behind the times with regards to all the awesome digital scrapbooking stuff going on. Last [...]

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Screaming Books and a Hundred Faces

June 3, 2012

Just like anyone who has an inordinate fondness for books, the Artist has,uh…a few of them on hand. And by “a few”, we really mean “enough to crush a small nation if/when the stacks topple over”.  She’s been on a quest lately to attempt to take that number down to a much more reasonable “enough [...]

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