I recently spent half a day with the girls at a playground, playing in the sand and collecting twigs, stones and small pieces of trash we found laying around, such as caps to water bottles. We used our collection to create a “trash city” in the sand, as the short one called it. It was such a wonderful time I took photos and when we returned home I thought I should make a special book to remember this.
I created a book using pieces of rounded corner wood for the front and back covers. I painted them a soft green, wrapped the cover in string and glued a twig in the center. I created interior pages out of soft grey paper and bound the pages using my Your Story book binding machine. I then glued the front and back cover to the interior pages. I ordered the photos from our “trash city” activity and am placing them in the book to capture our special day.
- Our Trash City
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I am teaching a Visual Art Journaling workshop for Scottsdale Public Art on June 23rd from 4 – 6. In the Gold Room at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library.
It is FREE and fully funded by SPA. To join me sing up here: Visual Art Journaling: Diamonds in the West
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My friend Kathy Cano-Muurillo aka The Crafty Chica is offering an online class just for DIYers. She should know how to do publicity since she is a national spokes person for I Love To Create, has a product line at Michael’s, a line of crafty how to books and two novels under her belt. Sign up – at a mere $99 it is a steal! It started yesterday so sign up today!!!
ONLINE WORKSHOP: DIY Publicity for Indie Artists!
