LaWendula (LW) of Woven Letters started the College Box Project which you can read about here.
Basically the idea is that LW sent off a box with 144 "snippets" of paper to the first participant, who can take out 12-20 snippets and put back in the same number from her own stash. Then she makes a collage with the snippets she removed and (I think) whatever else she wants to use (that's the part of the directions I need to read soon). Hopefully, I will make my collage this weekend and post it here!
Here's some photos of the box (above) and what I took out & what I put in.
This is what I took out.









This is what I put in!

An Octopus in North Beach

This arrived in my mailbox yesterday:







so I opened the box and found...






an Octopus! A very beautiful octopus!

You can see better pictures at Mimi Love Forever, the blog.
p.s. she has an excellent etsy store!
p.p.s. Thank you, Karen, so very much. We'll always have a moray!

a Susan Tuttle giveaway...

This is Susan's new book which is available now at Amazon or you might try to win a copy! by going to her blog.

An Art Bra Fabric Post Card

Introducing the "Mardi Bra" an art bra made for a swap with the Yahoo Group FiberArtTradders. Ta da!

Love Gone Wild swap

ATCs done for a swap hosted by Lenna.

Christmas banners

These are some of the mini banners I made for a Christmas swap and didn't get around to posting until today. Exciting, huh?

Fabric postcards

Ever notice how all the loose strings & dogs hair don't show up until the pictures are on a blog, mine anyway,

Quick-a last minute Giveaway Announcement!

This is a picture of Roxanne Evan-Stout's wonderful little book, Song of the River.

You can enter the giveaway, and the drawing is, yikes, tomorow, 02/27/2010, or....you can actually purchase a copy!


Go here to read all about this beautiful book.

under construction

I have been gone from my blog (poor neglected thing)for months.
I have been home for 4 months without the Internet, so there were no new postings.
Here's the scoop:
July 14th I fell at a Joe Cocker/Dave Mason concert and broke my leg in 3 places.
I now have a metal plate & nine metal pins in my right leg.
November 9th was the first day I could drive again. yippeee!
I'm back, sort of, at work 3 days a week.
I'm keeping this brief because I have been living this scoop and it's old news to me.
Hopefully soon I will have a new banner and a new blog name and something interesting to write.
In the meantime, what makes you go back to a blog?
Happy days,
Joanie

Want to visit a colorful, fun blog?

Mary Green has a coloring, calming (and creative) blog and etsy store.
Take a peak.
Did I mention generous? she's having a July giveaway!
Happy days.

my granddaughter Lindsey!

super video

There's nothing, well almost nothing, as fun to me as sitting at work and laughing and/or crying at my computer. And that's what I just finished doing and I still have tears of laughter on my fat little cheeks. And it's not an email from Ms. Nozeybeetle this time, it's this video and this idea of laughter.
You can watch the video here at the Voodoo Cafe or here at my blog. Thank you Ricë and Susan and Lauren.
But I encourage you to go the the Cafe to read the wonderful post Ricë has written.

sp wednesday

One of these things is not like the others....

Actually, each of them is a little bit different (fabric). These banners are for Susie La Fond's "In the Garden" banner swap at the In This House and Garden Yahoo Group.

2 pages

My pages for Debbie H's ABB called Contrasts".

Every Day in May

From Kelly's blog to her friend Francie's blog to French Toast Girl's blog, that's where I was for a while looking at blogs and wanting to see what "Every Day in May" was about.
Now I know what it's about and I am not so sure, in fact, I'm pretty sure I won't, do this. But you should take a look.
Sometimes, just knowing I have the option is enough.

an old SP from another time...

this is for Kristin, it's not invisible, but it's not me anymore.
you can see Misty's here.

My mosaic ATCs

Stacy Alexander announced a 2 for 2 Mosaic ATC a while ago and I signed up. The first cards got kind of ruined when part of the art room ceiling fell so I made some more and mailed them off to Stacy. Hoping, as I usually do, that they will do and no one who receives one will be disappointed. We'll see. Happy days!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRIAN !

Friday, and a posting about my Fake Journal

A few postings ago, Gina of Artistic Dreamer, asked me how my Fake Journal was going. So, the first thing I had to do was to go to her blog and see if her Fake Journal was going well. It was going very well. This meant that I had to delay my answer to her. Why? Because by then my Fake Journal days were over for this year, and I wasn't sure if or how to let the world know. If I hadn't been so excited and hadn't made a big deal of this journalling event, I could probably get away with just replying that it was going okay. And it was going okay, for about 10 days. After that I kind of lost interest in the direction of the Fake Journal. I think the reason I stopped is because I didn't have a real feel for the journal's author. She was (literally) an eleventh hour inspiration. And I wanted to put some background info about her and her life but it seemed too forced. So I didn't really "know" her and I didn't know how or if to include stuff about her existence.
Which brings me to another question about the Fake Journal asked by Leanne of Mixed Media Martyr. She wanted to know what was the last minute idea that allowed me to even start the 2009 Fake Journal. The idea came from a photo of my son and two of my four grandchildren. There was a woman in the background looking directly into my camera when I snapped the photo, and for some reason her look stuck in my mind. So my author was going to be someone who saw photos differently from the way most (or all) people saw them. For example, she saw the background woman as having "hair made of sea glass" and whose "arms were so long that her hands touched the ground". On the first page in the Fake Journal I have a small black & white photo of this background woman, a written description, and a small watercolor & extra-fine point Sharpie illustration. The second day's entry is a small photo of my great grandmother, my sister, Jeanie, and me. This also has the written description of how the author "sees" my great grandmother and a small watercolor. I also used a photo from a magazine, a photo from my high school yearbook, and a photo from a cereal box on other pages.
I missed a few days here and there (4), and by the 16th days, I was reaching, floundering, and not having fun. So I stopped.
But I am looking forward to starting another Fake Journal next year. And I guess there's nothing stopping me from starting an Unofficial Fake Journal if I decide I want to try before 2010.
So that's the scoop on my 2009 Fake Journal.
Happy days!
p.s. The Fake Journal is in the bottom drawer of a dresser that I don't use, and there it will stay until I decide to look at it again. I'm not unhappy about starting or stopping. It's just an out-of-sight-out-of-mind kind of thing. ; )