Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Monday, August 19, 2013

Summer's End 2013

School Days are here again....

     The end of summer for us is the beginning of school. Oddly enough our last weekend of freedom before the children return to school was spent at the beach with my sisters.....we spent the first weekend of summer vaca in Paris together.

Looks like a bird convention......


Not great pics.....still practicing with my iphone.

Nice Hobie......great colors against the blue sky......


It was fun to visit Paris.....glad the youngest is organized, and a great event planner.....


While shopping in Daytona, we noticed this cute taxi bag by Betsy Johnson.......is a trip to NYC in the future????   Nah, but the bag is darling! It would hold a round trip ticket and credit card....

I have been crafting full swing to get ready for the Fancy Flea, Plant City, Fl  in November.

Inspiration came from a YOUTUBE video....Vicky Papaioannou, Art Journal Page:Reading

A preview of the canvas I am still working on:



The books are made with strips of scrapbook paper rolled to look like books.(use a pencil) I covered a flat canvas with embossed paper then attached the books with foam dots. I need a globe or something else teachery....is that a word? I watched the artist on a You Tube video, but now I can't find it to give her credit....she was amazing. I'll have to search my pinterest boards.....I think I pinned it somewhere....

I am hoping a teacher/librarian will find this attractive and make a purchase!  How is your fall shaping up? Back to school? Quiet moments with the children busy with homework? Be blessed and enjoy each and every moment with those precious darlings in your care!

~Lynda

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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Book Page Wreath

I know....book page wreaths have been around the best of blogs for....a while, but my daughter and I just decided to make one last night. I said ,   "what are you crazy...it's Friday night and I am pooped sure dear...we can make one."  Lindsay cut the circle base while I searched in my book stash for one I could part with without tears....lol. ( I counted 72 in my bedroom...and did NOT count the Chicken Soup collection). I may need therapy....

This is how it came out:


We folded the pages and used a hot glue gun instead of the "rolling page" method.


Flowers : cut out with T!M HOLTZ tattered floral die cut  using Vagabond or Cuttle Bug....

I used the book- Once Around The Sun....... removed pages and trimmed the edges that were torn...

Supplies used: glue gun, double stick tape, stapler, book pages





We began our journey at 6:00 P.M.. Of course....we had supper, grilled steak and corn/potatoes cooked by the chief cook and bottle washer... man of the home...the wonderful Mr. Lakeland...It's so nice to have the support of your husband when crafting!  The project was complete by 9:00 P.M. Lindsay totally made this one by herself. All I did was fold the pages and cut and assemble the flowers. This is one very proud mamma...after all ......to pass on the crafting gene on to the next generation is an important aspect of crafting!






WAY TO GO - LINDSAY!

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~Lynda~