A good but uneventful weekend- the highlight was finishing two books I've been working on.
The Sketch Book- I think I've shown this one before- its a combination of ephemera and tags.
It's held together with two ring binders- and meant to be interactive- the ephemera can be pulled out and used in another project, and the tags can be used for journaling or pulled out and used as a gift tag, book mark or tied onto...anything.
It was fun to work on, because each "page" could be worked on seperately, and that way, it didn't seem too overwhelming to put together a book.
A lot of the images for this book came from Mary at Green Paper Packages.
The second book- Buttons and Butterflies- started with a collage sheet of vintage button cards.
I added some vintage wallpaper and a couple of collage sheets from The Joseph Cornell Box.
Are you familiar with Joseph Cornell? He was one of the first well known and collected assemblage artists. Actually, the base of most of his work was the box.
Joseph Cornell was born in the New York City area in the early 1900's and quietly spent most of his life working as a fabric salesman and a door to door saleman of appliances.
In his spare time, he hunted for bits and pieces for his collections in thrift and junk stores in New York City in the 1920's & 30's. Wouldn't you love to take a short trip back in time to shop with him?
Several years ago I read a biography of Joseph Cornell, named for where he lived- Utopia Parkway. Can you imagine living on Utopia Parkway?
Sometimes sitting on the couch with scissors, glue & paper is as close to Utopia as I can get.
Both books are for sale in my Etsy Shop Gathering Dust.
