Postcard Challenge week 6

This week Darcy announced that our country was Belgium. Again, I know I have some fun stuff from Belgium but I can’t find it!! I looked in the nooks and crannies of my art zone but apparently in the 6 years since I put together that book, my leftovers have crawled away.

Instead, I decided on a watercolor. And now that it’s complete..I’m so glad I couldn’t find my goodies from Belgium. :)

On the back of the corner Chocolate Shop postcard Thadeus writes about his current situation in Belgium. That he’s renting a room from an older couple and had come to a standstill in his research.

He feels that the piece he is working on is the key to the puzzle.

I’ve also completed the page that will hold the postcard.

I’ve added a couple extras to the story… just for fun.

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201202/08

Missed Tea Tuesday again

Gosh, it’s already Wednesday evening! Time seems to be getting away from me lately.

I did want to show you why I missed tea yesterday.

I was learning to knit the top onto a kitchen towel. Isn’t it sweet…the towel I mean. It’s a vintage towel from the box of linens I’ve been working through. It now hangs proudly in my kitchen.

I also wanted to show you that I’ve started on the pages for the Postcard Challenge.

This is the page for France.

I made a pocket to hold the postcard from a label which I believe is from some sort of alcoholic beverage. Beer, ale, wine or spirit…not sure…

I have a couple of extras laying beside that I plan to include once I put the page in it’s proper place in the book.

I also have my postcard for Friday completed!!!

Of course, I can’t show that now.

But I must say, I do love it!

Hopefully, I’ll have enough time after my volunteer duty in the school library tomorrow to complete the page to hold said postcard before posting it on Friday morning.

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201202/03

Postcard Challenge week 5

For this week our challenge, hostess Darcy, picked France as our country of origin for the postcard.

I couldn’t lay my hand on the leftovers from the altered book I created for my BIL after one of his trips to Europe. I know I had some good pieces.

UGH! I need to get organized.

I ended up going with a map of Paris hand marked by Maggie with her favorite places.

Maggie mentions how worried she was about Thadeus and goes on to say she has the papers he sent separately in a safe place.

Those must be some valuable papers…

or dangerous ones.

Since I got my sewing machine back, I’ve started working on the pages to hold all the postcards. This is my title page. I’ve blurred the title since it would give away too much about the direction I’m going.

This is the first pocket page that holds Maggie’s card from Austria.

These two pages will be sewn back to back with a piece of muslin that will connect to a second set of pages that will eventually become a fold in a signature.

I need to get to work on the next several pages to get caught up. Then I plan to make each page as I do the postcard so I don’t fall behind.

But that will have to wait until next week. It’s birthday weekend for my oldest, so it’s busy, busy, busy!!

Creative ADD

I’ve been all over the place lately when it comes to creativity.

I think I may have Art ADD (attention deficit disorder).

Ok…some might argue that I have ADD in other areas of my life as well but the Art ADD is self-diagnosed.

I blame the other on Motherhood. Children steal you’re ability to keep a clear running thought in your head. :) But I wouldn’t change a thing.

Anyway…these are the things I’ve done in the past week.

I papered our recycling cabinet to match the fridge.

Knitted another dishcloth on the loom…

Knitted a cowl on the loom…

Miniature terrain on a recycled CD…

Another terrain piece…

And last night I started another twirly crochet scarf because my elbow was hurting from the repetitive motion of the knitting.

Crochet seems to work my wrist more and doesn’t bother me.

In addition I’ve been washing and ironing my way through a large box of old linens. Deciding what is decent enough to save and use and what I can use in my artwork. Vintage linens and fabric are part of my idea for the Postcard Challenge book.

So, yeah…definitely Art ADD.

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201201/31

Tea break

No, I’m not stopping having tea…I’m stopping my busy day to HAVE tea.

As I’ve said on numerous occasions, Tuesday is a very busy day for me yet I refuse to give up have a virtual cup of tea with my online friends completely.

Yes, there is a day or two I miss here and there but who doesn’t cancel a date from time to time.

Tomorrow I’ll have to show you a couple of other projects I’ve finished over the last week.

Until then…please stop by Kimmie’s and see what my friends are doing today.

Postcard Challenge week 4

In this weeks edition, Thadeus sends Maggie a greeting from China on a postcard with a beautiful old drawing of ancient farmers sowing seeds.

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I had started trying to draw a dragon head but it was going quite poorly. It didn’t look anything like a Chinese dragon. More Nordic, so I went with a page from a children’s book about grains of the world.

I also happened to have a very old postage stamp from China to use. Again, I continued the postmark to give it a bit of authenticity. I must admit that sometimes get caught up in the minutia of things…

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Thadeus explains that he found something in an old book and is searching for answers. He hints at the chance of something wonderful. His hand seems rushed or nervous as he writes. I wonder what is sending him off balance?

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Please stop by Darcy’s blog for the list of

this weeks participants.

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Virtual tea

My friend Sandy called and said she wanted to have tea with me today…problem is that she lives about 1200 miles from me. So we decided on having virtual tea.

My tea…