What I've been up to..

Hi everyone! I feel like I've been gone from my "online life" for so long. It's been nice to take a break but I feel disconnected. I intended to re open my Etsy shop May 1st, and I think I'll still do so, but I really haven't geared up for it. To tell you the truth, I thought that as I cleaned out my studio I'd find lots and lots of stuff to package up and sell as collage packets, etc - but I really didn't find much! I threw out a lot of stuff, and organized a lot of stuff - and I still have more to go - but there have been no big windfalls of buried treasures! Mostly just junk unfortunately..

I did come across one thing I'd forgotten about - a whole tin of old school "phrases" so I thought I'd bundle up some of these and offer them in the shop. They are cute little "captions" for collages, aren't they? I love the old typewriter font.. I'm so sad I no longer have my old Smith Corolla electric typewriter which typed pretty much exactly like what's on those phrase cards. I used to type poetry on it when I was a teenager.. I can't remember now if it died and I got rid of it, or if in some move when I just had too much stuff I let it go.. (I do tend to purge sometimes!) but now I regret it!!

Probably from being overwhelmed by all the junk, I've been craving simplicity. I made a few little hanging collage like the one at top ("twisp!") from a sweet old children's book of birds - some are quite simple like that one with a bit of seagrass wallpaper, a couple are more complicated like the one above with bits of vintage wallpaper and flowers and buttons on small painted canvases. I'll be offering these up for sale as well as postcards of the images. I had a lot of fun with these!

You can also see from my studio cupboard how much I've been simplifying and clearing out - well, if you remember what it looked like before you can! This lousy flash photo doesn't really do it justice - without the garish flash it looks very sweet and clean - unlike the other side of the room which still needs some work! I'll show more, and hopefully better photos when I'm done!

So.. I have not accomplished all I hoped to but boy have I been enjoying these beautiful days we've been having. Even the rainy days like today have been so pretty with everything greening up and coming into bloom. Pretty soon our apple tree will be covered in pink white blossoms - then I may have to disappear for a while again!

Comments

[mya]

Beautiful collage. Wish you would come clean my studio, how about the whole house. I really do need to do some spring cleaning. You have inspired me to at least think about it.
-Mya

[Mary Isabella]

Beautiful. Your work shows how talented you are. It is really very beautiful!!!! Have the best Wednesday ever.....Mary