tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32748045383928412172024-02-19T11:26:14.416-05:00Collage CandyBonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-84522743795644672172017-09-25T11:54:00.002-04:002017-09-25T12:16:05.805-04:00Dipping my toes in YouTube water!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gulp! I have finally dipped my toes into YouTube water. Here is one of my first videos: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V3_tWxGodM" target="_blank">Collage journal flip-through</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let me know what you think. I have a stack of journals I'd like to film, but I'm not very good at this yet, so it takes me a lot of time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See you on YouTube!</span><br />
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Welcome to part two of instructions for making a mini-book from a playing card box. Part one covered setting up the cover and making the pages. Part two covers assembling the pages into signatures and binding the book.</div>
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ASSEMBLING PAGES INTO SIGNATURES.</div>
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After you've cut and folded the inside pages for your book, you'll want to arrange them in a pleasing order and group them into signatures. A signature is a group of pages bound together in a book. Using four to five pages per group, assemble three groups of pages, and those groups will become the signatures. Below are the pages that will become my signatures. The first two groups have 5 pages each, and the third group has only four because the center spread is an envelope that is folded twice, so will be bulkier than the others.</div>
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TEMPLATES FOR BINDING.<br />
Next, you will prepare to punch the holes for binding by making two templates. The first template will be a guide for punching the nine holes in the spine of your book, and the other will be a guide for punching the three holes in each of your signatures. Use sturdy card stock or a manila file folder to make these templates so they will not tear in use.<br />
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SPINE TEMPLATE.<br />
For the spine template, cut a rectangle the size of the center panel of the box. The panel of my box was a bit less than 3/4" wide and exactly 3.5" tall.<br />
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Next place the spine template next to a ruler and make a pencil dot at the 3/4", 1-3/4" and 3" points (see below). Using the ruler across each of those points, make three dots in a row, equally spaced. As you can see in the second rectangle below, you will end up with nine dots in three rows of three.<br />
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Use the 9-hole spine template to place the holes in the center panel or spine of the book. I use a <a href="http://bonniesbest.com/bookdrill.htm" target="_blank">Japanese book drill</a>, my favorite bookbinding tool, because I like clean, crisp holes. If you don't have a book drill, you can use an awl.<br />
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SPREAD TEMPLATE.<br />
The second template is for the three holes that go in the center of each spread. Using card stock or a manila file folder, cut a piece about 1-1/4" to 1-1/2" wide and 3.5" tall (the height of the spine). Fold this piece in half and use one row of the spine template to punch holes through the center fold of the spread template. Mark the top of the template so that, in case of slight variations, all of your spreads will be punched in the same three places.<br />
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Open the first spread of pages and straighten it so that all pages in the spread are aligned, then use binder clips to secure both sides to keep it straight while you punch. Leave the binder clips on after you punch the holes, because they will help keep the spread in place as you bind the book, as well.<br />
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PREPARING THE WAXED LINEN.<br />
After you've punched holes in all of your signatures, you are ready to measure the waxed linen thread you'll use to bind the book. Unwind the waxed linen thread (or waxed dental floss) and use the spine of the book to measure 12 spine-lengths of thread. That's a bit more than you will need, but it's always better to have too much rather than too little. Cut the thread and thread the needle, leaving a tail of about 2 inches, and you're ready to start sewing.<br />
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You'll add the three spreads to the book one at a time, using the same length of thread. There will be a knot at the beginning and a knot at the end, but no cutting until after the final knot.<br />
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Select either the first or the last of the three spreads and align the three holes in the spread with the appropriate three holes in the spine. I started with the last spread, so I lined up the holes with the last set of holes in the spine and started to sew. </div>
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Pull the thread from the INSIDE center hole of the spread to the outside center hole of the book and make a knot inside the spread (see below). Then bring the needle back through the top hole of the book and the spread. Go BACK out through the center, being careful not to push the knot through your hole. Bring the thread out of the center hole, then bring it back into the bottom hole of the book spine and through the bottom hole in your spread and back through the outside of the book. Leave the thread hanging outside that center hole, then add your CENTER spread to the book. Cross that thread from the outside horizontally to the center hole of the center spread, and follow the same pattern, then repeat with the last spread. </div>
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Your spine will look like this, with long strips of thread between each hole vertically and very short strips of thread at the center horizontally.<br />
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Congratulations! Your book is bound and ready to decorate, embellish and add journalling! </div>
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It's fun to make little books using deconstructed boxes as the covers. I've made several lately, some with covers made from playing card boxes and others using Lemonheads candy boxes. When I posted photos on some of my favorite artsy Facebook groups, some FB friends asked me how to make them, Here's a tutorial for the playing card box book.<br />
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Here's what you'll need to make this book:<br />
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<li>Playing card box (measurements here are for POKER playing card boxes)</li>
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<li>Glue stick or your favorite type of adhesive for paper</li>
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For this demo, I'm using a box that held poker playing cards. Poker cards are slightly larger than regular playing cards, and they are easy to find at garage sales, flea markets and thrift stores because casinos use them only one time before giving them away. As you can see from the photo, this box of cards was 25 cents (and only $1.00 originally!). When I am done making this book, I'll cover up the pricing with postage stamps or another graphic element.<br />
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Next, cut along the fold to the right of the front panel of the card box. It's easiest just to use scissors; you can always straighten the cut with a craft knife after the box is flat.<br />
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As shown in this photo, cut the extraneous box parts away. Remove the four tiny flaps on the sides of the top and bottom, and the blank flap at the bottom. I like to keep the curved top flap as a design element for the inside cover, and I keep the straight bottom flap to make the back cover sturdier. You can keep the side flap and fold it over the book's edge, or you can remove it.<br />
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When I want to use the books for journaling, I glue a layer of lined, graphed, or blank paper to write on. This photo on the right shows some of the papers I cut to add space for writing: graph paper, accounting ledger paper, to-do list paper, planner sheets, game score sheets, printing practice pads, grocery list pads and conventional stationery. I found all of these items -- very inexpensively -- at garage sales, with the exception of one pad that was an advertising give-away from a print shop.<br />
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Poker playing cards are 2.5" wide by 3.5" tall. Each sheet of paper bound into your book will be folded in half, so you will cut your paper 5" wide by 3.5" tall.<br />
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Hint: Cut one 5" x 3.5" sheet from sturdy cardstock (or a manila file folder) using your paper cutter or a ruler and craft knife. You can then use that as a guide for cutting lighter-weight pages with scissors. Pages with torn edges are interesting, too, so not every page has to be precisely measured and cut.<br />
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If you want to add space to write on a spread that is otherwise too busy for journalling, just add a layer of lined paper. This addition is from a small planner page, so the line spacing is proportional to the small size of the book.<br />
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<b>NEXT:</b> Assembling signatures and binding the bookBonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-69520693388203617222014-08-27T13:53:00.000-04:002014-08-27T13:53:20.786-04:00Some quick, no-pressure ways to make art every day<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Index card art is simple and quick, but fun!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many of my artsy friends complain that have trouble finding the time to do art. Responsibilities of children, jobs, and just life in general often make leisurely art days a huge challenge. However, since putting our energies into art can be so rewarding -- and so relaxing -- it's great for us (and our families!) when we CAN make the time for artsy activities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a great way I've found to work some creative projects into a busy day: Use a small canvas. I don't mean a small stretched linen canvas; I mean a small surface. A blank book -- or even a large blank page in a sketchbook -- can be intimidating if I only have a few minutes for art. Using a small surface allows me to accomplish something in a minimum amount of time. My favorite small canvases are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of these are small, inexpensive, and easily accessible. If you don't have any around your house, all three can be found at thrift shops, flea markets or Dollar Stores.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's no need for expensive or extensive collections of art supplies either. An inexpensive glue stick, a pair of scissors, some paint or ink pads, old magazines or a stack of incoming junk mail can give you plenty to work with. I also like to use decorative napkins; more on that technique later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pull out your supplies and put them on a tray or in a basket so you can grab them when you have a few minutes to spare. Multitask! You can make a little piece of art while drinking your morning coffee, watching television, talking on the phone, or waiting for something to bake in the oven. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are at a loss for ideas, prompts can be very inspiring. Tammy Garcia's <a href="http://daisyyellowart.com/" target="_blank">Daisy Yellow art blog</a> is full of theme suggestions. Tammy created a popular group challenge called "Index-Card-a-Day (ICAD)" and, even though her recent Summer challenge is over, her prompts for previous challenges can inspire you. You can find these on her blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some of my ICAD projects and the prompts or themes that inspired them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see how simple and quick these are, but creating a little art every day is great way to lift your spirits. If you are pressed for time, you can still make one. If you have a little more time, you can make more than one. You get a creative break and you gain a sense of accomplishment because an index card is something you can easily finish. (Sometimes all those unfinished art projects can CAUSE stress instead of relieve it!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome to my happy place. Thanks to Karen Valentine of <a href="http://www.mydesertcottage.com/" target="_blank">My Desert Cottage</a> for hosting another Where Bloggers Create event! This is my second year at the party, and I appreciate all of Karen's efforts to make this event exciting and fun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The photo above is a studio view from the doorway. My studio is three steps down from our dining room. New in this area since the last year's WBC party are the pull-down school maps on the back wall and the chest of map drawers (below).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been calling this a map cabinet because the drawers are large and shallow, but the chest was actually handmade to store hardware in someone's garage. I saw it in the bed of a pick-up truck and asked the driver if it was for sale. Lucky for me, the answer was yes! It was a mess when I bought it, but a friend repaired it for me, and I love it because it is so useful. The bin pulls are solid brass and the sides are beadboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This tall 40-drawer Post Office cabinet (below) is my pride and joy. It looks like a card catalog cabinet in photos, but it is much larger. The drawers are 8-1/2" wide and 24 inches long. so they hold a LOT! The second photo below shows all the vintage oddities I put on top of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Love this 5-foot-tall Post Office cabinet! I'll show you what's in some of the drawers later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another of my favorite pieces is this golden oak McCaskey Register System from the early 1900s (sitting on top of an oak card catalog cabinet). This historic piece of furniture was part of a revolutionary accounting system for department stores and other businesses. (I call it the earliest version of QuickBooks.) The piece has large shallow drawers under glass, where ledgers displayed customer account numbers. Above the glass are metal fold-down receipt holders where numbered compartments hold clips for each customer's receipts. When the customer came to pay on his/her account, the store owner would look up the account number and then total the receipts for payment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The receipt holders fold down and I use them for vintage photos, artwork and ephemera. 7 Gypsies produced a perfectly accurate replica of the black metal McCaskey receipt holders a few years ago as display pieces for artists. While 7 Gypsies did a great job with the reproduction, I think it's pretty exciting to have the genuine article!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just some more of my funky stuff... I actually use the antique fan, but not the oversized pencils. (I found the pencils just last month, one at a time!) The hand-painted spool drawers hold rubber stamps for mail art projects. Everything in this picture was found at a local flea market except the stereo and the figural brush, which was a gift from my mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you guess my favorite color? I love my little red Corona typewriter and vintage red Arrow stapler. The Sychro-Jr. Jig Saw for Boys belonged to my father when he was a teen. He used it for model airplane making.The jig saw still works, as does the vintage Kodak photo developing timer. The metal Duro Sign Maker box holds some of my handmade books, and the little red metal blasting caps box holds some of my ATCs. Shallow drawers below hold rubber stamps organized by theme. It's nice that the drawer pulls are label holders; they make it easy to keep track of which theme is in each drawer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of the many things I collect in my studio are vintage children's art supplies. I love the cute illustrations and the colorful packaging. Vintage watercolor tins are among my favorites.I had the same Playtime watercolor tin when I was a child, so it was a thrill to find that at a garage sale. Did you notice the original price? 29 cents! It's a bonus to be able to use the contents!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you have enjoyed this peek into my studio, and I hope you'll stop by my blog again to download free printables. I have some wonderful ephemera to scan and share with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be sure to visit the other WBC blogs to see more studios (via the link in my sidebar) --- and please stop back by here tomorrow for more pictures of my studio! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nearly 20 years ago when my sons were small and I had an irregular work schedule as a freelancer, I got involved in art swaps via mail. Swappers were an eclectic group of strangers who enjoyed using software called Print Artist got together online to chat about the software and artsy projects we could make using the software. We exchanged handmade greeting cards, postcards, bookmarks and other paper craft projects via mail. The exchanges were really fun, and these strangers became online friends. Later, after meeting in person at national conventions and regional get-togethers we called "mini-meets," many of us became real-life and in-person friends. Some of these have become close, lifelong friends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My husband and I are empty nesters now and I have scaled back my work hours. It's nice to have a little more time for art, and I've been taking art classes and dabbling in art journaling, mail art swaps and book projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twenty years ago, it was exciting to get email. (If you are of my era, you'll remember being happy to hear the old AOL sound bite: "You've got mail!"). Today, our email Inboxes are so filled with spam, constant audible announcements would drive us crazy. Today, it's rare and exciting to get a physical letter or a hand-addressed card in the little black box at the bottom of our driveway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Receiving mail art is even more exciting because it's a big pop of color and surprise in your mailbox. And making mail art is as much fun as receiving it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my favorite contemporary artists is Seth Apter of </span><a href="http://thealteredpage.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">The Altered Page.</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Seth might not be an artist today if he hadn't been introduced to mail art! He was vacationing in Vancouver when he bought a piece of art at a gallery. The gallery owner sent him a mail art thank you, and he felt he should respond in kind, so he crafted a mail art reply. This serendipitous mail art exchange with the gallery owner was the beginning of a close friendship AND the beginning of Seth's interest in becoming an artist. (We should all send the gallery owner a thank you for inspiring that!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mail art, which is basically just decorative mail, is a simple art project that is fun, simple, and easy to make time for. Instead of writing an address on a plain envelope and adding a Forever stamp, mail artists will use paint, rubber stamps, washi tape, ephemera, images clipped from books and magazines, and multiple postage stamps to make that envelope anything but plain. And sometimes mail art is putting a stamp on a rubber duckie... or a pair of flipflops.</span><br />
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<br />Sometimes it's fun to follow a theme with your mail art. My sister loves animals, so I collected animal images and animal-themed postage stamps to make this oversized envelope for her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three blogs I enjoy focus on mail and mail art. Check them out:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://redletterdayzine.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Every day is a red letter day</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://cappuccinoandartjournal.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Cappuccino and art journal</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://mailmesomeart.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mail me some art</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karen Isaacson of "Mail me some art" hosts several themed mail art swaps every month. Her swaps are a great way to get started with mail art. Open swaps are listed <a href="http://mailmesomeart.blogspot.com/p/open-swaps.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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Today's post has nothing to do with collage or ephemera. It's all personal, but something I needed to write for therapeutic reasons. If you are a dog person, you will understand. I'll return to collage/ephemera/art-related posts soon. Art is also good therapy for grief...</div>
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Dexter and his humans, circa 1997</div>
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I didn’t want a dog. I wasn’t a dog person. I was happy with
our cat. But my husband has always loved
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Working on a PTA project at Sue Choate’s house, I met her
lovely miniature Schnauzer named Chloe. I came home and made an offhand comment
about Sue’s small, sweet dog who didn’t bark and didn’t shed. Charley
immediately decided that I might be willing to adopt a miniature Schnauzer.</div>
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Charley started scouring the classified ads for mini
Schnauzers, and discovered that there were several available puppies for
adoption at Regal Pets in the Chamblee Plaza Shopping Center, about 3 miles
from our house. I said no way. I would
never get a dog from a pet store; they come from puppy mills and are probably
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Can we just go look at them? he asked. I reluctantly agreed to go. The four of us
drove to the pet store, walked up to the cage and saw several adorable mini
Schnauzer puppies. A salt and pepper
puppy was particularly lively and cute, and the owner suggested taking it
behind the store to play with it. We did that for a few minutes, and I said,
“He’s very cute, but we can’t buy a dog at a pet store,” and we walked out to
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My son Brannon, 10 years old at the time, has huge brown
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Charley said, “It’s up to your mother.”</div>
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If looks could kill, Charley would no longer be with us.</div>
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Ambushed, I said, “Here’s the deal. We get a written return
authorization from the pet store. We take the dog directly to Dr. Bates to be
checked out. If he isn’t healthy, he goes back. Clear?” Clear, everyone said.</div>
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I read about crate training, and we bought a crate and a
little dog bed. And dog food. And dog toys. Dexter slept in the crate at night.
In the morning after we took him outside, he would go into the crate and bring
out his dog toys, one by one, and drop them in the den. He tried to bring his
water bowl, too, but we said no. Every
night we would put Dexter to bed, along with his toy collection, in the crate.
But he cried at night. We decided he
could sleep with us. He was a tiny little thing, and wouldn’t take up much
room. He slept right between us, something else I swore would never happen.
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was wary of him at first, but soon, they were napping together. Their
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I bonded with Dexter like I never thought possible. When
Charley and I watched television, Dexter sat in my lap and <st1:city w:st="on">Casper</st1:city>, our cat, sat in Charley’s lap. When Charley played tennis, Dexter waited by
the tennis court and allowed all the neighborhood children to pet him. He loved
riding in the car, so in mild weather, we took him with us on errands. When we
went on road trips, we asked AAA to help find hotels that allowed pets.</div>
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would always say, “Dexter, you are just the sweetest dog ever.” On a road trip to <st1:state w:st="on">Rhode Island</st1:state>, our friend Jim Nellis started
saying, “Dexter, you are the Swedish!”
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for college. He was such great company, and I still had someone to talk to in
the almost-empty house. He always made me smile when he did his cute little
dance when I was about to reward him with a treat.</div>
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died suddenly in 2006, and Dexter went into mourning. He lost interest in food;
he didn’t want to go outdoors; he stayed on the couch, listless. We had to do something, and what we did was
get a second mini Schnauzer puppy, Daisy.</div>
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You know how you see pictures of dogs who look like they are
smiling? Well, we should have taken
pictures of the dirty looks Dexter gave us when we brought that little pest of
a puppy home. She pawed at him. She barked. She annoyed him. He was annoyed
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Dexter and Daisy couldn’t have been more different. Dexter
was quiet and laid back. Daisy barked at anything and everything, even birds.
Dexter’s only misbehavior was getting into the trash can when given the
opportunity. On walks to the lake, Dexter trotted across the bridges; Daisy
tromped through the mud below. Daisy dug holes in the yard, escaped the yard by
squeezing under the fence, and rolled in stinky things whenever possible. Despite their different personalities, just
as <st1:city w:st="on">Casper</st1:city>
accepted Dexter, Dexter eventually began to accept Daisy. They even shared a
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In 2007, I added a brick and mortar store to my internet art supply business. The dogs stayed
at home when Charley would be home, but when Charley played golf or had other
plans, I took Dexter and Daisy to work with me. They had dog beds, treats and
toys there. They loved the staff, the customers, the UPS and FedEx drivers, the
postman and the neighbors. I loved having them with me at work.</div>
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When JC visited from <st1:city w:st="on">San
Diego</st1:city>, he would call Dexter “the real dog” and Daisy
“the other dog” or “the faux dog.” He
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On May 25, we celebrated Dexter’s 17<sup>th</sup> birthday. In June his health started failing. He began to move much more slowly
and slept most of every day. This week he lost interest in food and water, and
he is having trouble standing. We know that it is time to say goodbye, and it
is so, so hard. The vet came to the house yesterday and we got one last
hug in the front yard. I can hardly
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BonnieBonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-63615356389441823022013-07-16T13:47:00.000-04:002013-07-16T15:58:38.792-04:00Studio tour, continued<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More studio pictures -- here's a view from the stairs at the doorway. The studio is three steps down from our dining room. The blond cabinet on the wall in the foreground holds some of my vintage packaging collection. The crockery holds yardsticks, art papers and anaglyptic wallpapers for book making. The chippy yellow chair is mostly for standing on to reach things (I'm short.) The area to the right, in front of my countertop island, is pretty messy. I need to work harder there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the left of the stairs is a poster from an antique toy exhibit my husband and I saw in Paris almost 30 years ago. I brought the poster back in a tube that barely fit lying diagonally in my luggage. The poster hung in my son's room until he moved out, and I have enjoyed it in my studio since.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wonderful typography and colorful graphics on old commercial packaging is very inspiring to me. I've always admired vintage packaging and have collected examples for a long time. Among other things, these shelves hold a corset box (with a PINK corset inside!), and a men's underwear box (empty). Many of the other containers -- Sloan's Linament and Theatrical Blending Power, for example -- still have at least part of their original contents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, you've seen the neater parts of my studio... Here's how messy the work area usually (always) looks! in this photo, it's full of ephemera items and pictures cut from magazines and junk mail for use in Remains of the Day journals and other book projects. I like to run a lot of items through my Xyron machine at once, to use the adhesive efficiently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I couldn't get on a ladder high enough to show you the huge mess I made when painting patterns for Mary Ann Moss's Sewn class! (It was -- and still is -- a FUN mess!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm thrilled to participate in Karen Valentine's "Where Bloggers Create" event for 2013. Click on the logo on the right to visit My Desert Cottage to see all the creative spaces featured!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When my antique card catalog cabinets and art supplies threatened to take over the guest room, the kitchen, the den and -- frankly, our whole house! -- my husband suggested we add a room to our home. We built my dream studio off our dining room -- with high ceilings, lots of windows, and an exposed brick wall (the one that used to be the outside of our house!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is one of my most treasured furniture pieces, an oak 42-drawer apothecary cabinet. On top is an antique display case with sliding glass doors. Here it has some of my rubber stamps, but sometimes it showcases a collection of vintage art supplies. It's fun to change it out. On top of the showcase I keep art parts such as Scrabble tiles, Bingo numbers, and other game pieces in vintage jars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Antique apothecary cabinet, showcase and vintage jars for game pieces and supplies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the left of the apothecary cabinet is a vintage oak postal cabinet designed to store postal forms. Instead of drawers that pull out, these panels lift upward like a roll-top desk to reveal what's inside. In these spaces, I use acrylic picture frames as trays for rubber stamps, filed by subject.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vintage postal cabinet stores rubber stamps by subject</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm very fond of card catalog drawers -- they're great for organizing small items like office supplies, art supplies, and small tools. I've been lucky to find several card catalog cabinets over the years, and I have put them to good use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vintage card catalog cabinets hold small tools, supplies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The postal cabinet below is one of my favorites because the drawers are large and deep, and because it began as a dull, dry, ugly cabinet and I brought it back to life with lots of furniture oil, elbow grease, and help. In a photo, it looks like a card catalog cabinet, but the drawers are much larger -- 8 inches wide and 2 feet deep! Each drawer has a small brass plaque that reads "Files/Auditor for the Post Office Dep't." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This intriguing brass label is attached to each drawer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Large postal cabinet with drawers 8 inches wide and 2 feet deep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along with drawers and cubbies, other favorite storage pieces are my collection of plaid picnic tins from the 1950s and '60s. These colorful and useful tins hold everything from tax paperwork to seasonal rubber stamps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plaid picnic tins are handy for out-of-sight storage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vintage packaging is a great source of inspriration. I love the bright colors and cheerful graphics. These are some funky collections in view around my studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More vintage games and toys in an old gas station map case</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More vintage office supplies in a spice rack</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love this ticket roll. Tickets cost 9 cents plus 1 cent tax!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back to the working space in my studio, here is a countertop against the brick wall that was once the outside of our house. It holds my Genesis Trimmer and other tools, plus a very tongue-in-cheek sign about keeping the area clean. (Trust me, the counter is RARELY this clean.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hmmm, Blogger is not allowing me to upload additional photos to this post, so it looks like I will have to continue the tour in a second post....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you've enjoyed seeing what I have shared so far. More to come, if you aren't tired of seeing OLD stuff!</span></div>
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<br />Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-33136367658540484702013-06-22T12:38:00.000-04:002013-07-16T15:59:10.502-04:00SEWN: New class from Mary Ann Moss of Dispatch from LA<br />
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So excited about taking a new online class! The talented and creative Mary Ann Moss, of the wonderful Dispatch from LA blog, instructor from several of my other favorite online classes -- Remains of the Day, Full Tilt Boogie, and Ticket to Venice -- and just all-round cool person, is offering a new class called SEWN starting July 4. It's gonna be great fun. (I know this because ALL of Mary Ann's classes are fun!) To read more about SEWN, click <a href="http://www.dispatchfromla.com/dispatch_from_la/sewn.html" target="_blank">here</a> or on the button on my sidebar.Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-3364172234471184872012-09-13T20:23:00.003-04:002012-09-13T20:23:54.694-04:00Vintage photographers' logos<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the late 1800s, most photographs were finished as cabinet cards -- a thin albumen photograph mounted on a large piece of stiff cardboard. It's always fun to see the clothing, hairstyles and props in these old cabinet cards, but something else that's really appealing is the intricate logo of the photography studio often printed on the back of the card.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently found a stack of cabinet cards for my antiques booth, but before displaying them, I had to scan some of the amazing logos for you. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<br />Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-26771616786128618792012-03-30T17:33:00.000-04:002012-03-30T17:33:20.869-04:00Vintage sewing notions: needle books<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vintage sewing ephemera always catches my eye at flea markets and estate sales. I think I'm attracted to sewing notions because I have such fond memories of playing with my grandmother's buttons and sewing things when I was young. Needle books are easy to find, and I've ended up with quite a few of those. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recently realized something interesting about the Sewing Susan brand of needle books... Look at the illustrations on the first three covers below. Each one features the same basic scene -- four women sewing together -- but details such as hairstyles and clothing have been changed to reflect the times. I'd love to know if there are even more versions of this scene. If you have a different one, please tell me about it in the Comments!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sewing Susan needle book with updated illustration. Hairstyles and clothing styles are a bit more modern, and fabrics have changed.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A newer Sewing Susan needle book. Notice the women are wearing brighter colors -- and sewing with brighter colored fabrics -- and there is abstract art on the wall instead of the traditional floral painting.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the shape of this Matchless needle book. And what a great hat in this illustration! (Don't you always wear a hat when you are sewing?)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was a teenager in the last half of the 1960s, and I think the image looks more like the 1950s. The girl's hairstyle was definitely before my time, but I did have a similar record player and charm bracelet. Also by the '60s, teenage girls favored pink Princess phones (remember those?) instead of the heavy black desktop phones like the one in the drawing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the next few days, I'll be posting many more vintage images unearthed in the Spring cleaning process! I've found quite a few ephemera treasures to share with you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Images of beautiful women have long been a favorite of portrait artists, advertising designers and postcard makers. Today's ephemera downloads include some lovely ladies from early 1900s postcards. Click twice to save the largest images.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've always loved bluebird images... Over the weekend, I got a glimpse of a beautiful bluebird in my back yard, and it was a treat to find these bluebird postcards at a flea market the very same day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bonnie</span>Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-18428233199437849112012-02-21T11:42:00.000-05:002012-02-21T11:42:06.062-05:00Illustrations from a vintage baby book<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I'm sharing illustrations from a vintage baby book found at a local flea market. The 1930s illustrations are not signed, so the artist is unknown, but the style is very similar to watercolors by one of my favorite children's illustrator, Bessie Pease Gutmann. Ms. Gutmann was famous well before the '30s, so her work would have been signed. This artist obviously admired and emulated her artistic style and subject matter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The baby whose life this book celebrated was born in January 1949 in Centuria, Wisconsin. A hospital invoice was tucked into the pages. The hospital room and care cost $5.50, and the operating room fee was $5.00. Additional charges were $3.00 for anaesthetic, and $.25 for medicines (a sedative). Total: $13.75.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I always feel sad when family keepsakes like this baby book are not cherished by family members, but at least we can all enjoy the charming illustrations today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As always, right click an image to save it to your computer. Clicking a second time will give you the largest image size. Downloads are for personal use only. Please do not sell these images individually or in collections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you'll enjoy using these vintage images in your art projects. Please post in the Comments section about how you plan to use them. I'd love to hear about (and see!) your creations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bonnie</span>Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-83823552133726946052012-02-19T17:25:00.004-05:002012-02-19T17:25:45.324-05:00Valentine postcard<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I know... it's after Valentine's Day. But a friend just found this little treasure of a vintage Valentine postcard, so I had to share it even if it is no longer timely. Isn't he cute?</span></div>
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<br /></div>Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-81181193899423136292012-01-24T14:10:00.000-05:002013-07-16T16:00:00.289-04:00Scrappy ephemera houses<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other ephemera is plentiful or replaceable, and we enjoy using that in art projects. The coaster house projects above are fun to make, and the little houses are perfect ways to use small ephemera items. We decorated our houses with vintage tickets, coat check claims, old playing cards, stamps, airmail envelope stripes and lots and lots of scrapbook paper scraps! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm sure you can think of other ephemera that you could use in a project like this. Other ideas: old S&H Green Stamps, maps, vintage magazine pages; the list is endless! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My company, <a href="http://www.bonniesbest.com/">Bonnie's Best Art Tools</a>, is exhibiting at the Lawrenceville (Georgia) Rubber Stamp and Paper Arts Festival, sponsored by Heirloom Productions, on February 4th and 5th. We'll have a large booth for demonstrating and selling our art products plus a smaller booth specifically for hosting a Make & Take project. Show attendees are invited to our Make & Take booth to make some of these scrappy little houses -- FREE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you will be in the Atlanta area the first weekend of February, we'd love to see you at the show. You can visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bonnies-Best-Art-Tools/129294357137245">our Facebook page</a> to see show details. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-21542667263377221292011-10-22T12:12:00.001-04:002011-10-22T12:21:23.715-04:00Vintage 1950s beauty products<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today's vintage ephemera includes more ladies' beauty products. The asterisk on the 1955 Gayla bobby pin packaging below fascinated me... What was simulated? Turns out these bobby pins have simulated rubber tips! </span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Notice how the blond woman on the Gayla package and the woman on the Lovely Lady package are both looking downward? Were the designers going for demure? Flirty? Subservient? </span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also notice that the woman on the Lovely Lady Hairnet package does NOT appear to be wearing a hairnet... whereas the ladies in the photograph below are rocking the hairnets!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More vintage hairnet packaging is <a href="http://collagecandy.blogspot.com/2011/05/vintage-packaging-1950s-ladies-and.html">here</a>, in case you missed it.</span></div></div>Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-79887058870967571562011-10-19T15:44:00.001-04:002011-10-19T15:49:48.769-04:00Vintage and ancient hand diagrams<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've always loved hands, and I have a small collection of hand shaped items. Today I'm sharing hand ephemera, including palmistry diagrams and ancient illustrations of the hand.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ancient frontispiece from book about metoposcopy (analyzing the lines of the forehead)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Napoleon's hand, in sepia</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Napoleon's hand, in black and white</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Diagram showing the position of Zodiac signs in the hand</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Palmistry diagram by Holmes W. Merton<br />
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Hope some of these diagrams will come in handy for you. (oooh, that was bad. Sorry!)</span></td></tr>
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</span>Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-67203127372446117882011-10-16T11:44:00.000-04:002011-10-16T11:44:53.815-04:00Art Deco postcards by C.E. Shand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More vintage postcards today. These lovely postcards feature Art Deco illustrations by C.E. Shand. I think her artwork is enchanting!</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span>Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-50644071102070265492011-10-07T07:30:00.011-04:002011-10-07T13:03:45.646-04:00More vintage postcards: Haughty ladies and naughty ladies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have more vintage postcards to share with you today. The first two feature ladies who are dressed to kill, and the second pair show ladies who are misbehaving.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An artist named Jan Marcos illustrated the two postcards below, ladies with hats and other finery. These postcards were printed in Italy. </span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The postcards below show ladies who are up to something. I'm thinking the image of the woman in her bathing costume at a creek was pretty risque in its day. The second image shows a beautifully dressed woman sitting on the back of a chair making martini glasses tinkle. Interesting image, isn't it? I imagine she had had a few martinis before she climbed up on the chair. Notice the faces on the martini glasses.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Martini glass music maker</span></td></tr>
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</span>Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00283252365818381552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274804538392841217.post-87911764845031941072011-10-06T14:12:00.000-04:002011-10-06T14:12:23.330-04:00Vintage postcards: Girls with flower hats<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Four lovely girls with beautiful flower hats. I'm looking for information about the artist; will update this post when I find out more.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More vintage bird illustrations from The Nature Library, first published in 1917 with illustrations by R.E. Todhunter.</span></div>
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(female on left, male on right)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love to support local libraries, so I always try to attend Friends of the Library sales. At the Fall sale this week, I found some treasures, including wonderful vintage books from a set called The Nature Library. My favorite is the volume on birds, with beautiful illustrations by R. E. Todhunter. Here are a few of the illustrations for you. (As always, personal use only, not for sale individually or in collections.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you like these, let me know and I'll post some more soon!<br />
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