I'm a bad blogger

I haven't been posting regularly, and I missed two whole months! Does this make me a bad blogger? I'm a blogger that doesn't blog.

I got a blog because I enjoyed looking at other people's blogs. It started when I read a few blogs by people that I know, then I got a copy of Artful Blogging. I really wanted to have a blog like that -- like the beautiful blogs featured in the magazine where they featured beautiful artwork, like the blogs my friends had where I got to know them better than I did before. So I got a blog. And don't know what to do with it.

It turned out that getting a blog was super easy -- all but the picking your name thing. I wanted something to do with mixed media, since that's what I've been playing with lately, but all the addresses with that were taken. So I got mixing-katie and named the blog Mixed Up, and figured that it was pretty appropriate: I'm messing around in mixed media but don't really know what I'm doing. Also, I'm at a place where I need to decide where my "career" is going, and I'm not sure about that. We're going to move relatively soon and don't know where we'll go. I want to take my "art" more seriously, but don't know if it's worth it. So many decisions, and I'm not sure about any of them. So Mixed Up seems like a good name for me.

Inchies : )

I'm hosting an inchie swap on ATCsforAll.com, and finally got around to making my own inchies for it. I cut out images from an American history textbook, put them on some inchie blanks that I had made when cutting out something else, and then stuck on inked up words and did the edges with a silver marker.

While I was doing them, I spread out the finished ones and noticed that some of the words kinda made interesting phrases. Maybe that will turn into an idea for another swap -- sentence inchies :)

Chunky Madness

Just what I needed -- another addiction! As if ATCs and inchies and rolos weren't enough, now I've got myself hooked on chunky pages, too! They're 4 inches by 4 inches and super fun! Here are a few a made for trades on ATCSforAll with nursery rhyme themes:



And here is a bound book. I got these pages from different trades, then made covers and bound them on metal rings. I love how all the fibers and charms and beads and whatnot look when they stick out all over the place. My kind of madness :)