Art For All 2009

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Originally uploaded by vintagepix

Last weekend I went to Indianapolis to meet up with people from ATCsforAll. It was so much fun! There was a lot of trading, a lot of creating, and a lot of laughing going on. This is a photo that Vintagepix took during a watercolor workshop. I'm on the right in purple. It was fantastic to meet people that I've only known online and wonderful to try out new techniques with friends. I have a lot of unpacking to do and need to catch up on a lot of sleep!

Lost and Found (again)

Crafting 365, Day 68
Originally uploaded by Mixing-Katie

Sometime last year I got a moleskine sketchbook. I was so nervous about doing anything in it that it stayed blank. Then I started a little drawing in it and a little magazine collaging. And then I took it with me when I visited my parents for the holidays and the poor hardly used journal ended up under some pillows and didn't get packed up when I left. I didn't notice for at least a week.

On an unexpected trip to my partents' place, I remembered to look for the moley and brought it back. It found a home under some dirty laundry. I came across it this week when I finally got around to washing some clothes. I recently got a shipment of twinkling h20 products (serendipity??) and decided to test out the radiant rain daubers on the sketchbook paper to see how much water the pages can take. (BTW, luminarte is having a HUGE sale through June 14) The page dried out nicely and is very nearly flat. I think keeping the book banded shut will straighten it out.

After I smeared on some of the radiant rain color -- of course, I had to try out four colors, why stick to just one?? --I doodled and wrote with india ink and gel pens. Then I decided to see how the gel pens and india ink would do on top of the magazine paper. The two pages don't really match, but they were fun to do. And I've done several more pages since these ones dried.

I'm also planning on making this sketchbook my handy dandy notebook to carry around in my purse and catch ideas.

Sharing Knife Books

Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars

I just finished the last book in Bujold's Sharing Knife series. I picked up the first book, Beguilement, after finishing her Vorkosigan series and wasn't sure if I'd get hooked on another one of her series or not. I could not put this book down once I got into it, and had to run off to the library to get the other three books.


If you like fantasy with a touch of romance, try this series!


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