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| scrappy packs for art journaling |
[Aug. 13th, 2010|08:33 pm] |
Hey guys!
I realize I hardly ever post here anymore (you can find me at my blog), but since a lot of you guys are art journalers I thought maybe you'd be interested.
Basically, I've been collecting bits & pieces of things for art journaling and collage for a long, long time. So long that I literally have buckets full. I use them, and journal plenty, but not nearly often enough to go through everything that I have! And since I'm moving a in a couple weeks, I need to diminish my crazy huge stash a bit.
My problem is, I've collected a lot of things that I think are really beautiful - even if they are just catalogs, magazine pages, etc. And I don't want to just throw them out. So instead of throwing them out, I've put a bunch of stuff together in these 'scrap packs' in the hopes that other art journalers can take them home and put them to good use.
Basically, the packs include scrapbooking paper, magazine/catalog pages, and various small craft supplies that I could fit in the envelopes.
Here are some photos of what one of the pack might look like...
Here is what each packet contains, at least:
-Catalog pages (my fave catalogs have always been Anthropologie & Free People, so you can expect a couple pages from there)
-Magazine pages (I have never subscribed to any specific magazines, but pick them up at yard sales/thrift stores/library/recycling/etc. I have a lot of National Geographic so you will probably see some of that! I also have lots of decorating magazines, and a few fashion ones)
-Maps, train tickets, bus tickets, or other various travel things from my three months in Europe last year
-Bits of scrapbooking paper, some whole pieces, some not
-Some little supplies, such as...glitter, buttons, beads, charms, ribbon, tissue paper, paperclips, colored pencils, etc etc
Basically, I tried to put together a whole bunch of things that I would be really excited to find in my mailbox. I know that I would like receiving one of these; I hope you would too!
So...here's the deal: I am planning on charging $2.50 for a pack, plus $2.50 shipping (if I find out the shipping is less, I'll change it).
If you REALLY REALLY want one and you're really poor, let me know and we can probably work something out. I'm pretty broke, so it'd be nice to get the moneys, but as long as I can pay for shipping I don't really mind as long as you are going to use them!
Which brings me to my number one (and only) rule...if you get one of these from me and you don't like something, PLEASE DON'T THROW IT AWAY. My point in doing this is that I don't want to trash a bunch of stuff I thought was beautiful. If you don't like it, give it to someone else, sign up for a swap somewhere...at the very very least, recycle it!
So...if you'd like one...
EDIT...the packs are available on etsy at http://www.etsy.com/listing/54223147/scrap-pack-for-art-journaling
Woo! |
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[Mar. 21st, 2010|01:02 pm] |
i haven't gotten quite as much done this week as i would have liked to, but that's fairly normal - i'm constantly making extravagant plans i can't keep up with. it's okay though. i like making plans.
the snow has all melted now and the weather here has been beautiful...when summer comes and it's insanely hot, i'm going to wish the winter lasted longer, but for now it's perfect perfect perfect. i just want to go for walks downtown in swirly skirts and keep all the windows open while i read books and paint pictures. and no more homework!
my recital is a week from today. and after playing the same pieces for however many months, i'm starting to get sick of them...but i think i'm ready. my anxiety has gotten quite a bit better this semester and i'm aiming at being more excited than nervous. i just have to keep telling myself i'm prepared enough. i'm ready i'm ready i'm ready. i just want it to be about the music, not my nerves.
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[Mar. 14th, 2010|12:08 pm] |
spring break to-do list:
1. 8 page victorian poetry paper
2. write a piece with a motive for theory
3. renaissance history journal entries
4. a million pages of reading for women's studies
5. tennyson idylls for victorian poetry
6. practice ear training stuff
7. hang out with nice people i haven't seen in awhile
8. find a dress for my recital
9. practice for choir
and on top of this i wanted to play piano like five hours every day to prep for my recital...not sure that's gonna happen...
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[Mar. 8th, 2010|11:25 pm] |
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ralph vaughan williams' the lark ascending is one of the most beautiful pieces of music i have ever heard. |
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[Jan. 27th, 2010|11:09 pm] |
two days back at school and already i'm exhausted. there was no transition period this time, from vacation into classes, everything just happened immediately.
i'm happy to be back. but i miss italy and the peace that was there.
arlene told me that italy revealed to her how much time she spent on meaningless things, how easy it is to become buried in all of this paperwork...when we're home, at least. so we need to remember to breathe and do the things best for us, instead of what other people pressure us into doing.
so here we go... |
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| from someone who says it better than i ever could |
[Jan. 24th, 2010|12:20 pm] |
"The people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we mjust all allow; yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way."
-Thoreau; Civil Disobedience |
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[Jan. 23rd, 2010|09:34 am] |
in america, men and women in business suits rush to starbucks in the morning for their coffee in paper cups, which they'll carry with them in their cars off to work.
in ascoli, they walk in the sunshine to cafes and sit outside sipping cafe latte, reading the newspaper and looking out across the piazza.
i miss italy. i don't know if i'm cut out for the rush of america anymore, i don't know if i was ever made for this. i want to travel the world, with something other than my navy blue passport and naive eyes.
in ascoli people were kind enough to put up with my attempts at italian, even if they could have easily spoken to me in english. and when they asked where i was from i felt ashamed telling them in my halting, stumbling language. but they'd smile, gently correct my grammar, and we'd be on our way.
we are so young. this country is so young, there is so much we do not understand, how we are paving pathways to our own demise. we've become an empire, it's true. but empires fall. have we not realized this?
we can't do this forever.
and so what to do - to stay, to suck it up or fight it out, try to change things. or to run away entirely. back to sipping coffee on terraces, walking slowly down the street with the sellers in the market calling and taking time to notice the sun rising and setting over the mountains in the distance. |
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