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I have received mail art from all the way across the United States and from all the way across the "Big Pond". Which goes to show how big this planet is and how it's a "small world after all" connecting over the internet.
This wonderful letter I rec'vd from MF in Oregon was weaved with wire. There are no limits in art.
I love this one from Michelle in the UK, which expresses her passion and how all this connection is possible.
I thank everyone for sharing their art.
YUM! YUM!
Well that's what we put in ground anyway. If we are blessed with good weather and we can keep the deer out of the peas we'll eat good this year.
I need to do a little mother's bragging. I think I'm entitled to just a little bit.
Last night was another ball game night and we were the visiting team. The game wasn't scheduled to start unitil 7:30 and of course we didn't start unitil a quater til eight. It was a long night. To make a long story short: It was 9:00 pm and the two teams had been battling it quite a while, the score 10 to 9 in our favor. The other team was up to bat and we needed two more outs to hold the score till the ump called the game. There was a runner on first and a runner on third. And up came the next batter. She swung and hit a pop up. My DD is on first base. She caught the pop-up then in a blink of the eye, she turned and dove for first base. The first base runner was out. A double play. The ump yelled "GAME". We won.
WHERE'S MY CAMERA?!!!!!!! (in the truck) {sob}
Ali Edwards gave a challenge of taking your own self portrait a week or so back and it has taking me this long to work on it and get it posted. Sometimes I get hung up on " I've got to wait until I have lots of time so I can do a good job" procrastination kit. Then something in me just says "Just go do it" even if you have to work on it a little at a time. So here's my self portrait:
And I have a couple of credits to mention:
Of course I haven't finished, the "It has to be Just Perfect" critic in my head is talking right now while I'm trying to put my self portraits on a scrapbook page.
Tuesday, I received my first piece of mail art. I found this class on mail art over on Michelle's blog Scrapability.
Her blog lead me to Shimelle's Personal web site that offers the classes thru Yahoo Groups. The Group creates mail inspired by Shimelle's class emails and mails them by way of snail mail to someone in the group. The group shares their mail with the others thru the e mail group.
We have a very talented lot. Looking at the other mail art posted on the message board, they use any kind of medium imaginable. Magazine cut outs, paint, glitter, sketches, drwaings, computer art, typoghaphy, anything goes that can make it thru the mail machines.
Apparently Mail Art has a long history and I am reading more about it daily. The reason I joined the mail art class was to expand on ways to create art and add more originality to my scrapbook layouts. We are only thru week two and it has not failed to provide lots of ideas.
Now all I have to do is take a time managment class to find the time to put all of these ideas to work.
I finshed a layout for Derric. I gotta post it before he sees that Katie's layout is up or I will pay the price for the next week. He is a character out there on the field. It's like he's in his own little world but some how he always manages to wake up just in time.
Kit: Grung Birthday Item of the week (IOTW)
Kit Creator: Kim Liddiard at Digital Scrapbook Place
Fonts: Lewisham Shadowed
Two kids multiplied by two teams plus one Recreation Ball Season equals all-day-ball-game-athons on Saturdays. We were lucky today,too. Both of their games were home. Tuesday, one will be home and the other will be out of town. Spending the whole day out at the ballfields leaves little time to scrapbook but it does provide the pictures to scrapbook. So I can't complain.
But all day at the ballfields just wears me out. The kids were baffled as to why I had to take a nap when we got home this evening. "You didn't play, you just sat and watched" they say. Which is followed up with "What can I do now?" from my 8 year old.
They just don't understand the emotional and physical strain that happens on the sidelines: the tension, the clapping, the worry, the crossing of the fingers when they step up to bat, the pacing, the clinching of the but cheeks as the ball hangs in the air along with the jumping up and down and hooting and hollering. Not to mention all the mental power it takes to will them around the bases and over home plate. Oh, but I just sit on the sidelines. LOL
After my nap and moving around a little bit I did finsh this layout. I started it yesterday and have rearranged it so many times last night and tonight that is it was paper there would be nothing left. I love click and drag. I love digital scrapbooking.
I used the National Scrapbook Day kit from Holly at The Digi Chic and the word art came from a Midnight Madness Chat crop at Digital Scrapbook Place.
I hope Angie doesn't mind Groupies.
Angie Pederson is the author of "The Book Of Us" and is having the First Scrapbooking Virtual Book Tour. Please see her schedule here
I attended a chat she was the guest of over at Digital Scrapbook Place. I hope to attend the other chats she has scheduled on her tour.
Link: Chicky Talk: Site Updated!.
Been waiting on the National Scrapbook Day digital kit from Holly and it has been upload to her store. I wasted no time in be-poppin over there and gettin my copy. She has a lot of great kits over there including the kit dedicated to her sister. Thanks Holly fo the beautiful kits and wonderful freebies.
