What a haul!!

After a day of antiquing, I came up with quite a haul. All of these items will be used for my altered art in some way. I went through about 200 different pictures, and about 500 postcards to get this selection. I can't wait to scan everything and then play with it all.

Take a look at the black scrapbook behind the postcards. That's g
going to be used for an altered book group that will be starting a new round in September. My theme is Black & White and using one color for an accent. I've been keeping my eyes opened for the perfect book, and was lucky to come across this...and the price was right.

Look at all the notions! The most exciting one there are the flowers. They're from around 1930...and were in excellent shape. I bought all three bunches....that way I can share! I was also excited to find more measuring tape. I just commented yesterday that I didn't know what I was going
to do once my Grandmother's stash ran out. Now I have more.

And lastly, the Ephmera...some sheet music...I really love the artwork on "Why is the Moon Pale". There's some money, envelopes, tally sheets...oh yes, 2 keys, a key plate...and the most amazing sterling bee. SCORE!

Hope you enjoyed viewing my grand day of finds. The best day EVER. I have a hard time just finding one or two things on normal days....and to find all of this in one day was amazing.

Vintage White

I joined a group of ArtChix ladies that started a Round Robin for altered books. This is my first time to attempt these books, so it's been a challenge so far. This book...the Buffy's Vintage White altered book was fun, but a challenge to come up with something I thought was worthy of her book.

I started a page with an idea, but unfortunately, part way through...I ruined the picture and the page with my gel medium. The picture that I had printed on velumn completely smeared and went all over everything. So, I regrouped and this is what I came up with.

The page on the right is the one that I did first. The best part was I got my sewing machine out and stitched the picture, the muslin, and the mulberry paper to the page...then I stitched the lace onto the page too.

I hope Buffy likes what I've done!