10.18.11 ... paper stuff

here is a project i've been working on over a period of time recently. some of the clippings are years in the saving. i save them for one of these days and one of these days arrives every so often. i matched them up with card stock pieces i have floating about here and there. some are greeting card and envelope pieces. some are paint sample strips.

i am not sure where i will go from here with all of them, but i do have plans for some of them. a few will become covers of miniature accordian books. i really love all of these images.

and i love the variety. and matching the pieces with the card stock.

this one is a favorite. here is what it looks like during the perusing and production phase...

and below is the set. i also made those tazo tea bag paper pockets (an earlier post). you may spot some of the parts here.

when i take these pieces one step further i'll post the results. today i worked on another - new - sewing project. those photos will be here tomorrow night. see you then.

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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7.11.11 ... two sendak sets

today i made these two sets. my pierre buttons have been quite popular. these are sets 3 and 4. i only have one more set i can make.

aren't they cute? sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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7.7.11 ... sendak buttons - pierre

late last night right before i turned off my phone, i had a sale in joonbeam. it was my pierre set of pinback buttons. after i thanked the buyer she sent a reply asking if i ever made more to let her know. i had only made the one set to try them out but i had a few circles cut so i made two more sets. this one you see above with pierre standing on his head a la 'i don't care' and his mother getting ready to leave him there and this one below ...

... with pierre, his mother and father and the lion who ate him! the buyer chose this second set so i will list the other one as soon as i have a few moments. they are made using salvaged vintage book images from a book that is too well loved to remain intact but too well loved to be thrown to the landfill or recycling bin.

tomorrow and saturday are big days here as scout is attending the pixar master class. so exciting. i'll see you again tomorrow night. sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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5.31.11 ... map bookmark

today i did make a lot of progress on my ongoing project. meanwhile, i had four packages to get out in the mail and here are some extras i made for my etsy shop supporters. i appreciate them and enjoy creating things just for them. the map bookmark is headed to the area seen on the map.

i really enjoyed the way this bookmark tail turned out.

i sent along some of my handmade stickers because this person purchased a collage i made using pieces from the same discarded book. i hope she enjoys that little surprise. my ongoing project should be completed tomorrow. but, you never can tell. at any rate, i will be here with something. today completes my 5th month of accomplishing a creation and blog post every single day of 2011. i hope i can keep going. i am at a hard point right now. i am losing my will power. thanks for taking a peek. my determination will see me through. 

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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5.28.11 ... my flowers have grown - a recycled surprise

today scout and i worked on a complex project that isn't ready to be posted visually yet so i am taking this opportunity to share this one from a week or so ago.

it can be a large fold over bookmark or a stand alone little art decor piece. it's constructed out of a discarded 1960s book illustration, a ledger paper piece and some manila card stock i found at a thrift store.

i had fun with it.

i placed one of my favorite stamp messages on the back. because i love abe and i love friendships. how's your holiday weekend shaping up so far?

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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5.25.11 ... making hearts

i don't waste much. i love making hearts out of my tiniest scraps of paper. i use these in so many projects.

here are the scraps i used today.

and here is the little pile of hearts i made from those few bits.

i am sure i'll be sharing a project incorporating these one day soon. so stay tuned. 

guess what happened today? i replied to one of dule hill's tweets about today being national tap dance day and he replied to my tweet. how delightful is that? what a lovely surprise. life is good. enjoy your evening and the upcoming weekend.

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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5.23.11 ... getting some goodies ready

i am working on getting together a packet of recycled art to send to australia.  i was invited to participate in a fund raising event.

these are a few of the items i gathered and i am making a few more small things.  i don't have much time. i was supposed to mail them out today but that just didn't happen.  tomorrow is another day.

most of these are my inkadilly folios.  i haven't made any - other than that cute mouse notebook - in a long time.  i miss them.  i need to make more.

i placed these items in the protective bags today and started on a few corner bookmarks. i started on this whale bookmark today.

tomorrow i will add to it and make some calling cards and soon everything will be on its way across the world.  i hope my items help them raise money.

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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4.4.11 ... pretty recycled paper bits and a mend

i am not focusing well today. our little cricket is still in the hospital and we're not sure yet if she can be cured or not. so it is a difficult time for us. she'll have a sonogram on wednesday afternoon so this will go on for a few days at the very least. the good news is that she did improve a little today and is purring for the vet and techs. maybe she will be wonder cat. we hope so. at any rate, i did do a few small things this afternoon. it was a true challenge to motivate myself but, of course, i am happy that i did. these papers are salvaged from the discarded book with a lot of damage on the outside. i am not certain how i will use these but they are certainly pretty, aren't they?

i accomplished this small but important mending task. important because having a quilt - even folded up - in my art room waiting to be mended is no minor thorn in my creative side. i do not have room to spare for things like this to be lying about or responsibility hanging over my head. the story of this quilt is:

about 12 years ago i spied this in an antique shop for only $15.00. i thought it had to be a mistake and i asked the owner but she said no sometimes she just got good deals and was passing it along. did i need a quilt? no. but this one is so interesting. it's half done and oddly half done at that. someone has put an incredible amount of work into it thus far. why did they stop? i will always wonder. plus, the embroidered designs are so varied. some are nursery rhyme characters, some are nature themed or animals and then there's this category - the anchor and chain type of thing. what? 

anyway, it intrigues me. and when it got its first rip i wanted to be sure to repair it right away. that did not happen and we've been cold. all over this tiny mending task. yeah, well, that's me. i am toast tonight so i bid you good night. please hold positive thoughts for our cricket. extra oxoxoxoxo to you all.

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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3.30.11 ... speed record airplanes

i found these in a magazine article that had a time line of and information about the planes through history that broke speed records. i love the images so i made these magnets. i am very happy with them and will list them in my joonbeam shop ... if ev doesn't claim them first.

doesn't this eric carle book cover make a perfect background for them, too?

last night our local station kept airing commercials at the wrong times so that we missed half of craig ferguson and - to add insult to injury - we'd return to the program just in time to hear him announce 'we'll be right back ...' and then we'd see all the same darn commercials again. ugh. let's see what happens this evening. hope yours is pleasant.

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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3.26.11 ... dictionary ephemera gift box wrap

i received an order in a recycled gift box and, naturally, i loved that. i want to use it yet again and hope the next people in line will be encouraged to reuse it as well, but it was getting a little worse for the wear so i decided to give it an edge and wallpaper it. i went through my old discarded dictionary looking for something interesting and with the right page placement. i love this hieroglyphics illustration --- i just now noticed it is about a gift!

well, prior to finding that .... this was my favorite aspect of the particular piece - that it had the hieroglyphics bit and that higgledy-piggledy are situated perfectly for the latter to rest exactly on the box top edge.

and i love that flounder is on hand and that the top edge flaw which bows out has the words 'higher and lower' right on the 'hilly' section.

and i love this flourish. how groovy is this?

i am thinking about what i'd like to use for the interior. i'll be back with that one day soon. or later. 

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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3.24.11 ... brussels sprouts rock

the past few days i've been working on sorting through and organizing my clippings that have been in their temporary folder for many months. and it amazes me that, once again, serendipity rains down on me. look at the perfect pairing of this clipping - and who would ever think it was worth clipping in the first place, no less worthy of filing? - and the brussels sprouts gift. yes, we hang with people who go wild over brussels sprouts, as we all do, right?

so i had this card i'd saved and put these two odd bits together and i love the result. and there is my recycled art project for today. back to sorting and filing for me. minus two. 

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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3.3.11 ... vintage sun ink stamp designs

so today i was messing around with my vintage sun stamp. this is one of the relics from my short foray into teaching second grade. i haven't used it in a long, long, time. and i have never had a variated color ink stamp pad before and i really enjoyed stamping these with that. i made these buttons and a run of suns for future buttons and magnets. i like the stripe variation because no two can ever be alike. which, if you have been to my blog or shops even for a few minutes you know i am all about unique.

the yellow paper is the back of a receipt. it's the only yellow paper i could spy. when i first save these things i often wonder what in a hell i am doing and isn't it all a bit obsessive and then something like this happens along and all is revealed. who can break nutty habits when the rewards just keep on coming?

certainly not me. 

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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2.28.11 ... can you tell me how to get, how to get to sesame street?

i have this groovy old discarded book that tells the story of sesame street's beginnings and behind the scenes vignettes. it's very cool. i haven't used it for crafting. but today i decided it can be enjoyed best by coming out of the bin and yielding to my transforming powers. now these wonderful images can bring happy memories to many fellow sesame street character fans. starting with my own family...

creating practical art is always one of my favorite project goals. i made these oscar the grouch and mr. hooper magnets. do you love and miss mr. hooper like we do?

this is where i started - with this sesame street sign corner bookmark...

i love these graphics and the way the lamp globe placement winds up on the reverse.

and, last but never least, the count. this is the first super sized corner bookmark i have ever made. i couldn't resist.

isn't he 100% fabulous? so now the wheels are turning as i plan and brainstorm more new recycled art ideas.

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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2.12.11 ... teeny little guy space rocket man

how is your saturday, everyone? we've had such a lovely day. i found an old board game recently while thrifting and planned to use it for paper ephemera packets that i am developing for my joonE etsy shop. then we would make a wall shelf out of the board for scout's room because the game is like new. but, as happens quite often here in the wilkinson household, someone falls in love with a find and - change of plans. this game is called rat race. ever heard of it? i had not. it is from a canadian company and i can't find but one or two references to it via google. seems kind of rare. anyway, scout fell in love with it. so she read the directions and she and ev played a test game while i worked in my art room - where i came up with this little guy for ev. he's a magnet surprise gift because ev loves space and because he's been taking such good care of me and doing my house work all week. i will be very happy when my back is all better. but i bet not half as happy as him.

after i made this little rocket man, i joined them in a new game and we had lots of fun with it. so far. no one is winning yet or even close to it. poor scoutie keeps landing on the divorce square and had to go back to a lower class AND pay a bunch of fees. ev has been 'divorced' a couple of times, too. meanwhile...

i haven't been divorced even once but in order to win you need to accumulate $100,000 so you can retire. we played a good two hours and i only have about $27,000. sheesh. times is tough in the old rat race.

oh ... have you noticed rocket man's moon boots? :)

and last but not least, here he is on the {tortilla} moon planting the American flag even. could not believe when this photo opportunity strolled by me. 

time for tea. oh --- dinner: we had cheese ravioli with butternut squash sauce. oh. my. gravy. so delicious. what did you have?

sweet dreams, everyone. thanks for stopping by. until tomorrow. happiness to you. from me. with heart. ox joon

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