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  • in the hills of North Carolina
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    Enough …
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    3 weeks ago
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    4 weeks ago
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    3 months ago
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    4 months ago
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    All grown up...getting there
    4 months ago
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    Finishing the Shade up
    4 months ago
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    A quote from Rumi....
    9 months ago
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    What really happens
    1 year ago
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Bleubeard and I welcome you

Art, including the journey, background techniques, new experiments, photos, failures, and successes will be shared on this site. I have removed my e-mail address until such time as I can get it to work again. Thank you for understanding. You can always leave a note on my blog and I will visit you.

Please check out my Previous Collaborations link above to see what projects I have been involved in over the past five years. Current and ongoing projects only are shown below.

Silent Sunday will showcase photos of my home, neighborhood, or community. A picture is often worth a thousand words.

Bleubeard will guide you to each Altered Book Lesson as it appears

Bleubeard will guide you to each Altered Book Lesson as it appears

Click on any lesson you might have missed or want to review

  • The AB Class Syllabus
  • Lesson 1: Finding the right book
  • Lesson 2: Supply list and prepping pages
  • Lesson 3: Prepping cover and front pages, creating a niche
  • Lesson 4: Glue and Gesso
  • Lesson 5: Design Principles (Part 1)
  • Lesson 6: Design Principles (Part 2)
  • Lesson 7: Design Elements
  • Lesson 8: Color and paint
  • Lesson 9: Backgrounds
  • Lesson 10: Magazine images and frames
  • Lesson 11: Pockets
  • Lesson 12: Folded Pages
  • Lesson 13: Windows and Doors
  • Lesson 14: Zippers
  • Lesson 15: Decorative Edges
  • Lesson 16: Fabric
  • Lesson 17: Polymer Clay
  • Lesson 18: Students choice: Transfers and Pop-up
  • Lesson 19: Bringing it all together
  • Lesson 20: Decorating your book cover
  • Epilogue: Future ABs

Two of my completed altered books

  • Money: the altered book
  • Time: the altered book

I'd rather have comments than awards, please!

I'd rather have comments than awards, please!

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I will create the art, critique things I feel are important, and put pen (and sometimes glue) to paper, or fingers to keys, while Bleubeard will mostly watch, supervise, or sleep.
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