And so another AEDM begins

Before we begin this Art Every Day Month, or AEDM journey, I have some housekeeping that needs to be discussed.  As those of you who visit all the time know, I post my Second on the 2nd each month at midnight my time.  However, since some of you, as well as myself, may be joining this November challenge, I need to keep AEDM's schedule this month.  For that reason, I will be posting at 10:00 pm or 22:00 my time (CST as of Nov. 1)  (GMT 2:00 or 2:00 am the next day). T Stands For Tuesday will still be posted at 4:00 pm or 16:00 CST (GMT  20:00, or 8:00 pm).  Other than T, I will be posting every evening through November 30 sometime between 10 and 10:45 pm CST.  It's that pesky 24 hour clock and different time zones that causes all this confusion.  But I'm sure we'll all survive, since many of you who visit aren't in my time zone, anyway.

Today (actually tonight) is Day 1 of Art Every Day Month or AEDM. AEDM was started by Leah Piken Kolidas over 10 years ago as a challenge to make art every day for a full month.  This will be my fourth year participating, and it can get quite intense, because, unlike Leah, who creates a painting every day (a genuinely difficult undertaking with two young children), I try different things each November.  Some are projects I've worked on in the past, and want to revisit.  Some are totally new, where there's the possibility I may fail, even after working on them several days.  Regardless, you will get a good decent idea what I do on this blog by the end of the month of November.  So, I hope you make it a daily habit to visit, even if it's just to see what I might be showcasing that day, whether it's an altered book page, a sewing project, an organization tip, putting my herb garden to bed, or any of my challenges.

EDIT: As I was visiting AEDM participants, I realized I am unable to leave comments if you have a "G + response only" blog.  It's all in the way your comments are set up.

For the first day, I've created a quick spread in one of my altered books.

This is just a subtle reminder that most of North America will set their clocks back at 2:00 am.  I hope you can tell that the mask I used was backward, but the homemade shimmering spray mists had a tendency to spread under the mask.

I've also started a series where the substrate is a hard back book cover.

I was gifted with many old hard back books, and I've decided to experiment with the book covers.  This was actually a prototype

of Christmas gifts I plan to make. Right now it looks a bit plain, so I have to come up with something to jazz it up a bit.

The first layer is from an old telephone book, the second layer is tissue paper.  For the third layer, I used heavy black cardstock, then more of the same tissue.  The next layer was some Christmas scrapbook paper I have in my stash.  The final layer is a purchased embellishment from the Susan Winget line at K & Company.  I bought the embellishment on clearance last year, so I doubt it would still be available.

Because there were several layers, this should qualify for

Try it on Tuesday or TioT whose theme this fortnight is Lots of Layers.

Thanks for joining me for Day 1 of AEDM where I created a spread in one of my altered books and started a new series using hard back book covers as the substrate.  The prototype I created is not finished (and a bit bland), but should qualify for Try it on Tuesday.   I look forward to reconnecting with many AEDM participants who I don't have a chance to visit most of the rest of the year, as well as my daily readers, visitors, and new Try it on Tuesday friends.