Sunday, November 18, 2018

A new "little" project...

It's been a good weekend.  Visited with old friends last night - my husband and I, and another couple and their teen daughter, traveled from two different directions to get there.  It was a good evening of catching up, we enjoyed listening to the teen play her clarinet (she's playing in an honor's orchestra this weekend), and our hostess's young adult daughter and her beau showed up.  We did some calculating and realized we hadn't seen her since her brother's wedding - 8 years ago!  It was one of those moments that it's so easy to let time slip by and never make happen.  So glad our hostess did - make it happen.  

And this afternoon I set to making some laminated art bookmarks and magnets.  The hardest part of this job is choosing the pictures to use - and knowing when I've cut out enough.



I have a couple of old art books that are in pretty bad shape, one had some water damaged pages.  I'd long thought of cutting them up and doing something like this with some of the small pictures in them.   It's a fun project, but like I said...  it's hard to know when to say "enough".   

With several pictures laminated and a whole bunch more to go, I decided I'd been at it long enough for today.  I'm leaving my mess out and tomorrow, hopefully, I'll be able to think more clearly about how many to do and, hopefully, I'll finish the job.

My second Spicier Life is coming along and I'd love to get it finished this week - or maybe the next. Since I showed so many in-progress photos of my other one, I'll skip that tonight.  It's the same pattern, just different colors.


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9 comments:

  1. Would love to see the laminated art when you are done.

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  2. Glad to hear you had such a nice time visiting your friends! You are totally right, we should try to make occasions to see our loved ones as often as possible!

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  3. It's so easy for the time to slip past so much when we are not watching isn't it Becki?
    I love the idea of the laminated book marks and what a great way to still make use of the art books despite their water damage.

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  4. it is so wonderful to see friends who one has known for a long time! God bless you! I love seeing your projects!

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  5. It's always fun to get together with a group of good friends.

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  6. What a great time you had and still managed to post and create. The bookmarks are going to be great....a laminator....maybe I need one of those?

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  7. Once I got over my initial horror (inbred since childhood) over cutting up a book, I realized that what you're doing is a perfect way to honor those books and the wonderful illustrations inside. Far better than simply throwing them away.

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  8. I love the idea of the bookmarks. What a lovely way to preserve the books.

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  9. I love the idea of bookmarks, too. What a great way to use up the illustrations. Will you please share photos of the finished pieces?

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