m.o.M - mother of Michael

All Hail the Glow Cloud

This ATC swap was tough! I did learn something about myself though:

There are so many directions a Night Vale ATC can go in. Dog Park, Angels, Spiders, Carlos. Yep I'm a Nerd Girl.

Actually it's really worse than all that because on April 1st, I have tickets to see Night Vale performed live! I am more excited than Cecil was the first time Carlos actually called him!

Enough of that. Here's the ATC. I regret having waited until the last to make it because it should have been so much more, but as you know I have been in Altered Book heaven recently and now the piper must be paid!

What He Said

I am on a tear with these altered book pages and loving it!

This is an example of crossing that great divide also known as the center of the book. I like this page and after the Mama Said page from yesterday, my brain needed a break.

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"If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?' - John Wayne

 

Mama Said

If I don't stop playing around in my craft room and go get some chores done, this Mama's not going to be saying much of anything because she'll be on a self-imposed craft room restriction and that won't make for a very happy Mama!

Playing around with a flap in my altered book.

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A Party of One

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I love corned beef and cabbage. I may even like it better than Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners rolled together.

This year the cabbage came from my garden. Four pounds! Not a country fair winner by a country mile, but considering it was fertilized with neglect, I'm pretty happy! Oh, and it was delish!

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Boiling corned beef has always been hit or miss for me and the couple times I've baked it, it's been wonderful. Ree Drummond, aka Pioneer Woman, has done it again. I bow to the awesomeness that is this woman's cooking. Follow her St. Patrick's Day recipe to a tee and you'll be humming at your dinner too!

 

My Tie

In my Year of Altered Book class we are learning how to create interactive elements on the pages. This was my first run at it and already I have a hundred other ideas running through my head.

I used the Botanical Interest 2015 catalogue almost exclusively as it kept me from falling - again - down the proverbial rabbit hole and never getting this completed. One element I really like is my zebra butterfly. I recently rediscovered my Sizzix Dye cutter and as luck would have it, I had a butterfly cutter. That cutter plus zebra duct tape on card stock = awesome butterfly. I need to buy more patterns of duct tape. Not.

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I sure wish I could remember why I bought an inch worm punch. I hope it was deeply discounted when I purchased it.

I know this page needs many more layers and it also has an identity issue. That's okay. It's me learning and developing my own style.

The Robins Just Go Round and Round

Sometimes getting these back in the mail is like Abbot and Costello's "Who's on first?" Then it occurs to me that I just keep sending them to the same person and all is right with the world once more.

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I did the portion on the right.

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I did the upper left hand corner.

Adrenaline Rush

I love the weekends of the airshow! It seems I'm usually in the garden and occasionally will catch the jets flying overhead and that sound of jets just gets my adrenaline flowing!

Today was gorgeous so it was an outside photography kind of day and we headed to the airshow!

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I feel lucky to have caught this one. I usually got so caught up in the aerial acrobatics that I forget to take pictures. That's okay though. I think we miss a lot of what's going on around us when we get too focused on photographing it.

Making Headway

This garden should have been in months ago so it's skipping the lettuces and straight on to tomatoes, cucumbers and cantaloupes!

A Weed is a Plant in the Wrong Spot

This is more of a re-make than a make, but I have a lot of plants in the wrong spot so while the weather is good I made hay while the sun shone and will hope it will rain cats and dogs later this weekend. (Idioms for Idiots because Idioms for Dummies just doesn't sound as good!)

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