Birds and Bonnets Swap Rceived

The four panels from Karla and Beth's Birds and Bonnets Swap arrived and they are beautiful!It's so amazing that four different artists can make four different panels yet when they are combined, they look like a planned unit! This was a really interesting idea...start with a collection of images and see what happens in studios, workshops, and dining room tables when creative juices start flowing. The panels are so different and yet so "together"!

My panels come from:

Kathy (http://www.countrychintz.blogspot.com/)

Heidi ( http://www.liquorish.typepad.com/)

Melissa (http://www.melissaburford.typepad.com/ )

Brenda (http://www.dragonlady-1.blogspot.com/)

This is more difficult than I thought.

No wonder my blog is not updated more often, I'm inept at the mechanics and getting things in order and then finding and posting things like the other two drafts I started earlier. And for some reason, some of my pictures got turned sideways...

Now quickly, while things are cooperating: I live out of cigar boxes, they're little, light, portable and stackable. One word of caution if you're over 40, make labels on the outside otherwise you open every one looking for your butterfly stamps. They are perfect for stamping supplies. I love the variety in size and the label designs are a treat. The two boxes covered in 60's flocked Contact paper are from my mother's crafting days.

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Studio Storage Show and Tell Sunday

Welcome to my multi-tasking "Studio" which is also our guesthouse. I love organizing...it's like playing school...it;s the keeping things tidy that is my downfall.

One of my major storage headaches was what to do with the thousands of of images, words, letters, pictures, stamps and assorted scraps I want to save for future collage work. I use several mini-scrapbook albums. they are stored in an old picnic basket. I have one for "Nature", one for "Women", one for "Words to Live By"...etc.

The tabs mark the sections...some have lots of pages..."Flowers" takes a big section...then there's "Landscapes" or "Trees" or "Seashells". I like these little books because everything is pretty visible and portable, and storable.

I also have a collection of vintage metal picnic baskets that are stacked and labeled with tags to keep me from opening each one when I'm looking for something. They are worth however much or little I paid for each.

Swap pages ready to mail!

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Originally uploaded by lbjonriver

I've just finished Beth and Karla's bird and Bonnet Swap. Four pages front and back...I used wax for the first time and loved the feel and look...Thanks to Victoria (swap partner in A rtsy Mama's Vintage Party Swap...) she used wax on a cigar box project and it inspired me to give it a try...

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Swap Button
Originally uploaded by Karla's Cottage

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