Getting Down to Business

Today is the day I start the Sketchbook Project Limited Edition.

I have to have it in the mail April 30th!!!

I removed the pages from the sketchbook.

I've decided to only use dyed brown paper bags as pages.

So today I will be cutting, gluing and sewing paper pages.

( if you want to know how to dye brown paper bags see

pages 30-34 in the March/April 2012 issues of

Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine....

or email me!)

On another note, I finally made it back to the

International Union of Mail-Artist web site.

Wouldn't you know it, they have a "All Things Trashpo" group........

My People!

If you are from All Things Trashpo I have a short picture show

posted here of some of my favorite recycled art pieces I have made.

This piece is magazine pages glued to a painted brown paper bag.

I made this wall hanging out of several brown paper bags.

I painted them then used colorful foil candy wrappers to make the flowers

and leaves. This piece was made for a store window. It now hangs in my

friends office. (It's very large)

This dress was given to me. It was plain with no embellishments.

I painted it and added flowers and streamers which are all made from tissue paper.

The tissue paper is from a baby shower I attended, I hauled the trash home from the party.

( my husband wasn't to thrilled)

The dress hung in a store window..it was prom season.

These next few photos are of a Halloween store window.

The tree picture and pumpkins are made out of brown paper bags.

I also picked stick up in the woods next to my house and painted them black.

The witch is made from an old wedding dress and parts of a Halloween costume.

There are also grape vines in this window from my yard.

The window was lined with tombstone made from cardboard boxes.

I made this dress for a magazine challenge. They gave you a flower stencil..you could do anything with it. I made a dress. Turns out there was size limit on the project. I didn't get into the challenge but they published the dress in a different section of the magazine.

The dress is made from fabric, brown paper bags, tissue paper, Christmas cards and index cards.

This 4 foot x 4 foot collage is made from magazine pages and paint.

I used Art in America magazines. I'm not sure what the rules are for using other peoples

published art work in my art work.

I made it for me and it hangs in my living room.

I have no plans to enter it in an art show or sell it.