The Altered Book Show at Marin MOCA

 Marin MOCA Altered Book show is opening tomorrow.
I have my "Three Layer Cake" in  the show.

April 20, 5-7 pm
with talk by Mary Austin, 4-5 pm
Co-Founder of the San Francisco Center for the Book

Juror Talk: May 10, 6:30- 7:30 pm
With Juror Donna Seager of Seager Gray Gallery

LIVE Auction closing:  May 25, 5-7:30 pm

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art
500 Palm Drive
Novato, CA

This is my piece of that I entered in the altered book show.

This is my friend Dorothy Yuki's piece called Center of the World made
with pages from a discarded atlas.

Come by the show. There are over 150 altered books in the show this year.

Paper Cherry Blossoms

 It is Cherry Blossom season and today in San Francisco's Japantown there is a festival going on.  It will go on for two weekends  ending with a parade. For nine years our family walked in the Cherry Blossom parade with our children's elementary school representing the Clarendon Elementary Japanese Bilingual Program. I am missing the delicious udon noodles that our school sold at the festival. I might just go over there and get some. So the last week we made some pretty cherry blossom branches and cards  in my craft classes at ruthstable.org and at the San Francisco Carlisle retirement community.

I collected branches from my parents yard and I also picked up fallen branches on my dog walks. My dog was going crazy grabbing the from me!

                                                           

I carved a cherry blossom center with an eraser and we stamped the flowers.

Yasko Gamo works on her blossoms.

Lucinda poses with her finished branch.

3 more Valentines workshops coming!!!!

Workshop #1 coming this Friday!

Join me at Ruths Table where I am fortunate to be the Artist in Residence. This Friday the Feb 8th from 6:30-8:30 pm we are hosting a Craft party to make Valentines at ruthstable.org. Register online or at the door. As usual we craft green using all sorts of fabulous material saved from the landfill!!!! We are going to decorate candy bags made from ordinary envelopes, construct heart zipper pins and more...
Sue's Tasty Treats will be there! And we will have a raffle too.

The bird is made from wall paper and the red heart from a paint chip. The zipper pins are easy to make for gifts.

Workshop #2
If you live in Marin-- this one is for you!!!!    Saturday from 12-2 pm at the O'hanlon Center for the Arts
Join us at the ohanloncenter.org for a Saturday afternoon workshop at the beautiful O'hanlon Center.
Just like at Ruth's Table you will have the opportunity to make zipper pins and fabulous DIY valentines
cards. I am bringing two suitcases of goods of interesting paper, fabric, twine, wallpaper to create one of a kind Valentines. And the typewriter bar too.

Workshop #3
SCRAP fundraiser this Sunday!!!!!
A live band, food and a Valentine Workshop with the Typewriter Bar!!! Use the cool stuff from scrap-sf.org and make some Valentines....


So EVERYONE I hope you can join me at one of these great workshops this weekend. It will be so much fun!!!

This card is made from items bought at scrap-sf.org
Made from a coffee bag, velvet remnant and twill tape. I bought a GIANT roll and
it will last forever!

These are some of the Valentines we made this past Saturday at the Bethany United Methodist Church.

Repurposed materials used: wall paper, library file cards, discarded books, coffee sleeves, junk mail, maps, music sheets, fabric remnants, twine, buttons, coffee sack and more! Many of these cards were donated to a shelter for women and children in transition from domestic abuse. It was great to make and SHARE! Thank you
Gloria for inviting Dorothy Yuki and myself to host this event. It was a lot of fun and the participants were very creative and people had a great time.

"Green" Valentine Workshops the DIY way!

I have four Valentine workshops coming up this February. I love giving these workshops and hopefully there will be one or two for a lot of people to choose from. Come and make your own Valentines.
The stores have plenty of nice Valentines cards but they are so expensive and definitely not one of a kind. Check out these simple Valentines I made as samples. These are just a few of them. Can you guess what repurposed items I used?

Materials used to make these Valentines Day cards: playing card, junk mail, fabric remnant, coffee sack, reused greeting card, candy, rubber stamps, wall paper, old calendar, discarded book pages and a toilet paper roll.

Here is a schedule of Valentine Workshops.


First one!    This workshop given with Dorothy Yuki from dots rainbow.com


Bethany United Methodist Church                            Adults $10.00 and children $5.00
MAKE TAKE GIVE                                                RSVP at Marshall@bethanysf.org
Saturday February 2, 2013                                         (415) 647-8393
10:00-1 pm
1270 Sanchez at Clipper Street
San Francisco, CA



Second one!

Ruth's Table at 580 Capp Street in San Francisco                                                                    
Valentine's Craft Fest
Card making, gift bags and pink and red zipper pins                   Raffle prizes!
Friday evening:  February 8, 2013     6:30- 8:30 pm
$15.00 adults and children  $7.00 each
Register at www.ruthstable.org


Third one!

O'hanlon Center for the Arts                                  Valentine Craft Projects
616 Throckmorton Avenue                                 TIME CHANGE (due to Superbowl Sunday)
Mill Valley, CA.                                                New time: February 9, 2013  time: 12-2 pm
$30.00 adults and children $15.00
www.ohanloncenter.org


Final one!

I  heart SCRAP Party
801 Toland in San Francisco
February 10, 2013
Valentine card making party and other festivities with food and a band and more...
www.scrap-sf.org
Noon to three

Every work shop will have a special "typewriter bar" to type out your special messages to your Valentine.

I hope to see some of you at these great workshops.

O'hanlon Center for the Arts Members Show 2013

Three deer greeted me at the art center grounds

           Today I drove over the beautiful Golden Gate bridge and dropped off my
               second in a series of "book cakes" to the O'hanlon Center for the Arts
           in Mill Valley. I just joined and this is a members show. I taught my first
      workshop last month at the center and I have a Valentines event coming up soon.

This book cake is made from discarded library books, cut and folded.
 I made a cake stand from a repurposed plate and glass vessel found at
www.thrifttown.com. I bought a small plate for the "piece of cake".

OCHA Members' Show
www.ohanloncenter.org
January 8-31, 2013

Opening Reception
Tuesday, January 8, 6-8 pm
Mill Valley, CA.

more snowflakes.. for Sandy Hook

More snowflakes for the students of Sandy Hook school. We repurposed existing paper. You can see the one with the numbers which was a Pentagram 2011 calendar.

Snowflakes for Sandy Hook School

Today at www.ruthstable.org we had our weekly art class. We completed our snowflakes to send to the Sandy Hook School PTA. My friend Kim Tackett-Barbaria posted on her blog: www.tourofnoregrets.com about a crafting project to make snowflakes to decorate the school when the children return after the holiday break. Dorothy Yuki of  www.dotsrainbow.com  helped lead the class in making snowflakes last week and today. Off they go in the mail for the students. We hope it helps a little to brighten the students return to their new school.