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.

Birthday Greetings!

Today is my friend Dorothy's Birthday. Last night I was having difficulty thinking of how to make a card for her. You see she can do just about anything! I was trying not to be intimidated with that thought so I got out some old books, a pair of scissors, a glue stick and card stock and started creating.

I searched for old books that had different color pages. It is hard to find books that have
pages that have turned brown. They are so acidic that the pages are often too brittle and tear.

Here is the final birthday card. A three tiered birthday cake and present for DOT.

Happy Birthday Dorothy www.dotsrainbow.blogspot.com to a dear friend!! You are so incredibly talented. I learn so much from you!
 Thank you for being such a great friend. We met three years ago at our beloved www.scrap-sf.org
sitting by each other at a Print Gocco workshop and we have been creating and working together ever since that day.
It has been a whirlwind of activities. We must have taught nearly 100 workshops by now nearly all with the intent to repurpose materials our passion.

O'hanlon Center for the Arts

Join me this Sunday November 11, 2012 for a Repurposed Book workshop at the O'hanlon Center for the Arts
10:00 am to 1:00 pm.
www.ohanloncenter.org

Give a discarded book a new life!!
Stretch the limits of a creativity and repurpose a book for all sort of great projects.

Make cut and paste cards, a photo holder or paper sculptures in this workshop.

Bulletin Board

Last week a group of us tackled the Ruth's Table ruthstable.orgruthstable.org bulletin board. Dorothy, Liz, Margie and Sue and Tomoko combined our efforts and came up with this idea....

The bulletin board is a tree branch repurposing a old dictionary. The book
pages were scrunched and twisted and the leaves are photographs of activities,
projects and people at our workshops at Ruth's Table.

We used the Sizzix sizzix.com bird and butterfly and cut birds and butterflies from wall paper.

We also added buttons and a few sprigs of green to our tree branches.

Repurposed Book Workshop

Join us this Saturday the 9th of June at Ruth's Table for a 

Repurposed Book workshop from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm.

We will take books that were being discarded and transform 

them into greeting cards, envelopes, sculptures and more.

Give an old book a new  life!

Here are a few examples of taking a discarded book and transforming it into a new
life---- envelopes, greeting cards, bags and package toppers.