[Gemme]

Originally Posted by femmennoir

I am really really interested in altered books and I have taken several bookbinding classes; also my house is now filling with paper of all kinds....I am intrigued by this thread and have wondered if I could get an idea of some of the projects you all do......are there pix somewhere?
Inquiring minds and all (the prospect of reading 97 pages is overpowering right now....)

Elle*

Tommi gave you a good idea of where we are at this point. Some of us still do the typical penpal thing, but for the most part, we are doing craft rounds as well as beginning work on chapters for a BFP book that will be bound by our Pixie before the Reunion. Since you have experience in binding, perhaps when that time comes, you would be gracious enough to give her some ideas?

We designate a wrangler who will determine the current project, rules/size or materials parameters for that particular project as well as the deadlines for signing up and mailing out your work. They collect it (and the postage money Tommi mentioned as well, since we all try to divvy the costs up pretty equally, we send $5 with our work to the wrangler so that they can repackage the participants' individual pieces and send them back out as a collection to each person).

This is what we have going on now (below). If you would like to participate, please copy the list of those who have already signed up and post it with your name added on to the bottom. The number of pieces you would need to make are the total number of partipants, minus one (yourself) unless you would like one of your own pieces back to add to the collection..in that case, you would make as many pieces as there are participants. Make sure Pixie has your mailing information and you have hers and CREATE! Voila! We are very free with materials, design, sizes and whatnot, so don't think you have to conform in some way. We just ask that it be a reasonable size for shipping. Usually, the largest we go is paper size (8.5x11) and if we do go that large, we typically add a bit more for the reshipping of the packages.

Originally Posted by Pixie
Sooooo....This round is entitled Words. Inspired by this quote:

"Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?" -The picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

What do words mean to you? What words define you? What words do you wish never existed? Let your words run amok!

Sign up by April 4
Due to me by April 28 (Don't forget the $5)

1- Pixie
2- Tommi
3- Deviant
4- Jennifer
5- amiyesiam
6- Corkey
7- purepisces
8- softness
9- lionpaw
10- Gemme
11- Diva
12- wolfbittenpoet
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Thank you for your interest! We love having new artists join us and show us their work. If you have any questions we haven't answered, please feel free to ask. We're all very open about what we do and absolutely love art in (most of) its forms and would love for you to participate.


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