Altered Candy Boxes Materials: Mod Podge matte Folkart paint 413 pink Folkart Extreme Glitter hologram Clear heart shaped favor box Foam paintbrush Scissors Hot glue Decorative paper Wood heart Ribbon or trim Silk or paper flower Rhinestone materials Steps: 1. Trace the lid of the candy box onto decorative paper. 2.

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Make it: Valentine Altered Candy Boxes

Marc Chagall Double Portrait with a Glass of Wine” 1917, oil on canvas. The artist was 30 years old when he painted this. His paintings are usually dream scapes or childhood narratives, every day worlds full of the wonderful and miraculous.

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Creative Painting

velvet and rayon couched to felted wool Before Christmas the Cornerstone gallery contacted me to see if I would mount a small exhibition in their space around the same time as my workshop in Kingston. Even though I was already committed to an exhibition at Greenwood Quiltery in Guelph for the same time period (april-may 2010) I said yes. It means gathering together two completely different bodies of work and finishing up some pieces.

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Drawing with fabric

indigo on linen with stitch resist women artists who use circular imagery in their work Eva Hesse Pamela Fitzsimons Lenore Tawney Sue Hammond West Sue Lawty Helen Parrott Ilze Aviks Donna Sharrett Marjan Bijlenga Ase Ljones Jude Hill indigo on cotton with tied resist

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Valentine Bubble Wand Materials: Mod Podge matte Bubble wand Foam paintbrush Scissors Hot glue Decorative paper Ribbon or trim Steps: Cut a piece of paper to fit around the bubble wand. Apply Mod Podge to the back of the paper, wrap around the wand and top coat with a second layer of Mod Podge.

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Make it: Valentine Bubbles

According to Jung, the human psyche holds an ancient collective memory, where universal experience is symbolized. Archetypal symbols are so familiar we respond to them both intuitively and rationally. These universal symbols are common to many world religions

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primordial sacred symbol

CHA Winter Show Tuesday – January 26 10:00 – 6:00 Plaid Booth #2817 Hot Glue Gun Helpers Candy Filled Cupcakes Mod Podge Make and Take 3:15 Filming the Great Tool Hunt with When Creativity Knocks

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Do you want quicker updates and on the spot info or creative inspiration?….. Add me on facebook or twitter ! This will be the Plaid CHA booth. Barnes and Noble Load In.

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Loved as if Embroidered with Flowers, fabric and paper collage (2002) It has to be loved the way a laundress loves her linens, the way she moves her hands caressing the fine muslins knowing their warp and woof, like a lover coaxing, or a mother praising. It has to be loved as if it were embroidered with flowers and birds and two joined hearts upon it. It has to be stretched and stroked.

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Planet Earth

CHA – Craft Supershow Saturday – January 23nd 10:00 – 11:00 Plaid Booth #2817 Hot Glue Gun Helpers Candy Filled Cupcakes Mod Podge Make and Take Noon-1:00 Craft Theater 1960’s trends Peace Sign Make and Take Q&A 2:00 – 3:00 Plaid Booth #2817 Hot Glue Gun Helpers Candy Filled Cupcakes Mod Podge Make and Take 3:00 – 4:00 Lark Books Booth #655 Baby Snapsuit Make and Take Sneak Peek at 101 Snappy Fashions 4:00-4:30 Barnes and Noble Booth (next to Lark Books) Book Signing 5:00 – 6:00 Plaid Booth #2817 Hot Glue Gun Helpers Candy Filled Cupcakes Mod Podge Make and Take

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CHA – Craft Supershow Friday – January 22nd Noon – 3:00 Plaid Booth #2817 Hot Glue Gun Helpers Candy Filled Cupcakes Mod Podge Make and Take 4:00 – 4:45 Craft Star Station The Trend of Messaging Chalkboard Paint Altering Cork Boards Q&A 5:00 – 8:00 Plaid Booth #2817 Hot Glue Gun Helpers Candy Filled Cupcakes Mod Podge Make and Take

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At first I thought I could cut up these vintage handkerchiefs but had to change my plans as it just seemed too disrespectful. They have been donated for use in the Circle project and I am laying them out edge to edge on a cotton lawn foundation.

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the heaven

Appliqued Spring Apron Visit this link at Better Homes and Gardens for my easy Appliqued Spring Apron tutorial. For this project I used a store bought apron and embellished it with silk screened appliques

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Spring Apron for Better Homes and Gardens

with no preparation, the appearance of an unusual image reacts in our mind and heart despite all common sense. the heart of the circle the soul beauty that can’t be seen unless we look for it a plain box with a beautiful inside paper birds in all stages of flight last night’s candles

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CHA is just days away! Steve and I will be at both the CraftSuperShow and CHA. It is going to be busy and so much fun. In the Plaid booth , we are designing a huge Spring fashion 2010 display that uses Mod Podge and Mod Podge Dimensional Magic as the foundation for all the projects

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Perfect your gentle name Perfect your fragile life bees shadows fire snow silence foam steel wire pollen your firm and delicate being Pablo Neruda’s epitaph for Tina Modetti who died at age 45 binding and stitching in preparation for indigo

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Your fragile life

I grew up on a large piece of property where my father harvested hay kept cattle or horses off and on had an artificial pond a large vegetable garden a potato field open fields rimmed with hedges of chokecherry bushes and rock piles electric fences for the cattle wooden fences for the horses a Quonset hut aluminum barn a wind break of scotch pine trees that was my mother’s idea a giant elm by the highway a highway walk to public school a bus ride to high school an older brother a younger sister a paternal grandmother who did not speak English a maternal grand father who didn’t speak to children a maternal grandmother who was locally known as an artist-gardener-dressmaker-reader a father who was an entrepreneur and electrician a mother who was opinionated, intellectual and reclusive no pets no friends allowed to visit the place lots of books lots of art and sewing supplies lots of space lots of time. Pictured are my experiments with rye flour as a paste resist for indigo dye. These may not work as resists – but don’t they look beautiful just the way they are?

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rye flour paste resist

Snapsuit Make and Take Lark Books Booth Saturday 23 3:00 – 4:00 Book Signing @ Barnes and Noble just after I’ll be doing a baby snapsuit make and take in the Lark Books booth! Come join in the fun and get crafty. We have super cute iron-ons from Plaid and FolkArt paints for altering a snapsuit. Lark Books – Spring 2010 available for pre-order Barnes and Noble Amazon

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The Artful Crafter Come one, come all – free decorator candles! The only catch is that you have to make them yourself; but that’s half the fun. Here’s how to make your own zero cost candles. Stefanie Girard’s Sweater Surgery Skull and cupcake necklace using “Chaos” Wire wrapping from the cool new book: Chain and Bead Jewelry Creative Connections Mixed Media Artist Nikki Yeager shares her glue transfer technique with Cyndi’s readers! Thanks Nikki! Margot Potter The Impatient Crafter Madge shares some new advice for a new year! Cross Stitch at About.com Start a new ornament collection – join Connie and stitch a new one each month

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Lace Doily Flowers These sweet and delicate flowers are simple to make. You will only need a few supplies and some dry time. They look pretty sitting solo on a table and stunning gathered as a bouquet.

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Pearl and Doily Flowers