All mosaics in August

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Happy memories of a bluestocking (in the making)

I have got this photoalbum from 1919. Three women with male names make me want to bring them into my collages.


It's Jack's turn now. I found she had the perfect look of a "bluestocking", I don't know if this word is still in use. In Germany it's just the same "Blaustrumpf", an educated woman, a woman who puts learning and knowlegde first.

Based on vintage school books (always a good grounding) the book develops itself. The title came very immediately, when I looked at Jack's picture for a while.
So I was working my way up. No real intentions, only going with the flow.

The sepia ink is such a nice thing to work with.

It's a rainy day and it's nice to stay inside, listen to good music and just puzzle around with the scraps and cuttings.

The first two (double)pages are nearly done.

Miss Leah Jodd's companion

This is another Etsyfind bought to use in my collages. Well, I never learn. When I hold this in my hand, I feel this is a world of its own, something which once was the companion of a young girl or a woman and I cannot tear it to pieces.



Miss Leah Jodd must have been obsessed with the number 568, it's written all over in the book. Was it her darling's telephone number?
Nice to see, that her child later has used this book for some scribbles.


Time has turned this book into a work of art.

And it's also filled with so much usefull informations like how to write a letter, antidotes for poison, health hints, safety rules for pedestrians, Etiquette, even golden rules of sociability:
"Do you best and rejoice with him who can do better."
"Thank God for every uplifting wave..."
I love it! Miss Leah Jodd, wherever you are now, it's in good hands. ;)

Wild nights! Another Collage Mini Book

It all started with an owl, a baby and a Emily Dickinson poem.



It took many hours of music, tea and joyful relaxation to do this. And it really made me happy.

Note books and mini books

Little notebooks made from a magazine about work space interior. You just need Gesso and watercolors to do that.







And more collages...

Art is long, life is short

The secret of art is: make as much as you can. Even if it all seems to be nonsense, good for nothing, not new at all, carry on.
It's never too late for a happy childhood! ;) And: Everybody's got the right to make a fool of him/herself!











Because I don't want to use the original, I started with copies, but it's not the same.



I love that "Sepia" und "Walnut stain" ink, I am using, it makes the paper look really old.


Isn't that a great sentence? Art is long, life is short.

My friend Videbitis works in a library, he's sent me tons of old library cards and as a "thankyou" I made this little "Nonsense"-Book called "good for nothing" from these cards, it was great fun.