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I've never been much for New Year's resolutions, but I really like the idea of choosing a word as inspiration for the year. The scrapbooking community embraced this concept years ago, and innovative scrapbook artist and photographer Ali Edwards even offers workshops she calls One Little Word to motivate her students.
I have chosen the word BALANCE as my guiding word for 2014, and as I create balance in my artwork, my intention is for it to guide me into balance in my life.
Although I spent most of January adjusting to my new life in Coral Gables, Florida (after decades in New England), leaving little time for scrapbooking and blogging, I did manage to turn out some wonderful photographs. I was inspired by a new restaurant called PinchMe, where I'll be working shortly. The idea of small bites of food that can be pinched between fingers led me to create a series of black and white photographs for the restaurant's bathroom walls. To date, I have 15 photos of people pinching. This is one of my favorites... (Resolution of photos altered to avoid lengthy downloads.)
I loved the challenge of cropping and balancing each photo in a way that best gets my point across.
At times, it was best to center the subject, as in the photo above, or in this one...
Other times, a slightly asymmetric composition worked best...
Here, I got to play with depth of field...
Animals and their owners are really fun to work with...
And since this series was designed mainly for bathrooms, a few more provacative shots were in order-
So did creating these photographs get me a little closer to balancing my life? As I balanced black and white, light and shadow, mass and space...did I get closer to reaching equilibrium within me?
Well, at least I'm on my quest. And when life just feels like it stinks...
...for now, I've learned to have gratitude for having so much beauty around me...
...and that brings me one step closer.
If you've chosen a guiding word for 2014, or set goal or intention for this year, I do hope you'll share it in the comments.
Passing it forward... ~Enikö
It's been just over a year since I lost my Jim... It's been a year of loss, confusion, grieving and struggling...combined with hard work, resolution, determination and healing. One thing I know for sure...it's time to dust myself off and move on.
With the intention of relocating to a beautiful warm place where people my age are having fun, the arrow on the spinner pointed to Miami...Coral Gables to be precise, where I found exactly that.
Here's the layout I created in anticipation of my move. (Made before my art supplies ended up in crates & boxes.)
The paper was purchased at a great privately-owned scrapbook store called "Right at Home Scrapbooking" that my wonderful scrapping buddy Evelyn & I went to on her birthday (surely I'll be making a layout of that wonderful day soon).
It was wonderful to make this layout because it gave life to my intentions. Once it was down on paper and posted on Let's Scrap's website (I used their sketch,of course), there was no backing out...only looking forward. I loved this graphic on the paper (so sorry I can't remember what company this was from -if you know, please mention it in the comments)-
I imagined myself being that happy-go-lucky girl, waving flirtatiously under the palm tree with her bright umbrella...
Evelyn can vouch for the fact that the first things packed were my art supplies. They were about half-packed when I created this layout, as represented by the upper left-hand corner. (Never be afraid to "borrow" appropriate lyrics from a favorite song. It makes the piece relateable & puts a song in the viewer's head while they enjoy your work.)
Journaling was placed on the upper right, with fun graphic-paper clouds sending my dreamy message into the universe...
Which brings me to my favorite part...the title! "Miami or Bust" had been my motto since I made my decision to move there in late August.
I love the colors of the embellishments and the layout says "fun" to me. Now, in late December, with the first stage of my move finally complete, I look back on the hardships of the last four years, and the painful challenges of the last four months of this move, and guess what? My intentions have become a reality. I live in a gorgeous warm place:
(Seriously, this is our yard!)
(Our spectacular pool built from "bricks" of coral!!!!)
(The front entrance to the main house.)
And I'm surrounded by people my age who love having fun:
(This photo taken on Miami's South Beach on Christmas Day!)
So I urge you to start the New Year by recording your intentions for 2014...whether in writing, a scrapbook layout, or on an inspiration board...those intentions may just turn into your reality!
HAPPY NEW YEAR to my fabulous blogging and scrapbooking friends and loyal readers of my Playhouse!
Many of us in the scrapbooking community pride ourselves in being an inspiration to other scrapbookers. There are so many ways in which we can inspire each other...by sharing techniques, demonstrating new ideas, or simply creating an uplifting scrapbook layout that elevates the spirit.
I love the dictionary definition of inspiration:
On the wonderful on-line scrapbooking site, Let's Scrap, inspiration is not only valued, but honored by a weekly Design Team selection called "Inspiration of the Week."
Last month, one of my scrapbook layouts was selected for this wonderful honor:
As you know, inspiration births inspiration. The truth is, that it was my son Attila's fabulous photograph of my darling Rigel catching raindrops in his mouth, that inspired me to create this piece. I fell in love with this photo the moment I saw it and knew that it was worthy of a special scrapbook layout. It just so happened that a Design Team Challenge by Andrea Greene required the use of ombre in the layout, so I started with this gorgeous paper from S.E.I.
The title was a no-brainer. Creed's "With Arms Wide Open" is one of my favorite songs ever, and Rigel's pose was perfect!
I lettered the title with rub-ons onto a border sticker and gave it a little emphasis with a strip of Washi tape.
It was my good fortune that I happened to have a sheet of patterned paper with raindrop graphics in my stash! Oh the joy!
I wanted the photo to take center stage, so I clustered all of my embellishments & journaling in the upper left-hand corner:
(Don't you just love that over-sized grommet?)
So there you are...Rigel's sweet playfulness inspired Attila to take this artful photo, which inspired me to create this scrapbook page, which in turn inspired my friends at Let's Scrap...and hopefully inspired you in some way as well.
So what inspires you these days? -Enikö
One of my favorite perks of catering is that we often get to bring home leftover flowers from the jobs. (Weddings are the best, of course!) When I get home with my treasures, I wind down by arranging the flowers in the menagerie of little bottles that line my kitchen windowsill. I've been doing this for years and love how enchanted my kitchen window looks with it's colorful glass bottles and gorgeous posies, which change with the wedding themes and the seasons. This is one of the simple moments of my life that I want to remember long after I leave this Martha's Vineyard home.
I was given a scrapbooking challenge by my friend in Singapore, an extremely talented scrapbook and mixed media artist, Michelle Looi, who is also a Design Team member at Let's Scrap. Her challenge was: Flowers/Plants/Trees Overload -in otherwords, the only embellishments that were allowed were flowers or plants in the form of stamping, background paper, patterned paper, die cuts, washi tapes, chipboard, and ready-made or do-it-yourself florals. -The perfect excuse to scrapbook photos of my magical kitchen windowsill!
I chose distressed cardstock that had a very interesting and subtle flower & leaf pattern for my background, and added a leafy green mat for my photos. I inked the edges, of course, using Colorbox
Chestnut and Green Chalk Ink.
I am quite fond of a particular sketch from Let's Scrap that reminded me of a windowsill, so I decided to use that for my design inspiration.
My photos were trimmed to size (I used a square punch for the 6 small pics) and I laid out my page. I felt that it needed a large floral image on the left, so I reached for one of my favorite Donna Downey foam stamps.
Love it! I especially love the silhouette effect...the image came out a tad darker than what I originally intended, but foam stamps hold the ink better than acrylic or even rubber stamps, so the image will always be more profound.
For the sake of balance, I stamped another Donna Downey favorite onto the right side of the page, and added some details with acrylic stamps.
I decided that it would be fun to continue with the stamping and create a look as if the background was a silhouette of the windowsill full of flowers. Of course, this would have been much easier to accomplish if I had thought of it BEFORE I glued down the green mat and my photos!!! (That's the price one pays for working organically, and not being much of a planner when it comes to art...) So I had to mask the areas that I did not want ink on, to make it appear as if the flowers were growing behind the mat.
Another interesting note... As I mentioned earlier, the acrylic stamps do not hold the ink in the same way that foam stamps do. See on the photo below, how the ink is somewhat pooled on the stamp? I found that I had to re-stamp the acrylic flowers...in other words, I had to stamp each image twice...one over the other, to match the intensity of the foam stamped image.
Of course, the beauty of acrylic-mounted stamps, as opposed to wooden mounted ones, is that you can see where you are placing your stamp, so a crisp image is still possible even when you are re-stamping over images.
Here's another example of the masking technique... To avoid getting your stamped image on a particular area of your artwork, just place a sheet of paper over the area you wish to protect. Also note the thin square of foam in the upper right-hand corner. The foam gives your stamp a little extra cushioning for better coverage, (A trick I learned from Heather Corbitt of Kraaft Shaak & Close to My Heart.)
While we're on the topic of masking, here's another interesting stamping tip: There are times when we desire to use only a portion of the stamp. Washi tape (because of its non-aggressive adhesive qualities) can serve as a wonderful mask. Notice on this photo that the leaves of the flower and a part of the stem are covered by the tape. Once the stamp is inked, remove the Washi tape mask & discard...then stamp onto your paper.
You'll notice the stamped title above. This was a wonderful way to achieve consistency on my scrapbook page. I encourage scrapbooking enthusiasts to invest in a variety of alphabet stamps...I find that often, they are the perfect answer to a design dilemma. I also encourage you to purchase more than one set of each set, so that enough letters are at your fingertips to spell out whatever you need to.
So this layout was coming along brilliantly, when I got it into my head that the stamped flowers on top of the green matting needed to have a bottom to anchor them. A vision popped into my head of little stamped bottles on the bottom of my layout, giving the illusion that the flowers were tucked inside of them, as they truly are on my windowsill. Gosh, if only I had little bottle stamps!
I remembered that I have a couple of wonderful clip art booklets by Dove that come with CDs, so the clip art can be printed out in any size you desire. Bingo! One of them was full of fabulous bottle images!
Perfect! After printing out the bottles, I felt that they were too bright white, so I decided to ink them with some Tim Holtz Distress Inks.
After rubbing three different inks onto the bottle images with a blending tool, to make them appear aged and better matched to the rest of the layout, I fussy-cut them and adhered them onto my page.
I absolutely love the way they added the perfect touch! Here's a close-up of the right side:
So after adding a little journaling and a couple of die-cut flowers that went perfectly with the papers, here's the finished scrapbook page:
(Click on image to view full-size)
I love it when a project works out and I am able to create the vision that was in my head. ...A simple moment of my every-day life, now captured forever in my scrapbook.
Capture your moments & express yourself! -Enikö
At my favorite on-line scrapbooking club, Let's Scrap, we are fortunate to have some pretty amazing sponsors that shower winners of our random drawings with some truly fabulous prizes. I've felt for a long time that it would be so cool if members would honor the weekly sponsors by using the sponsor's paper collections for their layouts that week, if possible. When I saw that October Afternoon was sponsoring this week's sketch, I reached for some of their great nostalgic papers that I had in my stash. Check this out! Aren't these papers just the cutest? The Old MacDonald Farm Paper Dolls are so fabulous! I LOVED paper dolls as a kid...still do!
These wonderful images reminded me of the 50's...1958 to be exact, when I was still quite new to America & mesmerized by it's cultural icons: Annie Oakley, Raggedy Anne, The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, ponys and little red wagons.
I pulled out some old photos of me at age 7, wearing what every cool kid in America had at the time - a cowboy hat! I scanned in these original photographs, taken by my dad, so that I could adjust the fading that was already quite significant in one of the photos, and went to work on my design.
Oh...here's the fun "page map" designed by our very creative Debby de Wilde that I used for my inspiration... What do you think? Isn't it a great design?
(How cool that I happened to have polka dot paper by October Afternoon, right here in my stash!) Debby originally designed this sketch to be used for a greeting card, but many of her designs work equally well for single page photo layouts.
So after some planning & punching & trimming & pasting, here is my semi-finished scrapbook layout that I entitled: "enikö at 7"
Oh, and here's a little close-up of the horsey detail. I wanted to preserve the paper doll look of the embellishment, so I cut it out along the dotted lines, as a child would, and folded the ends that would make the "doll" stand up. I propped it up with a series of foam adhesives & allowed the ends to just be. Cool, huh?
OK...so I said "semi-finished," because for a bit, I thought I was done. I even posted a photo of the layout in the Gallery at Let's Scrap. -But it was missing something. I decided that the "something" was a bit of splattered paint. So back upstairs I go, grabbing a discarded copy of the Martha's Vineyard Times out of the trash on the way. Out come the inks & the paints & the paintbrushes... (Mind you, this is the day I promised myself that I would get to bed at a decent hour!) Now I'm racing against the clock...it's the final day of this week's sketch challenge!!! Can I splatter & photograph & crop in Photoshop Elements, all before that pesky "Main Page Clock" strikes midnight...(in whatever mysterious time zone that darn clock is in)?
I used some blue India Ink and I deluted some red acrylic paint to have a good "splatterable" consistency. I masked off the photos & the elements I wanted to keep intact (got paint everywhere anyway!) Ha, ha, ha...the paint was still wet when I shot the final photo, but I made it back on Let's Scrap's website with 3 minutes to spare till midnight! Woot! Woot! I love the way the paint splatters mimic the random dots on the paper under the matted photos. (Michelle Looi, I'm blaming you for this last-minute splatter-fest!) Whether a fan of paint splatters or not, you must admit that it adds a touch of childish whimsy to this scrapbook page.
Does this scrapbook layout invoke any childhood memories for you? This is a great reminder to scrapbook your own story. We're often so busy scrapbooking our children and grandchildren that we forget that future generations will want to know about us, too. I may decide to add some journaling to this later, but I think the layout tells the story quite well as is.
What are your favorite childhood memories? Do you capture them in your scrapbook pages? Or perhaps in a journal...or on video... I do hope you share!
(I guess I'll have to catch up on my sleep tomorrow, LOL!)
Hugs, Enikö
I recently wrote about falling in love with the newly trendy chalkboard paper. I simply could not resist purchasing Rhonna Farrar's Chalk Studio papers & embellishments by My Mind's Eye the minute I saw the collection. Well BONUS! It just so happens that these papers are PERFECT for back-to-school themed scrapbook layouts.
Last week's layout sketch on Let's Scrap seemed perfect for the photos I had of my sweet Rigel's first day of first grade. (Where does the time go?) Inspired by the sketch, I decided to use it in combination with Design Team member Ada Nicholl's Scrapbooking Challenge #170, which required the use of multiple chipboard embellishments in a layout. Here's the sketch...isn't it fabulous?
And here's what I did with it (for a closer look, click on image):
The chalkboard papers were the perfect background to showcase Rigel's spiffy first-day-of-school outfit. Notice how his red pants inspired the red matting of the photos and pops of red in the apple & star rub-ons and the red Washi tape border strips.
Remember the power of threes? Don't you love how you eye travels from the blue roof of the school, to the blue shirt of the teacher in the group photo, to the blue star in the banner?
I thought it would be fun to share the techniques of some of the other embellishments with you. For example, I wanted to use an alphabet Washi tape near the bottom of the page to anchor the layout. Buyer beware! -Not all Washi tape is created equal. The alphabet tape I had got gummy with age and was unusable. (Bummer!) So I used a technique I learned from one of Let's Scrap's tutorials. I custom-made "Washi" tape by stamping the letters of the alphabet on paper tape. Isn't this a cool idea?
(You can see the gummed-up tape on the right, and the DIY "Washi" tape I printed myself on the bottom.)
The Design Team Challenge required the use of an abundance of chipboard embellishments. I managed to use 12 pieces altogether! Many of them were from the My Mind's Eye collection. Since I was placing black-on-black, I decided to make them pop better by inking the edges with Colorbox's White Chalk Ink.
I wanted to add some school-themed elements, such as an addition problem. I had some fabulous cut-outs from Graphic 45's ABC Primer paper collection, but the "chalk" images where yellowish and did not go well with the white chalk of the My Mind's Eye papers, so I took naked chipboard numbers and colored them in with a white marker. I cut the plus sign out of the letter "t". (You can see the Graphic 45 images top left.)
But now the numbers looked a bit too bright white, so I stamped over them with Colorbox's Charcoal Chalk Ink.
I chose stamping for my title as well as my journaling block. The White Studio G Ink was perfect for creating the "chalk-look" on the chalkboard paper.
I rubbed the inked journaling block with my fingers to smudge it a bit, so that it would look more like smudged chalk and so that the journaling would show up better.
It is always wise to try out stamping on scrap paper first.
After stamping on the title, I made parts of it pop by embellishing with my white Jelly roll pen, then subduing it a bit with the Charcoal Colorbox Chalk Ink.
Here again, the finished layout:
Thanks for visiting my Playhouse!
Have a great school year and a great fall! -Enikö
Here's a sneak-peak of today's project:
Let's face it, the scrapbooking industry is just like any other profit-driven business. In order for scrapbooking supply companies to succeed, they must keep pumping out new and desirable products and market them to consumers aggressively. Creating scrapbooking "trends" is perhaps the industry's most clever tactic. Even if at first glance we think: "Hexagons? Why the heck would I want to put those on my scrapbook page?" -before you know it, we're scouring suppliers for hexagon printed paper and snapping up hexagon punches.
I like to think of myself as an independent thinker and not easily sucked in by fleeting trends, but I admittedly have become obsessed with chevron-printed cardstock and can not seem to get enough Washi tape, even though I could probably wrap my house twice with the supply I already have! (You, too?)
So as any addict, I've been trying to reform. I've been resisting the urge to succumb to the latest scrapbooking trends, vowing to use up supplies I already have and to not buy any more paper! ...Mustaches? Why would I want those? ...Chalkboard paper? What's that all about? ...Speech bubbles? What's up with that? ...Walking away...not interested!
And then, as any truly hopeless addict, I buckled the second temptation hit! I saw an evil little video on "My Craft Channel" introducing Rhonna Farrar's Chalk Studio papers & embellishments by My Mind's Eye and before you know it, I was hitting the "Buy Now" button as if it was a desperately needed fix for a crackhead! In my defense, look how cute these papers are! -Each chalkboard paper with an equally trendy muted-pastel pattern on the back (a couple even with CHEVRONS!!!!):
-Not to mention the adorable stickers and adhesive-backed chipboard embellies and resin alphas AND super-cute tags!!!!!! Who could resist?
So I figured if I was going to create a layout incorporating the latest scrapbooking trends, I might as well go all the way! This layout doesn't hold back when it comes to being trendy...it's got it all!
Put it all together...drum role, please....
And there you have it...addicted to trends or not, I don't regret this purchase for a second! (And Rigel, thanks for this adorable photo that played right into my "plan".
I hope you share your scrapbooking addiction story with me (or any addiction story for that matter...Nichole, I'm speaking to you & your Sea Salt Caramel ice cream craze!) so I don't feel quite so alone in this!
XO -Enikö
As promised, I'm posting another group of early summer layouts. Each one was created in response to a sketch challenge posted on my favorite scrapbooking site, Let's Scrap, often combined with other scrapbooking challenges dreamed up by their creative Design Team.
The following layout was inspired by a card sketch, which often lend themselves to lovely single-page layouts. The butterfly paper was a remnant from a piece of scrap paper that I had used to try out mists and acrylic stamps for another layout. The colors in it were perfect for this gorgeous photo (taken by my dad in the spring of 1982) of my mom holding my son Tyler in the wisteria garden of my restaurant at the time, Chez Pierre.
In another layout incorporating hand-printed paper, I used stencils and paint to create this lovely image on the background.
One of my favorite challenges involved using a special song as the inspiration for a page. I chose Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up," which I had chosen for the mother & son dance at my eldest son, Attila's wedding. One of my favorite aspects of scrapbooking is the storytelling. I strive to recreate the emotions of the events I scrapbook through my artwork in order to tell the story properly. I feel that I was really successful in doing that here:
This next scrapbooking project required a rather literal adaption of the heart-themed sketch that was posted in the Design Team challenge. I always loved this photo of Jim & me that we took with an outstretched arm while on an autumn hike at a local nature preserve, and it worked well in this whimsical setting-
In an effort to preserve another important event in my life, my marriage to my first serious love Bernie, I created a layout out of my favorite wedding photo. I have since added a vellum envelope with personal journaling tucked in.
Equally important in the storytelling of my life, is documentation of the end of the marriage. I chose to keep it positive by celebrating single motherhood in a fun way:
One of the challenges required that we "scrap-lift" from a layout by someone else that we love. A truly fun, though unconventional, theme for a scrapbook layout, this page immortalizes an important moment in my youngest son's development. (Thank you Debby de Wilde and Michelle Looi for your inspiration & thanks, Tyler, for being such a good sport & allowing me to share this!)
That's all for now, friends. I hope you're enjoying these final days of summer!
Sharing my love of artistic memory keeping, Enikö
So I've spent the last two months on a glorious scrapbook for my friend Margot's milestone birthday. She complained that her life was undocumented and asked that the girlfriends hire me to remedy that, by having me collect photos from friends & create a Memory book with them. It turned out that she had far more photos than expected and the project resulted in 34 double-page layouts!!!! Whew! -So in case you were wondering... that's where my summer went. In between work and minimal sleep, I worked on that book morning, noon & night...truly a labor of love.
I will be blogging about my adventures in scrapbooking this album very soon, but am now busy getting ready for my art show on August 3rd at the Dockside Inn in Oak Bluffs, MA, so I thought it would be fun to post a few scrapbook pages that I created in the early days of summer. These layouts were created in response to challenges posted on my favorite scrapbooking site, Let's Scrap, using their sketches as inspiration. Looking at these projects, I'm realizing that I dabble in many different styles & techniques of scrapbooking, and have become a lot more adventurous with my work.
This layout answers the question, "Why do you scrapbook?" -Sometimes journaling is more important on a page than the photos.
This scrapbook page was a tribute to my mom, and the name I called her by, "Anyu".
I love this Father's Day tribute to my son, Attila...what an amazing dad he turned out to be for his adorable Rigel! Here I created my own scrapbook paper by using stencils & mists & Gesso...I have a feeling I will be blogging about that technique at some point, too.
A scrapbook layout to pay homage to my mom as a young girl and to her sense of style...
(Don't you just love the old buttons I found in Jim's mother's sewing box?)
Sometimes scrapbook layouts don't even need a photo. This page was put together with memorabilia and memories alone...great technique when you wish to capture an event that you don't have photos of.
The challenge for this project was to use only Bo Bunny scrapbook papers. Because the ones I had were school-themed, I used it as an opportunity to capture my sweet grandson's love of school & writing.
That's all for now...look for "Snippets of Summer Scrapbooking: Part 2" soon.
Hope you're having a great summer & squeezing in a little scrapbooking! Capture those precious summer memories!
Lovingly, Enikö
Here's a sneak peak of today's project:
So what are "the Whatevers"? -you ask. Well, basically, three artist friends, Nathalie Kalbach, Cat Scanlon, and Vicki Crisman made a one-year commitment to each other to post monthly antique photos of people they don't know anything about to make art with...around an imagined story about the photo. They are "the Whatevers". Each artist posted their stories and artwork on their blogs and on this Facebook Page: The Whatevers -Creative Storytelling and invited others to play along. Although I didn't participate in the challenge, I loved the idea, and when I happened upon Nathalie's final post of the Whatevers series, I had a lightbulb moment!
I remembered a bin of old photos that my Jim's mom, Evelyn Hall Beckman, had saved that was passed down to me. So many of these old images...ghosts of the past...invite the imagination to create possible scenarios of lives they might have lived. This photo of an unknown young girl really intrigued me...
I imagined that she was shy and quite reserved...living in a conservative household, ruled by a strict and controlling preacher-father. -But he couldn't control her dreams. She dreamt that someday she would grow into a glamorous woman with colorful clothes, fancy feathered hats, and a flirtatious smile.
-That would be the story that would inspire my mixed media piece! I headed straight for my Graphic 45 Ladies Diary papers. I love this image of this elegant lady and decided to fussy-cut her for my piece.
Then I gathered all the other items that I thought I may want to add...lace, pearls, flowers.
Now it's time to adhere the first layer, then some lace...
I used Decoupage this time, but Mod Podge, or any similar medium that dries clear would work just as well. I added some diary pages, then the treasured photo.
Normally, I would use a scan of the antique photo, but this time I wanted to use the original, since I had two copies, and felt that she deserved a place of honor. I also thought the 3-D effect of the original cardboard frame would add to the interest of the piece. -Don't you just love the way these old photos were framed?
To me, this girl peaking out of the oval opening of the frame looked like she was trapped in a mirror -gazing out into her dream-world, giving power to the storytelling.
I actually decided to move the photo after I adhered it down, and a thin layer of the old cardboard pealed away. I panicked for a nano-second, and then realized how much I loved the effect. -It gives the photo movement and the suggestion of age and misplacement.
Loving how this is coming together... The small embellishment under the left of the oval is from an old business card from Jim's mom's memorabilia. Now for some fun...
Lace and pearls...what little girls' dreams are made of...
I added some inking to give it age & dimension...and here's "Young Girl's Dream" completed and framed:
Isn't that fun? So let's not stop there...
There was a really amazing photo in Evelyn's bin taken at the Oak Bluffs Gingerbread Cottages in 1907!!!! I scanned this one in for another mixed media piece.
This time my story was quite simple...a family reunion on Memorial Day weekend on Martha's Vineyard. The men are off on a manly adventure...leaving the women behind to prepare the family feast and catch up on all the gossip...when the photographer happened by.
For this piece, I just wanted to transport the viewer back to that era, so I reached for my stash of aged papers, Tim Holtz goodies, and Evelyn Beckman's box of treasures.
Here's the finished piece, titled after the photo, "Season 1907":
Isn't this just so much fun? I love the fact that I happened to have a fabulous sheet of scrapbooking paper that actually had the date "Friday, May 31, 1907" printed on it!!!!!
What are the chances, and how cool is that? ...Divine intervention at its best! Some other fun details...
I tucked-in this little card that had been given to Evelyn. It reads: "My Dear Friend, Pure as this Italian Marble, May your life ever be, And when you look at this card, Think of me." -Signed D.B.W. Isn't that just the sweetest rhyme?
I aged these wonderful letter cards by Tim Holtz to represent "Martha's Vineyard".
I also love the images of the antique children's "ABC" cards. -And the bird cages are such a fun contrast to the birds sitting on the wire on the background paper. I imagine women in my story often felt like caged birds in their heavy garbs and restricted activities.
This piece was created more like a scrapbook page, with the items simply glued on in layers. Protection was offered by placing it in a glass frame. Here I am with "Season 1907" at the Opening Reception of the 2013 Collage Show at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs, MA:
I hope you enjoyed my post. My thanks to Nathalie, Cat & Vicki for their inspiration, and many thanks to Evelyn Beckman and my Jim, for holding on to these treasures so that I may have so much fun making art with them, and sharing them with others!
Passing it forward, Enikö


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A new community group consisting of residents from Forest Hills and nearby neighborhoods began the weekend with shovels in their hands and an environmental state of mind.
From 9 a.m. to noon, 31 volunteers landscaped tree pits along Continental Avenue, transforming it from a sight of stark and unfertile pits specked with weeds and litter to a colorful oasis of spring flowers and unique plants in fresh topsoil and mulch.
The founder of the Forest Hills Green Team is Steve Melnick, a 23-year Forest Hills resident and an HSBC Bank Analyst. For the past 10 years he has dedicated his time to Forest Hills and Rego Park, with roles as the founder of the Queens Boulevard Restoration Group and treasurer of the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce.
Over the last few years, Melnick would coordinate a planting event celebrating Earth Day, as well as volunteer at the Four Borough Neighborhood Preservation Alliance's tree giveaways at MacDonald Park and participate in anti-graffiti initiatives.
"I'd volunteer throughout high school, and always wanted to better our environment, surroundings, and our quality of life," he said.
From Queens Boulevard to Austin Street and steps away from Station Square, various seasonal annuals and perennials found their home alongside mature Honey Locust trees and a couple young Oaks.
"We were aiming for something that's vivid, eye-catching, and easy to maintain," said Melnick. "I felt it would be great to do an initiative locally while participating in a worldwide initiative."
Money for the new plantings were allocated by Green Mountain Energy and the Parks Department. And Green Mountain Energy helped the Green Team in the distribution of flyers featuring the environmental, social, and economic benefits of planting trees.
"People feel serene when they are near trees," Melnick said.
Recently, Melnick took volunteers on a walk-through meeting along Continental Avenue. Some observations were missing tree guards or significantly damaged tree guards meriting repairs or replacement, as a result of their potential risks to passersby.
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The Forest Hills Green Team is trying to increase its volunteer base, raise funds for t-shirts, and have local merchants contribute funding.
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Volunteers for last weekend's event included members of the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce, six members of the Boy Scouts of America Troop 96, and local residents.
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Melnick took pride in the three hours worth of work, and referred to the tree pits as "green works of art."
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By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for April delivery was up 9 cents to $93.83 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 29 cents to end at $93.74 a barrel in New York on Monday.
Traders are worried about a plan to seize up to 10 percent of money in savings accounts in Cyprus to help pay for a €15.8 billion ($20.4 billion) financial bailout. The country's eurozone partners and the International Monetary Fund would contribute €10 billion of the total. The government shut down banks until later this week while lawmakers wrangled over how to keep the island nation from bankruptcy. A vote is expected Tuesday.
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Analysts at Frankfurt's Commerzbank, while noting that "the upside potential is likely to remain limited" until the uncertainty over Cyprus subsides, also pointed out that the lack of alternative investment opportunities could support crude prices.
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1. Who were you working with for your research assistantship (RA)?
Dr. Ryan Martin
2. How did you find out about the RA and go about getting it?
I first heard about the research assistant opportunities during classes. I talked to different professors about the opportunities that were available. I periodically checked the Human Development Want Ads until an RA opportunity became available that was of particular interest to me. Then, I simply emailed the professor involved with the project, filled out an application, had an interview, and was offered the RA.
3. What kinds of things did you get to do for your RA?
I was able to be involved in just about every step of the research process. There were weekly meetings held during which Dr. Martin, the other RAs, and I would discuss the different studies we were working on during the semester. We continually worked on the methodology for each of the studies, and each of the RAs was given opportunities to provide suggestions for how to improve, or "fine tune," them.
In addition, I had the opportunity to run data collections. This was my favorite part. This involved actually carrying out the different studies we had planned. I thought it was especially enjoyable because it was great to see people completing the measures we spent so much time preparing. Afterward, I would code the data in SPSS. This process was especially helpful, as it allowed me additional practice with SPSS.
Beyond that, I completed a literature review on the subject of my choice. While the prospect of having to write a paper isn't always exciting to students, I believe it was a great learning experience. It gave me the opportunity to spend time familiarizing myself with scientific literature, as well as hone my writing skills.
4. How do you think the RA related to what you have learned in your classes?
Generally speaking, it gave me a better understanding of the research process. Since so much of what is taught at UWGB is research driven, it is apparent that this increased understanding will be of use when considering how scientific knowledge is gained. In addition, it helped improve my ability to critically analyze scientific literature – a skill that will come in handy when completing research related class assignments.
I also feel that my experience in the RA program will be of use when completing my Honors Project/Independent Study. The RA provided an excellent example of the type of work that will be involved in developing my project. In essence, the RA was a "warm up" to the research process that I will be carrying out. I would highly recommend that anyone considering doing an Honors Project or Independent Study participate in the RA program first, as it will help them become more familiar with research as a whole.
5. How important has this RA been to your educational experience at UWGB, and why?
Quite important. The experience has proved to be an asset not only when completing the coursework, but also in other projects, such as my Independent Study, as well as the internship that I am currently involved in. I strongly believe that I am a much more competent student than I was before doing the research assistantship, and this has helped enrich my educational experience here at UWGB. I also believe that the improved experience while doing my undergraduate work will also help me become a stronger graduate student. Thus, I believe the experience will pay off both immediately and in my future endeavors as well.
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For instance just recently we had members answering queries, meeting with visitor researchers in the library and over the telephone, sending suggestions and ideas for our organization and for resources for our members. Mark Reid, Barbara Nichols, and Vice-president Dorothy Harbin have recently been helping with researchers. Dorothy and Mary Ann Niswanger recently spent time working on organizing books and recording usage of books in our library. Shirley Bates is working on getting some publications out and ready for sale. The currently operating Nominations Committee (Barbara Coleman, Secretary Kathy Lutonsky, and Mary Ann Niswanger) and budget committees (Treasurer Wayne McCluney, Deason Hunt, and Ethel Kelley) are working behind the scenes to be ready for the May meeting. President Shirley Patrick looks for ideas for online resource links and examples of what other societies are doing and forwards them to the newsletter. And, recently webpage participants such as Bill Lukenbill, Doug McCreight, and Paula Randolph have joined in helping answer others' queries. I know that I am leaving people out because we have just had a lot of work by groups like the Constitution Revision Committee (Ronnie Vance, Shirley Bates, and Wayne McCluney) and other service such as the help Sally Allcorn gave to Forever Young recently. We appreciate also people who move chairs and tables at meetings, who show up for our programs and business discussions and, not least, join us for eating at Peralta's and helping other with research before regular meetings. Everybody who participates helps us be more successful.
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Pontiac's strength came through as the Indians rallied to pin host eureka and Olympia in a Corn Belt Conference double-dual Tuesday night.
Prairie Central was the fourth member of the group and came away with a split decision.
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Head coach Corey Christenson was happy with his losses as the Indians defeated Eureka 40-30 in the first match. He pointed out that three particular bouts were lost but not by fall, which gave the Tribe a shot down the stretch.
Darin Trout (120 pounds), Stephen Rients (152) and Kyle Tucker (160) were not pinned, saving Pontiac six points, Christenson said.
What helped was getting pins when needed at the end. Trailing 30-28, PTHS took the lead when Eric DeMattia got a pin at 1:49 of the 132-pound bout. Stephen Richardson followed with a stick in 1:14 at 138 to complete a comeback.
Vaughn Hobart opened the match at 145 with a 13-2 major decision. Alex Friedman needed just 51 seconds to get a pin at 170 and Andrew Mays got a pin in 1:13 at heavyweight.
Tyler Trainor scored a 15-14 win at 113 and Matt Richardson began the Tribe's late rally with a 4-2 decision at 126 pounds.
Olympia had built a 10-point lead before the Indians won the final four bouts to post a 43-34 decision against the Spartans in the second match.
Down 34-24, the Indians fought back with a pair of pins, a major decision and a minor decision.
Matt Richardson got one of the pins in 3:55 at 126 pounds. DeMattia followed with a 19-6 major and Stephen Richardson won by fall in 1:45 at 138. Hobart finished off the match with a 10-4 decision at 152.
Stephen Rients began the match with a pin in 4:55 at 152 pounds. Friedman won by fall in 3:17 at 170. T.J. Maierhofer scored a pin in 2:50 at 220 and Mays won his second bout by fall in 1:20 at heavyweight.
"The team had a sense of urgency to win tonight," Christenson said.
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The Hawks had trouble with Olympia, losing 45-27 in the first match. Prairie Central got off to a good start as Evan Bahler claimed a 12-5 decision at 145 pounds and Sam Schuler won by fall in 5:36 at 152.
Olympia won the next three bouts for a 15-9 lead but Alex Rhoda got a pin in 1:20 at 195 pounds to even the score. The Spartans won the next four bouts to take control.
Jeff Leach recorded a pin in 2:46 at 120 for the Hawks and Ben Traub got a stick in 1:57 at 138.
The Hawks built a big lead against Eureka, lost it, and then battled back for a 37-32 victory.
Schuler led off with a 10-3 decision at 152. John Kupferschmid needed 37 seconds to record a pin at 182, Grant Ricketts had a pin in 3:56 at 220 and two forfeits helped PC to a 27-2 lead.
The Hornets fought back four forfeits and a tech fall to take a 32-27 lead.
Paul Garcia kicked off a three-bout win streak for PC with a 2-0 decision at 132. Traub took a 10-0 major decision at 138 and Bahler ended the match with a 9-3 decision at 145 pounds.


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Bruce Willis' wife Emma Heming has seemingly confirmed reports she is pregnant with the couple's second child by posting a photograph online showing her huge baby bump.
Rumors the couple is due to become parents again swirled last month amid multiple reports Heming is expecting a brother or sister for their 21-month-old daughter Mabel.
The "Die Hard" star and his model wife declined to comment on the reports, but now Heming has apparently confirmed the baby news by posting a snap on Instagram.com showing herself posing on a beach with a huge belly beneath her striped dress.
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See this film and you'll waste not only your money but 94 minutes of your life.
Once upon a time, two little pigs lived in New York City. Graphic designer Jason (Zac Efron: Parkland) creates outlandishly sexist covers for women's books. Jason cultivates a roster of women and gels his hair straight up. Whenever a woman asks more from him than a few disappointing minutes, he cries Wee, Wee, Wee all the way home.
His graphic partner is college buddy Daniel (Miles Teller: 21 & Over), who also enjoys chauvinist jokes and casual sex. Instead of hair gel, Daniel uses sarcasm to make him more attractive to women at bars.
The two porcine pals are shocked when their buddy, doctor Mikey (Michael B. Jordan: Fruitvale Station) is dumped by a cheating wife. They drag their devastated friend to a bar.
Unaware that he has the most disgusting friends in the world, Mikey pours his heart out to Daniel and Jason. The brain trust makes a bet: All will remain single. This of course means that all three men will meet irresistible girls in a matter of hours.
Jason hooks up with a successful author who is creative and vivacious. We know that because she mixes thrift store coats with pricey designer dresses and doesn't own a hairbrush. They roam the city together, reveling in how vapid and attractive they are. Daniel falls for his gal pal, who has apparently spent a large chunk of her 20s following him to bars and helping him trick women into sleeping with him. Mikey meets a girl with glasses, which is all we learn about her.
Can these men make the leap to commitment? Can you stomach this movie without becoming violently ill?
It's rare to find a romantic comedy starring three people so vile that you hope they never find love, not out of any vindictive impulse but out of an altruistic desire to protect humanity's gene pool from further contamination. Judd Apatow has proven that gross-out humor can be smart and hilarious. Here writer/director Tom Gormican made sure That Awkward Moment lived up to its name with his incompetent direction and insulting view of male friendship. You cringe for everyone listed in the credits.
See this film and you'll waste not only your money but 94 minutes of your life. Both Teller and Jordan have offered fantastic performances in the past year and have careers to watch. Jordan is barely in the movie, but his natural charisma makes a nothing part slightly more interesting. Teller does his best with Gormican's ham-fisted dialog, but even he can't land these dud punch lines.
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Okay. I've been working too long on this, so let me share my thoughts now (even though they are still a bit muddled). I'm trying to get my slowly growing knowledge of theme development organized. The key theme issues that we need to settle seem to be these:
Top Banner. This is clearly the top priority in designing our layout. You can see what I'm talking about here. Clearly, we want something at least as distinctive as the banners we had at the old AA. I like the idea of having buttons on or below the banner, as in this example. If we wanted to be clever, we might have a console (like the one at the old site) whose buttons would actually be alternate navigation buttons for the site.
We've been talking here about how to streamline the comment features. Part of this problem seems to stem from the nature of blogs vs. forums. We're accustomed to talking with each other in a forum environment, and this is a bit different. Forums are typically arranged in "threads," with a leading topic and a chain of responses. Blogs are a different creature. Instead of "threads," I find it more useful to think of "comments." What's the difference? Well, imagine hearing a speaker, then hearing people go up and making comments to him about his presentation. These comments may not be related to each other; they may be connected only in that they concern the same speech.
One thing that has been playing on my mind as I've been going to other Websites is that we must take great pains to make the look of the new Armchair Arcade as distinctive as possible. Blog/news sites are a dime a dozen and we must truly differentiate ourselves from them. Again, while the current Armchair Arcade is broken from a functionality standpoint, in its favor, to the outside world everything looks just about right as rain and it has a unique look that's not quite like anything else out there. We need something distinctive, bold and yes, still intuitive on Neo. I hope we all keep that in mind as we generate graphics and think about layout and content.
BTW, I put some feeds into the news aggreggator just to try it out. I'll make some categories so we can better organize them.
I spoke recently to Charlie Lowe, doc director for the Drupal Project, about customizing the look and layout of this site. There is a bit of confusion here because of upcoming Drupal developments. Apparently, 4.6 uses something called xtemplate engine, but the new version (4.7) will use PHPTemplate. Apparently, PHPTemplate is much more powerful and will let us do some pretty wild things, such as easily grab stuff out of the databases for use with the theme. I looked at some of these new templates, and they are definitely more visually impressive than the one we have now.
One cool thing I thought about would be creating a module that would show us all the high scores from those flash games. We could also use this tool for displaying the matrix.
Just was thinking about the current layout of the site and was thinking on how we could make it a bit easier to use. If we took the Recent Comments column and shifted it to the far right side, it would free up space for the Syndicate and Menu options to be on top of the left column.
The minimalism thus far of this new layout is quite nice, but coming to the main page and seeing a large list of the most recent comments is not the most inviting thing. A splash page might be nice-- I'm not talking about anything silly like having the AA mascot rap about the good old C64 days, but it would seem a bit more welcoming.
If it hasn't been made clear before, I'd like to reiterate and open for discussion my thinking around the current (old) Armchair Arcade Website. I don't think it makes sense to convert any of the old stuff over to the new, save for some of the advertising/partnership stuff. Otherwise, we should leave the old stuff there with a link-back, somewhat similar to what is on Neo now up top. There are simply waaay too many links from countless external sources to specific pages on the old site that we'd immediately lose if it were shut down. When the new site is activated, the old site will be "frozen" from anything new on it, but will still have a persistent banner on top that will point to this new site. Maybe after x number of years we can do a full cut-over, but I'd HATE for us to waste any energy on converting old stuff over that is perfectly fine and stable as-is. We really need to work on kicking ass on the now, new and here.
What will we use on the new Website for private AA admin discussions? Will the forums be appropriate for that, assuming we can hide them from everyone who is not part of AA? We also need a good place to store a master directory of user names and passwords for our various online stores and affiliations, since we have an open (financials) book policy here, which will not change.
Greetings, everyone. I'd like to start a discussion here about the direction we'd like to take AA Neo and hopefully form a coherent and exciting long-term vision for Armchair Arcade. Significantly, Drupal allows us some exciting possibilities for building a new and stronger community, but also a better means of creating, sorting, and distributing the high quality articles and news postings of the old site. Let me discuss some of the changes I'm personally most exicted about proposing.
First, Bill and I have been discussing the possibility of evolving from an issue-based format (like a print magazine) to an article-based format (like most web publications). Fortunately, this doesn't have to be an either/or decision. I submit that we take the best of both worlds. We write and publish articles on a "just-in-time" strategy that attempts to (a) strike critical issues when the timing is ripe, and (b) offers enough time for the editors to tweak and revise articles. This will allow us to keep up a steady stream of new features without suffering the dreaded "bottleneck" problems of issue-length publication. However, we don't have to give up on issues--far from it. Indeed, this method will allow us to create a backlog of features that can, at regular intervals, be compiled (and revised in light of reader feedback if necessary) into a downloadable PDF magazine. The "value add" of that magazine will be (a) cover art, (b) graphical layouts, and (c) print design. In short, the content on the site will be more focused on timeliness than design; we'll make up for that in the PDF magazines. My dream is that these PDF magazines will approach the design sophistication of online mags like The Escapist.


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Palmetto Cocktail.
2 Dashes Orange Bitters. (Angostura Orange Bitters)
1/2 Italian Vermouth. (1 oz Martini & Rossi Sweet)
1/2 St. Croix Rum. (1 oz Cruzan Single Barrel)
Shake (I stirred) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Can't believe I actually have an excuse to use Cruzan Single Barrel in a cocktail! We've had a few Rum and Italian Vermouth drinks before, but usually they call for Bacardi, which I take to mean a white Cuban style rum. And usually, with those white rums they aren't very amazing, tasting more of Vermouth than Rum.
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