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I think I may NEED this book...

clipped from vickiehowell.com Inspired by NPR’s Story Corps (an audio project collecting people’s stories and archiving them for posterity), Craft Corps the book will be community, our community, celebrated on the written page. The book will focus on my conversations with 30 influential designers: Amy Butler (Amy Butler Designs) Traci Bautista (Collage Unleashed) Wendy Russell (She’s Crafty) Travis Nichols (Artist/Author) Carol Duvall (Carol Duvall Show) Ed Roth (Stencil 1) Jennifer Perkins (Craft Lab/NSC) Mark Montano (TLC’s While Your Were Out) Claudine Hellmuth (CollageArtist.com) Amanda Soule (SoulMama.com) To quote Oprah, “everyone has a story”, and Craft Corps will share some of ours/yours with the world!

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April is National Poetry Month - Write a poem a day!

I had some great intentions to join in with many other poets (and wannabe poets like me) to write a poem a day throughout the entire month of April 2010. So far, I have made it to day 7 - that was a couple of days ago. I guess the point is to enjoy the process and just the outcome, eh? You can take a stab at either one if you want. Just click on the blog link to the writers digest or read the guidelines below...

clipped from blog.writersdigest.com Main Objective: Write some new poems during the month of April. I provide the prompts (and my own poetic attempt); you write the poems. Dates: April 1-30: Beginning at some reasonable time on the morning of April 1, I will provide a prompt. I will repeat this around the same reasonable time (usually between 8-11 a.m. Ohio-Georgia time) throughout the month. Poets should write a poem each day of April. Following the daily prompt is optional. Posting poems on the Poetic Asides site in the Comments section is optional. Participation is free. No registration is required. I will not be able to delete poems once they are added to the Comments section.

Steampunk Artwork

I stumbled on an art form called Steampunk (see wikipedia definition below) that I realized I have had a fascination for quite a while. I just didn't know the name for the culture or subculture.

Who hasn't heard or read H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds" or one of my childhood favorite "Wild Wild West." It probably explains my addiction to various gadgets and love of romance fiction or cyperpunk stories by William Gibson.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction and speculative fiction, frequently featuring elements of fantasy, that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used — usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England — but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne Steampunk is often associated with cyberpunk and shares a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion, but developed as a separate movement (though both have considerable influence on each other). Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.

Love Defeat Evil - New Assemblage

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Originally uploaded by rehuxley

This bit of artwork was an experiment for an activity I plan to use at a children's art camp coming up after Easter. I didn't conciously intend to highlight the words Love Defeat Evil. It just worked out that way!

The frames are only 3 x 4 inches found at a thrift store. I took out the glass and covered the back board with a torn out sheet from a thesaurus. Then I glued the glass marbles on the sheet, highlighting one word each with a blue marble. I choose the word by what would fit from a design point of view.

Join the Flickr "Ephemera Group"

Ephemera: "A short-lived thing. Printed matter of passing interest."


I started a group on Flickr a couple of years ago to allow lovers of paper ephemera to post their collections. Today there are over 1300 members with over 42,000 posts!

You can view a slide show of the group below or join us at http://www.flickr.com/groups/creativegifts/

Guardian Angel

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Originally uploaded by rehuxley

I have been working on a new series of paintings called Guardian Angels. This photo above was recently entered into a local gallery exhibit called "A Wing and a Prayer." Perfect theme for my angels. Interestingly though, there was only a couple of angel theme paintings in the entire exhibit. I guess not everyone has a fondness for angelic things.

The good news is that this painting was sold on the first night. Very happy about that! Watch for more angels coming this way...