In Memory of Nancy Diamond

The Altered Book Class got together Saturday to work on Nancy's book. Nancy and her husband were killed by a drunk driver on their way home from visiting family. Her sudden loss hit the community and her friends very hard. Nancy was a beautiful, kind, loving soul that will live on in her family and friends. In the photo above Nancy is showing the artwork she did in another members book.

Nancy loved to paint cats, the theme of her book is The Cat as Art. Here are the pages I made for her book. The book will be completed and given to Nancy's grandson. If you would like to know more about this wonderful woman and her husband you can read about them at http://www.diamondmemorial.blogspot.com/ We will miss Nancy and her beautiful smile.

Travel Fashion Altered Book Pages

The theme of the book I received this month is TRAVEL FASHION. It was a challenge, the book is fragile and my pages were too heavy - they fell right out of the book. I used some book tape to secure them back in. Lesson learned - do not glue lots of pages together. The shaker window pages had card stock glued in between the pages to allow a pocket for beads and sequins. All the pages glued together made the pages pull out of the book.

Vino Girl

Another scooter shot. This one minus the 12 pounds of safety gear.

Music Shoes

These shoes started out life as plain silver shoes. I found them at a thrift store for the painted shoes class. I started painting them but didn't like the way they were turning out, sooo I put black gesso on them, tore up some music, used red glitter glue, music stickers and glued some red wooden beads on them. Oh, and of course some flowers.

They now live in Fredericksburg, Virginia at my step-daughter's house. She was afraid to wear them but expressed interest in hanging them on the wall. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?