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                                        Ephemeraology: July 2013
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                                        Taking the discarded and making it arted. Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Have you ever picked up ephemera at an estate sale, rummage sale or salvage store purely for its design and nostalgic qualities, only to discover later that this thing you bought actually serves a useful purpose? That very thing happened to me last night! I was packaging up my new stamp sets (available HERE. I bought this lovely thing about three years ago at one of my favorite stores - American Science and Surplus. And thanks for lettin...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Ephemeraology: Part of a Team
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                                        Taking the discarded and making it arted. Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Part of a Team. Oh my goodness - I've been gone too long! It's been an incredibly busy summer! I've been teaching a lot, and taking classes, and organizing exhibits, and giving tours of the new MOWA. But it's great to be back! Another of my newest projects is being on the design team for Arnold Grummer's Paper Making! Every month until January. I uploaded my first blog post yesterday to their blog (read it HERE. I'm already having a BLAST! 
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Ephemeraology: February 2013
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                                        Taking the discarded and making it arted. Monday, February 25, 2013. Getting the Word Out. Photo credit: Taima Kern/The Reporter Media. Good morning, dear readers! It's so nice to be back! I apologize for my lengthy absence but many of my art deadlines have passed and I'm able to write again. And speaking of writing, the tables have been turned on me - I have been the subject of a very lovely article in our local paper! When I learned that The Reporter. I still can't believe that I am able to write about...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Ephemeraology: I'm a-Pickin' - and I'm also a-Grinnin'!
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                                        Taking the discarded and making it arted. Tuesday, August 27, 2013. I'm a-Pickin' - and I'm also a-Grinnin'! Hee hee - sorry for the terrible "Hee Haw" reference. In the title - but it's pretty appropriate! I had the most amazing experience a couple of weeks ago - a real, live pick! And some of the items we found were almost 100 years old. Oh my goodness gracious me. You can see us picking through one of the ENORMOUS boxes in the warehouse, here:. Alright, enough talk - onto the actual ephemera we picked! 
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Ephemeraology: Useful Ephemera!
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                                        Taking the discarded and making it arted. Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Have you ever picked up ephemera at an estate sale, rummage sale or salvage store purely for its design and nostalgic qualities, only to discover later that this thing you bought actually serves a useful purpose? That very thing happened to me last night! I was packaging up my new stamp sets (available HERE. I bought this lovely thing about three years ago at one of my favorite stores - American Science and Surplus. And thanks for lettin...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Ephemeraology: April 2013
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                                        Taking the discarded and making it arted. Monday, April 29, 2013. Putting my Stamp on it! Good morning fellow Ephemeraologists! I am back after a 4-week hiatus. April was insanely busy, in a good way. In the interim I've made some changes to the blog - I've decided to focus on what I initially intended the blog to be - "taking the discarded and making it arted." So without further ado, let's go! And with that set, I made this collage:. I used handmade (by me! They all fit on a square that's only 2X2"! 
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Ephemeraology: An Art Playdate!
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                                        Taking the discarded and making it arted. Thursday, August 18, 2011. To my dear readers - I apologize for not posting yesterday, but I do have a good reason - I had company. :D. My niece Sydney joined us on Tuesday night for a sleepover, and we spent the WHOLE day yesterday making fun art projects! I've discovered a very fun equation: old Real Simple magazines a creative little girl = a super fun day! It's a vessel made with a blown-up balloon and rolled-up magazine pages. Here's the cool part - Sydney m...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Ephemeraology: June 2013
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                                        Taking the discarded and making it arted. Wednesday, June 19, 2013. A Lifetime of Travel. I have to share with you the most amazing pile of travel ephemera I've ever received! Here is but a fraction. Well, the story behind it is pretty cool, too -. My artist/professor friend Chris was having a tag sale this past weekend. She let me know about it and I said I wouldn't miss it! When I got home and opened it up, I was floored, as you can imagine! Links to this post. Wednesday, June 12, 2013. I've been away ...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Ephemeraology: May 2013
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                                        Taking the discarded and making it arted. Thursday, May 23, 2013. As Ferris Bueller so succinctly put it, "Life moves pretty fast." You can take that many ways, but one of the ways that clearly emphasizes how quickly things can change is the way we take pictures. Take the ubiquitous slide, for example. I guarantee that my nieces and nephew have NO idea what these were used for originally. And how many of these little babies are out there, forever relegated to the obsolete wastebasket? Peaches" Slide Pin ...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Ephemeraology: January 2013
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                                        Taking the discarded and making it arted. Monday, January 28, 2013. Game, Set, MATCH! I LOVE great design. If you're on Pinterest, you'll eventually run into someone who is posting images of these fantastic Czech matchbox labels from the 60s and 70s. I have quite a few and they're my favorites of all of my matchbook labels, in a collection that is getting embarrassingly large. :D. Let's take a look at some labels that will most definitely be used at some point:. SWOON* They're all so lovely, aren't they? 
                                     
                         
                            
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