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The final day! My last thing is a page from my page a day book. I’m so proud of myself for having posted and done a THING EVERY SINGLE DAY! Okay, so a couple of the days I had to post date them, but only because I didn’t have time to post that night. Each day posted is something that was truly done on that day.

And while making things every single day is part of my every day life, I would say this was quite a challenge to actually make something that is presentable. I am glad that I participated, and proud of myself for sticking to it.

-Robyn

I see this every day and don’t know why it hasn’t dawned on me to use it as a feature on TAD. This was a Christmas gift from Lil Mel a couple years ago. I’m cheating a little bit but giving props too so, it evens out.

today i was super-busy. work was long and very active, and then i went to see Hairspray, which was kind of unexpectedly a breath of fresh air. the subway took a while to get me home and now i present my montage. enjoy!

February 24th

I made this collage. It took much longer than an hour, but that’s because of the cutting and searching through magazines part. The actual gluing, not so much. I used card stock paper, regular paper, magazine cutouts, flower confetti, a scrapbook tree cutout, and random other things I’m sure, I can’t remember.

Ha, ha, ha. Since the last time I posted on thing-a-day was on the 12th, I have obviously not done very well with making something new every day. I suppose I can blame my lack of posting on school work or the many college visits and auditions that I went on, but it’s really just attributed to my lack of persistence to do this every day. However, I figure I may as well still post what I have gotten around to do - less on the craft side, but I managed to take some pictures of what I did make… memories.

OH, that was bad! Ew, haha.
Anyway, here goes - mostly photographs.

Late night cupcakes in the cold! I love the store display - Crumbs, in Westwood.

Grins with missing teeth - February days in the park!

Filled my city with bubbles! At least for a minute.

Secretly planted flowers in the middle of the night with Katie!

The beach in Santa Barbara on a cloudy day.

Organized social activities for my choir - a trip back to childhood!

On the non-photo side, I made some index-card collages to send in the mail. Fun!

Besides that, I also baked a few batches of brownies, a round of dinosaur-shaped sugar cookies, made a home-made lava lamp, started a journal, and a bunch of other things that I currently cannot remember or photograph.

In any case, I am hoping that this isn’t my last post! I will be back in these last few days, I hope. But if this is my last post, I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed looking at what everyone else made - everyone is so creative! Thanks for reading, and perhaps our paths will cross again in the future.

Tonight I worked on seven artist trading cards (ATCs). I finished only one — enough that I feel OK posting about them as my thing-a-day, but not enough to warrant a photo. So, hopefully I’ll wake up early enough in the morning to finish 3-6 more and get a scan attached to this post. They’re paper collage with added layers of pigment, hand-drawing/lettering, fabric and embellishments.

Update: Adhesives are all dry, I did a bit of embossing atop some of them and here they are (click the image for a close-up):

I’ve just finished this banner for my blog. What do you think? Is it horrible? Honest, but constructive criticism please.

Do the colors turn you off? Is it too busy? Unbalanced? Whatever, I’d love to hear.
I’m thinking about changing it up quarterly, so it wouldn’t be permanent. But I don’t want to turn away viewers because my banner turns their stomach, lol.

-robyn

Sunday, 24 Feb 2008 - I built an 11×14 inch sheet of collage paper (board, actually).  It’s nothing terribly special, but still, it looks better IRL than it does on this image.  There is a sheet of poster-board with a couple of rumpled, slightly dyed, vintage worksheets from some kind of children’s workbook.  Atop that, I used segments of the dyed watercolor paper that I made on the first and a stretch of pink ribbon.  In this case, it’s completely acceptable that the subject doesn’t look like much because it will be cut up as back grounds for ATCs or other projects — any of which will receive more treatment.

Thing 25

Originally uploaded by emberlexi

I haven’t been slacking - I’ve just been too lazy to upload anything.
Here’s a WIP. 48×48 canvas. The biggest thing I’ve ever attempted.

Catch-up post to follow.

The park that I love to go to has a resident
great blue heron. I almost always
see it in the park on days when I’m feeling
like my spirits need a lift. It’s a breathtaking
sight when I see this graceful bird glide above the
treeline. I wasn’t at the park today, but this collage
reminded me of a day last week as the sun was starting
to set, making the sky all pink like cotton candy……and
there was the bird……made me smile.

Taking a que from KatFish and making a collage from junk mail.

White on white study, in my page a day book.

-robyn

From my page a day. See the collection so far here.

happy friday everyone. here are some love tanks.

A collage that sort of came out of nowhere……
Robots, rainbows and ice cream oh my!

The past couple of days my Things have been doodles or colored pencil drawings, nothing I feel like uploading. Today I made two collages. The image on the first one is dark for some reason. It’s actually a greenish-blue background. Acrylics, marbled paper and papyrus on paper.

This one is the second in a series with similar colors. It’s acrylic on paper.

digital fun

Day 20

bunny easter who knew.

Back after dropping out for too long.