#31/100 1921 National Business Speller turned into beautiful Junk Journal (Journal #7)

This old book, The National Business Speller, published in 1921 has been turned into a junk journal with lots of fun pictures, ephemera, pockets, tags and even pages to write on yourself.  I had a blast assembling it, binding it, and lastly, tying it up with a green silk ribbon I had in my ribbon box.

STUDIOJINXIE My New ETSY Shop Opens for Business!

I'm very excited to announce that I've opened a shop on Etsy to sell my art work. 

It's a work in progress as I work through the process of adding each individual picture.   Check back periodically to see more, since it takes time to get the full inventory up onto the site.

It's also a place where someone can go to just to look at
all my art without having to click multiple times on blogs just to see more pictures.

Here's the link: www.Etsy.com/shop/StudioJinxie

When you visit the site, I'd appreciate it very much if you like it, to please click the "FAVORITE SHOP" link, right under "StudioJinxie" at the top of the page.

If you can remember StudioJinxie, you'll have no trouble finding it on Etsy.

#30/100 Jim's pocket notebook (Journal #6)

This tiny journal 2.5" x 3" is one I made for Jim.  He always carries index cards in his pocket to write down things he thinks of and doesn't want to forget.

Recently, he came home and said that he wished he had a small notebook to write some of the interesting information people tell him while he is acting as a docent at WAAAM (Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum) in Hood River, Oregon.

Since I am very much into making journals of all sorts and sizes, I decided to make a tiny one that would fit in his pocket.  I printed out a photograph of his 172 sitting in the snow the first winter he bought it.  The front half of the plane is on the front cover, the back half of the plane is on the back cover.  Both covers were made of sturdy cardboard, so he could write without having to find a surface to put the notebook on.

He was very excited when I presented it to him.  A few days later, he went to his regular Saturday morning breakfast with his pilot friends and showed it off.  I believe some of them were actually jealous of that adorable little notebook with Jim's very own plane on the cover.  Don't really know; but I guess they were.

#29/100 Clifford's Journal - Complete (Journal #5)

Remember Clifford's Journal (#18/100)?  I took the empty journal and decided to use it to record my art since I completed my Zentangle training, last April 2016.

Inside, I mixed blank art paper with some of the original pages from the story book and printed and pasted pictures of where zentangle has taken me.  Here you see some of my wearable art.  Some of the first zentangle inspired art I did: a pair of keds and a baseball cap decorated with zentangle.

The 15" x 15" mosaic tile piece I made was from a zentangle design I originally did in a smaller version on a 3.5" x 3.5" zentangle paper tile.

Inside the cover, I stamped the date, "2016," and "Art by Jinx," along with some decorative stamping.

Now I have a pretty complete record of all the art I have done up to the #100DayChallenge.

"Cats" Journal #28/100 #100DayChallenge (Journal #4)

I took a Little Golden Book and cut the covers and pages away from the binding.  Then I inserted sketch paper, cut to size (4 pieces), between each page.  Last, I punched the covers and pages and bound it all with a spiral wire.

These are shots of two interior pages.  On one side is a blank sketch/writing page and the other one of the original pages from the book.

This little journal will fun to fill up.

Cosmos #27/100 #100DayChallenge

I'm getting behind on posting.  So, today I'll be posting 4 projects, starting with:
 "Cosmos."  11' x 14".  Done in acrylic on a wood panel.  The patterns were made with stencils I made from hot glue.  Reminded me of the cosmos, hence the name.

#26/100 #100DayChallenge Curio Tin

This little tin has been repurposed as a treasure trove for some old curios.  It's decorated front, back and inside the lid with old newspaper ads from the 1930's.  In the main compartment is an old photo of a couple sitting on the stoop in front of a house, a house key, a pendant with the initials WW, and an old button and some flowers.  The top of the lid has a button for the knob that is used to open the tin.  It's just a tiny curiosity containing a story that each person will tell differently upon opening the tin and studying the contents.  It would be a great writing prompt.

25/100 #100DayChallenge Mini Love Journal (Journal #3)

This little cutie is barely 2" x  4" and has 18 blank pages for anything the artist or writer wants to put in it...poetry?  words of love?  recipes?
The front and back are covered with some of my original art (except the stamp) I thought the stamp might inspire ideas for the contents.

24/100 #100DayChallenge "It's All I Have"

I'm sorry my picture taking skills are so iffy.  And the glass reflects the light.  But here is #24/100, a mixed media work that doesn't show up very good at all - with 2 lines from an Emily Dickenson poem:
      "It's all I have to bring today -
      This, and my heart beside."
I'm loving poetry these days.

23/100 #100DayProject

"The Storm"

Acrylic on wood.  

The last stanza of Robert Frost's A Line-Storm Song - Poem is included as part of the art:

"Oh, never this whelming east wind swells
But it seems like the sea’s return
To the ancient lands where it left the shells
Before the age of the fern;
And it seems like the time when after doubt
Our love came back amain.
Oh, come forth into the storm and rout
And be my love in the rain." 

22/100 #100DayChallenge "The Raven"

"The Raven"

Ever since I did the mixed media piece entitled, "The Lady of Shallot," I've been fascinated with the concept of the art of literature.  This morning I completed a dark and mysterious piece entitled, "The Raven."  In mixed media with some new techniques used for the background and the first stanza of EAP's famous poem written over the face of the man, himself, and a couple of ravens, one perched above a chamber door.  I love the way EAP seems to be staring at the viewer through the words of his poem.

What do you think?

21/100 #100DayChallenge "Hope Springs"

Tissue paper collage with bird.