A WEEKEND TO REMEMBER

GRAND PRIZE (for blogging AND signing up) SF HANDMADE BOOK
(similar to above)

SECOND PRIZES: SET of 3 ARTIST BLOX (similar to above) and
a gorgeous STERLING SILVER RING (siimilar to above)

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As many of you already know, I'm scheduled to teach an amazing, intensive weekend workshop at KC Willis' Studio Retreat in beautiful Longmont, Colorado on December 5th & 6th. That's just two months away! I have been working on an amazing GUIDEBOOK for the journey for everyone who signs up - you will EACH be receiving a handmade book - Yes! An entire handmade book with places to take your own notes, and my instructions, directions, musings, and more. An invaluable resource and it will look beautiful on your coffeetables, I promise! Additionally I will be supplying most of what you will need to create 1 or more ENTIRE books over the weekend. If you've ever taken a class from me, you know how fun they are, and this one will be (and cover) SO MUCH MORE!

PLEASE help me to spread the word...this is all you need to do:

On your blog and facebook pages, please tell everyone about the workshop: Ragtags Studio Central: Artist Books and the Elements of Design. It will be held in KC'S studio December 5th and 6th, 2009. Tweet it, too. In your blog post, link to her visiting artist page here: http://studioretreats.ning.com/page/visiting-artists-classes

Once you've posted, come back here and leave me a comment, with a link back to your blog. Your name could be drawn to win one of several prizes - if you have signed up for the class and blogged it, you could win one of my original handmade books. Two second prizes will be a offered - a set of three of my altered artist blox - very cool for mantelpiece or bookshelf...AND one of my sterling silver art rings. The pix you see here are samples of all three prizes...as Adam Sandler would say, "Not too shabby!"

Please pass the word along or better yet, sign up for the workshop yourself. Come back here and comment with a link to YOUR blog post and I will do the drawing on November 15th.

Thank you all so much for helping me out with this - XXO

Contest Winners announced, woo-hoo, and News!

Thank you all SO much for playing in the August +ragtags studio central+ contests everyone! Today names were drawn...there are 3 winners: Elizabeth Golden, Seth Apter (inveterate guesser) and yes, you Lisa!!! I hope you will all come back and play again in September, with a new contest TBA shortly. In the meantime, if the winners can please send me your mailing addys, I will send prizes out this weekend...

AND. In case you never got a copy of the very first issue of Pasticcio, the LULU price is now dropped back to what it was when we first offered it for sale --- and will remain so indefinitely.

Three winners today, hurray!

Finally got around to drawing some names - bet you all thought it would never happen. If only you could see my life - I am really, really trying to catch up with it - only the funny thing is, every time I think "wow, maybe I am", that's when 67 or so new obstacles appear from like, nowhere!

So here are the super lucky winners, send me your mailing addys, por favor:
Elizabeth Golden
Joanie Hoffman
Sherry Goodloe

I think I am going to pick one more name and send out a little something, but it will be a secret until the recipient receives it; I hope she will be happily surprised. Ummm if I can figure out a way to get an address. . .forgot about that small detail. . .

I have to get going - but wanted to leave you with at least some little visual, so here's our supper, well, not yet created, but waiting to be, straight from the garden.

American Schoolgirls

Mixed-media "drawing" by Erin Currier

I have her poster "Taos Fiesta Queens", which she very nicely signed for me.
According to her official bio, she "uses paint, collage , and trash to create images
that comment on the global political climate, and the effects of consumerism."