StudioMojo #588 • Nov 26, 2022
I am thankful for feeling under the weather. Thanksgiving knocked the stuffing out of me with a post-travel malaise. It wasn't covid but probably one of the other bugs on the prowl. I couldn't work up the energy to get online so my usual stash was a little thin. Plan B was to look into the other places I squirrel things away. "Oh, this is good," I squealed and coughed when I dug into the "Book" file. Today, my dears, you may peek into the vault. When my original "scraps" book manuscript was returned from the editor during the early pandemic, I didn't have another ounce of energy to do re-writes. But I kept collecting ideas. Maybe the whole project isn't a book but something else. Take a look at some of the things that tickled my fancy. It's the week for leftovers and do-overs, right? Could happen.
Resurrecting the book
Does it want to be a book or is it looking for some other format?
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Put a spin on it
What a clever solution from Kathy Koontz
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Kathy Koontz
Extrude strings and slice off the surface to reveal the goodness
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Extruded scrap strings
Wound around a base bead, trimmed and gouged by Vera Kleist Thom
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Silvana Bates
Tall skinny triangles. Remember paper beads?
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Tutorial of Christine Damm's secrets
The mixed media approach to scrap
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Pickled Ginger Jewellery
Her pile of bits is lovely on its own. Isn't that the way with scraps?
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Strategic Stroppel
Berjique sandwiches scrap bits, Stroppel style
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Cindy Lietz rewarms an old bead
Warm polymer cuts like butter and gives an old bead new life as Heishi beads
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Reimagined scrap for earth day
From Small Talk
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Chris Baird's romance with scrap
She loves it all
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Kronsted Design
They keep a supply of ceramic birds and other shapes around to use up all those bits
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Don't forget buttons
An inveterate thrifter, Carol Blackburn livens up a $7 find with scrap buttons
Holiday hoopla
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Sarah Waldron - Guardino Gallery
Portland mixed media artist. She also created the "Dwelling for Wings" at the start of today's Mojo via Laurel Swetnam
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Collaged mixed media
Lori Axelrod's mixed media artwork and jewelry will be featured in boldlife.com magazine
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Gnomes
Karen Schilling Pasieka works out variations on her 2022 collection of ornaments
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Garden Holiday Event
Linda Brooks, Long Beach, December 3
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For a cause
Lyne Tilt's earrings raise funds for pancreatic cancer
Til you drop
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Weekend deals
Type in “BLACKFRIDAY2022” at checkout. (clayartdepotusa)
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HUES and CUES
A holiday gift for artist friends? via Maurine Kramerich
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