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| MeadowLark |
Posted - Aug 27 2005 : 3:07:44 PM
Girls I have a deep dark secret I want to share...I am a paperholic. It started 10 years ago in a mild form when the scrapbooking craze hit...in the last few months it has morphed into a giant paper, collage, sticker monster in my living room. Mail art is feeding this beast. Today I went out to hobby lobby and went bezerk. They had a sale on PAPERS!!!! 10 beautiful decorated papers for 1.00. Normally they are .77 apiece. Visions of lovely mail art danced in my head. I bought 40 pieces of collage papers and some stickers I could not resist. Then I found a whole tablet of 60's-70's retro papers in a clearance bin! There are all these mail art ideas flowing...now I just have to bring them into fruition and try to afford postage since I shot my budget on paper.
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Oct 01 2006 : 12:12:47 PM
Maybe our Rhonda knows. She just sent me the cutest handmade things and they had brown primitive tags, I of course left them on because I just love them.
NANCY JO |
| brightmeadow |
Posted - Sep 30 2006 : 6:09:40 PM
Wow, I was searching for something I think I remember that someone posted and came up with this thread! (I was looking for a link to a site that sells 'artsy' labels for use in your printer for "farmgirl" style products - maybe brown paper? - and I can't find it but I did come across this old thread. If anyone knows what I'm looking for I'd appreciate a reminder.
Does anyone make paper? I went to a fiber arts seminar a few years back, put on by Mid-Atlantic Fiber Arts Association, and there were some handmade papers there to die for (or dye for!) with everything from yarns to leaves embedded in them. Just gorgeous. One lady who taught the paper classes always wore a hat for some reason, I must have seen her in 20 different hats during three days. Can't remember her name...
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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| cajungal |
Posted - Jan 25 2006 : 4:31:05 PM
Lisabee! Wow...you've got a ready supply for your fix! I bet your heart beats fast when you see the new stuff. Stay strong...only buy what you will use (yeah, right!)
Blessings
Catherine
One of the best compliments from one of my daughters: "Moma, you smell good...like dirt." |
| Horseyrider |
Posted - Jan 25 2006 : 2:40:19 PM
Thankyou, Melissa; I think so, too. |
| sqrl |
Posted - Jan 25 2006 : 12:59:02 PM
Wow Mary Ann, what a treasure you have.
Blessed Be
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| LisaBee |
Posted - Jan 25 2006 : 11:52:16 AM
How do you ladies think I feel about all of this paper and sticker stuff? I put on 32 retail scrapbook shows a year and manage to buy stuff at EVERY one of them! Who could resist...booth after booth of the prettiest papers and most creative embellishments you can imagine! And we won't even get into the RIBBONS! I just had a couple of girlfriends over for a few days to scrapbook around the clock (and they DID!) and they had a blast "shopping" in my scrapbook room. Every time I go to do a show, I promise myself that I will NOT buy anything (I don't even scrapbook...I make cards!) but I get there and some vendor will have SOMETHING I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT...so sad. The really bad thing is this...on Monday, I will be in Las Vegas for 4 days for the Craft and Hobby Association's main trade show. This is where all the scrapbook store and other craft store owners come to meet with the manufacturers and order all the newest products for their stores. It's where I get to see everything that will be in the stores in 6 months. I am in BIG trouble. I will let you know what I find....
"There is no teacup too large, nor book too long."
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| cajungal |
Posted - Jan 24 2006 : 5:14:49 PM
Debs paper pics made me go "oooooh" and "aaaaaaaah". Then to read the precious stories from Mary Ann and Patricia....just all warm and fuzzy. Those are certain treasures more valuable than any treasure chest of gold!
For Christmas, I got my girls a set of scissors....18, all different designs, and stored in their own wooden lazy susan caddy....from Sam's for $14.99!!!!! Great buy! Well, right next to the scissors were packages of paper....not too fancy, just construction type, but acid free! A whole package of almost 700 sheets for $9.00. They have been creating and there are paper scraps all over the floor. Just the way I like it....signs of life everywhere.
Blessings
Catherine
One of the best compliments from one of my daughters: "Moma, you smell good...like dirt." |
| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Jan 24 2006 : 4:35:20 PM
I just have to tell you the story of my precious papers. My parents were both first generation Americans, the children of Italian immigrants who came to this country around 1900. In those days (around 1930), if an Italian young man wanted to court an Italian young woman, he had to ask permission of her father. My grandfather said, "forget it" because my father, Joe, was a musician and therefore disreputable. My mother, Josephine, and her sister Rose, were beautiful and very stylish and were known in Hartford (Conn.) as "the Valente girls". Well, my father got a job at the department store where my mother worked selling needlework supplies. She also taught the people who bought them how to use them and was quite talented. I think that's where I get my love of needlework. Anyway, my Dad and my Mom were forbidden to see each other so they wrote letters to each other and mailed them to each other at the store. They did this for two years before they eloped in 1934, shocking the family. My Dad passed away in 1996 and my Mom, at 92, last year. When I was cleaning out her house, I found all those 50 love letters and got to know my parents all over again - people I didn't know at all, young and full of unfulfilled passion and hope. Those letters are my most prized possessions.
Happy Wishes! |
| owwlady |
Posted - Jan 24 2006 : 08:01:03 AM
Oh, Mary Ann, what a wonderful thing to have this woman's scrapbook and some of her belongings. Reading this almost made me cry, thinking of her dying so young, yet she lives on still. |
| Horseyrider |
Posted - Jan 24 2006 : 04:24:54 AM
I'm actually not a paperholic, but am the beneficiary of one. Let me tell you a sweet little story.
My husband's grandparents met right before WWI. She was a bit of a socialite, and he was thought to be a station or two beneath her. But he became a fighter pilot in one of those bi-planes during the war, and was elevated somewhat by that status. She was a typical teenage girl of her times and station. She kept a scrapbook of all sort of things. I have this scrapbook, and it's bulging with clippings from newspapers of parties she attended, has dance cards with young men's names written in with the tiny attached pencils, pictures of friends, records of sorority functions (she was a college girl), programs from plays and musicals, and her engagement and then wedding announcements. Most of this was done right around 1917-1918.
Not so much was entered after the wedding. I understand that my mother-in-law was conceived not long after, and the poor girl died soon after delivering her. Griefstricken, he sent the baby to his sister to raise until she was five. He kept a few of her mother's things for her, including this scrapbook. When my mother in law passed, it was handed to me.
I have some things from this woman dead now almost a hundred years. I have a beautiful sheared lamb muff. I have a silver sugar bowl encircled with collector's spoons with dates from 1908 to about 1918. I have her diamond engagement ring, which looks like something from Titanic and tragically has almost no wear. And I have her scrapbook, which gives me a glimpse into the excitement, the love, the ambivalence and fears, and the hopeful heart of a woman long dead, who lived so richly and well, and died all too soon.
I never knew her, but she left me something wonderful. Think of what you're passing on to others yet unborn. |
| sqrl |
Posted - Jan 23 2006 : 12:47:07 PM
Paper ooooohhhhh I'm a sucker for nice paper.
Blessed Be
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| Krisathome |
Posted - Jan 22 2006 : 8:51:05 PM
Gorgeous papers!! I can see why you couldn't resist. I am not a scrapbooker but I am a rubber stamper and card maker. My problem is I make cards to sell at a friend's gift shop so I make them in bulk. Which means I can't just buy one or 2 pieces of wonderful paper, I have to buy a lot. Which then gets a little costly, kwim? But I have a love for paper, too, believe me, I do. |
| asnedecor |
Posted - Jan 21 2006 : 6:30:53 PM
I just found this thread. I have never heard of Hobby Lobby, but we do have a Michael's. And yes I have to admit since I signed up on the mail art list I have gone nuts at Michael's, paper, stamps, stickers, etc. I also recently got a new computer for home use which has allowed me to use the web better and I am a websurfer nut. So when I want retro or old fashion clip art, postcards, ads, I just do a search, a copy and a paste and start printing. Right now I am working on Valentines for the mailart list, not sure if I can get to everyone but have quite a pile started. Figure if I couldn't do all Valentines, then the next set will be a "Welcome in Spring" group of mailart - got some great stuff from the sticker/scrap book aisle at Michaels.
Anne
"Second star to the right, straight on till morning" Peter Pan
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| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Jan 21 2006 : 3:32:07 PM
ooooooooohhhhhh......
Happy Wishes! |
| Debs |
Posted - Jan 21 2006 : 1:31:23 PM
Some more paper stuff I got today - couldn't resist, this is recycled fabric paper from India:
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| owwlady |
Posted - Nov 22 2005 : 07:58:49 AM
I sent my guy a letter today. Went a little crazy on the envelope with stickers, cats, bugs, tools, mushrooms...hope the post office can find the address. Hope he gets it when some of his hunting buddies are up there to see it. Hehehehe |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Nov 21 2005 : 3:27:53 PM
Girls I am swimming in paper! Just got more papers, stickers and stuff at my favorote shop in Kansas City over the weekend...dreams of Holiday mailart are dancin in my head...I also have aquired old vintage issues of Farm Journal from the 40's-50's! Oh my these are a Hoot! great ads, articles and pics. Really an eyeopener in to a long past way of life... I had my eye on the most beautiful album I have ever seen at this shop Saturday. The cover was hand painted flowers like a Monet...the paper was hand made and had the ragged edges...just exquisite. I was smoothing the pages with my hand and DH was looking at me kinda funny...like what is wrong with this woman. Reason got a hold of me and I put the expensive album back...but it was sweet just looking and feeling the paper. I have it bad...I need one of those chicken cubbies things to store my stuff.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Nov 21 2005 : 04:51:28 AM
We are all kindred girls!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
| gothique |
Posted - Nov 20 2005 : 8:10:16 PM
Guilty, guilty, guilty... of paper hoarding! For years I've collected tissue wrap, gift wrap, made my own marbled paper, and I now have quite a stash. One cool source I've not heard mentioned here is in the Asian markets, there is a section where they sell "joss paper" -- it's usually right next to all the incense. There are all kinds of stuff made out of paper and you're supposed to burn it (if you're a good Buddhist) for your ancestors' benefit. Little paper shirts and wristwatches and shoes and stuff. And sometimes just sheets of cool paper to cut, stamp, whatever.
I've recently been inspired by the things I see in magazines such as Somerset Studios, Cloth Paper & Scissors and others to plow through all the art supplies and ephemera I've been hoarding, and look in my old jewelry for broken earrings and trinkets and beads I can use for embellishing. It would probably take me a week to get it all together, so I'm trying to just discover it as I go along and maybe by that time a project will materialize in my mind. In the meantime, it is hard to keep from going to Michaels and Hobby Lobby and online and buying lots of rubber stamps. Somebody stop me!!
"Take care of the luxuries, and the necessities will take care of themselves."
-- Oscar Wilde |
| cajungal |
Posted - Nov 20 2005 : 5:12:04 PM
Okay, I'm right in there with the rest of ya'. I have stuff that moved with me when I got married 15 years ago and moved with us two more times. I also have a problem with not wanting to use some of it. I get emotionally attached to the nostalgic age of it and just keep it. That's awful! Although, it is quite hereditary....my Moma has boxes and boxes of magazines for the past 50 years just because she can't part with them.
Y'all know what....all our quirks just make us who we are and prove how boring everyone else is.
Blessings!
Catherine
One of the best compliments from one of my daughters: "Moma, you smell good...like dirt." |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 19 2005 : 7:34:40 PM
i often buy olde books that are in 'falling apart' condition .. just for the pictures .. have created 'card and tag art' with them .. (haven't done altered books yet .. but 'it's on the list'! i've also put them on olde suitcases (inside and out) with a theme .. they are great for covering up 'owies' on olde suitcases .. .and they can be 'darkened' with different types of stain to make them look older. |
| Debs |
Posted - Nov 19 2005 : 04:36:13 AM
Have to 'fess up and say I am also a paper/stickers/magazine cutout/fabric sample addict. I have also discovered "eco-labels" that some people use for recycling envelopes, they have lovely pictures of animals, birds, flowers etc. I have a large box of my collection of stuff that is usually emptied and spreads out over the living room floor! Whenever I make a trip outside of London to a small village, I check out the craft stores, they always have hard to find and unique papers or stationery. I have joined the mail-art list, the "downunder" chapter (and am working on my bit in the chapter journal) and have my own "Farmgirl" scrapbook - these are all excellent outlets for my addiction! |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Oct 01 2005 : 10:01:21 PM
Hey Kay, Envy here Those old mags are a hoot! My storage system is just put em in a box labeled old stuff/corny ads! The smaller ones I put in the glad sandwhich storage bags and such. I HAVE to steer clear of Hobby Lobby or it will bust the bank!( Paper items that is) The old Ideals periodicals make great sources for vintage stuff but I almost hate to cut them up, they are so pretty.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Oct 01 2005 : 7:38:37 PM
Hey Meadowlark -- just had to share that for a while my hubby was selling ads from old magazines on eBay. He quit doing it but has a tub full of magazines left over. Last week I got it out and went through it. I have 5 Life magazines from the 1940s plus other ads from that era. I sorted through all of them to use for mail art. Now just have to figure out a storage system.
You guys are so lucky to Hobby Lobby. I discovered it when I was in IL last Fall. I walked in and start hyperventilating. Of coure the first place I headed was the fabric department. Then to the purse handles. I had to ship a separate box home from my brothers! Luckily for me I don't have an attachment to paper or stickers so I never go in that aisle -- just fabric.
I'm still hot...it just comes in flashes. |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Oct 01 2005 : 3:57:47 PM
OH girls...Confession time I just bought some awesome vintage ephemera on ebay....Ads from old magazines, maps, programs, old postcards and pics, I am in paper nirvana! There is a "farmgirl' pic from a 1952 Sat Evening Post to die for I want to have scanned to use in mailart...another one is an old ad from an ancient catalog of old overalls!!!!! I am doing handsprings on that one! You should see my dining room table...a mailart/paper/sticker bomb exploded! I LOVE this, so good to know I am in like minded company... it is a "magnificent obsession"  Get set girls for a fall/winter theme extravaganza of mail art heading your way!!!!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
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