Steampunk Card - "Spiderpunk"

Red Dog Scott is hostessing a steampunk card swap.  This is the card i made...its elements are cut outs, real hardware (and my bronze eye!) and tons of digital.

I call the card "spiderpunk"

Red Dog is hosting an "Alice in Wonderland" skinny book swap now, something I'd love to participate in - but with starting a new job I don't think I'll be able to...but her swaps are always MARVELOUS!

I also found a tiny brass fork while i was cleaning my shop tables (don't ask - unbelievable crapalanche) so I pounded it on a ring form and added some crystals to a tine.

My buddy Joanne (go check out her FAB buttons and gorgeous beaded necklace!) hosted a Recipe Swap for members of the Altered Art Diva Group.  She took all of our recipes and sent them back beautifully esconced in a three ring binder that she made dividers for and decorated.  We each had to make arty copies of  a recipe on the front, and a story about it on the back.

I had a bunch of Mexican recipes of my moms that I wanted to use, but it was too expensive to print out so many color copies, so I squished them onto one sheet, on both sides.  Feel free to copy and print the recipes for yourself, if you'd like!

So now I am all caught up on all my commitments and I can concentrate on cleaning up the shop and adding new shelving that I am desperate for. Then I need to tidy up the house and get some major gardening done before I leave for Florida.  I am hoping to have enough time to finish some bronze and copper clay projects before I go.  I have been working on making several avante garde rosaries and I can take the projects with me and finish them when I am away, but all the kiln work needs to be done before i go.