Re-Art Swap

The other weekend I volunteered at one of my favorite events of the year... the Re-Art Swap at Absolutely Art, a local art gallery. You bring in bags of old art supplies that you don't use and can pick from piles of stuff that other people bring in... all for free! It's amazing. Piles and piles of fabric, papers, and STUFF. An art teacher's dream.


Someone brought in about 10 boxes of random vinyl stickers. I couldn't resist! I think I'm going to have some students cut them up and make collages.

Stamps, fabric, oil pastels, Twistables, glitter

yarn, feathers, almost full paint bottles!

This was for me! Fun vintage ephemera for collages.

 A huge pile of rub-on transfer letters.... these are my favorites!!!  

Look at this pre-punched decorative paper.. fun fun fun

Yep, I got a lot of really cool supplies.  I did, however, drop off three big bags of old supplies, so it was about an even trade!

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Happy Mail Swap over at Artists in Blogland

Hello there.

Just a quick note to tell you that I posted about a Happy Mail Swap over at Artists in Blogland.  Join us in this fun exchange.

New Journal Pages, Featuring Magazine and Postcards in the Mail

Three Issues!!  We've successfully published three issues.  I love this magazine.  Many many thanks to Marit and Marius for their vision and extreme amount of work to produce it.  I've been so blessed to be able to write articles for the magazine.  We are currently working on the fourth issue.  There is going to be an informative article about Mail Art, illustrated with reader mail art!  Thanks so much if you have submitted to this project.  I already wrote an article about a Fear project-- art that illustrates people's fears and phobias, and I have a couple more possible articles in the works.  If you love Featuring, tell your friends and spread the word. 

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I received three gorgeous postcards in the mail from the Artists in Blogland postcard swap.

Thanks to Susan, Corrine Gilman, and Jo Urbani for these colorful and creative cards.

And here are a few art journal pages I made this week.

Yes, I have had Rhianna's song stuck in my head!

One day, while I was cleaning garbage in my room at my first teaching job, I found a handwritten note that one middle school student sent to another.  One of the lines that stood out was, "In the darkest of nights, you are the brightest of stars."  I think I found a love note.  Much better than what COULD have been on that note.

Thanks for reading!  Best wishes, Marcia
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