Legacy 
Text on the right is an excerpt from Maya Angelou's (1991) poem "Our Grandmothers". The book is a 1956 edition of the Ladies' Home Journal Treasury. The spread I altered is in an essay "Our Children Are Going to College" by Charles Samuels.
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4x6 Expressions Summer Swap
Dog Days of Summer, What if summer never ended? and Here Comes the Sun
Gluebooks Color Challenge Day 22
Getting Your Groove Back (Neon Green) 
Gluebooks Color Challenge Day 21
White Out 
The quotation at the top reads "White makes an alluring statement that's luxurious and feels very glamourous" (Ralph Lauren).
Gluebooks Color Challenge Days 18, 19 and 20
So How Tan Do You Want to 
Be?, Couleur Passion (Magenta), 
Copper Dream
Gluebooks Color Challenge Days 15, 16 and 17
Remembering Oak Bluffs (Sepia), 
Chocolate 
Mountains, and Rusty Tears 
Gluebooks Challenge Days 12, 13 and 14
Silver Streak 
Gray Lady 
Ivory 
Gluebooks Color Challenge Day 11
Black Code: Fear Less 
Gluebooks Color Challenge Day 10
Don't Apply Yourself Unnecessarily (Violet) 
Gluebooks Color Challenge Day 9
House of Blues 
Interesting Reads
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition
Source of the Simplify APC quotation for 4/21/09.Susan Pickering Rothamel: The Encyclopedia of Greeting Card Tools & Techniques
An exhaustive resource, including interviews with career cardmakers, a list of world holidays, quotations and sentiments for priming the creative pumpJulia Cameron: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity [10th Anniversary Edition]
Summer is the time for getting back to basics such as writing morning pages and taking artist dates as popularized in this now classic creativity guide.Julie Morgenstern: When Organizing Isn't Enough: SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life
I'm only on the third chapter and I've cleared BOXES of books from the floor of my office, making space for what's next. Very informative and inspiring with great exercises and examples from her clients. Purchase price includes an online assessment.Cathy A. Malchiodi: The Soul's Palette: Drawing on Art's Transformative Powers
Graham Rawle: Woman's World: A Novel
A funky gluebook-style novel that almost didn't make it past the 50 page mark, but then there was an interesting twist that's got me reading to the end. I bought it for the style, I'm reading it because the story gets interesting after those first few pages.Eric Maisel: The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression
I avoided this book for so long UNTIL I saw Eric Maisel at Artella as part of his virtual book tour. The book accomplished its goal and I'm working on a new research project. Something I haven't done in way too long.