Dear Tina & friends, I had so much fun participating in the stitched postcard challenge! Believe me, it was a challenge with the sewing for a non-sewer but always nice to stretch myself! I first created the painting with the “celebration” theme in mind. I was thinking about nature and how I always feel so… Read More
Hi Laura~ Expect some mail in a few days! Love, Tina
Hello Sweet T & Friends! You may remember from our newsletter (you can subscribe on the right side bar) that Tina & I wanted to renew our practice of sending handmade postcards to each other, similar to our squares. She has been great at sending me them as you will see from the two above.… Read More
Dear Friends, In the past we have created posts titled “Working Table”. Read more about what this is HERE (original post January 24, 2009!). Today’s working table is documenting a new project. As usual, we will be starting a piece of art and swapping it in the mail. This time we will be working on… Read More
Dear Tina & delightful friends~ My studio has been a buzz with activity. I just finished teaching an AMAZING Altered Books class and I am getting ready to pack up my fun art supplies and head to NH where I will be teaching again at the Holderness School for Artward Bound. This will be the third year I… Read More
A jazzy hello Tina & friends~ I have been inspired by LOVE this week and have been creating cards with fanciful hearts on them in lieu of my postcard for the week. I started them on Sunday by painting an abstract watercolor that I then cut up and added to. My intention was to have… Read More
Dear Friends, About once a month Laura and I will be posting a “working table” of what is happening in our studio work. I will do that in the pictures below but FIRST I want to post a few pictures of this newly created hand-crafted postcard. We have been creating these postcards for the past… Read More
Dear Friends, It certainly has been awhile since we have posted a Working Table, but know that we have been busily working in our studios creating new work, writing, and developing teaching ideas. FIRST AN ANNOUNCEMENT: Laura is coming to visit me next week! The last time we saw each other was July- too long. … Read More
Tina’s Working Table Notes: I wanted to use my circle shape hand punch today and went through my trusty drawer of paper scraps. This was a quick and random collection to see what would come together. Laura’s Working Table Notes: Before I rush off to ACGOW to gallery sit (1:30-5pm if you want to stop… Read More
Dear Friends, My postcard series is now featured in the Laura TWO Tina Etsy shop. I have been inspired by our postcard project and the personal connections being made and reignited. I have always wanted to create a project with the numerous antique photographs I have acquired from my parent’s antique business, and now… Read More
Learn more about this POSTCARD PROJECT Tina’s Working Table Notes: Thought I would take a picture of one of my scrap paper drawer. I have collected and made these papers for many years. Whenever I see a hand crafted paper that I find interesting or paper that came in packaging from the mail or from my… Read More
Dear Friends, This week I created a series of hand-crafted postcards for our Etsy shop. Click on the right side of our blog where you see ETSY to go to our shop. I will be adding more postcards (I made seven of them) throughout the week so check back now and again. Here is how… Read More
Here I am Laura- sorry for being late folks! Some weeks are just like that… Tina’s Working Table Notes: I am using many antique objects in this next series of postcards. Here I used sheet music, photos bought at a garage sale and thread. Laura’s Working Table Notes: Today I was experimenting with textures and… Read More
Tina’s Working Table Notes: I did a major clean up of the studio this week and finally cleaned out all my paper drawers. In the process I did not take a picture of this mess as I was creating this postcard. At least I have the final picture. The materials were simply what I had… Read More
*Learn more about our Mail art project HERE! Tina’s process for making a postcard for Alyssa Tina’s Working Table Notes: Looking out of my studio window I watched the oak tree move in the stormy weather. I captured that through a pencil drawing and collaged that with maps and sewing with orange thread. Tina’s postcard for… Read More
Dear Friends, I found it interesting how Tina’s working table for today reflected her working early in the morning in her studio and ended with me working late into the evening in mine. What a contrast in the way our work is photographed! What time of the day are you most creative? ~Laura *Learn more… Read More
Dear Friends, This is our third week of creating and sending off postcards in the mail. We have really been enjoying this process! Tina’s Working Table Notes: I started this postcard and then reinvented it as I went along. What you see in the process photo is very different than what I settled on. I… Read More
Hello Friends, This is our second week of shifting our Working Table from a general peek into our studio work to a more refined peek at our Postcard Project. In these Working Table posts we will be discussing our thinking and processes with materials for creating a postcard. See our original post HERE. If you… Read More
