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Shoreline, CT, United States
I would love for you to join me (a retired senior)in my zany crafting adventures with quilting (waaaaay too much fabric); scrapbooking (will I ever catch up?); redwork; counted cross stitch; crossword puzzles; reading; and cooking.

Saturday, March 25, 2023

NEW GLUE BOOK FUN

"EN MASSE" :

Dictionary Definition for En Masse....
"Adv: In one group or body; all together"

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Above is my Title Page on the right and
some of my categories on the left.
[Thanks Shannon Green (YT-er)
for these suggestions....]
💋
Here is the first double spread
all squares and rectangles:
"ROSES"
and
the 2nd :
↧↧↧↧
"FACES"
Using squares and rectangles once again.

Followed by
a double spread in progress
↓↓↓
"Fashion"

You can see from the Fashion pix that 
I have cut out each single "fashionista" or
group and fit them
together puzzle-like to cover
all the cream colored background..

These are more difficult as I have "fussy cut"
a lot of the girls--so fitting them together
is a bit challenging.

Working on these pages reminds me of 
this Yo-Yo fabric Coverlet--
Which I would dearly love to make
for a Summer bed spread...
AND

my Ojos works:

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I am so enjoying working in these
glue books, searching for images
and fussy cutting...
It is really very  relaxing
 with my
Pandora radio on in the
background shuffling a 
variety of musical styles...

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I am working out of a lot of back issues
of mags that I have been 
hoarding 
over the years and
not really knowing 
W H Y ???

[answer to Tom's question:
"Why do you need all these
old magazines?"]
HAHAHAHAHA
It is great to be using them up👌💋😊
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I hope you are enjoying this Saturday...
It is raining pretty hard here with
lowering grayed clouds...
but it is
"sunny" in my craft space;)))

Hugs, Julierose,
La Blageuse
(humming-along-while-cutting-&-pasting-euse)











 

14 comments:

  1. I've just started reading a new author's series:
    NC LEWIS: "Spoken Bones"
    I'll let you know what I think...:)))

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  2. You sound like you are totally contented.
    What a nice feeling.

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  3. You have been having fun with all your old magazines! I've always loved Yo-Yo pretties. One with hundreds of little yo-yos covering a bed would be lovely.

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  4. Looks like such fun and a great way to use up those magazines we all seem to save. I've gotten better at that though and have pretty much trained myself to take all mine down to our communal laundry room to let someone else enjoy.

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  5. The ojos blocks are beautiful, Julierose. Great you are having fun with those old magazines.

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  6. I agree that it is a GOOD feeling to find a use for so many of the odd bits and pieces (and magazine pages) I've saved. The glue books are SUCH fun to work in - no right and no wrong - just the joy of making.

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  7. For some reason your pages remind me of Victorian scrap books in which people glued whatever was of interest to them.
    The "Fashion" page is really interesting. It looks like the people are walking toward the viewer.
    I'm go glad you're having fun as you're recovering. Enjoy!

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  8. That sounds like a relaxing project. Speaking of old magazines I have some I need to move out too. I'll probably take some of them to recycling without looking through them.

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  9. It's so nice to put those magazines to work! It's so enjoyable to look through magazines anyways. Sounds like fun!

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  10. Fun project! Like a puzzle or searching game [scavenger hunt].

    Yoyos are so fun! They'd be great handwork for summer porch afternoons coming soon.

    I'm happy to see this post, hadn't heard from you in a week-ish. Glad youre enjoying things again. I think the yoyos get tacked to a backing for stability, but no quilting, so that's good too.

    love

    lizzy

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  11. We used to have magazines but they are all online now. You've found a fun way to use them.
    My grandmother had a yoyo quilt as a summer spread and I loved the way it felt when sleeping under it. But I've never made one. Something to put on the list. Thanks.

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  12. Julierose - En Masse is amazing! I love your pages so far -roses are my favourite! This is a great idea for using up old magazines. Ojos looking beautiful.

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  13. What a fun gluebook project! Between quilting and gluebooking, there are scraps galore- but it seems we can't stop. Nor should we when the results provide so much enjoyment.

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  14. Looks like you are having a lot of fun with this journal. Its a great way to make use of older magazines.Recycling at its best.

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