Hand Delivery

Tracie sent me this image this morning. I think I'm going to have a greater appreciation for crows after reading The Comfort of Crows...and I do love this list about BEING THE CROW YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD!! 

Collect shiny things.

Hop happily down the street for no apparent reason.

Scream loudly when you see your friends.

Maybe I'll scream loudly when I see Tracie tomorrow when the art group gets together! 

I'm staying with Becky most of the time I'm in Wisconsin which means I finally got to hand deliver the altered art journal I put together to her.

I'm pretty tickled with it...and I think she is too. 

There are bits of Becky's art and things she has collected in the book...and she can use them as inspiration to add to the many blank pages and spaces in between.

I cut these watercolor blobs out of one of her doodle pages...and stacked them up and sewed them into the edge of this page. The purple commercial paper makes a nice backdrop. The purple paper...along with several others...are folded over the edges of a page making the side view very colorful. 

This is the next page spread...with another watercolor cutout. Again...lots of space in between to do something fun.

I flanked these two pages with her coloring.

And I love the way these three pages stack up....all Becky's doodles and art experiments. I'll look forward to seeing what she does in the rest of the book over the years.

And finally....here's a bit of Wisconsin spring from Becky's yard.

They are a little further along than we are in Maine.