AB Exchange with Sharon Borsavage

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This is the cover of my altered book with a theme of Nature -the incredible beauty of it. I take so many photos when out walking that I couldn't resist choosing this theme. On the cover has an image transfer of a photo I took out in the woods, transfered to fabric. Then I used my xyron to adhere the fabric to the cover of an old music book. For more photos of the pages I did, click on the cover!

I am altering this book in collaboration with Sharon Borsavage, who is so kindly putting up with me entering into this exchange with her as I am about to move - from CT to Florida!! We are doing a 1-1 exchange, working in each other's altered books, in a very unscheduled manner as we are both quite occupied theses days. But you should see new work in both books every so often on both of our blogs in the months to come. We hope you enjoy, as we know we will! ~ lenna young andrews, November 4th, 2009 -- please note our moving out date is November 28th with the closing here in Avon on November 30th. After that, we are off to join my parents in Bradenton, Florida - halelujah! So if I am scarce, this is why : ))

good news : )

Here is the latest news! Yesterday was my husband Steven's last day of work at ICS - Innovative Computer Systems in Farmington, CT. He had told his boss Steve Roux about 5 months ago, that he would be leaving his job when our house sold because we would be moving to Bradenton, Florida to be near my parents. Well, our house had not sold a couple of weeks ago when this decision was made -- it was time for Steven to leave the company, and we understood. A party was planned in his honor. Steven had worked at ICS for 17 years! We kept our fingers crossed that our house would sell soon.

Yesterday morning on Steven's last day at work and the same day as the party, we received an offer on our house! wow. We accepted the offer, met after work to sign it and seal it, and then went to the party!! What a happy celebration it was. Our closing is scheduled for November 30th and if all goes well, Steven and I will be heading to Florida soon after that. Steven insists it is my "Guardian Angel" that made these events happen in such a way, but I must say thank you for all your good wishes, support and prayers -so appreciated!

I created another Animoto video from photos I took at Steven's farewell party. Check out his Florida shirt! Click Here to see it. : )

Artist Trading Cards

Another Animoto video montage I made, this one may be my favorite yet! Click on the arrow to play.

10.27.2009 My Artistic Life challenge - Inspired by Your Reading Materials!

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On Helga Strauss' blog, My Artstic Life we are working on expanding our creativity through her fantastic weekly challenges. Click on the link above to find out more . . . and click on the photo above to view the full image. This is the 2nd week of an online class Helga is generously offering for free! This week our assignment was to "make a collage using images from one of your favorite magazines and add dots and circles in a variety of ways". Last week we worked on dots & circles (see below) and we were supposed to pick our favorite pattern to add to our collage. A perfect idea!

I do not usually work with circles and dots so these have been great challenges for me. Thanks, Helga!!
lenna young andrews, October 27th, 2009.

for steven - a wolfe island video!

my present for Steven on 5 years together - a video montage I made from photos of Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada -summer 2009.

10.25.09

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A beautiful day, and a day that marks 5 years since I called Steven Deming at work to talk about my husband John leaving me. Steven and John had gone to school together, and Steven and I had been friends since I was 15 years old (I was 47 at the time). Little did i know when i picked up the phone that day that 3 weeks and 300 or so emails later, Steven and I would decide/know we were getting married when my divorce was final. Amazing!! Simply amazing.

While we had an Open House today we drove to Farmington to take a walk with the pups -click on the photo above to see some lovely fall photographs of CT. When we got there, it was then that I remembered that Steven had taken me to this same park and same path, 5 years ago when we were first together . . . . amazing.

Vintage Image Madness Calendar-2010

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This is my submission, as requested by Casie Metcalf for the Vintage Image Madness Collaborative 2010 VINTAGE IMAGE CALENDAR! Click on the image to see it in full. This year, Casie will be donating a portion of the sales to Bernie Berlin and A Place to Bark. Casie says, "I am really in awe of the work that Bernie is doing to help dogs (and now cats) and would love to contribute something to the cause this year. Every little bit helps a dog (or cat) in need."

This is my third year contributing to Casie's Calendar : )). You will be able to purchase it on the Vintage Image Madness site soon; I'll let you know when it is ready. The calendar is a collaborative project hosted by Casie Metcalf with Vintage Image Madness images, and is a limited edition printing of 100 calendars. The international artists who participated in 2009 are: January - Lisa Martin, February - Doreen Cosenza, March - Frieda Oxenham, April - Tally Oliveau, May - Cindy McMath, June - Lenna Andrews, July - Lise Kirk, August & Cover - Kim Tedrow, September - Cathy Johnson, October - Megan Hull, November - Janet Heritage, December - Susan Metcalfe. I believe all of these artists are participating again this year!

The calendar measures 4.75 inches by 5.5 inches and comes packaged in a CD calendar case. The calendar comes with 14 total pages - 12 months plus the cover and back - each month is a separate page. The case can be turned inside out to form a desktop stand to hold and display the calendar. The calendar has been professionally printed for outstanding color and wonderful reproduction.

Casie's site is unique in that you can purchase image sheets and have them sent to you, OR download your images and print them out yourself! That is what i did. Casie has a tremendous amount of images to choose from - have fun looking, and thank you, Casie! It is my pleasure to participate once again. i just love your images!! lenna young andrews, October 24, 2009.

ABRR -Sallie's Book

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This is a small cropped portion, a part of a page I did in Sallie Rodman's Altered Book, Women of the 1910's, 20's & 30's. This Round Robin is hosted by Sallie and I was invited to join the group earlier this year. The group does not usually share photos of their work in the books before they come home, but in both books I have worked in so far, both Sue and Sallie were kind enough to say yes, feel free to add a small portion of a page I did in their books to my blog. thank you!! I truly love to add and share my art on my blog as I create it and so appreciate this. If you click on this cropped photo, you can view the rest of the pages i did if you like. The explanation for how i created the pages is there! lenna young andrews, October 23rd, 2009.