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I created the right side as an answer to her side. I added the phrase ‘To Be Or Not To Be’ and made a collage on the right page. (The collage is held together with staples instead of glue, due to this Daily Paper Prompt<\/a>\u00a0 from Lauren Bergold<\/a> who was a guest at Daily Yellow.)<\/p>\n More connections…. last Spring I received an email from a woman, Anne-Marie, who was a fellow-student in my class at the Teacher-art school in the eighties. It was 25 years ago that I saw or heard from her… she’d found me on the Internet and we emailed a couple of times. Anne-Marie lives in a city near mine, and she visited me last month. There was that immediate ‘click’ and we spend a wonderful afternoon talking. She is creative in a completely different field (“special coffins<\/a>“) – but I inspired her to start art journaling too. She sends me pictures of her work, and because she has no weblog of her own, I want to show you some of her pages here.<\/p>\n Kooi (Cage)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dreams<\/strong><\/p>\n A few weeks after Anne-Marie had contacted me, I received an email from another woman I’d known at the art-teacher-study back in the days… she was organizing a reunion. It must be our age that makes us all look back on our youth (we’re all going towards 50… I am one of the first from the group to turn that age… ohmygoodness, now that I think of it – that is next week!)<\/p>\n Anyway, a lot of the old students were found through the Internet\/facebook and most of them even live in the region – so we came together in Tilburg for a reunion two weeks ago. Anne-Marie lives there too and she picked me up from the train station. Together, we walked to the tea-room where 13 students from that old class gathered together for a ‘high tea.’ It had been 25 years, but I recognized them all immediately. It was so nice to see each other again! We talked, and talked, and laughed, and talked… it was so much fun!!!<\/p>\n In the week before the reunion, I had made little presents to give to my ‘fellow students.’ I got the idea from Dymphie’s blog. She describes how she made little notebooks from an old school notebook here<\/a><\/p>\n Dymphie uses washi tape to decorate hers, but I gave it a twist and covered each notebook with dictionary paper first. Then I dived into my stash with ‘left over mono types,’ cut them all in the right shape, machine stitched on each piece and glued it on the notebooks. I also cut out ‘inspiring words’ to title each book. Here’s how that looked like when I had them all done…<\/p>\n I’m happy to say that the ladies (yep, only girls in my class\/at the reunion) Because I had met Anne-Marie earlier and knew she was all into art journaling, I’d made her an extra special gift… I hand bound a small art journal.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n[All mono types - with the stitching but without the words - \r\ncan be viewed HERE<\/a> in my gallery]<\/pre>\n
\nwere very pleased with the present!<\/p>\n