Artful Journey Comments

Comment on Paper and Money by: Jim

Sun, 04 May 2008 16:35:31 +0000

We have a free product called Dollies to Paint, Cutout & Dress.

This paper doll book contains four lovely dollies each with unique costumes & accessories, and each with one page in color and the other in black & white ready to be colored.

Girls of all ages will love it.

It’s a very high-quality, PDF digital reprint and is available for instant download.

http://www.pdfclassicbooks.com/children-39-s-books/activity-coloring/dollies-to-paint-cutout-dress/prod_23.html

Comment on Welcome to Karen’s Whimsy Web Log by: silvia medina

Fri, 02 May 2008 22:15:35 +0000

I love your drawings

Comment on More Happiness by: AP the librarian

Fri, 02 May 2008 18:42:36 +0000

Your website is amazing and presents such great examples of altered books. I am going to show it to some teens this summer for inspiration in starting their own altered books.

Comment on Book Arts Class by: nereida rodriguez

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:04:14 +0000

hi, I was just looking around for artwork and altered art because I love to look at this stuff. I am artistic as well but find I have No time to do anything I really want. How do you do it? I live frustrated a lot because when I begin a painting it takes me months or yearsf to finish anything. I did an altered book 2 years ago and it was real nice. I do these things only for myself because my family take all my time and I don’t know how to go about selling any of it. Which I would love to do because
I really need to work. I read all the time now if
you do what you love ‘the money will follow’. Well
I love art. I can do it all day long. I really get
frustrated because I look forward to a project and can’t get to it, until the idea fizzles away. Then I
am left with unfinished pieces and projects andd my husband is always throing away my ‘junk’. Which hurts me because it is who I am. I know I could succeed in art because it comes very easily for me.
I have absolutely no formal training yet I am proud of some of the things I have done. Can you give me
some tips on how I can sell book arts. What a web site you have! would you like to see some of my work?
I only have a few pages of my altered book becaus one
day I go so depressed and ripped it up and through it
away. Now going through some altered book sites I see mine was pretty good.

Comment on More Happiness by: Self-Improvement Advice

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:53:22 +0000

Amazing! You surely has a talent. Can I copy the images and paste it to my site? Are you just ok with it? Hope so…:-)

-Jan

Comment on Mom Doesn’t Know Me Today by: Susie

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:28:30 +0000

Hi Karen,

I lost my best friend, my Mom about two years ago. I was an only child and very close to my parents. After my Dad passed away, my Mom and I became even closer. Well about 7 months before my Mom passed away, I moved with my husband to Arizona. We all lived in California. My Mom found that so hard to deal with. I called her at least 3 times and day and she called me. She started calling me and telling me everyday that she was so sick. Finally, my husband said “Let’s bring her to our house, we have the room”. I said great and we moved my Mom to Arizona. She was 93 at the time. She could hold a conversation with anyone. The only thing that I noticed was she would tell a story several times. Anyway, we called an ambulance one day because she said she needed one. Why? We still do not know. Anyway, they came and took her to the hospital. That is when all our troubles started. The doctor who saw her said she needed to be on Hospice because of her age and they could help me on a daily basis. I said fine. I didn’t know much about Hospice then. To make a long story short, they medicated her so much with Moriphene, Dalmane and some other drugs, that it put her into a coma and she passed away peasefully, two months after we brought her to our house. My grandsons and I were at her bedside. It was a shock to all of us because she seemed fine. What I wanted to tell you is when Hospice put her on all those drugs, my Mom became so mean to me. Said I was too fat to be her Daughter. I am trying to get rid of her. I felt soooooo hurt but like you I kept going. She never had good days after her medication started. Hosice is the reason she passed away so suddenly. It was a huge loss and void in my heart. My husband, sons and grandsons were such a big help to me at the time. I miss her sooooooooooo much. Nobody really knows. Susie

Comment on Ramblings on the Train by: Amy Worsham

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:24:04 +0000

Just came home to Missouri after visiting my son in Danville, CA. I relived my ride on the BART as I was reading this. Thanks for some good memories.

Comment on More Happiness by: vivian

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:05:01 +0000

hi karen, have loved your site for a while and just came across your ‘art of happiness’ journal pages which i think are just amazing. thank you for sharing!

Comment on Joseph Cornell at SFMOMA by: Henriett

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:01:29 +0000

I am looking to purchase the Home & Garden magazine cover J. Cornell designed. Any idea on how I can find one?
Thank you.

Comment on Back to My Altered Books by: Ian

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:58:47 +0000

Great Blog! Really enjoyed the last post, full of handy tips and interesting comments!