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Fall Postcard Swap – Books and Authors

October 1, 2019 By //  by Margarete Miller 14 Comments

Our theme for the fall 2019 postcard swap is “books and authors”. Who is your favorite author or book title? Is there imagery or a feeling you particularly like? Maybe you don’t have a favorite but you love books in general. What kinds of ideas could inspire you to make a collage? The theme was …

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Filed Under: collage art, vintage ephemera

Vintage French correspondence

May 10, 2019 By //  by Margarete Miller 8 Comments

Two of my husband’s work colleagues from Nice, France, are here in California this week. We had them over for dinner because over the years they have become friends of ours. One friend came bearing gifts: some good French wine, some marzipan sweets, and a tissue-paper wrapped gift for me. Inside was a stack of …

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Filed Under: places, vintage ephemera

The Birds and the bees – Postcard swap

May 2, 2019 By //  by Margarete Miller 12 Comments

I’m just wrapping up “The birds and the bees”, postcard swap for the month of April. I’m still waiting on a few last submissions so I haven’t started sorting and labeling yet, but I wanted to share pictures of some of the postcards that have come in. Linda F (@sakameg) sent some beautiful postcards in. …

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Filed Under: collage art, Uncategorized, vintage ephemera

Where will your art go?

April 29, 2019 By //  by Margarete Miller 22 Comments

If you make art, it’s possible that the people around you, particularly your family, don’t have an interest in what you do. If you share what you create with them, they are likely pleased that you enjoy what you do, but aren’t actively interested in what you create. If I’m wrong, then lucky you! But …

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The Dilemma of using vintage materials or copies

March 6, 2019 By //  by Margarete Miller 22 Comments

Some collage artist have difficulty in using original materials. Recently, in my facebook group, Vintage Gluebooks and Pages, someone posted this conflict they had over whether to use vintage materials, such as piano book pages from 1859 (recently purchased very inexpensively). The writer was considering whether she should make copies of her papers and use …

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Filed Under: collage art, featured, gluebook, vintage ephemera

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