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Where do you find vintage ephemera?

January 8, 2020 By //  by Margarete Miller 9 Comments

When you are beginning in collage art, or when you start to get familiar with it, you often develop an idea of the kinds of papers you’d like to work with. For those of us who like the vintage style, it can be hard to find what you are looking for. Where do you find …

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

Using up my vintage ephemera

October 2, 2019 By //  by Margarete Miller 2 Comments

It’s time to push myself to use up my ephemera. I haven’t been doing a good job lately. I’m hoarding papers and not using, and that’s got to stop. So, for the next month, every day, I’m going to be creating collages with my very vintage ephemera. I’m posting on my Instagram account. If you …

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Filed Under: collage art, vintage ephemera

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 18 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

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