Peep Show

Holy Crap. Two posts in one week! have not done that for a while. Gotta keep the readership guessing :)

I would like to share as to what we have been up to for Book Club lately. The shot of the ten little pieces of artwork measuring 2.5 x 3.5 inches is the result of a challenge that I issued when the Peeps were here at my house in January. Because they had all been so incredibly good to me this past year (The Power of Ten, girls...the Power of Ten), I gave each of them a set of initial stamps. I thought it would be great to create a piece of artwork for my creative space using a set of Artist Trading Cards where each Peep contributed a card (ten identical cards: 1 for keeping, 9 for giving). This was the result. Inside joke, but suffice to say one member oriented hers opposite to the prescribed portrait. Oh well-we solved that one-we did another set oriented the way she had done hers and she had to do a set the way we had done ours! I am three cards short of a complete set of the landscape ones, but will post them, too.

Peep Paulette, genius as she is, surprised us all in December (?) with a huge multi-meeting challenge. Some of us are guilty of having a stash of stuff and she thought it was about darn time we used some of it. So, in short, we are to bring a kit of stuff for the person whose name we drew at the previous meeting. Each of us needs to use as much of the stuff as possible to create something for the person who gave you the kit as well as something for yourself. A rather tall order at times, but man! Have we had fun! As Paulette says, it's like it is Christmas Eve at every book club meeting! So, at the meeting in January, I drew Amy's name and gave her a kit I never did get around to even opening back in the TMF club days. She made me the adorable box and filled it with teensy note cards. The next meeting I drew Ria's name and I was able to come up with a kit for her that had 2 really cool owl-themed papers that I loved and secretly hoped she would make me something with it. She did! Check out the altered moleskin notebook she made...it suits me to a t!

There you have it. A Peep Show.

PS-Went for an Biiiiiiig Walk this morning whilst listening to six episodes of the latest Between the Covers podcast from CBC: Lawrence Hills' Book of Negros. Whoa, Nelly. Made me stop dead in my tracks at times. It won the last Canada Reads debate. And it is well worth reading or listening to.