Thursday, January 29, 2009
Cakes
This has nothing to do with books, although I've been reading a good number of good ones lately . . . but . . . .
the birthday cake I made for my good friend . ..
Friday, January 16, 2009
Muses In a Jar
I made these muses throughout this week and had a lot of fun making them. All of these muses are in vintage jars and all contain elements of old books recycled into art.
Newly Hatched Muse:
This little one is sitting inside a real birds nest that is nestle in moss. Thought it's hard to see through the glass, it's newly hatched from a shell decoupaged with words and crackled finished.
Glittering Muse
I love expression on this girl's face. Her wings have a slight shimmer about them and she stands amid curls of a Jane Austen novel.
The rest of these I'm going to re post pictures of sometime tomorrow, as I took these tonight, but there's not enough light to get a good shot.
Here's my favorite of the bunch, this little boy holding a curled book with letters of the alphabet.
Newly Hatched Muse:
This little one is sitting inside a real birds nest that is nestle in moss. Thought it's hard to see through the glass, it's newly hatched from a shell decoupaged with words and crackled finished.
Glittering Muse
I love expression on this girl's face. Her wings have a slight shimmer about them and she stands amid curls of a Jane Austen novel.
The rest of these I'm going to re post pictures of sometime tomorrow, as I took these tonight, but there's not enough light to get a good shot.
Here's my favorite of the bunch, this little boy holding a curled book with letters of the alphabet.
Has A Muse Visited You Lately?
This past year while visiting blogs geared towards crafts, I discovered many were making “Faeries in a Jar.” While I found the idea darling, I thought it would be far more beneficial for writers to have a “Muse in the Jar.”It would certainly solve the problem of having them show up and give those titillating when one is sitting in five lanes of traffic, bumper-to-bumper, without pen, paper or recorder to capture the rare thought. Or when we’re tangled up in Christmas tree lights, trying to decorate the house and bake gingerbread cookies, with no time to fly to our computer and writer. (Does anyone else suspect they’re attracted to the scent of molasses?)
Well this Christmas I decided to bottle a Muse for Ane, Gina and me.
I have to confess I had a lot of fun. Deciding that our muses had to be constructed of the best of the best, I took three of my books that were falling apart: an 1860’s Latin Book, Jane Austin’s Persuasion, and The Borrowers. I cut, pasted and glued until I made the perfect muses for us.
I had so much fun, that I created more which I’m selling on my blog, http://www.jessicadotta.blogspot.com/. I hope you'll come and visit.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Art Project
When creativity for writing is waning, I find that working on art projects help bolster it.
Here is my grandmother made into a fairy, now hanging on my wall of ancestral portraits.
Friday, January 02, 2009
So, have you heard about Cell Phone novels?
I know what you’re thinking. GTBK. Right? No I’m not.
Here’s the deal, they are stories, written in short sentences on the cell phone, and apparently uploaded to the web where people can read and vote on them.
Thankfully, AFAIK, it’s only in Japan.
Apparently, it’s a BD there too!
One girl sold 400,000 copies of her cell phone novel in hardback. No doubt she’s SETE.
But, SRSLY, five of their top ten selling novels in 2007 were cell phone novels first. 4RL! At least one that I’ve heard of has been made into a movie.
Now obviously, the characters aren’t going to be very deep, nor the plots. But in a very busy society where one only has time to write on their fifteen minute break, it certainly proves that “writers write.”
So what do you guys think, will the youth here be texting novels next?
I know what you’re thinking. GTBK. Right? No I’m not.
Here’s the deal, they are stories, written in short sentences on the cell phone, and apparently uploaded to the web where people can read and vote on them.
Thankfully, AFAIK, it’s only in Japan.
Apparently, it’s a BD there too!
One girl sold 400,000 copies of her cell phone novel in hardback. No doubt she’s SETE.
But, SRSLY, five of their top ten selling novels in 2007 were cell phone novels first. 4RL! At least one that I’ve heard of has been made into a movie.
Now obviously, the characters aren’t going to be very deep, nor the plots. But in a very busy society where one only has time to write on their fifteen minute break, it certainly proves that “writers write.”
So what do you guys think, will the youth here be texting novels next?
Will you?
B4N