It's Here- Buried Treasure 2011!

Seth Apter  is sponsoring the 2011 edition of his Buried Treasure collaboration and I'm so excited to be participating. As he indicates "Buried Treasure is about digging deep to uncover some hidden gems. The premise is simple...All participating bloggers will re-post one (or more) of their favorite posts that ever appeared on their blog." I chose a posting  from March 14, 2010 where you can see the  artwork I completed in my  Inner Works Altered Book Collaboration with Seth Apter, Roxanne Evans Stout, Veronica Funk, Supria Karmakar,  and  Rita Vindedzis. It was the most creative, inspiring and exciting  experiences  I could ever have imagined! 

    March 14, 2010

This is my 6th and final posting from our Inner Works altered book collaboration. Today,  I'm showcasing the pages I created from my book  Designs in Nature- retitled from the original book,  
"I Lift My Lamp Emma Lazarus The Statue of Liberty, by Nancy Smiler Levinson. Although the focus of the book details the life of Emma Lazarus, (the writer of the famous words written on the status of liberty:

 "Give me your tired, your  poor your huddled masses yearning to breath free,  The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest  tossed to me, I lift my lamp besides the golden door ")
 the power of nature, its beauty and connection to our soul is woven throughout the story.

This is the original book jacket-

And this is my altered book cover.

This is my new version of the book's spine.

And highlights of my inner pages.

The Back Cover below included  tree branches I created from Hawaiian wood. 

Here are a few of my  photographs  depicting nature's most beautiful faces which inspired both the artwork within my book and my connection to the world around me.

   Nature is one of the most awe inspiring, magnetizing, captivating entities I know. 

Powerful, magical and like poetry, it touches all of our senses and provides us with an incomparable wonderment throughout our lives.

Designs in Nature - The Ultimate Heart Throb!

This is my 6th and final posting from our InnerWorks altered book collaboration. Today  I am showing the pages I've made from my own book, Designs in Nature   retitled from the original book  I LIFT MY LAMP Emma Lazarus The Statue of Liberty, by Nancy Smiler Levinson.  Although the focus of the book details the life of Emma Lazarus, (who wrote the famous words written on the status of liberty:
 "Give me your tired, your  poor your huddled masses yearning to breath free,  The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest  tossed to me, I lift my lamp besides the golden door. ") The power of nature, its beauty and connection to our soul is woven throughout the story.

Here are a few photographs of nature's most beautiful faces.

Our trusted, most astounding friend

 Gracious host, always welcoming, always accepting.

 A relationship where we are always an intimate insider.

Soulful - engaging all of our senses.

It's awe inspiring-with an infinite variety of patterns

 Unique blends of every color imaginable

A circus of  textures, juggling of shapes and sizes

With every day filled with surprises 

And ever magical grace and style.

It's filled with breathtaking sunrises and sunsets,

And illuminating moons shining down  

With the brilliance of stars shining bright.

The amazing colorful rainbows, at times double rainbows

Born out of the magnificence of rain

Meeting the startling sun while journeying out.

 Nature's designs are the ultimate art works

With passion, intensity and creativity

 They flirt with our every sense 

And light my heart 

To find that special place where I am most at home.

Smile.