playing with plaster

I have been playing this past week with Stephanie Lee in her latest mini e-class 
Handbook of Elements.

Oh, it's been way fun....causing me to have ideas floating in and out of 

my head faster than the speed of light.

Maybe you saw the picture I posted on Facebook last week after our monthly

Rowdy Art Sisters get-together.

Red brass etched using two different rubber stamps~one primitive shell, the other, 
a short row of starfish.
I knew that shell stamp would end up in a project in the not too distant future.
And, it did...this past week.

My own little Handbook of Elements called
Primitive Shell.
No, it isn't quite finished, there's book binding to do...then adding some
of my favorite elements onto the spine,
which I will do in due time, which makes me giddy with anticipation.

 Rosey Locket 
(front and back cover shots above)
was also born this week.
I had to make more than one book to put all these pages into.

 Wonderful plaster pages.
Oh, yes...plaster is fun AND messy.
The fact is that it wasn't my first time 
to make plaster pages.
I actually had taken an evening class at Art and Soul in Hampton, Virginia 
in 2008 with Stephanie, called just that, Plaster Pages.
I never used them in a project, but I did keep the pages I made that night.
(Can't tell you how many times I almost threw them out).
These pages are much bigger, and a bit different.
But, now I know what I'll be doing with them, and it won't be making a 
Handbook of Elements.  We learned way more than that in this class. 
You know Stephanie, there just isn't an end to her generosity.
So....my handbooks above measure 3"x4".  They are a perfect little size.
The pages I made over 3 years ago measure double that!

Here was our set-up for drying our plasterly pages back then.
And, here's how my pages look today, which have been wrapped up in bubble wrap under a dresser in my spare bedroom, from 2008!

Ohhh....I've got some way BIGGER plans for these!