Winter Themed Coolaborative Book Project

When Corrine from Dosfishes approached me about a collaborative book project I was intrigued with the thought of a three way book collaboration.

She explained to me that there would be three different books for the three of us participating.

The other gal is Lyle from Just A Note.

We would each do additions to pages so and would each end up with our own book that the other two had contributed to. Each page would be a collaboration and the theme was winter.

It was challenging to decide what might be the right amount to add to a page so that you would leave room for the others to do their thing.

This is just half of the pages I ended up with, I'm saving the rest for another post.

We also decorated a cigar box to keep out book in.

So I don't know if this is considered a Round Robin.

Perhaps it was a Triangle Robin.

And while I know that most of you have seen plenty of winter, you may have to endure some more winter imagery in these pages.

I would love to know which pages you like the best.

Thanks!

It was fun to guess which additions were made by whom,

each person displaying their own flavors and style.

Stampings by Lyle, I believe.

This one has more of a Corrine look to it.

I've had plenty of winter after all my years in Alaska and it was challenging

to portray what winter is for me now in Arizona.

This windblown crepe paper that was stuck to my ocotillo tree in the yard is perhaps 

a better portrayal of winter rather than a classic winter snow scene.

Some pages were obviously all mine!

Swirls before Pine

I love the surface treatments on some of these.

 I think this one was Lyle's Style.

I'll post some more soon if you can stand any more winter images!

Kwee Zine

Last summer I was inspired to do a collaboration with my family that had gathered for a summer visit at our Shady Nook camp in Maine. Since we are all into cooking it became the "Kwee Zine" (cuisine for you non word- play types)

I had been to the Chicken Barn near Ellsworth that is a day trip in itself with a plethora of used books  housed in the two story former chicken barn.

I had barely made it through the front door to the "bah-gain" bin. (Maine accent inserted here) and picked out a vintage physics book to plunder for inspiration.

An old cookbook from my grandmother's collection was sacrificed.

She was  the one that infused a love of cooking for all of us.

We had so much fun with this project it was suggested that we do a family zine every time we congregate!

My brother Dan that lives in Bali added some recipes with the help of his wife, Sri.

As you can see my brother  Dan and I share a certain off-beat humor.

My son, Cassidy joined in.

My niece Joyana who happens to be studying scientific illustration

My mom whose passion is cooking.

Our local lobsterman gives them all of the peekie-toe crabs from his lobster pots.

My mom and dad will sit and pick the meat out for hours. 16 crabs yield a pound of crabmeat but it's free!

A vintage coloring book to plunder for images.

My grandmother's cookbooks were nearby. I love penuche!

My big sister Robin made this pie for us.

More of Dan's imagination at play here.

Fuel for the zine.

Feel free to copy any or all of these pages  for a reproduction of the zine.