I love Laurie Mika--she was a contributor to my second book, New Techniques for Wearable Art, back when she was stamping on fabric, but we had never met until last August at Art Unraveled in Phoenix. Her husband is a teacher, and he and The EGE hit it off talking about education (The EGE may be retired, but education is still one of his main interests)--Phoenix is hot in August, like around 115, and so The EGE and I couldn't get out to walk like we usually do, so we'd drive over to the nearby mall and walk around in there, just like old people. Yikes. We ran into Laurie and her husband and stood and talked for over an hour. She's fabulous, and we're working--
Wait. I was going to tell about what we're working on, but if you go back and read the post just prior to this one, about Loyalty, you'll maybe see why I decided, "Eh, maybe I just won't mention it," and isn't that sad? That right now I don't feel comfortable even talking about exciting future plans even here, on my own blog? I hope this phase passes really quickly, but I'm not optimisitic today. Maybe tomorrow.
Never mind! That's not what's important.
What's important today: Laurie is wonderful: funny, witty, thoughtful. And, oh, my, so amazingly talented! I'm not a convert to polymer or mosaic, and yet I ADORE what she does and would, if I were a wealthy woman, have a house FULL of it. This is some really cool stuff, is what I'm saying. Beyond cool. The way she uses colors is just fabulous.
Anyway: I have a point! I have an extra copy of her book, Mixed Media Mosaics,
and we're going to do the same thing we're doing for Michael's book and Ruth Rae's book: go to CreateMixedMedia.com, do a search for Laurie Mika, check out the results, and then come back and tell us about it (y'all are doing such a great job, and I'm forwarding both the compliments *and* the reports of hinky links to the other editors, who are loving the feedback) and tell us if you want to enter to win.
Go--have fun!
I'll pick someone tomorrow~~good luck!
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I also met Laurie last August at Art Unraveled and took her class. She is a wonderful instructor and sooo talented.
I have Laurie's book and it is a treasure house of information. Someone is going to be very happy tomorrow!
All the links worked for me, Ricë. I was so lucky to also be at Art Unraveled last August. I met you and took all of Laurie's classes! I did foolishly walk outside just a couple of blocks to get to Michael's. Not a good idea.
Please enter me in the draw. I already have Laurie's book but I belong to a polymer clay guild and they would love a copy.
Thanks!
Linda Cardella
I absolutely love the little box. She is so creative. I have never been very good with clay but have always wanted to learn some techniques to get better. I love quilting, but I really want to become more involved with mixed media and Laurie seems like a great person to learn from. Thanks for being so generous.
Very cool artist! I should get into clay. I think it would be very cool in an art journal, and natural since I already have a ton of acrylics, stamps and textural toys. Thanks for sharing these artists with us, and for your generosity. Please do enter me in the drawing! ~ky
Love, love, love CreateMixedMedia.com! Such a fantastic site with so many amazing artists, great turorials and loads of info! I love getting to know the artist's through the podcast interviews and artist profile q & a's.
Love Laurie Mika's mosaic miracle box. I have wanted to experiment with polymer clay, for a while now, and this is the perfect opportunity to "try my hand".
Thanks to everyone for a wonderful job and all the hard work! (I think there there has been so much traffic that some of the links aren't working properly but I have gone back and tried again and everything seems to be ok.)
I love it...I posted the link for CreateMixedMedia.com on my Facebook page and one of my St. Louis friends immediately thanked me for the info. Wooohooo, spread the word!
I LOVE the instructions on how to make polymer clay tiles. I have long wanted to do this. I'd love to win this book, but if not, I'm buying it. It looks to have all of the information that I need.
Hey Ricë! Just wanted to congratulate you on your involvement with the new site - how exciting is that?! Finally a mixed-media hub with solid content. I'm a web designer, so I'm super familiar with content presentation - this is perfect. Everything's where it's supposed to be.
The search output looks great too, and I love that the posts have avatars attached to them. Makes it much quicker to find exactly what you're looking for! I've tested out a bunch of the links, and everything is in working order. Laurie is awesome too, I've been meaning to pick up that book for god knows how long, and I just keep forgetting. I'd love to be entered into the drawing :D
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