diet coke

Inside the little door it says "help me"!

pressed flowers

I pressed these flowers that were given to me and then sewed it into a clear cover and attached a note.

small ones

I few more small ones.

rubber stamps

I found this cool rubber stamps at the thrift store, so I decided to use a few them here.

wish 02-03-2006

My wish for 02-03-2006!

love to paint

Can you tell I love to paint?

the pieces do fit together!

I took a sheet of paper and started to paint and add different materials to it. Then I cut it up into 12 pieces to make a puzzle out of it. After all of that I created a pocket for it out of altered magazine pages.

this butch can sew!

Heather taught me how to sew on a sewing machine. So I thought I would show off my new talent.

dresses

I found this puzzle piece from a child's dress up set and though it would fit perfectly with my head! I always looked weird in dresses so why should it be different now!

i need some green

I needed to balance out the green and I just wanted to paint.

need some color

I needed to add some color around my face!

red is the word

I needed to balance out the other side.

blue

I wanted to paint again, so I played with different shades of blue.

caged monkey

I was feeling like a caged monkey.

I know...

We took a magazine and altered the pages with some cleaning product. We left it alone for a couple of hours and then we found all the colors had swirled together. Then I stamped out a saying that I found, one word on each page.

the odd man out!

I took some of my old flower photos and put them through the paper schedder. I took a lot of the green ones and then one red piece. I use to always feel like I was the odd one in any group.

yellow stripe

Wanted some more color on the side of the piece so I decided some yellow would do the trick.

Birthday!!!

I thought I would celebrate my birthday with some bright colors!

flowers...

I love flowers so I needed to add a few of them to my piece. I took two of my photos and cut one of them out and made the other one into a vase.

wish tag

I added another wish tag.

little notes...

I wanted a place I could hang little notes off of.

FREAK!!!!

I took my 7th grade school picture and altered it and titled it "FREAK". I felt like a freak in jr. high, I didn't fit in with the girls and I didn't fit in with the boys. It seemed like everyone knew I was gay and they decided that I was going to be the out cast in my class. So I spent a lot of time by myself, didn't go out to recess very much either.

my true love

I found a quote in a book I was reading about true love. Then I took the "love" page out of a dictionary for the background.