The Latest PURE EXPERIMENTATION Online Class Has Arrived!

$60

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.  It will resume on January 16th.  See you then!

Class information & passwords are sent to your PAYPAL email within 24 hours of registering, usually sooner.  If you need me to send the info to a different email you must add a note to your PAYPAL invoice at the time of purchase.  Look there first if you don't receive registration information within 24 hours.  99.9% of the time the registration information can be found in the inbox of your PAYPAL EMAIL ADDRESS.  If you check your paypal email address, junk or spam box and still can't find it, please send me your paypal receipt along with the email address & name you used to pay for the class.  This keeps the search and rescue team from barking up the wrong tree.

DETAILS:

• registration is in full swing!  Class starts anytime you decide after 12/15/09
•  27 high quality videos available from the day you register
•  32 pages of full-color PDF also available for immediate download
• at least 5 pages of digital collage elements for download (labels, tabs, numbers, words, journaling spots)
• full access to REMAINS OF THE DAY class blog and all of its videos & content until December 1, 2010
• an active & enthusiastic Yahoo group where you can yack with your classmates to your heart's content, get advice, share successes, and cheer each other on
• a Flickr group where you can show off what you make and get positive feedback
• sewing machine is required
• SUPPLY LIST = scraps of paper, security envelopes, fabric, sewing machine, quilting thread, 1 yard of waxed linen, regular or bookbinding needle, scotch tape, packing tape, your choice of dry adhesive (I'm using a glue stick),  any kind of camera

• A fast computer & high-speed internet service to process & watch the videos will be vital.   If you are regularly able to watch videos of up to 10 minutes in length w/o interruption you should be just fine.   Do make sure though, since tuition is non-refundable once your password to the class blog has been sent.
  

Ready for another dose of arty excavating and experimenting?  Ready to go on a wild and delicious archeological dig in your very own art studio?  Then climb on board and join me in another round of Pure Experimentation! 

REMAINS OF THE DAY - A Shabby Journal of Scraps is the antidote for all of those paper scraps that keep multiplying in your favorite scrap box and clogging up your artistic super highway.

In this process AND project oriented class we'll be constructing a shabby but sturdy journal using all that paper you've been hoarding.  I'll show you how I built the kind of travel journals that my sister and I carried with us on our trip to Portugal this summer.  Both of those were filled to capacity in 10 days and you'll do the same with yours without ever leaving home!  Instead of postcards, we'll use photos from our daily lives.  The book I make with you will be a completely different  book than the ones pictured here, but with a similar structure and content.

Using simple art supplies like tape, staples, glue sticks, scissors, paper & fabric scraps, and your favorite inky pen we'll set out on a recycled voyage of discovery.   ORDINARY life never looked better than seen through the pages of this stitched up journal of scraps.  Between these pages you'll be recording the little days that are all too easily forgotten.  The small activities between the bigger events of your life that get left behind.

The journal you see below is a class sample.  The one we build in class will be BIGGER, juicier, and more fabulous!  (Wanna see?  Go HERE and have a look at what everyone has stitchd together so far!)  Better still it will be super sturdy.  Swat away pick pockets or toss across the room.  NOT A PROBLEM. 

PLEASE NOTE:  This is not a sewing course, but a sewing machine is required.  I am not a seamstress.  I cheerfully employ guerrilla sewing tactics. 

THIS is the machine I use.  It's inexpensive, VERY sturdy, and sews through anything.

Once your shabby journal is constructed I'll show you how to start filling it up.  The book we make will be different in construction, but similar in content to THIS one.  I completed it in 2 weeks.   Think of it as a perfect place to deposit your deep thoughts, shallow thoughts, and everything in between.

IF THE IDEA OF SEWING UP A SHABBY BOOK OF SCRAPS SEEMS CHALLENGING...DO NOT BE INTIMIDATED!!!  I teach 2nd grade craft monkeys (whose primary language is not English) on a regular basis.  I will take you by the hand and guide you through each step.  Like I tell my students:  everything seems difficult if you don't know how to do it.  I'll answer your questions and provide counsel to your most elementary questions.  

Got a little (or big) craft monkey at home?  If they can walk & talk, they can fill up their own little book while you work in yours.  If they're too little to use the sewing machine they can use a ready made composition book or notebook that you jazz up for them.  

REMAINS OF THE DAY will be using dry ingredients only.  No paint, misters, sprays, spraypaint, gesso, or vodka.  This will be qualitatively different than my regular visual journal process.  This is the type of journal I return to when I want to work fast and use up abandoned scraps.  Think of it as a visual DIARY on steroids.  A photo logbook of your ORDINARY days. 

Read the comments on this page for current student reviews.

NO Tuition refunds will be given once the password to the class blog is sent via email.

Comments

[debbie]

Ok, I thought I left a comment... but I am not seeing it so I am trying again. Sorry if its a duplicate. I would LOVe to be in your class... it looks fabulous and like a ton of fun!!

Happy New Year to you and yours!

Debbie L

[Jackie]

I'm here a little late but since there is one Tues. left for December I thought I would take a chance. Please put me in the drawing I think the class would be really fun to take.

[Carole Brungar]

Would love to win a class!! How cool would that be? I question the lack of vodka tho! LOL
Carole :)

[Theresa]

Oh, PLEASE add me to the drawing! There's still one more chance, right???

[kati]

what a sweet looking class!

[Shaun Sheehan]

Oooo...what gorgeous, luscious journals! I'd love to take a class with you and put my sewing machines to use!

[Eila A.]

Hi, Mary Ann! Count me in for the draw! Your work and your class look just like the stuff I need now.

[merrilee]

I was such a good girl this year and told myself no presents for xmas. So now I'm validating my feelings with the idea that my birthday is in less than a month! My craft monkeys DO need something to do while I try to swim through excess paper, ephemera and travel doodads that are compounding quickly! Finally, maybe I'll finish that Italy trip journal that is busting at the seams.

[Karin]

I am using my Christmas money to join your class, this looks awesome!!!

[Sharon Raddle]

This looks like an exercise in creative gymnastics. I hope you choose me....

[Walena]

I absolutely love your work. I wish you would take Teesha up on her offer to teach. I would love to meet you in person.

[Cindy Eagan]

Okay, so I posted a comment some place else. Who knows where that was, but I meant it to be here. PLEEZE don't hold it against me that I didn't read the earlier post about this.... I WANT this class.... I NEED this class.... okay, so I guess I'm groveling. And, if you don't pick me, I'm taking the class anyway!! LOL!! I'm ready!!
Cindy

[Sophie]

Oh I have been meaning to dig my sewing machine out for ages and this might just do it! The journals look positively scrummy... :)

[Kim Seistrup]

Just got $ for Christmas gift to enroll in your class. Can't wait to fly home from the holidays, and sign up on Monday and get started. What a great way to start the new year!

[Marrianna Dougherty]

Wonderful journals. I found you via Teesha's blog. Good job. I, like the other commenters, want to win. Maygbe I'll get lucky. Marrianna

[Sandy]

this looks really fun

[christine]

I'm SOOOO inspired. This looks like so much fun!! I ALWAYS & FOREVER admire handmade journals, but always feel intimidated to start one.... I'm gonna take the plunge & do it, darn' it....I'm just gonna do it!!!!!!!

[Colette]

Yes I hope I win. It looks like fun!

[Lauri Packebush]

I would love to take your class! I think I will even if I don't win the prize!

[Sharon]

OK - have piles of paper, a sturdy sewing machine named Bubba, and a friend to hold my hand....now I'm crossing my fingers that I get picked! I'd love to see what your classes are all about!

[debbie]

I hope its not too late to post a comment... but your class looks soooooo yummy! And fun! Love the music in your video!

Happy Holidays to you,

[Cindy Eagan]

Okay, so here I sit thinking "geesh, I wish I had read this blog post more carefully...." now, it's really close to the final Tuesday & I am thinking "I don't have a shot at a free class, but hey, I FINALLY (der) read the blog post, so why not comment $ see what happens." Oh, and yes, I'm going to read the blog posts more thoroughly from now on!!!!!!!
Cindy

[Bev Longord]

What a giggle of fun. Definatly bookmarked your site, will be back and hopefully register after the madness season is over. Bev

[Linda]

oh my just found this from Marci Glenn's blog!! can you do it at your leisure?? or is everything time set?? I would love to try just so can take a break from my insanity at work and see if it helps me relax etc!! oh and why the camera?? I will sign up after Christmas with the kids this week then have one more week to relax!! thnx!! Merry Christmas to you and yours!! Hugs Linda

[Jane T]

I might just have to consider taking the course in the New Year. Time crunch right now. Sewing is finished, cookies and candy are almost completed, and then a bowl of potato salad for Friday large enough to feed Cox's army and I can crash. One of these years I will learn not to wait until the last minute to get busy. Yeah, right!

[Kimber]

Lookslike a very fun class...I'm addi9ng it to my

Christmas wish list!

[Karla Frahler]

I love your style, and looking to win your next Tuesday drawing. If not, I'll be watching for future classes!

[Judy Hudgins]

would love to win a free class....not to make a travel journal, but a journal on making the ren faire costume for my oldest (3rd one I'm making). So the sewing machine will get double duty.

[cammy@freckledfarm]

Your class looks amazing. I would love to be entered into your generous drawing.

[Paula McNamee]

Hi Mary Ann, I can't wait to get started. Thanks for offering this online class. I enjoyed your first stencil class so much. Several friends are making their journal covers and emailed me photos of them. I want to play, too. Hope all is well with you.

[Marlene Moore]

I just found out about this class, hoping it is not too late.

[emelie]

oh i would love to take this class. hope i win a spot because i wouldnt be able to take it otherwise. looks like a bunch of fun! eternity4me2@yahoo.com

[Vanessa Johanning]

Wow! This looks amazingly fun!!!
I definately have the junque to put in it!
LOL
Dont we all?
~ Vanessa

RhinestoneContessa.com

[Sherri]

Oh my gosh this looks like a class perfect for a packrack of junk - I mean "gems" - like me!! I love how you do this. I recently just found your blog and am hooked.

[Kelli]

Wicked journals! I have just hinted to my children that this would make a nice Christmas gift :o)

[Jillian]

This class sounds exciting! Thank you for the chance to win a spot.

[Gwen]

What? No vodka? ;-)

How about a cup of tea?

This looks like a fun class.

[Terri K]

Just found your blog. Love it all and your class looks great!

[s.]

this class looks absolutely amazing.

[Noemí]

Me encantan todos los diarios de viajes que haces. A ver si tenemos suerte...
Saludos. Nat desde España.

[Amy]

This looks amazing!

[melissa]

This class looks amazing! I would love for you to add me to your drawing!

melissa

[Sharon]

The class and book look absolutely fabulous!

[tammy hebert]

It sounds like so much fun but also a bit scary..yikes do I dare?

tammy

[Wendy!]

This would be super fantastic!

[Rhoda T.]

Just stumbled onto your blog. Love the shabby chic journal. I'm oh so tempted to buy myself a Christmas gift!!

:)
hmmmm....
Rhoda

[Denise S.]

This just looks like so much fun and maybe I can even be a winner!!!

[Debi Minter]

I am SOOOO excited to take this class. I've heard such wonderful things about it.
HuGGs!
Debi

["A"]

This looks like great fun, and I'm on the verge...ever since I started taking quilting & mixed media art classes at NYC's wonderful City Quilter, I've been looking at all of the paper that crosses my path quite differently. (Ack, why didn't I pick up the tiny paper crane I saw on the sidewalk the other week!)

[carolyn]

I would be so grateful to win a spot in your class!

[Lisa Cousineau]

This looks like a really cool class... marrying my favorite elements - photography, journaling, and sewing. I would LOVE to win this since I don't have the money right now to join :-(
Lisa

[mary lawrence]

can't wait to get started (she typed as a blue-eyed kitten attacked the laptop and her moving fingers).

mary

[taylor]

This class looks great. So much fun.

[Deborah]

Yay! I'm in the middle of your stencil class and can't seem to get enough. I have a sewing machine....never used it. It's that bobbin thing (((shudder)))

[Colleen Marz]

I would also love to take the class, but my car required my money this month, Imagine! I hope you will have this class again later and will post to artgangla. thanks!

[Karen]

Don't pick THEM, pick me! ;) ... great journal, and I love the idea of using up all the little scraps you save, just because.

[Dianne]

your scrappy journals are beautiful, and your blog is inspiring! thanks so much...

[Sunny]

WOW!!! This is SOOO awesome! I was just compiling a pile of junk to make my friend's scrap album from her hike up Kilimanjaro when I ran across your blog! It is just the inspiration I need!

[Cindy Jones Lantier]

Would love a chance to win one of these classes! It looks like TOO MUCH FUN! I have a question, though ... right now my good sewing machine is broken. My back up machine only does a straight stitch. Will that suffice?

[Melanie K.]

Well, this is twice today I heard about this class ... and I see you are doing a give away. This sounds like a class I need really REALLY bad! lol

[Cynthia of Cynful Creations]

This sounds like a fantastic idea. I'll need to get myself a sewing machine but it's not like that's a bad thing! Adding my comment to the list, just in case I should win a free session. Thank you in advance. :)

[Kelly R.]

Wow, what a great class. Would love to win a spot.

[Monique]

Wowee! Leaving my comment for the draw :)

[Linda]

Mary Ann, I'am doing the class. Just sent letter to you.
Thank-you,
Linda

[maxine]

A grrl can dream of winning!

[Hermila]

Would love to take this workshop, but at my age (early 70's) I don't know what "security envelopes" are? Please explain!

Herm

[Terry Handel]

So you are just giving away a spot in your class?? For nothing but a comment on how absolutely great the class sounds? Well, count me in and pick me next week!! Pretty please with sugar on it? Please...please......

[Tracee]

Oh my...just what I need! So many scraps I just can't get rid of.

[Tinniegirl]

So exciting that you are starting another class. I'd throw my hat in the give-away ring. I just got a shipment of stencils from IStencil and I can't wait to have a play on the weekend.

[becky]

Oh, wow that sounds really great. I've just started doing art journals this year & I absolutely love them. Am always up for learning new techniques.

[Steph Devlin]

Totally blown away. Totally. Would love to do this class.

[Andrea]

I hope i win this one! I would love to get a chance to take this class!!

[Lisa Hoffman]

Nothin' better than a "Dispatch" class.
You just keep offering more coolness.....when will it end???!!!
(please say : "never")

[Lisa]

I wondered over here from another blog and am so excited - especially after seeing the glowing reviews from others who have taken your classes! I can't wait to explore more....

[Caroline]

Wow! an excuse to save paper and stuff and know that you will have someplace to put those lovely little bits. How much better can it get?

[kl]

this looks unbelieveably devine.
just found you through pam
and i am so happy to have followed her link :)
happy tuesday!
xo

[sue newcom]

Sounds like fun. I enjoy reading your blog!

[Dawn Nguyen]

This sounds like a wonderful class -would love to attend! =)

[Jen@thecottagenest]

Oh my gosh. I don't know what to say. This class looks awesome. I think I just found my birthday present to myself!

[Suzy]

Oh, MAN, I'd love to take this.

[amy rehnae]

so how many comments does a girl need to leave to increase her odds of winning, here? :) seriously, this sounds like so much fun!! i am all about the little things lately...just need to get a whole lot better at documenting them before they are gone, or should i say, documenting my 5 year old before she is gone!? must release non-scrapping guilt...:) so cool i found you today! love love love the blog!

[karen]

Oooh I wannna win! I have so many scraps to use up and would love to make a journal with them! karen...

[sharon]

Oh wow, I would just love to be included in your drawing for this class. I came here by way of Pam Garrison's post this morning.
I so love your creativity.

[betsy begens]

I found you through Pam Garrison's blog. I love the letter you sent her.

[Marianne Folk]

I love this idea!~ Life is kinda getting me down right now, and this project is just what I need to lift me up. Thanks for the inspiration. From one MA to another :)

[Mollie]

This class looks like it would be really fun! I have SO many scraps and this seems like the PERFECT solution. Please pick me!

[tracy dyar]

Oooo. Must. Take. This. Class.

[Leslie McLaughlin]

Wow I just found you and I really want to take your class!!!!!

[Christina]

I've just discovered the BEST Christmas present to give myself - I look forward to doing this.
Thanks to Pam G for blogging about it!

[Laura Melohn]

Wow! This class looks AMAZING!!!

[Linda Richter]

Oh wow! What a vision!

[Roberta]

cool beans...pick me this time...:}

[debe]

If Pam Garrison thinks you are fab, you gotta be. Gonna check this out!!

[Jeanne]

This looks like a cool, fun class!
xo
jeanne

[Jessica Herman Goodson]

Fun, fun, fun!

[tricia]

Oh how I would love to take this class!

[Carmen Leigh Donowho]

Wow this looks incredible! Looks like the "kick in the seat of the pants" that I have been needing! Pick me! My mother is going to teach me to sew, think this class will scare her? tee hee

[Laura K]

I would LOVE to be picked for the free class!! Either way your class is going under the tree for me!

[diane]

This looks like such a fun class. Pick me! pick me!