Lauren Ferguson | There are no mistakes in art, just opportunites to embellish. (tm)

Lauren Ferguson is a Featured Artist in Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion Magazine

Here is the press release that went out today.

Joann's and Barnes & Noble carries Mary Englebreit's the Home Companion Magazine. Go get your copy on Monday and jump up and down and let everyone know.

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Three unique bookmaking projects featured in the paper arts column Paper, Scissors, Crop!

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) August 31, 2008 -- Nationally recognized mixed-media artist and instructor Lauren Ferguson is the featured artist for the October/November 2008 issue Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion magazine's signature paper arts column called Paper, Scissors, Crop. The issue hits newsstands Sept. 1, 2008. Lauren's projects can also be seen on the magazine's website at http://homecompanionmag.com.

"I was thrilled when the magazine's editor of the Paper, Scissors, Crop contacted me to participate in the column. I knew immediately it was a wonderful opportunity to showcase my unique copper etching technique. When combined with my bookmaking techniques, my copper etched images create visually stunning blank journals. My hope is that my beautiful blank books will inspire others to create their own beautiful art within the pages of my journals."

Lauren is a self-taught Mixed Media Artist who lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia. She entered the craft industry after the birth of her first child. Memory Art, in particular scrapbooking, is where she developed her love for paper. She quickly became enthralled with Altered Art and Collage Art and, as a former librarian, was drawn to the art of bookmaking. As an imaginative craft designer, she works with a wide variety of craft company and paper arts manufacturers. Her art also appears in national magazines.

Lauren is available to teach classes, develop mixed media projects, and is always looking for special requests and new crafting challenges. More of her work can be seen on her website at http://www.everythingaltered.com. She can be reached at lauren@everythingaltered.com or by phone at 678.889.8735.

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until we meet again,

Digi Addicted

Oh Please somebody stop me. 

I could not sleep so I came down to the dungeon to do my third lesson in the Digital series.

I spent more time writing and rewriting my journaling.

These were some of the pictures that Chi-Chi took when I was teaching at Memories Expo in NJ. 

I really do love the process of of being able to get some photos on a layout and get the journaling done so that I do not forget.

I found a site online that will take my handwriting and turn it into a font for next to nothing. 

I do have my signature scanned in, but I would have loved to have handwritten the journaling on this one.  I am just so excited.

While I am very much a beginner, I am enjoying the process of putting my photos on the page again.

I think I may do another layout tomorrow. I have so much time that I need to spend on the computer and making phone calls, that I might just be able to squeeze in a few moments to get another layout done. I even have some other digi stuff to use.

until we meet again,

Brushes and Another Digi Layout

I have to admit that I am loving the whole thing. I am glad that I can get some photos on layouts and get them done. I love it.  I also understand why it is so easy to drop and drag photos.

I have been in front of this computer for the past few hours trying to work with these colors. Then a friend just told me to get over myself and turn the photo black and white.  DUHHHH!!

Oh how I love my friends.

I still have not figured out how to change the color of a brush. Yes, I know I know.  I told you I have sat here for hours trying to get the colors to change. I just decided that tomorrow is another day. 

I love the layout.  We went to the Chattanooga Aquarium two years ago and I just love this picture of all the kids in front of the large water tank.

It was perfect. And that picture was taken with my cheap, now Chi-Chi's world, camera.

This is going to cause me to have to buy a large format printer. I thought the purpose of digi-scrapping was to stop me from spending so much money.

My frugal friend Amy Wood will kill me if I come home with a large format printer.  I just won't tell her... YET!!  (Love ya Amy)

until we meet again,

To all the powerful women in my life...

I got this in my email when I woke up from my nap this evening.

It is just perfect!!
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To all the POWERFUL women in my life:


Live your life in such a way
that when your feet
hit the floor in the morning,
Satan shudders and says:


'Oh Shit - she's awake!!!'

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until we meet again,

On the Road Again...

Well, it is a great day!! 

I am getting ready to close another chapter in my artist adventure.

This is my last CKC.  I have mixed feelings.  I am glad that it is over and I can move on.  But I am going to miss all the wonderful smiles that so boldly tell me why I do what I do.

I know, I know, there are going to be other wonderful times that make me smile.

I know that they are going to be different.  I am just going to miss the ones that I have begun to expect.

I am going to take my lap top with me this trip.  I have so much to do and so little time to do it.  I just need to take advantage of every waking moment. 

I will admit, I am so fired up!!!   I am going to hang with my girls from North Carolina. 

Somebody?!  Anybody?! I may need bail money because these ladies have been know to drive all the way to Atlanta for a laugh.  So I am not sure what they will do in their own stomping grounds.

I have my flip camera, my digital camera, my iPhone.  I think I have it covered.  Well, let me get this show on the road. 

until we meet again,

MY FIRST DIGI LAYOUT!!!!

Oh My Gosh!!!

I just sat and did my first Digi Layout Ever!! 

Yes, I paid to do the online class with Jessica Sprague. I have no idea who she is.

I was told to take the self-paced class and I am loving it.

Oh, I can scrapbook like this again. 

I not only did a 12 by 12. But look, it is a picture of me and my hubby.

A first.  I have never done any pictures of us.

I may be able to get my wedding album done if I keep this up.  I am going to have to scan in over 1500 photos to get it done, but I am feeling a digi album coming along.

I have to say that the basic skills that I have and now understanding the easiest way to push this rock up the hill is really not so bad.

I can't believe it!  I digi scrapped!  Holy Moly. Watch out Hybrid, here I come.

Did I mention that I used some color!  I am just grinning from ear to ear. 

until we meet again,

Revisiting my past life in Philadelphia...

I lived in Philadelphia on South Street right before I moved to Boston to go to Harvard.

Oh, I love Philadelphia. I even planned on moving back before I met my wonderful husband.

I love a city that can keep you busy even in the winter time. They always have activities.

When I was taking Leann through the City... Oppps, I need to digress.

Leann is from a land locked state where they do not pollute and she has never seen a trash heap with cars stacked as high as a building. She is use to clean air and no floro-carbons.

Being from the suburbs, I need my floro-carbons and a nice amount of ozone pollutants or car exhaust fumes in my lungs.

So anyway, I was driving around the city and she kept saying "do you smell that?" I am looking at her and saying "smell what???"

So I took her down to Jim's for her first authentic Philadelphia Cheesesteak. I made her get it with Cheese Whiz. Yep, they keep a can on the grill so that it stays melted.

Leann was really quite impressed with how tasty a greasy steak can taste when made in Philly.

And on the way down there, we passed by my old apartment. I have to admit that the memories came flooding back and the life that I have now was never something that I cold have expected with what I knew then. No regrets. I just love where I am and where I am going. Love it Love it.

I must admit that I have been thinking about how much my life has changed in just the last two years not even the last 15 years.

Well, it is all good and I would not change it for the world.

Well off to make my first YouTube video. Finally got the desk cleaned off and now off to make some art.

until we meet again,

Spread the Sparkle Tour with the Crafty Chica!!!

Crafts... Drama... Glitter!

The Crafty Chica aka Kathy Cano-Murillo has a new line of craft supplies out with Duncan! 

For all of you who do not have enough Sparkle in your life, Cathy has made it easy for us all to get it. 

Cathy and her husband Patrick, a super talented artist and her number one fan, will be making appearances starting next week!

If you get a chance to meet her, I promise it will be well worth it.  Her energy is infectious and her smile is a beam of light that is never ending.

When you get there make sure that you tell her we are waiting for her in Georgia!!!

If your home town is not on the tour schedule, make sure that you check to see if you are one of the lucky Selected Micheals.

until we meet again,

I'm home!!!

I love being home.  I love hanging with the kids.

My Dad had so many stories to tell me about all the crazy things that the kids did this weekend.  He cracks me up.  I think what is most exciting about it all is that I watch him go back to when he had me and my brother and the amount of time that has passed.

He is a different type of Grandfather. He is not, NOT the same type of Grandfather that he was a father.  I am not sure if it is age, time or just the simple fact that he knows I am coming home so why not spoil them rotten and let them think that he is the greatest.

They cried the whole ride home.  They did not want to leave.  They wanted him to stay and "hang out".  My Dad said that he needed some time to get it together before he could do another "round" with the kids.

Mom ran to early morning church service and left my Dad with the kids today.  She found a way out and took it.  I love her.  She is a woman who knows her limits.

Well, I am off to hang with the kids some more.  I need to put them to bed and get myself ready for the rest of the week.

I have so many projects and plans n the cooker.  Just need to wait and see what happens.  I have so much work to try and get done that it makes me laugh to think that in only a few more days I will be up to my eyeballs in adhesive.

I had a great time in Valley Forge!!!  Thanks ladies for making my next to last show a great one. 

Rebbecca, I could not have done it without you!  You are the bee's knees.  Ladies, she is the poo take a whiff. 

until we meet again,