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About Old as Dirt & Proud of It!

Welcome to Older Than Dirt, and Proud of It by Karen Samenow. I named my blog Older Than Dirt because that's where I am in life. You may find art or music, or inspiration included because, I'm an artist, a spiritual medium, and I'm always learning more and exploring. I hope you find us interesting. My focus for this blog is to bring a little levity to well seasoned women. Sometimes it actually may help!

Easter Projects

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It seems to be my modus operandi to wait until the eleventh hour to start a project with a time frame. This one is no exception, when a friend of mine came up with a fabulous idea. Some of you may celebrate differently, but we celebrate Easter. To all of you I wish a beautiful day.
My friend came up with using origami papers to cover a plastic egg, top, and bottom. There are some beautiful origami papers out there, some reasonable, some expensive. Mostly I bought what I thought was expensive, but was probably somewhere in the middle price range.

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Using matt medium, I covered the entire half of the egg, tore papers up, and used medium to hold  them to the egg itself.

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Since the origami papers only had a couple of the same colors, I had to glaze over them with a lighter, transparent color.

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To finish it off I used Iridescent medium.  The blue and green eggs are for the boys, Sage gets an entirely different more girly decorated egg.  Stuff it with grass, a few candies, and a little money!

I’m finished, That’s it!

The eggs went over as expected……what kid doesn’t like getting money?

Thursday Time out for Art1

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IMG_3872Some of you already know that my husband Les, and I just celebrated out 24th Anniversary.  Both of us has been married before, so for us this was a big thing.  Les brought me this  beautiful bunch of flowers the day before so we could both enjoy them.   This was followed by a fabulous dinner at Jake’s Del Mar Restaurant.