Pop the cork

[susandennis]

The project, she is over...

BUT, that is really not the news. The news is the artwork that Sheri did today.

This is what I left her. My only direction was to get it all onto the shelves.

She used the shelves as a canvas and the stuff in these boxes as mixed media and she created a work of art that is the story of my life, completely illustrated and organized and grouped beautifully. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen. I can't stop walking up and down the hallway.

I need to figure out how to photograph it in a way that captures at least some of its magic as well as documents what she did and what is there. And it ain't going to be easy because of the angles - hall's too narrow and shelves are too high. But, that's a project for this weekend.

For now, here's a tidbit:

Some of those teacups are part of the teaparty set my Mom had when she was little. The rest are from her Mother's collection of teacups. The book facing out is a Golden Book illustrated by a family friend years and years ago. The baby at the very top is me - it's a tinted photograph. The egg looking thing on the shelf above the teapot was painted by my great aunt and in the middle of the picture are some of my original Nancy Drew mystery books.

Here is a very bad picture looking down the hallway. I may have to take a bazillion shots and knit them all together.