Guerrilla Art Friday

Welcome to another Guerrilla Art Friday, a linky party created by Marfi of Incipient Wings.  It's a day of giving something hand made by you to a total stranger.  Someone you have never met and probably will never meet.

Have you ever found something nice on the street, in the subway,or at a bus stop and felt so lucky that you just had to tell everyone? well, leaving something special behind for a random person to find will, hopefully, do just that.  But I must confess that it is as rewarding for me as I'm sure it is for the person who finds it. 

For my little Guerrilla Art Friday I decided to leave that cute little miniature book pendant I made a couple of days ago, a step by step tutorial can be found here: "The Kiss" should be a fitting title.

I decided to leave it at the Central Library outside in the front lawn area: see it there on the bench, in a small box:

a closer look, it's on the arm rest:

The Los Angeles Public Libray is one of the largest publicly funded library systems around the world, with over 6 million volumes.  The Central Library, located downtown, was originally constructed in 1926.  It is the third largest library in the United States.  It was designed with influences of Ancient Egypt and Mediterranean Revival architecture. 

This is the very top of the library, a pyramid:

The front lawn has several fountains:

And the World Peace Bell is there

a closer look:

here's the entrance:

behold! the inside:

here's a look up:

and a look down:

I guess I should have taken a picture of where the books are held.  But they are sectioned off to the right and left of the section in the picture above.

Leaving the library is this long hallway.  Now on to the outside:

The library is surrounded be very tall skyscrapers:

You can even enjoy a little live jazz music while you read

Have a great weekend everyone and thanks for stopping by.

Cool Hand Made Bookmarks

Listen To You Kids....
A few weeks ago I had to attend a training class for my job.  Like always, I was running a bit late that morning.  I got the kids ready and I got myself ready as quickly as possible knowing that I was already running late.  As I said goodbye to my little one at the baby sitter's house, he said, "mom is today backwards day?".  The first thing that came to my mind was, oh no! he's going to want me to turn his shirt inside out and I have NO time for that.  You see, every once in a while the school will have what they call "backwards" day.  The kids get to wear their clothes  backwards or inside out.  Since I was running so late, I said to him, "honey if you get to school and you find out it's backwards day, just turn your shirt inside out"....."but mommy...." he said but I was off and gone before he could finish. 

I rushed through the freeway and ran into the building where my class was being held....already quite late.   As quietly as I could, I walked into the classroom and......all eyes were on me.  Unfortunately, there were no seats in the back so I had to scurry to the front row....and yes, all eyes were on me.....I thought to myself, "gee people, I'm sure you've been late to other things too"..... I took my seat in the front and the lady next to me pointed at my sweater.  I thought, "what now, right?" suddenly, I saw the reason why they were all staring at me.....my pull-over sweater was on INSIDE OUT!!! ....if only I would have listened to my little one....


Today I want to share with you some book marks that I swapped recently.  It's the first time I make bookmarks and they were a lot of fun to make.

Miniature Book Pendant

Here's a nice passage my brother sent to me today.  I don't know who the author is but it's very fitting considering what transpired recently.  I had to let a friend know that her actions led me to believe she no longer valued my friendship.  If she did not value my friendship, then there was no friendship at all.
No apology or excuse could ever undo what has been done.  She was a close friend for several years so naturally my feelings were hurt.  But nothing that an hour chat with my best friend couldn't fix, thank goodness for BFF's, right?  I don't want to bore you with the details but I wanted to share the passage with you:

"There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, 

who never did, who won't anymore, and who always will.  

So don't worry about people from your past 

there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future"

Isn't that a great passage? it kind of puts things in perspective.  Have you ever had to let a friend go for doing you wrong? or have you yourself been told your friendship is no longer welcomed? I want to hear all about it, leave me a comment below.

On to my regular post, a miniature book pendant.

 Is that not the cutest little book pendant?

Guess what! I'm in the mood to give three of these cuties away.  Be one of the first three to leave me your friend-less story in the comments below this post and I'll send one your way. 

I saw these pendants for sale at the library gift shop and, of course, I had to make my own.  Besides, they were selling them for $30 dollars!!! I KNOW!!! if I wanted to give a few away, it would cost me a little fortune.  Luckily, they are very easy to make and will cost an average of  a dollar or two provided that you have most of the supplies on hand.
 
To see a tutorial on how to make this cute pendant, go here.