Last Saturday, we went to not one, but two book sales where you paid a certain price per bag, no matter how much you put in it.

Here’s our haul at the first sale:

And the second.

(We also picked up a vintage game of Life at this sale. You can see my instagram here.)

For the last year or three I’ve loved going into antique shops on my Artist Dates. There is just something about them…especially the ones that carry a bunch of random stuff besides clothes and furniture…that I love. There are always a lot of antique books, and, lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of dictionary art.

As I have more time now that the kids are in school, one of the things I’ve been wanting to do is make more art, and, specifically, art using old book pages. I also wanted to start doing Erasure work, but I didn’t have a plan. I called a used bookstore and asked if they had a discard pile like McKay’s does, but they said no. So I went to the sales Saturday hoping, maybe…

What I found was perfect. Besides an old dictionary that I can cut up to my heart’s content, I got this:

How much more perfect could the title be?

My plan is to spend 10-15 min working on this each day. I’m guessing it’ll turn out as a series of flash fiction, but, who knows, maybe I’ll get a story line going and carry it through the whole book.

I started with the dedication page today, to see which pens I could use without them bleeding through.

And then just one paragraph:

I don’t know what the book was originally about. And I don’t know what my new story will be about, other than it’s going to be about a writer.