The Assemblagist

Began work­ing on a series of ACEOs today. I’m using ephemera for the design, par­tic­u­larly a Sep­tem­ber 1954 issue of Woman’s Day mag­a­zine. At the time, a copy of the mag­a­zine sold for 7 CENTS and it was labeled “An A&P Pub­li­ca­tion”. I’m think­ing that’s A&P gro­cery store but now my curi­ousity is in third gear, round­ing the hair pin turn into a full-​blown Hey did Pig­gly Wig­gly ever pub­lish a mag­a­zine? quandry.

Will post images, the ACEO fin­ished prod­ucts here in a while. Let ‘em dry and such… the hard­est part is not in the design­ing of the cards, it’s in cut­ting 2.5″ x 3.5″ card­stock. Recently, a friend who owns a fram­ing shop down­town gifted me with her scraps, lit­er­ally about 50 lbs of dis­cards. These mattes will make great ACEOs but cut­ting them is going to be my after­noon enter­tain­ment. Going to set up the guil­lo­tine beside the TV and watch The Young and the Rest­less while chop­ping. And for those of you out there who are *tsk tsk* ing my enter­tain­ment choice, I began watch­ing All My Chil­dren in 1969, back when Phillip went to Viet Nam. Didn’t pick up Y&R until around 1986 when an elderly man rec­om­mended it to me as we sat in a doctor’s wait­ing room. If he liked it, per­haps I should try it… and Stephen King watches soaps, ya’ll.

Artist Trad­ing Card infor­ma­tion — click here for Wikipedia article.

**FYI, there seems to be no way to reg­u­late the dupi­cate appear­ance of Fea­tured Arti­cles within the Blog Post­ing col­umn on the page. So, Don’t Blame Me, It’s The Sun Spots. I shall endeavor to don my alu­minum foil head cov­er­ings and see if this helps — next time I post.

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