written by marieann

Last year, I discovered fatbook/chunkybook pages. They are art pieces (like a collage or scrapbook page), sized 6 x 6″ with lots of “chunky” things attached to them like fibers, stickers, or charms. There are groups of women, connected by the internet, that make multiple copies of their pages, and swap the copies so that they can be bound in a single book. I have participated in a few of these fatbook page swaps and they are really rewarding. There are so many skilled artists participating and the chunkiness makes the books so interesting.

These are the groups I joined to swap fatbook pages: Chubbyville; and Fatbooks. You join the yahoo group and then sign up for the particular books you’d like to work on whenever you want.

Here’s more pages that I made for these fatbook page swaps:

For the tarot card book:

For the “Hard Work Being a Woman” book:

The first photo was for the “Beachcomber’s Journal” book. Here’s the little book opened and the back:

And if you’re interested, here’s what I wrote in the little journal (after living in Hawai’i for two summers and falling in LOVE):

You never really leave Hawai’i.

After you leave, you will still feel the cold hibiscus petals resting across your throat. The memory of your feet walking across fine white stand will stick between your toes. The beat of the ipu will maintain steady in your pulse. When the cool breeze blows, you will miss the dancing palm trees. The Pacific will hold you captive and forever crush its way into your dreams. Once you have danced in a tropical rain, the shower elsewhere will lose their magic. The moon will never look the same to you because it’s not the low hula moon.

The islands will forever live in your heart.