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Here are a couple of pics of the matchbox shrine I made for my sis this Christmas.

This tiny shrine is made from a small matchbox, a little fat goddess image - she's made of polymer clay (by myself, without molds) and is propped on one elbow. The words in the back are a bit of a definition from the Sanskrit-English dictionary my 3-legged dog partially ate when I brought it home from a thrift store. If that isn't the best excuse I've ever had to scrap a book for collaging, I don't know what is. She ate most of the cover, and separated the pages into chunks, but left the text mostly intact, just gnawed around the edges. I really love books too much to tear them up for no reason, and was planning to use the dictionary in an effort to learn Hindi and/or Sanskrit, which are fairly similar in written form. Instead, it's become some of the best collage material I've ever had.

Other materials used were multicolored pastel seed beads, acrylic paint, some bits of gold leaf, acrylic medium, powdered pigment and fibers.