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    AJJ theme: Feminine

    June 12, 2015 - By 

    I’m playing along with Art Journal Journey again. The theme is masculine/feminine.

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    I started this background for a different challenge then abandoned it as it wasn’t going the direction I had envisioned.  This gave me a great starting point to draw a face.

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    I’m certainly not great at faces but drawing with the eyes closed certainly helps.  The way I figure is if I keep trying they’ve got to improve over time!

    I added some paper and fabric collage with some found text to balance out the pages.

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    The Summer of Color 5: week 1

    June 10, 2015 - By 

    I’ve been waiting all year, heck since last year, for this post.

    The Summer of Color hosted by Kristin of Twinkle, Twinkle is here and I’m ready to share my page for the first weeks challenge.

    1 blue + 1 blue + 1 green

    I decided to use gelatos since I have a nice selection in coordinating colors.

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    I scribbled the three colors straight on the book pages then spritzed with water. I blended with my fingers then closed the pages onto one another and quickly pulled them back apart. This gives a fun mix of the colors over top of each other in a very unique way.

    My quote “The one who plants a garden plants happiness” guided me to stamp some flowers with faded denim distress ink across the bottom of the page.

    I ripped bits of the baby wipe I used earlier to simulate clouds.

    I stamped my quote on some dress pattern paper since I had it laying around. In hindsight I wish I’d taken the time to dig out some white tissue paper instead.

    The words in text came last. I saw them in my bin of saved phrases right there on top and decided they were meant to be on the page as well.

    Thanks to Kristin for once again hosting this great challenge.

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    T Tuesday: eventful week edition

    March 31, 2015 - By 

    T stands for Tuesday_200Welcome to another edition of T stands for Tuesday hosted by Elizabeth and Bleubeard. It’s time to share a beverage and talk about what ever the heck is on your mind!water for tea tuesday

    Holy cow!! We’ve definitely had a week to remember…or at minimum…an early morning to remember. We found out that our volunteer fire dept has a really good response at 6:20 in the morning. And we didn’t even have a fire…just needed EMT’s.  They just kept walking through my front door. I won’t go into the details but no transport was needed and all is fine now.

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    After commenting to friend about all the men in my livingroom that morning I saw this on Pinterest and it made me laugh!!

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    And back to normalcy. I created a cover page or perhaps it would be the title page for my latest journal. I decided to leave the name of the original owner of the book. It gives the book more history in my mind.

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    My seedlings are doing really well. I picked up an herb pot at Trader Joe’s and have placed it inside the protective plastic bin as well to keep it safe from you know who. Naughty Miss Gracie.

    I also got the pink streak put in my hair again.  halfThe kids are on Spring Break this week. We are enjoying a mellow week at home. Little J and I saw Cinderella yesterday. It was pretty good. More sad than the animated version but not as dark as the original fairy tale.

    I’m not sure what the rest of today has in store yet. That’s the beauty of vacation right?!?

    What are you doing today?