• Blog

    SOC 5 week 3

    The colors for this Week 3 of The Summer of Color hosted by Kristin of Twinkle, Twinkle gave me some trouble. I wasn’t sure how I wanted to proceed so I didn’t until today.

    1 purple + 1 purple + 1 yellow

    I happened upon an image of a little girl all in yellow in a magazine ad. I figured she’d work perfect for the yellow portion. I used gel medium to adhere the magazine image to some printer paper so she’d have a little more stability as I cut around her.

    For the background I once again decided to use gelatos…

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    So far they haven’t failed me. Although I was surprised at how pink the lavender gelato appeared on the page. I decided to just press on since the tube was clearly labeled lavender.

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    Instead of doing a straight up checker board I went with random rectangles. The blending gave a slightly dreamy quality in my eye.

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    I searched through my collection of phrase fragments until something came together.

    These colors definitely had me stepping…or perhaps leaping outside my comfort zone. That’s what challenges are for, right?!?!

  • Blog - Outdoors

    T Tuesday: tour edition

    Welcome to another edition of T stands for Tuesday. Come with me for a little walk around the yard today. You won’t believe how huge the tomatoes are!! FYI…picture heavy post

    We’ll start were we left off last week. The former playset.

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    The sand box has been removed and all that’s left are some bare spots in need of a load of dirt and grass seed.

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    I got a little carried away with flowers this year but I’m really enjoying them.

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    Of course many of them are perennials which suits me perfectly.

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    Here’s one of the crazy horseradish plants along with some tiny cucumber plants. Only one survived the transplant to out doors after our strange spring. I just replanted some seeds. It remains to be seen if they ever get big enough to produce.

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    Here’s the same deck box garden from a different angle. Those are my yellow pear tomatoes.

    Remember where they started this year??

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    Hey look…there’s the playset in the background.

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    And we can’t forget the obligatory beverage for T stands for Tuesday. Ice water for the humid afternoon we had while taking these photos. Heavy rain early in the day gave way to a sticky afternoon.

    Continuing my backward progression around the house we come to this sad bucket of dirt.

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    There are seeds in there…I set it in the sun hoping they’d germinate. If not I’ll throw something else in there…perhaps some daisy seeds for a splash of texture and color.

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    The big garden or shed garden or perhaps deer feeding station.

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    Some things are doing wonderful like my peppers and a rouge carrot.  My beans not so much. I’ve replanted seeds twice now after only a handful came up.

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    The herbs I transplanted from a Trader Joe’s herb pot are getting really big.  Behind them is the other horseradish plant we inherited.

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    I have beef steak tomatoes in this garden…nice thick stems and blossoms. Hooray!

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    One of my Egyptian Walking Onions is starting to look real interesting. I inherited these with the horseradish.

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    Not surprisingly the clover is looking fantastic. *grin*

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    I picked up these great hanging pots at Walgreen’s of all places. I couldn’t pass them up for the price.

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    The front walk pots aren’t looking the best this year. I was a little late in planting them.

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    I do really like these ones though. I picked up with watering can half filled with dirt at a garage sale this spring for $2. It’s a nice edition to my eclectic bunch.

    It wouldn’t be Tuesday without a full to-do list  for me. I’ll be around to visit my T companions at some point…have patience.

    What are you doing today?

  • Art - Blog

    Clearly Crazy journal page

    I had no idea where this page was going other than I wanted to use some new paint daubers and a black spray I picked up on clearance at Michael’s. Once I got the colors on I let the page sit a few days not know what to do with the dark mess I had created.

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    I knew I needed to lighten things up a bit…scrapbook paper to the rescue. What am I actually supposed to scrapbook with that stuff?? Really?

    I noticed the eyes of this model almost exactly matched the green on the page…kismet. All that was left were some clever words to finish the page.

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    I’m going to link up with Art Journal Journey with this one since I feel as if I’ve touched on the theme of Masculine/Feminine.  A man’s “thoughts” speaking of this woman.