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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.

  • Blog - Outdoors

    T Tuesday: second garden edition

    June 9, 2015 - By 

    Good morning! I’m once again linking up with T stands for Tuesday where we grab a beverage and have a little chat hosted by Elizabeth.

    I talked about my garden here at home as well as the one at my in-laws but you’ve never seen the the space at the in-laws.20150606_7893

    It’s a really big garden! They downsized from the original when the critters got so bad they had to put a 5ft fence around.

    20150606_7931She has a huge strawberry patch! We picked almost 4 quarts last Saturday. YUM!!  The boy snapped this photo of us covering the patch with bird netting after the harvest.  He told me he took a few photos when I asked him to put away my camera. He said he found photography relaxing. 🙂

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    After a hot day in the garden there we came home, had a late lunch and a well earned glass of wine.

    Any guess on what these flowers are??

    You’ll never guess…  Horseradish!! My horseradish was blooming. I cut off the tops to save the energy for the plant.

    I, of course, have a few errands today. I hope to be back inside before the forecast 97°F hits this afternoon. YUCK!

    What are you doing today?

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    A second look: Favorite art piece

    June 2, 2015 - By 

    Secondlook

    Welcome to Second on the 2nd where we take a look back at a previous blog post that deserves a second look.

    I decided to go way back for this one. I had considered re-posting my very first blog post but decided this one needed highlighting instead.

    The thing that struck me was that each of the items I shared in this post are still prominently displayed and used now 10 yrs after creating them.

    Take a look at the original post…

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    Favorite art piece question 

    April 15, 2007



    In Art Techniques yahoo group, the question was posed; What is your favorite art piece you’ve created? I was very surprised when I looked back through my photos that my favorite pieces were all created within a couple weeks of each other and even more surprising to me…they were created in 2005 when I just started on my artistic journey. Admittedly all the pieces are all very similar in coloring and design elements…but that makes sense since they were created so closely together. I can’t choose my favorite…the collage hangs in our living room, the clock sits on my desk and the binder keeps all my “important things” also on my desk.

    I’m so glad that this question was asked! It gives me a whole new direction to go. I need to go back to collage and maybe work more collage into my altered books and ATC’s.