• Around home - Art - Blog - Creativity

    T Tuesday: progress edition

    June 14, 2016 - By 

    Welcome to T stands for Tuesday…grab a your favorite cup and stay a while.

    T stands for Tuesday

    This summer I’ve been tackling projects and items long overdue on the to-do list. I’m drowning in half finished goals. It’s really beginning to drive me a bit crazy. I start my morning or my 3am bout of insomnia with thoughts of how my day is going to go and then BAM…I get hit with a curve ball or worse yet, am distracted and start another project.  I haven’t even finished a pot of coffee lately, which is totally out of character for me. (Ah ha…just there….see how I worked in a beverage reference) 🙂

    But seriously, the frustration with myself is mounting. Every “not used daily” surface has something in progress all over it and that’s not even mentioning the outdoors. I think I have too many ideas and unfortunately have enough stuff around to get started but either run out of steam, ideas or gumption to continue. I even totally blew up my blog over the weekend and am still working on fixing it. UGH! The blog backup I used definitely didn’t work the way I thought it did….I could not recover what I lost.

    I am feeling a bit of accomplishment with both a personal project and a household one.

    I completed the cover on my heART journal just yesterday.

    heART journal T Tuesday progress edition

    Here are the inside pages. The earliest page was from Feb 2014. Good grief…talk about taking a long time to to 6 pages.

    heART journal T Tuesday progress edition

    Mini-me and I did get her room painted. Here’s an old before and the after side by side.

    T Tuesday progress edition

    What a difference. She’s had the green and stamped flowers since we moved in 13 years ago. It had just been painted so we just left it as is. Definitely time for a change.

    T Tuesday progress edition

    We’re slowly going to be replacing the accessories such as the fabric bins in the cubbies. Mini-me had yet to decide what color she wants for her accent color.

    T Tuesday progress edition

    It’s definitely more sophisticated already. Agh…my baby is growing up!

    So today…I’m going to try my best to finish a thing or two I’ve started. Wish me luck!

    What are you doing today?

  • Art - Blog - Creativity

    A second look: Sweet season journal page

    June 2, 2016 - By 

    Today for Second on the 2nd I’d like to share one of my favorite pages of all time. Sometimes all the pieces fall into place just right. You reach a creative bliss. This was one of those times for me. Sure wish that happened more often.

    Take a look…eyes

    4/6/2013

    After our snow yesterday…yes you read that correctly…snow on April 5th, I guess I wanted to remind myself that a new season is actually upon us. It is Spring according to the calendar and before we know it, the weather will be hot and humid.

    When I started this journal page I had no idea where it was going.

    20130406_1706

    I spread my super thin, lame gesso over the pages in my Watkins cookbook journal then kept adding layers of paint and stamping.

    20130406_1705

    Next I wanted to try out some molding paste applied through a stencil…a technique I’ve seen several times on YouTube videos. I love the texture it adds. I’ll definitely be trying that one again!

    20130406_1708

    I used water and walnut ink to age this library card which is placed on top of a bit of a forest scene magazine page. Love it when things like that work out. Still looking for more texture I glued down a bit of flower trim.

    I am incredibly happy with the way this one turned out.

    20130406_1704

    And look..the sun is even shiny bright today promising that the season is actually changing.

  • Art - Blog - Creativity

    Often chaotic

    May 26, 2016 - By 

    Inspiration has finally taken a hold of me. I’m feeling creative. Feeling the need to express myself or at the very least put paint to paper.

    often chaotic art journal page

    Without knowing the direction I was heading I just grabbed the colors that spoke to me and used my fingers to apply them to the last page in my heART journal. Truth be told, I was covering a seriously hideous background I created quite some time ago. After much rumination on options to save it I realized covering over was the best option.

    often chaotic art journal page

    Next I used washi tape to add interest but I wasn’t done. I have a stash of rub-ons that never seem to work when I want them to be perfect so I’ve taken to using them in backgrounds. That way when the image messes up…it’s perfect. Messy is the look I was going for with these.

    often chaotic art journal page

    Then all of a sudden the words hit me. The page was chaotic yet interesting…just like our journey through life.

    Linking up with Art Journal Journey again for the theme Journeys picked by Erika aka BioArtGal.

    Art Journal Journey