• Art - Blog - Creativity

    Cleaning inspiration

    March 5, 2012 - By 
    Over the weekend I started picking up my art space. Putting it back to rights after a shameful amount of time of just moving enough stuff to get a few inches to work within.
    Of course, as I was sorting through my piles of papers, I found a blank ATC background ready to use. The stamps where also within sight so…this simple ATC was born.
    Next I found this raven image and knew that I already had a pre-painted page in my Playtime AB that would likely look pretty good. When I have extra paint on my palette I paint it onto a random page in a book. Waste not, want not.
    Lastly I grabbed my Nature book from the AB 101 class my friend Elizabeth taught several years ago. If you are interested she is currently teaching it again
    …for FREE…
    I’m not thrilled with the outside edge. I may go back and cover the dots or make them a little more subdued.
    I’m hoping to get my art space completely cleaned up and show some “shameful” before and then clean after photos soon. I have a knitted dishcloth order to fill before I can commit anymore time to my art. Totally forgot that they were needed by next weekend!! AGH!

  • Blog - Photography

    Snow Day

    February 29, 2012 - By 

     

    The two words every kid longs to hear.
    I was shocked when the call came through at 5:30 this morning.
    I figured we’d maybe have a 2 hour late start but CLOSED.  Really!?!?
    We are 5 houses from the edge of our school district…if we were on the next street, the kids would have had school on time, no delay today.
    Weird, huh.
    We got rain then sleet then snow then freezing rain then sleet again then snow. Needless to say it’s very heavy. Check out my neighbors Spruce tree.

     

    Another neighbor has a tree leaning down into their driveway.

     

    Our dogwood looks pretty encased in ice.

     

    I wanted to take even more pictured but it’s rainy-sleety again and I didn’t want to get my lens wet.
    It’s so pretty out and warm.
  • Blog - Crafts

    Card and canvas

    December 22, 2011 - By 
    One birthday card for a man… using some Citra Solv paper and Basic Grey packaging. The recipient is back in college get his second degree and is taking some very high level math courses. I thought the normal curve table page was fitting.
    This canvas is now on it’s third life.
    Every time I get tired of it I just spread some gesso over the top and start over. This time I added some modeling paste for texture and then some of my rusted lace fabric. I trimmed down an 8×10 print of digital art.