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I missed my bloggerversary!

April 15, 2018 - By halleday

Wow…11 years!!

I am just 4 days late for my 11th bloggerversary! I never thought I’d still be at this after all this time. You see, I tend to get really excited about new projects then when the next obsession crosses my path and I drop everything for that. Eventually I do circle back around to older things but it can take a while.

Growing up, writing ranked up there with pulling teeth. This is yet another reason I’m impressed that I’ve continued post after post, month after month, year after year. What is very more crazy to me is that I’ve grown to enjoy writing. I find it very freeing. It unclutters my mind. I don’t worry about the little things like the squiggly red line under unclutters telling me that is not a proper word. I don’t care. It’s the word I’ve chosen to use.

I do find it very ironic that my first post was about a handmade book I had just created…and now 11 years later…it’s a handmade book that I created that had me sitting down at the keyboard today.

More on my new book in the next post…

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T Tuesday: Spring snow day? edition

April 2, 2018 - By halleday

We all have our fingers crossed for tomorrow. We are getting snow and seemingly lots of it so we might as well have the day off if we have to have snow after Easter. The weather reports are saying 6-9 inches.

❄ UPDATE: Snow day!!! ❄

Enough about the crummy weather and on to the art journal.

I created this page with a layer of randomly cut squares and rectangles using both heavy card stock and a textured chocolate box.

I used a combination of stains, distress paint, gelatos and charcoal sticks to create the variation of color.

I layered my “found relative” image over a fussy cut flower photo, paint stained baby wipe and frayed fabric. The paper clip had just the right patina so it found its way on the page as well.

I adding some distressing to the photo which started as a printed image. I used gel medium to adhere it to card stock to give it the weight and stability of a photo of that age. I scuffed up the edges then wet misted them before dragging across a distress ink pad. I ended up accidentally creasing the image in a couple of places with added authenticity in my opinion.

Linking up with Art Journal Journey for the theme: Recycle and Collage

I also need to share my photo challenge recap.

16. Money …..accidental collection of money I’ll never spend

17. Green

18. Bread ….lunch

19. Season ….it’s supposed to be Spring…right?

20. A note

21. Oh No! …someone is disturbing Marvin’s peace

22. Last thing I bought …arrows

23. Candy

24. Perspective ….grilling with snow on the ground (imagine that I’m having a nice glass of wine with this…photo not included)

I’ve officially abandoned the rest of the month. This month was difficult and not very inspiring. I’m taking April off from the photo challenge scene.

So Tomorrow…Tuesday…I’ll either be shoveling the going to work or just shoveling. I’m hoping for the latter.

What are you doing today?

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T Tuesday: spring break edition

March 26, 2018 - By halleday

The calendar says its Spring but I think Mother Nature needs her head examined. It’s cold and snowy. So since the weather isn’t cooperating I figured I’d create something that would brighten the gloomy day.

I pulled bits together from my scrap bucket.

I even briefly set up my sewing machine on my workspace to get some stitching onto the page. I sewed this scrap directly into the book.

This piece was stitched together before gluing into place. Gosh I’ve missed using my machine! For some reason it inspires me.

Lastly I added the word imagine. I was trying to imagine what Spring should feel like. I’m linking up with AJJ for Spring.

With it being spring break so many people are traveling. Mini-me and I did as well. It wasn’t a tropical destination. It was 4 hours NORTH of here for the state archery tournament.

We drove up on Friday and spent the night in a hotel since she didn’t shoot until Saturday. A snow storm was expected anyway so might as well go early. Thankfully we never did get any snow…just a cold wind.

We had to do the usual tourist things…amazingly enough there was others venturing into the frigid wind off the lake for a photo op that were nice enough to take a picture of us. That may look like standing water under Babe the Blue Ox but its solid ice.

After the tournament (at which she beat her personal best score by 24 points!) we headed for home but took a slight detour since we were that far north to visit Itasca State Park.

As we turned in we quickly realized that we probably wouldn’t get to see the headwaters of the Mississippi as we had wanted. Some of the roads weren’t even plowed. Instead we just took a photo of the map on went on our merry way.

I really wanted her to be able to jump across the Mississippi as I had when I was a kid…heck, I wanted to do it again now! Oh well…maybe another trip.

This is typically when I share my photo challenge but I’m woefully behind. I will get caught up though and share them next week as well as the next months challenge.

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