• Blog

    T Tuesday: Piping hot edition

    red green teaSo glad you stopped by to join me for T stands for Tuesday.

    Now that the weather has turned, I’ve been consuming a lot of tea once my coffee is gone each morning.

    I think I spent a bit too much time in the cold garage painting my Pumpkin Minions…I definitely picked up some sort of bug.  Little J is home sick today with me. I guess I shared…wasn’t that nice of me?

    Did you notice  the shape in the steam?

    Look closely…

    heart tea

     

    Did you see the heart?

    I thought that was super cool…or maybe I should say hot. *grin*

    It’s going to be a really low key day around here.

    What are doing today?

     

  • Blog

    Pumpkin Minions

    pumpkin minionsWe decided to go a little different route with our pumpkins this year. They make me chuckle every time I look at them. They were so much fun to make!!

    I spray painted the pumpkin yellow then used acrylic paints to create the denim overalls. The goggle rim is a canning lid. I cut out a circle of card stock then painted an eyeball on each. The canning lid and card stock are hot glued to the pumpkin. The hair is black pipe cleaner that I stuck into holes created by poking a nail into the top of the pumpkin.

    Not too long after taking the photo I had to rush my minions into the garage since there was sleet falling on them. I put forth much effort to let some half frozen precipitation ruin them when the paint is is hardly dry!!

  • Art - Blog

    Dream Big

    dream bigI’ve reached the end of my cursed journal.   This is on the very end of the book.

    I realized that I used this same sentiment earlier in the journal but it seems to be one that comes to mind a lot for me.

    We must dream big or we will never reach for something just beyond our fingertips.

    cursed journalI think I’m going to leave the outside covers of the book as is at least for now.  They are a nice shade of teal with a geometric pattern that is pleasing to the eye.

    I always love the edges of an altered book or journal. All thick and wonky from paint and glue.

    After the hard start for this journal…making me feel as if it was cursed. Seriously…the first few pages of this book are awful. Luckily I skipped around so they are interspersed with pleasing pages.