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    Back to the journal

    October 5, 2013 - By 

    promise meIt’s been a while since I’ve sat down and worked in one of my art journals. Or at least it feels that way.

    This was a quick page I did one morning while feeling inspired. It felt really good to be painting again.

    I’ve been preoccupied with crafting for an upcoming craft show. My focus has been expanding my inventory…not art for the sake of art. 🙂

     

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    A time for everything

    August 10, 2013 - By 

    a time for everything yarn haul

    Another page in my cursed journal. Photographing this page proved to be a challenge. This was the best shot I could get and it still doesn’t have the look that it does in real life. I’m bummed because I think this is one of my very favorite pages EVER.

    After I stamped and embossed the pocket watch image, it looked just too perfect. I took some sandpaper to it to mess it up a bit. This made me much happier. 🙂

    I also had to show off my yarn haul from the thrift store. Woo-hoo…lots of knitting and crochet material for the less than the price of 2 average skeins.

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    A beautiful day

    August 5, 2013 - By 

    beautiful dayWe’ve had such gorgeous weather lately. It inspired me to create this journal page day.

    Blue sky and puffy white clouds.

    A field of flowers…beautiful day full page

    I think I was also inspired by a recent trip to the MN Landscape Arboretum.  So many beautiful flowers. I took well over 100 photos in the 1.5 we were there.

    I’ll share more of that day in a later post.

     

     

    coneflower

    This was the last photo I took that day as we were walking back out to our vehicle. That’s it straight from the camera…no edits…no fussing with color balance etc….with the exception of my watermark, of course.

    coneflower edit

     

     

    Here’s the same photo after playing around in Photoshop. It has a completely different mood.

    I could play in the digital world all day but there are things in the real world that need my attention today.