Left page, mostly from stencils about my dryad self.
Right page about my 2nd Mom and how she is Dorothy…
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Late but working on it..
The week 2 prompt for Journal 52 is (was?) “a Simple Place” and it was supposed to be in by LAST Sunday night, but I wasn’t in the moment I suppose. I have been working on it some, and will have it (and week 3’s “Makes Me Smile”) by THIS Sunday. I’ll post them both here…
I’m trying a double spread for “A Simple Place” and perhaps I’m a bit intimidated by so much space? NAH! I certainly feel like I’ve pretty much outgrown my mini journal and it isn’t even done. I seem to be expanding my art space needs while I shrink…
Interresting!
Week 1 Journal52 – Up Up and Away!
This is my first week in Journal52 and I like the idea so far. Clearly, posting/showing my work to others is a new thing for me, but I want to learn more and grow in my art, so I’m doing it anyway…
I found out how velum curls when you try to glue it, and used tape dots for the second piece. Live & learn!
Tangled up in zen
Worked on this during an interminable work meeting. This is the type of thing that keeps me from stabbing people out of boredom!
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One Little Word
So, I didn’t think I could come up with only one (1) word to concentrate on for a whole year, but I realized that I had already come up with one when I decided to buy NO (as in NONE) art & craft supplies unless it is something that I have used up and need to replace it. I have so many supplies, my stash has a stash…
The word is USE. I am going to use the things I have purchased, use the information I have collected, and use the inspiration I have been squandering.
Not bad, I say.
St Patricks Day
On the right: Lyrics to “Paddy Murphy”…an Irish drinking song my Father used to sing to me.
Inside front cover
Painting decor
So I HAVE been getting paint on my hands, but mostly just from putting color on picture frames and such. There’s a lot of blue and green in my living room and I got tired of all the mismatched wood tones on the picture frames.
I spent this past weekend putting heat blocking curtains in my upstairs windows since this is the desert and it’s April. Everyone has been warning me about the summers here since I arrived in September and my windows DO face West, so…
I WILL post some photos of some art journal pages as soon as I TAKE some photos of some art journal pages…
See…Not only do I not know if anyone would even be interested is seeing what I create, I don’t know if anyone out in the wilds of the interwebs will ever read this at all.
Meh…I’m gonna write anyway.
It’s not ALL about the cats…
Aside from the fact that this blog is named for 2 of them, it is not intended to be about them exclusively. They are my children and I love them dearly, but I also wanted a place to discuss my tentative steps into the worlds of crafting and art journalling.
Over the past holiday weekend, I organized quite a bit more of my “Craft Room” and even took the time to paint a few things. See…I rent a 2 bedroom apartment and the smaller bedroom is my craft spot.
I have collected A LOT of supplies and equipment over the past couple of years, looking forward to the time (NOW!!!) when I could get creative with it all. I have books and paper and wood and metal and odd bits of flotsam & jetsam just waiting patiently for me to transform it all into a new and/or reincarnated thing of beauty and/or usefullness.
So…this blog provides me with one less excuse for keeping it all to myself. I can make things, take pictures of them, and post them here. If other people like them, YAY! If they don’t, that will be OK too, because this is the interwebs and criticism once removed matters to me even less than in real life.
The point of all this is that I have the space and time to GET creative. Whatever comes out will be…um…whatever!
Oh! The craft room is closed to kitties except for when I am in it, because, more than the fact that I don’t want to worry about the children messing up my projects, I REALLY don’t want to have to clean wet paint off of cats!
I’ll have the eggs to post a picture of SOMEthing I made soon…until then, here is one of the MANY pictures I like from Pinterest…
Horatio and Emily 