This tag was totally inspired by a creative jumpstart by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer (her blog is here).
My husband finally hung the shelf for my paint table. Finally.
I have also been playing with Pan Pastels in my art journals when I have time.
Happy Monday!
Because I cleared a path to my sewing machine…and the temperature outside on Friday allowed me to be in the attic without freezing my tuckus off…I decided to play with some free-form stitching.
My tiny little sewing corner. With that beautiful Bliss fabric by Moda that I have only used bits and pieces of, but provides me with endless hours of color inspiration…
Practicing writing my name.
My word of the year for 2012…
And I folder that I knew would come in handy…
Happy Saturday from the Studio! I am soooo hoping to take some time to create today!
Winter formal was Saturday night. William apparently wasn’t in the mood to go full formal, even though he has nice dress pants (cough…tuxedo pants that I hemmed…cough cough)
Anyway…I was allowed to go to his friends house with him and take photos of the group. 
And they are all absolutely adorable.
And when we were finished taking photos, William handed me my Jo-Totes bag and I said, “Here’s your bag, what’s your hurry?”
And I made my exit.
He said he had fun, but I don’t usually get any details from William…
Happy Wednesday!!
A couple weeks ago I was in Hallmark and they had the ornaments 75% off. So I bought this one.
For this guy. Who looks a lot like the Green Lantern.
At least he’s not carrying around a limited edition Green Lantern Lantern
Except I’m pretty sure that the Green Lantern didn’t wear Buffalo Bills Slippers
I like them though. They are very fitting for this guy!
Happy Monday!!
Inspiration comes in many forms. On Friday afternoon when I left work, I stopped at Target for an Artist Date.
They had polaroid film in stock.
I Loved that.
I found this journal in the dollar spot. I had to have it.
And then I used it for inspiration to create this page. I have some “grungy” letter stamps from Michaels and they mimic the journal font perfectly! And I had been wanting to play with the chevron stencil (Julie Fei-Fan Balzer for The Crafter’s Workshop) and the new bottle of red pepper Color Wash spray that I got. I love how that turned out.
This is the finished page. Lots of hearts. (Not sure what happened with the ugly heart except that I was playing around and I was like, “Oh, I should make a messy heart here.” And then I was like…Um…how do I cover this up? But I left it.
I love this sentiment. It was perfect timing too because that was how I was feeling that day.
Love.
I created this page before I left for work on Sunday, I think (all the days are mixing together).
I used gesso and the harlequin stencil from the Crafter’s Workshop. And many many different types of things that I had that were orange. I hadn’t planned it that way, but I was loving the look.
And then I found some more orange and some stencils.
And finished the page last night.
So that is pretty much what has been going on over here. Lots of work and lots of art journaling and trying to fit in some exercise too.
Happy (almost) Thursday!
Off to buy books the day before school.
Yay! We love you and are so proud of you, Elizabeth. You can do it!
Happy First Day of College!!
A friend of Bill’s just showed him this picture on Facebook. Love it! I asked him if his jeans just happened to be rolled at the bottom too…
Enjoy!!
Elizabeth and I talked a lot about Scrapbooking and Project Life on Thursday night.
She wanted a picture of Bryan, her, and I.
But Bryan disappeared. (I think Daddy was bothering him and making him fly his helicopter in Battlefield even though he probably should have been going to bed…) Anyway…Matt took the picture for us instead.
Perfect photo for Wednesday Project Life. 
Happy Sunday!
I borrowed an ornament from the tree that is still up…
Poor Tigger did not really enjoy the snow…or the cold.
Ralph loves it.
He is a snow dog. And he loves to annoy the other dogs by jumping around and barking at them.
Early into the snow this morning.
The view.
I took a few minutes this morning to take some photos in the freezing cold and blowing snow before I left for work.
But it looks like I will have more chances to take snow photos next week 
I just hope it’s a little warmer. Love the snow, but not crazy about the 3 degrees.
Happy Friday!
Today I bought myself an African Violet because I have always wanted one.
And because when I saw it, it made me happy 
And then I took a photo of myself because I was feeling goofy.
Maybe I was just a little too happy.
Happy Wednesday!
I finally took a day to play with my pan pastels. I have been trying to art journal more this new year, and so I pulled out my art journals.
This is my pan pastel moleskin that I use for Donna Downey’s PanPastel classes. I haven’t quite finished playing around with this page yet.
(Note: If you look closely, you can see brushmarks on the page. This is from Golden brand “Acrylic Ground for Pastels” that my Mom bought me for Christmas. I promised that I would post about it. It gives the page a lot more “tooth” than a gesso’d page which hardly absorbs any of the color at all.)
This is a page that I played with in my art journal.
(There is no gesso or acrylic ground on the art journal pages.)
I love stencils. Because I couldn’t make a real star to save my life 
I hope you took some time this weekend to play.
Happy Monday!
