Hi! It’s been awhile since I’ve posted…which seems to be the norm in the past couple of years, haha. Blogging isn’t what it used to be; it used to be about just rambling on about life & whatever you felt compelled to ramble about, but it seems now “blogging” is similar to “publishing a magazine,”…
November has been an interesting month. I’ve made some insights & discoveries about myself, things I didn’t expect and in ways I didn’t expect. I started three different challenges on November 1: Art Every Day Month, NaNoWriMo, and a 100 Day Challenge within my spiritual group. I began each with typical zeal. While I’m staying…
Art Every Day Month is humming along for me (after only four days, I know…let’s see what tune it sings after two weeks). I have been inspired each day to create various things, some that I share and some not. Here’s one of the things I made yesterday: The inspiration came from the fact that…
Today Jamie asks: What treat do you wish for? Ok, this one is a bit harder for me than last week. Last week was super easy and the answer came to me in a mere moment. This one, however… Hmmm. I wish for a lot of things. A lot. Big things (my own house), fairly…
Here are two more I did today (click to see larger versions): I want to say how thankful I am to have found this art form—it’s the cheapest hobby I’ve had in years! And it’s doing wonders for my creativity in other areas. I make a layout or two and suddenly I’m flooded with ideas…
I’ve completely fallen in love with digital scrapping. It’s so addicting! It completely satisfies so many things my inner artist craves: color, layout, whimsy, symbolism…to name a few. And the more I explore it, the more I am intrigued with digital art journaling and the other, deepening forms it takes. I’ll be exploring that as…
So in the course of packing, sorting, purging, and whatnot, I have been finding things I forgot I have. That’s always how it goes, right? Among the things I’ve found, I found/remembered I had a set of gorgeous 18th century-inspired sculptures of French ladies playing instruments. They had belonged to my grandmother on my dad’s…
Posting this from Flickr…let’s see if this works. [After posting it] Hmph. Had to go back into the post and finagle the formatting. Ah well…here it is. :-)
For the third day, for some reason when I decided to do a little collage piece what emerged was a bit melancholy… I suppose thinking about her life, about what we know and about how much we don’t know, can bring about such a state.
It’s time to start celebrating Marie, the infamous queen remembered for her extravagance, fashion, larger-than-life reputation, and in the end, strength and resolve. This party is the brainchild of Joy at Cupid’s Charm and she has kicked off the celebration with a sale…go check it out! The party idea came about to celebrate the new…
Yesterday I got on a roll: I made a Paris-themed digital collage for the ARTchix blog challenge, using graphics from The Graphics Fairy and Faerie Enchantment: Then my guy offered me scans of his family’s brewery’s vintage beer labels, so I had to play with those too (with added graphics found on free clip art…
Here’s my latest mini mixed media wood plaque. The photo doesn’t really show off the colors that well (the paints used are more of a green-blue with the blue, but they are all blending together in the pic; I used a bit of my favorite glitter glue as well, but it’s not showing up either),…