I Love Books!

I checked out a book from our local library called The Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook.  It has alot of cool ideas that I would love to implement on my pages.  I'll post those when I start making them.  The book is worth checking out if you get the chance.

ATC's with a Texture theme

I don't know where I found this but I thought it was appropriate to post here. 

ATC Swap for December - Theme: Quilling

Here are our ATC's for December.  I had to buy some tools for quilling to pull it off, but found that it was a fun thing to do.  So many wonderful videos and blogs out there devoted to quilling.  It was a great learning experience.

Here they are:

September ATC Swap

These ATC's are the result of our September swap.  The theme was "feathers & metal".

Great job ladies!

Empty Nesters!

After 24 years of rearing my two boys, my husband and I are now empty nesters.  We've had to relinquish control little by little over the years so it wasn't a shock.  In fact, it's more of a freedom that I'm embracing.  I love my boys, but they need to embrace their independence and fly the coop, which they have.

It's a little strange though because I'm trying to find my new "groove".  I seem to be floundering a bit trying to figure it all out.  Things are so different now.  I do find myself cleaning a little deeper and reading books from my "to read" pile.  It's all good!

I'm taking it day by day.

A friend encouraged me to have a SB retreat at my house in October, which I decided to do.  It was the weekend that we always took off for a few days, but now I don't have anyone to care for our pets while I'm gone, so we'll just have the retreat here.  Which means no packing, yeah!

I am still doing an ATC swap with a couple friends every month, I'll try and get those pics uploaded soon.

Great, Great Read!

If you love time travel, action, romance, Italy and the middle ages, you'll love this series.  It's called the River of Time series written by Lisa T Bergren.  I simply couldn't put them down!  Listed in their correct order below: 

AFC - Day #31 FINAL DAY!

 

For today's art journal entry I was playing with colored pencils.  

I loved playing and sharing this month in my Art Journal.  I tried lots of different things I haven't tried before.   I loved experimenting with different mediums and learned alot about how some of them work best.  I encourage you to go and play in your art journals!  Just Do It!  Anything goes!  It's great therapy!  Thanks for coming by and sharing this challenge with me.

AJC - Day #30

Sketching!  One more day to go!

AJC - Day #29

Sorry that this post is later than usual.  My internet was down all day.  I just got it fixed by my trusty computer geek guy.  He had the darn thing fixed in under 5 minutes.  Nuts!  It's amazing how the internet is so much a part of me.  I can't imagine life without it.  Isn't that sad!?

I've been in a sketching mood!  I sketched this from a magazine photo.

AJC - Day #28

Just a little sketching, a little watercolor pencil and a little ink pen.  I wasn't going to post this page, I don't really like how it turned out, but, after all, Art Journaling is just playing, right?  So now it's out there in space somewhere.  Thanks for coming by!

AJC - Day #27

So far so good, I think I'm gonna finish this challenge only 4 days left! Yeah!  Here's day 27:

Today, I just felt like going back to basics.  Coloring!  I drew up a quick pic with my Stabilo Woody watercolor pencils and then I added a cut-out of a girl with big green eyes and then a favorite of mine, an owl.  The girl and the owl are colored in with Copics.  I realized I don't have alot of flesh tones in my Copic marker stash.  I need to work on that.

Have a wonderfully creative day y'all!