Gotta go!

I finished this month's digital calendar and have more progress on my painting. This month I cheated a little because well I forgot to work on it for a whole week straight.





























Here's where I'm at with my painting. Its getting a little muddy in colors so I have to work on that. Only bad thing about oils is you can blend them too much. I hope to touch up some areas this week and it'll be done soon! I might do more to it. Who knows. This is where it is right now.
I have to run take the boys to class then come home and walk the dogs. I'll be back on later to leave comments and read blogs. Gotta catch up!

Cold front headed towards FL yeah! :)

Back to once a week posting. Kinda sad. Its been a bit hard to keep up with things. I did almost finish my painting. I hope to finish it up on Thursday and take pics. I also did this digital altered page that I plan on printing out and putting in my journal.

















When the friend said this to me, I took it as a compliment. Then I thought about it more later and thought it was more supposed to be insulting. Really though I will continue to take it as a compliment. Mainly because why not? I mean I like songs because of their content. Its not all about the beat, or all about just that singer can do no wrong. Its about substance. To me lyrics in songs are like poetry and if I like listening to them and thinking of my own life, whats wrong with that? Of course this does not mean I don't have some Black Eyed Peas on my ipod just for gym music. I do like my heavy beat dance music for the gym.

Today I have to go meet mom friends for coffee, run Leo around all over town, and then go to class tonight. Too much! Tomorrow will be much calmer. My first calm day of the week. I love Thursdays.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope your Wednesday is more calm than mine and doesn't involve Elder Law like I have to deal with. ugh.. :)

My pinterest linkie is at the bottom, Find me!

Yesterday I spent a good 3 hours outside on my back screened porch in the hot weather painting. Its really the only place I can paint at my house that is well lighted enough. Otherwise I can't see what the heck I'm doing with color. I really enjoyed it. I haven't painted in months. Above is a progress shot. I am hoping to work on it more tomorrow. I also have an old painting that I need to work on and fix where Leo took a marker to it and drew on it.
























Here's a picture of all my paints I use. I have just some basic colors that I mix to get the colors I want. I need more white dang it! Have I mentioned I love oil paint? Today is the gym and later tonight is Elder Law. I really, really don't like my Elder Law class. I don't know which is worse at this point, Elder Law vs. Bankruptcy Law. :(

Well I'm off to take the boys to school. My new pug, Mikey loves to go with me to take the boys to school. Isn't he adorable? Have a great day! Thanks for stopping by! Here's my pinterest link.

I lose scissors around here like crazy. Where are they???

This morning I made cinnamon rolls. Nothing fancy, just the kind you do out of a can. Logan loves them. Leo of course won't eat them. I don't know if I ever mentioned that the boys pretty much are complete opposites even down to what each will or won't eat.

Whenever I make cinnamon rolls it always makes me think of when I used live with my old college roommate. She would make them every Saturday or Sunday. I never cared for them much. I especially didn't like the icing then and would maybe eat one if it didn't have that on it. Now I make them for my own kid who loves them. I probably make them close to once a week. Probably more like every other week, but still. I have to admit they do smell good.

Do you have any food that always makes you think of someone or something? I have a few food items that always spark memories.

I did get a chance to make a new card for the Cardabilities challenge. This was the sketch.




















Here's the card I made.






























BG: flower small pp, bird pp, red wood pp, big flower chipboard, Lace: hand dyed with alchol inks, Unknown: Green/wht pp, and orange transperancy piece, Thickers: white letters

Today my plan is to walk the dogs, finish laundry, go grocery shopping, and get ready for the coming week. Hope everyone is having a good Sunday!

+ one pug

This week went by too fast. I had so much to get done and ran around like crazy. First off I have to tell you all that I am going to officially adopt my new foster pug, Mikey. He is the sweetest most perfect pug ever. He even walks well with the huskies.




















So look forward to pug made clothes and a pug Halloween costume for Mikey! lol.

I made a card this week for the jinglebelles hybrid challenge. Its with digital kit I got from Jessica Sprague's site. This is the kit here. I used the word saying and holly from the digi kit. I printed them out on thick paper, but them out and added stickles red to the holly piece. The stripped pp is also from a digital kit.



















Here is the card I made.





























Hope everyone has a good weekend!

I wanna sew

This weekend I have been obsessed with ripping all my cds and putting them on my itouch. I plan on soon having NO cds in my car and having my itouch play through my stereo in my car with one of those adapters. Ya know why? Cause I"M SO SICK OF SCRATCHED CDS! Also the bulk of them in my tiny car is annoying.

I've been checking out craftster.org to see neat new crafting ideas. These are some of my favorites. I've really been kinda thinking about making some clothes either completely from fabric and patterns or doing some altering of existing old clothing I have and doing a "new dress a day" type thing.

Here's what I love: Click on pictures to get links to their projects

I love this dress this girl made. She is amazing. Wow.. I wish I had this exact dress in my size. I WANT IT. Though me doing 3 mths of yarn work on my own..unlikely.



















Okay this girl is too cute. I love her dress she made. I mean you gotta really be brave and have a fun heart to make such a quirky dress, but look so good in it too. I love this. But I'm afraid I could not pull it off. I'm a bit on the older side. I'd love to see this in white instead of blk too.




















Okay I love these jeans. I will be doing the EXACT same thing or something very similar. I love the idea. Its such a great one. I typically go my own way with a technique or something like this, but I really really love these jeans. This girl is amazingly creative.



















This girl has an amazing how to make a scalloped edge dress hem. I want to try this.

















Last one, I know you are probably bored at this point. I watch too much Project Runway and love this stuff!!
I love this dress pattern. It looks like something I could maybe do?? I'd have to find a pattern I like.

A deadly sin perhaps?

What am I? I'm a glutton. Thats right. I can't help myself. I took in another foster pug. His name is Mikey. I had all intentions of waiting awhile before doing any more fosters. Just because this semester is very difficult for me with Leo going to 3 different schools during the week and Logan going to a different one, and then there is my school too. I decided to change my mind. We girl's have that right I guess.. :)

I'm glad I did. He's a doll. The boys really seemed to have missed having a pug around. They have been over the moon since he's been here. He's around 4 years old, house trained, already fixed (this is a plus because otherwise its a whole day procedure), shakes hands and sits, and is just a joy. Only bad thing.. I think they should have named him "Shark". He will snag food right out of the boys hands. He wrangled a few cookies away from Leo already. *eh..* He's ruthless. lol

I just finished this book and it was really good. Great mystery read. I loved it.



















Here's the synopsis of the book:
A moody and engrossing mystery, In Search of the Rose Notes follows two best friends from childhood who once unsuccessfully investigated the disappearance of their teenage babysitter, and now, in their twenties, attempt once again to uncover the truth. Readers who love the literary, female focused mysteries of Laura Lippman, Tana French, and Jennifer McMahon will be thrilled to add Emily Arsenault to their must-read lists.

I've been a reading machine lately. I hope to get some crafty stuff done today. We'll see. There's a new Jinglebelles challenge out, new Sketchy Thursday sketch, and a cardabilities sketch.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. Oh! and I'll add another one of my flickr fav photos mosaics. All the credits for the photos/links are below.

1. circus - elephant trainer, 2. deerlet and flitter, 3. vintage suitcase, 4. contents of kit #36, 5. Bounty, 6. early summer, 7. Oriental Poppies, 1927, Georgia O'Keeffe, 8. Magnet on Thomas Campbell art, 9. Sunset

Created with fd's Flickr Toys

Yawn..

I woke up at 6:30 this morning because of a set cell phone alarm that shouldn't been set. *sigh* I am so tired. I'm sick of waking up early. I have to go to the gym today and do homework for tomorrow night. ;P

I did work on an art journal page the other day. It turned out pretty cool. Mainly its alot of layering and collaging w/ a bit of journaling.






















Here is also another great mosaic of Flickr fav's photos. All the links to where they came from are underneath the mosaic. One question who is your fav artist/band/musician you like to listen to?

1. Moth made from vintage embroidered fabrics., 2. New Stenzo fabric, 3. I love sassafras!, 4. summerhouse, 5. Taste of Summer #4, 6. scan0068, 7. Summer 2010 journal 7, 8. magicicadas, 9. flower for Jo

Created with fd's Flickr Toys

Copy cat

This weekend I got a bit of a break and had a chance to do a card for the Jinglebelles challenge. Its to CASE someone else's card. Here is Lauren's original card that I cased.



















And here is my card I made this morning. I really like how its very similar to Lauren's, but not exact. She is much more skilled with cutting and paper punching than I. lol

























I am coming up with a new art journal year long project. I've really been missing having prompts every week and having to do something. I think I came up with a pretty good one. I just don't wanna wait till January!

Thanks for stopping by. Off to eat my lunch.

Grape koolaid is what I always want to drink when I wake up in the middle of the night.

I'm one day late, oh well right. I did finish this month's digital layout. I need to start work on September. I finished 3 books this month! That in itself makes me very happy. I read "Ice Cold" by Tess Gerrison, "The 13th Tale" by Diane Setterfield, and "Incantation" by Alice Hoffman. Other than reading and watching tv shows online, I haven't felt like doing anything else.. Hope that changes soon. Here's the layout.