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I made this page for a Misting showcase at the Pink Paislee blog:
You can read the blog post here. Here are some details from the page:
Bold, happy color and some collage. I am creating multiple art journaling pages a week for July and August (and maybe longer). You can read more about it and the book I am using for these pages at the top of this blog post.
Well another day of this week went by. It was another long long day but I am feeling like I am being productive at work and haven’t fully fallen apart just yet. I am getting up at 5:45 just to make sure I exercise before the day even begins. If you’d told me last year that I’d be doing that I would have laughed at you. How the times have changed. Nathaniel didn’t have school today but I still didn’t snap anything of him except this crappy one.
He was quite lonely today with no daddy and no david and mommy working extra-hard. When David came home and was reading his library book, Nathaniel went right up him and snuggled.
And put his head right on the nook of David’s shoulder. I just about cried.
And then they played together. Even though David’s making a weird face in this one.
This is a bad shot but I love the look on Nathaniel’s face.
And now the kids are sleeping and I am still working. I haven’t made art today yet either and still have a few more todo list items so I might not get to it. But that’s ok. I did a lot and I will take some serious art time this weekend if needed. Right now more urgent (and legitimately important) things are happening. This is not to say I did no art. I still sketched and I am doing my weeklong journal. Just not a full standalone art journal page. Anyhow. off to journal some and maybe – just maybe do some art. here’s to a better tomorrow. We have a 5K walk scheduled tomorrow night which should be really fun. Three Things I’m Grateful For: Three Things David’s Grateful For: Here are the sketches from this week. Wednesday, I made this girl.
the next day, was a bad day so I did this girl cause it was my exact mood at that moment.
Friday I did a fish:
on Saturday I decided to change things up and did the three mirrors:
on Sunday, I did this scene:
Monday was another scene which looks ok until you look at the original and realize how much more amazing it is and how i got my perspective and scale all wrong.
Tuesday I made another scene:
and here we are, something a bit different. I want to challenge myself, stretch, see what i like what I’m good at etc. as always some are ok others not so great. let’s see what next week brings. Here’s the next page:
I made this one immediately after the one from yesterday and I love it just as much. The full text reads: Every single dream starts with one step. take yours. Here are some details from the page:
another page with the big black letters, stitching, white background and bold, happy color. Makes me happy. I am creating multiple art journaling pages a week for July and August (and maybe longer). You can read more about it and the book I am using for these pages at the top of this blog post.
Today went much better and much worse than expected. First the good bits…After we took David to school, we drove to Nathaniel’s school and he immediately started playing with all the toys.
Made noises.
Showed them to us.
When it came time to go, we said bye and he got really upset. But within seconds, it was clear that he thought he had to leave and was upset at that. Once he figured out it was us leaving but not him, he was totally fine. And when we came back to pick him up 3+ hours later he was playing merrily and didn’t even seem super-excited to see us. All in all, it was perfect. and I am so so so deeply thankful. But work went considerably worse than expected. It wore me down emotionally and psychologically and physically. I ended up going to work last minute and then driving home right at bed time. So I only got this one photo of David.
who is still loving school by the way (thankfully!!) and I am completely wiped. I didn’t get to read to David today (first time this year) and I might not get to do art either. I did exercise (albeit some of it with the laptop in my hand) and I did manage a quick sketch but today was full and overwhelming. Here’s to a better tomorrow. Three Things I’m Grateful For: Three Things David’s Grateful For:
I have no idea why I picked up Wings. I am slightly obsessed with angles (especially lately) and maybe I thought it would be related. Or maybe I liked the cover. I’ve been on a young adult bend lately and maybe this was just another light but wonderful read. Well as it turned out I only felt so so about it. The characters didn’t have my attention as much as I would have liked them to and I just didn’t get into the book. It might be me. This was certainly a sweet book and interesting at times. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. It just didn’t feel deep to me I guess. It hovered on the surface the whole time. I might read her next book to see if things change but I am not rushing out to get it just yet. Or maybe I just need to give young adult a rest and read something completely different for a bit. Or not. Who knows? 🙂 This is one of the projects I did for Authentique Paper for CHA Summer.
Journaling Reads: Here’s the next page:
The full text reads: It starts with you. Here are some details from the page:
So after the last muddy page, I realized I just like white. Not that this should be shocking considering my layouts but for some reason, I kept thinking when art journaling I need to cover all the background with color. Which then makes all the other colors not true since blue on a yellow background is not the same as blue on white. So now I decided to use white for my backgrounds. I love so much of this. The colors. The stitching. The lettering. All of it. I feel like maybe I am slowly finding my way. I am creating multiple art journaling pages a week for July and August (and maybe longer). You can read more about it and the book I am using for these pages at the top of this blog post.
Well today was David’s first day of first grade. Here he is outside our house.
My big boy. He usually has a uniform but this week is not.
He was great. Once he walked in he sat down right away.
and started to color his name tag.
Nathaniel desperately wanted to color, too. But, of course, that was there for another boy.
when we left, David was great but Nathaniel cried big, huge tears. Didn’t want to leave David behind and he asked about David all day. When we got in the car to get him (today was a short day for David, just until noon.) he kept saying David’s name. When he saw David, his whole face lit up. It was a stressful day for me so the kids just played once they were both home. David entertained himself and Nathaniel.
Who was so so happy to have his brother back.
Tomorrow promises to be even more stressful. David has a full day, Nathaniel starts his first day (which I cannot even imagine after the way he felt about David today) and I have a big day at work. So stressful all around. But it will come and it will go. And it will be ok. The good news is David had a great day and loves loves his new school. I am super-wiped as I woke up at 5:45 to exercise this morning. And I’ve been on emotionally and physically and mentally all day. So the plans tonight are to do some art if I can and then just lie on the couch and watch TV until it’s bedtime. Oh and some journaling. Three Things I’m Grateful For: Three Things David’s Grateful For: This weeklong page was originally inspired by this wonderful picture and this awesome one. I loved them both and decided to do my own hot-air balloons.
This week I kept it simple cause it was already so colorful. here’s the left page: And the right side: And here’s the filled page:
I love this one, too. Weekly Art Journal is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here. And you can find out more about the weeklong daily journaling here.
Quiet day here today. The morning started with exercise and then a family breakfast to celebrate Daddy’s birthday! And then we all took some quiet time and after Nathaniel did not take a nap, we went out to lunch to one of our favorite restaurants. I brought my camera along and snapped this of Nathaniel coloring.
And one of the birthday boy. The love of my life.
Nathaniel wasn’t cooperating.
I completely forgot to take a photo of the candle cause I was too busy singing. Our food was delicious. We then came home and I suddenly felt overwhelmingly tired so dozed on and off on the couch while the little boy played.
and the big boy, too.
here’s his creation.
Alas, tomorrow is the first day of school for David. New school. Wednesday is first day of school for Nathaniel and a big day for me at work. The week I’ve been dreading is finally here. But it’s going to be ok. I will make it through. Hopefully with flying colors. Three Things I’m Grateful For: Three Things David’s Grateful For: I had the honor of being the September guest designer Jenni Bowlin’s kit club. Here’s one of the layouts I made:
Journaling Reads: And some details:
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