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Here’s this week’s truth cards: seventeenth card:
and eighteenth card: [inspiration]
and nineteenth: [inspiration]
and here’s the twentieth: [inspiration]
that’s it for this week. Truth cards are ATC-sized cards I am creating as part of my homework for Soul Restoration. You can read more about it here.
Happy Thursday. We had a relatively full day here today. We got up and I exercised and then Jake took David to lego camp and I worked and did art and Nathaniel played. When Jake went to pick David up, he took a photo of David and one of his creations. Which made me super-happy even though the quality of the phone picture is not so great.
Then I took a nice photo of David just for me.
In last night’s webinar, someone asked why I don’t scrap my kids’ outdoor photos and why it’s always the ones at home. The sad fact is we’re home way more than we’re out. I work full time at home so most of our days look like this. Pajamas, and relaxing.
playing with David’s books. (and his toes)
or other fun toys. still in PJs.
On a rare day like today, we got all dressed so we could take David to swim class. Here’s Nathaniel, annoyed that he’s in the stroller.
And finally out.
And here’s the big boy, loving every minute of swim class.
And someone here asked about all my books so I took super-quick, lazy shots around my table just to show you, I can do a longer, more detailed post if you’d like. The first photo has two books.
The big blue one is a journal I picked up at Borders and it’s what I am using for Soul Restoration 2. I will show more of it in some other post. The red one is my daily book. It’s a moleskine with graph(square) paper . I love graph paper. It must be a European thing because I grew up with it and it’s much easier to find in Turkey than it is in the US for some reason. Anyhow this is my main book. Hold my todo lists:
and the daily sketches:
and the daily journaling:
I just started coloring the background with colored pencils, just for fun. so the pages are all filled with happy color. This is my second of these notebooks this year. The first one was painted blue and I just ran out of pages so now I have this one that I painted red. Here’s another pile:
The book on top there is my daily art journal one I started a few weeks ago. It’s a Moleskine sketchbook and the pages are cream-colored and thick and about 5×8 inches.
The next two books in that pile are the Soul Restoration 1 book which was another random journal that I converted. And below that is the Strathmore Watercolor journal that I started in the beginning of the year for art journaling. It’s also around 5×8 and I just bought the large size of this journal. I’d like to explore watercolor more but for now I am doing a lot as is. I will use this book and the bigger one more soon. Behind those books is this:
the ATC holder that’s holding my truth cards. And finally:
This is the big A4-sized watercolor moleskine that holds the weeklong daily art journal pages. And there you go. Those are all my books at the moment. Tonight’s plan is to work on SR2 homework and possibly go to sleep early. I need to get more rest than I’ve been and maybe even read a bit. Oh, and, you can see a recent layout by me on the Pink Paislee blog today, it’s made using the most awesome, brand-new mistables collection. Three Things I’m Grateful For: Three Things David’s Grateful For: Here are the sketches from this week. I drew a few more portraits but then I had enough so here we go: Wednesday, I tried to make a portrait like this wonderful girl and my terrible version:
the next day, I did another girl. a little better this time:
Friday I did this girl I’ve admired for a long time and while I messed up the hair, i think the face turned out alright.
on Saturday I got sick of the portraits and did something different with this girl.
on Sunday, I tried a girl again and i can’t find the source anymore because it appears I forgot to pin it 🙁 I will find it but trust me when I tell you my version sucks:
Monday, I decided I’d had enough of faces so I tackled a violin:
and Tuesday I drew these cute houses.
and here we are. as always some are ok others not so great. let’s see what next week brings.
Well today started chaotically and way off schedule so as I played catch-up, the kids played together so of course I had to stop and take photos. I absolutely adore watching them play together. Might be my very favorite thing in the world to watch.
Then we took David to lego camp and I sketched and did my art journal as Nathaniel played with his stickers.
When David came home, I snapped a photo, read his book to him, and he was off to his friend’s house.
Nathaniel napped, I worked on my Soul Restoration work and a few other loose ends. When Nathaniel woke up, we walked over to David’s friend’s house and all six of us took a walk together in the neighborhood and then we went to hang out there for a bit until Jake came home. Then there was dinner and chaos and now I have to put the kids down cause my webinar for The Masterful Scrapbook Design series is about to start. Feel free to join us if you’re around! Three Things I’m Grateful For: Three Things David’s Grateful For: And here are some more journal pages. This next page uses the Pink Paislee tissue paper and then I used Pan Pastels to add some butterflies in the background and then I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I thought and thought and then finally ended up with this.
I love that Pink Paislee stamp on the right. I added some Tim Holtz tissue tape and a little more stamping and this simple page is done. Different but I like it. This next one is super simple. Just stars. It says “Always be the best version of you.”
A little too simple maybe. I still like it. As if to compensate, the next one is crazy busy. Mostly uses acrylics. Says “you are writing the music of your life. Write the song you want to listen to.”
I like all the colors in this one. The next one didn’t really work out as I’d hoped but I still like it. The quote says “If you look, you can see that you are not as alone as you think. Look harder.”
My intention was to make a mask of one person on the right page and a crowd of people on the left one. Make the left side more obscured to imply that the other people might be hard to see but they are there. Rub ons, Pink Paislee stamps, Cat’s Life Press stamps, pan pastels and acrylics on this one. And now for something completely different. This one says “You must walk down the path to see where it leads.”
This page was gesso’ed and then I used the Inktense Watercolor pencils to draw the path and trees and color the background. Then I used heavy bodied acrylics to do the tree tops and added some on the trunks, too. I like how it turned out. Mostly I like that the pages are different from each other and I am trying different mediums, ideas, and layouts. That’s the five I’ll share this week. More coming next week. Thank you for letting me share. I am creating art journaling pages daily for June (and maybe longer). You can read more about it and the book I am using here.
I’d been saving Catching Fire because I knew chances were high I’d enjoy it and I wanted to make sure I had some books in my queue for when I was tired. But then I just gave up and decided I wanted to read it next. It was quite a fun read. Actually I think I enjoyed it more than the first. Maybe because at this point I knew the characters and could get into their stories more. I am not sure. But either way, I enjoyed all three sections of the book in different ways. So much so that I jumped right into the third book after I finished it.
Another day that flew by here. David’s going to lego camp this week so he’s gone all morning and Nathaniel and I just do all the things we do each day. Then when we pick him up Nathaniel goes for his nap and David does his chores, or activities, or spends some time on the computer. Today when Nathaniel woke up we took a brief trip to the book store and I bought a journal and an art book and David bought a few books and Nathaniel got a sticker book. By the time we got back home, Daddy was home so as he prepared dinner, Nathaniel played with his sticker book:
And Nathaniel yelled at me for bothering him.
And David laughed a bit. Then we read our book and he wrote his journal and now they are both upstairs in bed.
I’ve been taking Alisa Burke’s watercolor class but I hadn’t done any homework. Last night, I decided to do something quick and simple so I did last week’s homework which was to limit the number of colors to use on a page. This page uses only the primary colors, yellow, blue, red and mixtures of them.
My first time drawing poppies. It’s not amazing art or anything but it’s ok. I feel like all the sketching and art journaling has given me more confidence. I can start a project now without too much fear which is more than I can say for the past. I took tomorrow off, just to relax a bit and spend some time with Nathaniel and read a bit and do some of my Soul Restoration homework and art. I am looking forward to it. Three Things I’m Grateful For: Three Things David’s Grateful For: This weeklong page was inspired by some packaging Pinterest photos that were floating around. I wanted to use kraft, white, and yellow. I used tissue paper for the background and then adhered some doilies. Here it is empty:
I stuck with yellow, brown, blue and white for the whole page just for fun. here’s the left page: And the right side: And here’s the filled page:
Tissue paper was hard to write on. Lesson learned. But it did turn out pretty cute. 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.
This morning was completely and utterly insane here but it is now passed so I won’t dwell on it. That’s my goal lately: not to hash and rehash things so that I can acknowledge them and then move on and try to go back to embracing joy. There are days that are rougher and days that are more pleasant but every single day some good and some rough things happen. I am hoping to acknowledge and handle all but focus mostly on the good so I can learn to be more joyous. That’s the plan anyway. I didn’t get to capture a lot of photos today. Just this one of David.
And Nathaniel when he woke up from his nap.
And one more as he stood next to me while we both did art.
That’s it. I have much to do tonight for my lovely husband so I won’t write up too much. I do have blog posts on both the Maya Road blog and the Pink Paislee blog today. Also over the weekend, Rebecca posted photos of my scrap space on the Pink Paislee blog as well. Three Things I’m Grateful For: Three Things David’s Grateful For: I had the honor to guest design for My Creative Scrapbook kit club in March. This is the last of the layouts I made with their main kit.
Journaling Reads: And some details:
Happy Father’s Day!! We woke up quite early this morning, thanks to Nathaniel. I immediately exercised so we could go out to breakfast. We had a lovely meal at a local cafe and then came back home and took some photos. As I was setting things up the boys were screaming for fun.
Nathaniel took a few extra seconds to figure out what was going on but then he joined in, too.
We took photos, we did tickle time.
And laughed a lot.
when the kids both took off, I snapped a few more of just the two of us.
we don’t have that many photos of just us.
I love him so much. My sweet, wonderful husband.
just as I got up to take the camera down, the kids ran to their dad and hugged him and I was lucky enough to catch it.
then Nathaniel got to watch a little Thomas.
here he is smiling to Daddy for putting it on.
He then went to nap and we all worked on our own stuff for a while. He took a long nap and woke up happy.
The boys went to play Atari for a bit as I took my walk around the block and then it was dinner time. I snapped a photo of David as he laughed at me.
After dinner was family night and David picked Monopoloy Jr. And a few rounds of connect-four with daddy.
now I have to do my todo list items for the weekend. I think I only completed one so far and we’re quickly running out of weekend time. I hope your weekend was as wonderful as ours has been! Three Things I’m Grateful For: Three Things David’s Grateful For:
David says: I didn’t like Snitcher because he always told on them and he broke the computer. I liked that Danny gave him a knife with snitcher carved on it at the end. I thought it was cool that they fed all the information into the computer and that it could then write reports for them. The first invention where you had two pens writing at the same time was cool too because it made a copy for someone else as well. Of the three kids, I liked Danny the most because all the creative ideas were his. I thought it was nice of Joe to write a poem for Irene but I didn’t like that Danny got jealous of it. But it did help Joe and Irene make up which I liked. Reading a book a week with my six-year-old son David is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here. |
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