This would make a fun pic!

Here is a little inspiration . . . I love this jar full of conversation hearts!

I have Been SO BUSZY!!

 
So I have been SO crazy trying to get a binder project finished, that this

pretty much all the work that I have done for the last few weeks! (Well, except for get ready for Christmas!)  I took a few older journal entries and re-did them but I also added a few too!! It was so much fun!!  I have pics and more art-journaly entries in the binder to mix it up! In the back, there are a few drawings that will end up becoming pic pages, but they are just my quick first quick sketches!

  I have to admit, that I usually alter an old book and make it my journal but this binder was really nice to use.  I could take pages out and move them, I can take them out when I screw them up and I like the size.   The cardboard pages held up to my paint and spray abuse.  The chipboard cover held up to me too!!  (That is saying a lot because I am messy and tend to drop things repeatedly!)   

 
This is the front inside cover.  I took a file folder, cut it in half and glued it in to make a folder/pocket in the front.

 

I had originally planned to put clear plastic over the window panes, but it just seemed to take away from the colors of this page that I love so much!! Maybe next time!

 

 

This is a re-do from my last art journal.  I just loved using the slick tar-gel with the crazy patterns.  A mess, but I love it.

 

My favorite quote ever . . . had to have that in my book!

Loved this paper!! It just makes me happy!!

 

A favorite journal page!!

New journal-y pages!

 Houses, love them.  I could just draw houses all the time!

And that is it!!  So much fun and pretty much done!! I have some more shading and doodling to do throughout the pages, but I am liking the final project!!

Christmas Owls!

So, the sketch looked better in my sketch book . . . but I still wanted to make Christmas owls! 

Just Pages . . .

I finally took some pictures!

I did! I finally got out the camera and took pictures!  My backyard is full of flowers right now! My marigolds, which have been blooming all summer, are taking off again and going crazy! In fact, I water colored a picture of  of my marigolds because I stare at them on my deck while I am journaling. So I felt like they needed a little attention.  However, my sketch in my sketchbook turned out WAY better than my final art journal page.  Probably, because my sketchbook is so much more simplistic, and I put way too  much into the art journal page and then tried to take it out  . . . but I will put it on here because good or bad it is in there.  Although, the gesso is calling me to cover it up.   

My Camellias are blooming now too.  They are amazing shades of red and pink.  Some of them even have purple on the edges, and they just look so pretty.  Anyway, they are all inspiring.

And here is the marigold page . . . the planter box is too big, the blue in the sky too much and it kills the colors of the flowers.  So it may stay in the journal . . . it may not.

She Art! I love Christy Tomlinson's She Art!  Sometimes it is just fun to create a simple page.  I saw a picture of a lady carrying balloons on pintrest. I sketched her because she looked so joyful and happy.  I honestly thought, those balloons would make me happy too!

 And this page was inspired by the class The Art of Wild Abandonment 2 with Juenelle Jacobson.  In the class she had created an amazing picture of houses stacked on top of each other and talked about the houses in her life.  Anyway, while I wondering about my own home, one of my girls said to me, "Hey mom, you know in 8 years, we won't live here anymore! We will be in college!" And it made me sad.  I really felt like these last 10 years have slipped by and that soon, yes, my girls will be making homes of there own.  So, here are there homes.  But I am sure that I will always be hovering over them, like the awning!!

No really, I have been journaling!

Well, October was the month of crazy!! But even though I didn't post any work, I was fitting it in!! Here are a few for today!