Hi Alex!
I tried to comment on your posts but I think I can’t because you have no title on them. I read something about that in our manual from Shimelle. Just wanted to let you know so that you can amend (if you want to) and we can all share with you!
Cheers!
Hello Everyone and Happy Monday! I’m still getting caught up but wanted to respond to the prompt about tools. Here are a few of my faves, but generally I’m a fan of anything and everything goes. Stamps and inks of all types, artist mediums of great variety with lots of experimentations, paints, crayons, fabric, ribbon, etc. etc. Yes, I do get messy! But it’s so much FUN! Thanks for letting me share my little space in the world with you.
thinking about never wanting to stop learning.
never wanting to forget what i have learned.
thinking about the constants in my life.
this is what i came up with.
its something that can continue to grow.
that i can improve upon, but will always be there for me to fall back on.
Just learning still
Hiding behind my own fear of success
Worried about what the world may thing of me
Becoming comfortable with my own body
Learning to be me in my skin
Faithful, sometimes patient
Always sensitive learning to be creative
Drawing with crayolas markers for the first time and loving it
Shaping my life like san into sand castles one cup @ a time
Just being ME
First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone for their posts thus far—the visual eye candy and heartfelt musings are a real inspiration to me.
I participated in the first round of the challenge, but was too chicken to do anything more than admire everyone’s artful and creative work. So when I joined this time I made a resolution that I was going to post my work despite any fears or doubts I had (too boring…not arty enough…no sense of design..etc.)
So, to honor that commitment I made, here are my first three entries for this round.
Week 1:
I used some words that I had used in a circle journal piece I did for the 2Peas Crop last August in Madison, Wisconsin..They read:
Mom to Grace; Writer; Wife to Michael
Kayaker; Yogi; Paper junkie
Human; Dreamer; Ice Cream Addict
Ohio native; Organized; nature lover
beginning knitter; natural food fan
Delafield, WI [ED NOTE: where I live now]
Age: 35; artist wannabe
traveler; seeker; europhile; gardener
Journaling on tag reads:
I thought I’d have more figured out at 35 than I do. What I do know is that I to LIVE A LIFE that’s true * colorful * alive
TRULY ME AT MY BEST
Week 2:
I made a list of traits that will never change for me…My “true north” traits…(with apologies for a little redunancy with the last list. :-) )
passionate; tribe of friends; traveler
nature lover; helpful; city lover
creative; sleep-needer; book reader
curious; kind; generous
reflective; seeking; verbal
love my daughter; smart; beach girl
Saturday roadtripper; married to my best friend;
big picture person
uniquely me
End of Week spark:
Journaling reads:
Where would I like to be right now? In Paris, at a cafe eating crepes. At a villa in Italy eating a meal al fresco. In an ashram in India. At a Vietnamese restaurant in the Lower Village/NYC. At a B&B in Vermont. Making love on a beach somewhere. At a cabin on a lake in the North Woods of Wisconsin. Anywhere, really, that’s new, fun, adventuresome, stimluating, expanding
TRAVELING
TFL!
Shannon
a great quote from Katherine Hepburn. This was lots of fun again. Got to play with paper, glue, paint, sandpaper, stickers and rubons….ah, sounds like the perfect afternoon,lol.
Thanks for lookin’! I really enjoy seeing everyone’s entries!
Connie
I am still working on the first 2 prompts, but here is my AJ cover! I have enjoyed seeing all the great work everyone is posting on here! Crystal
I am really working outside my box here, leaving all this white space. It’s like free falling for me. It looks somehow unfinished. Can you tell I got some new stamps!!! I am very fixated with circles at the moment.
But this is where I practice to see how it feels, right? Thanks for looking.
SAndy
The more things change, the more they stay the same…
Well this is what I have found! ;o) I am not a great one for change, change is something that happens gradually for me, not in leaps and bounds – I suppose I am just evolving! Perhaps I would be better at it if change was forced upon me and I was thrown in at the deep end, rather than paddling away myself!
The things I’d really like to change are all negative things, so to change those negative things I have to embrace the positive and retain the constants, I don’t want those to change.
Not high on journaling, but it’s actually more of a reminder page – if I can focus on all these things I can keep my goals in sight without changing the person inside.
Alas the colours look totally garish in the scan – it’s MM polo paints for the wash (the diamonds are pink and yellow hard to tell!), my glitter ball stencil put to use with titanium gold metallic paint this time, some free hand doodling again, and a bit of stamping.
Was stamping in time to Madonna’s Confessions on the Dance Floor (3rd round on repeat all tracks) so one of the song titles snook in there!
tfl
