Art Journaling

Did you ever try it? I have seen people do it in the past and always thought that it looked really creative, but I am not one to smear paint and gesso all over the place, I can't even glue a picture on straight. Now I am taking this class by Pattie Knox over at debbiehodge.com, teaching me all those techniques in the digi world, and I am loving what I am learning. Actually there is a lot that I can use all the time, masking, some stuff I have never heard of, like threshold.... amazing lessons. The first thing I did was my cover page, not very exciting to look at, but the techniques were really cool and I had to figure out the basics :)

I did a lot of different blending modes and got these colors which I really like. Then lesson two talks about making a silhouette and creating tissue paper and making a collage with it. Just making the paper alone was awesome...

Geez I think I must really like these oranges and red and yellows :) I wanted to make a page about a house being a home when it's filled with love....

I downloaded lesson three and it sounds so awesome, it's just a question of finding the time to work on a page with it. I am giddy with excitement (doesn't take much for me obviously)

Yesterday I met my GFs for lunch, it was great! We don't see each other often enough and when we do it's always way too short...

In the morning I found out from our accountant that we needed to vest another employee and the stuff had to be overnighted by yesterday. Talk about a stressful morning, getting the paper for her to open an account, figure out what had to be done, get the checks and papers, write a letter of distribution and get it all out. I could have strangled him. Not only that but the only reason he figured out that we had to do this is because I mentioned it! Argh!

Today is parent lunch at school and Gabrielle really wanted me to come, so I will head over there. It's not like I am not there at lunch often enough, since I volunteer every other Monday, but that's okay. Of course I am going to have to pick up a salad for her, because a sandwich from home wasn't good enough :) Let the other two dummies make do with a ham sandwich, not Gabby! But I am happy to indulge, I'll pick one up for myself too, I could not bring myself to eat the ravioli they had scheduled as the meal of choice. Yuck! It sounds like Chef Boyardee! (sp?)

Yesterday morning we had a little fog and when I looked out my kitchen window I could see the dew on some cobwebs. Ever the diligent photographer I took Gabby's old school shoes and climbed up the wall steps in the cool morning to get a closer look. Here is one of the pics :)

Isn't it cool? Amazing what you can see if you just get close enough!
Which reminds me, I have to print out pictures I took of Gabrielle's science project, killing a bunch of eggs in the process. That stuff has to be in tomorrow, so I better get busy with it. I still have to edit those, so I'll show them later
Here is one more blooming pic

Now I really have to run, gotta get those salads :)

I'll catch you later, have a great day and God bless!