Days 4 and 5

I have had a busy week and have not had a chance to post the last 2 days. So here we go!

 The red background is a sponging technique that I have fallen in love with. It is a wonderful way to blend the two colors. The flower is SUPPOSED to be a sunflower. :/ I tried right?

 This one is a ballpark that I am working on for my son- he LOVES baseball! Still a work in progress.

 This one is a Peace Rose that I am working on for my sister. It is her favorite rose- and she is my best friend, so it only fits <3 br="">

 This is a journal page that I worked on this week- I had just got home from the dentist and was in A LOT of pain- needed something to relax and take my mind off the pain.

 I even got my family involved! ^ made by my daughter (7) and below my husband!

 This is a quote from Albert Einstein "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself"

On this one I was practicing my bead-work- I sewed multicolored beads around the yellow, trying to make it look like the center of a flower.

So far this month, I have shared more of my painting than I have in my entire life. I am usually a very reclusive artist- I enjoy constructive criticism, however, I always worry about how people will like it. But if nothing else, this experience has taught me that it only matters if I like my work- NOT what everyone else thinks. So I hope that you enjoy my pics- plenty more to come. Please feel free to add comments- or suggestions- both are wonderful for my process!

Jessie

Day Three of 30 in June

This is my 3rd day of the 30 in June challenge. I am really enjoying the freedom that comes with just CREATING without the pressure of having to finish anything.

This was a quote I found online- blurred purposely for the photo.

A silly green and yellow background my daughter asked me to do.

I have always wanted to paint a coy fish- or at least try :)

Unfinished "home" ideas still flowing!

The view from my window ;)

A funky grungy background with my favorite homemade stencil- honeycomb!

A tree- honeycombed style! ;) 

Keep looking for more- trying to update as I go through the process! Enjoy! 

Day Two of 30 in June

These are my Day Two images for the 30 in June challenge! 

The first two are journal pages in my new journal/altered book.

This is the new cover for my journal/altered book. (Still a work in progress) 

Inside cover of the new journal! 

Hope you enjoy the photos! More to come!!

Day One of 30 in June

These are my first three works in the month of June! More to come! Hope you enjoy them all! 

30 in June Challenge

 I will be adding pictures this month from my art journal for the 30 in June challenge. Check out Less Herger 's cool artwork while you are contemplating the challenge! She is an amazing and talented artist with wonderful helpful videos on YouTube, so go check it out!

Have a great month!! :)

Update from the busy momma/college student/wife

So since my last post, I have made over 20 new journals, filled 5 others, and just started my newest one. I have been sooo busy with school, that sadly most of my journaling stuff is in the garage at the moment. I am going to finished with class next month and plan to take the summer off. I need a break to reconnect with my crafty side. I have started and put away so many knitting projects it makes me sad to see the piles. But I still try and do some journaling at least once a week. I will be posting more pics soon. No excuses this time.  I look forward to your comments! Again, I am sorry for my unforgivable hiatus. I hope you can forgive me!

College/Life/Family--- the cause of my blogging hiatus

I am SOOO sorry. I have not posted in so long my blogging-fingers are itching. But I am happy to say that I started college this summer so I have been keeping VERY busy. Plus I have a little first grader to tend to as well....so LOTS to do! I will hopefully be back to posting very soon!!


Jessie

Some new stuff :)

I apologize yet again, it seems that my chaotic life got in the way again. But as promised, here are some new pages to enjoy.

 A page that my daughter helped me design, even at 6 she is becoming quite an artistic little girl!

 When i made this green background, I was in a great mood. But by the end of the day I was very discouraged by life in general. But by the time i was done with the page, i felt much better! It amazes me how our art can suck the sadness right out of us. I love that!

 My daughter again gave me the idea for this one. We were sitting outside watching the wind blow through the trees and the birds flying around and she looks at me and smiles. She says "Dontcha just wish you could fly like the birds mommy? " I asked why. She responds with "So you can see the all of the world from up above?" She is such a dreamer :)

 My baby sister just turned 21 in April and i did this spread after getting home from all of the festivities. I was so happy I could spend that special day with her :)

This is the front cover of the book I recently made for my mother. She wrote poetry when i was younger and was always dreaming of a juicy book to write them all down in. So i got my creative ideas going and this is what i came up with!

Hope you enjoy these and I will be posting more very soon!

Leather bound Journal

So my dads Birthday is this Thursday and I wanted to do something special for him. So I decided what better then a leather bound journal. My dad likes leather, weather he will admit it or not. I can tell you with bleeding throbbing soar fingers that hand sewing a leather binding is not easy. I did however love every minute of it even if just the binding alone took a whole day lol. I broke several needles as well so looks like another trip to the hobby lobby. I seem to be loving that place more and more as well I am sure they love me more and more :)Anyhow these are the pictures of the new book my Dad is about to receive.

I figured a lovely picture of my wife and daughter with a extra plus of myself would be a nice catch :P
This of course as you can tell is the inside of the front

Of course the inside of the back :D

A beautiful picture of the front

This is the leather binding I think for hand stitching all of it, it looks rather nice :)

And now the all famous let it stand pose......hahaha!!

I kinda like it I think my next project will be making me one like this to do alittle drawling in. Kinda reminds me of you know a old like journey to the center of the earth type journals.

Mom's bday gift

So my mother practice's alternative religious beliefs and sometimes she writes certain things down in a (Shadow) book. She has tried making her own in the past and has done rather good at it but I figured I would try and see if I could make her one to her liking. So I have spent the past two days working on a new journal and a new bookmark that might strike her fancy. I have not cut the pages yet but they are all sewn in. My exact-o knife broke the other day and I have not had the chance to go buy a new one. Anyways I just wanted to post the pictures for it so everyone could take a look.

This is the bookmark that I made for her, I put two dangles on it so she can keep a spot in two separate places in her book.

I was trying to get a little better shot of the bookmark, not sure if this works its a little closer view. Yes I know you could always click on it and zoom in but. Just trying to get a little better shot. :)

So this is a shot of the front of her new journal.

This is a little better shot of the front of her journal. She seemed to like it so maybe it will do her well. I found this picture online and printed it to a piece of card stock. I then painted around it in black.

A back shot of the journal, I just choose to paint it black

Inside, like I said though I have not been able to cut the pages to the proper length but soon I plan on buying a new blade tomorrow.

Inside of the front book cover, I figured it would add a little to it if I had a prayer from her Belief added in.

Another Day another for my daughter

So I started a book last night and to be truthful I was making it for my wife, but somehow through all of the making I ended up putting my daughter's name in it. As well, the more I worked on it the more it became for my daughter so, in the end it was hers. She loves to draw and she is very good at it so its not a shame that it goes to her, it has a little better quality paper then what she is use to so maybe it will help her out a bit more. I can't wait to see the beautiful work she does in it.

The front, the symbols mean Love, I thought it would be a nice touch given she loves chocolate

A little bit better picture of the front

The back, the emblem at the bottom is something my wife and I were thinking about for the KolorMyWorld emblem

A closer picture of the front

I also made her a piggy bank the other day!!

My daughter's piggy bank, she gets a dollar each week she is good in school. She is only 5 so a dollar is a big deal to her.

Paradise

So I got home after a VERY VERY long day at work, I was exhausted and ready to skip dinner and just go to bed. However my wife wouldn't hear of me skipping dinner. Over the steaming hot meal placed in front of me I begin to be told of how her day went. Apparently it was just as exhausting as mine, which didn't help and just made me that much more tired. I am not saying she is boring but I am saying that after having an exhausting day the last thing you want is to hear about another exhausting day. Which believe me if I was in her situation today I would have been exhausted. You see she volunteered at my daughters school to help serve lunch to the kids, now mind you this school is K-5 and just opened this year and holds right around 680 kids. Apparently there is only 3 lunch ladies and her helping made four, to my understanding over this conversation. Four people serving 680 starving kids is very fun but extremely exhausting. Then she decided to tell me about my daughter, already exhausted and starting to fall asleep over my own meal, she explains that my daughter got into trouble. Of course I woke up and was quite excited, finally something interesting, not that my wife's day isn't interesting but my daughter trouble, uhmmm I am interested now. Anyways apparently my daughter was playing at school and through some of her letters on the floor, now mind you I have taught my daughter to clean up after she is done. However the teacher didn't see it that way and when the letters hit the ground she got onto my daughter and her friend that was playing with her. Okay now I get it, you know school and trying to teach kids to be clean and take care of the items they have, but really their playing come on. The teacher decided to send a letter home explaining this in not so many words and I couldn't help but think "how much fun school use to be " yeah right. So to get on with the point by the end of all this I needed a relaxer and of course a cold beer is nice, but I am out at the moment so I decided to do what any crafty person would do and I made a few bookmarks.

This is a picture of all three that I made to night so relaxing and easy but fun. I haven't put any of the bangles on them yet but still very nice.

This one is my favorite out of the three!!

Kinda kewl looking

My wifes she wanted me to make one for her as well.

Drinking coffee under my Tree

So I got kinda bored today and decided to occupy my time with a little doodle. This little doodle however turned into a bigger doodle that turned into something amazing. I like it at least, its not finished yet or I don't think I am done with it but we will see where it goes. I just wanted to throw it up so it could be seen.

Maybe I'll call it my tree of life....

A few things I have done

These are just a few things I have done a while back I figured I would put them on just to have something to show.

My somewhat failed attempt at pastels. I was a fun attempt, but thats pretty much all it has been. LOL

Still another picture of the above failed attempt, I still haven't figured out how to use pastels and still keep the picture blurry "so to speak".

Another attempt at pastels, but its to defined as to my understanding its suppose to be like a blurr just enough to make out the picture. Obviously I am doing something wrong :)

This one is actually paint, mixed with pastels, I was just playing but my wife seems to like it.

This one is the front to the above picture. It is a mix of paint, clippings and markers. It looks a little better the the above back side :)