Ahhh Friday....sun is bright and it is very nice out for a November day...that makes me smile.
I am putting up another journal page...what fun these journals are...they really make you think and sometimes just go with the flow of things.

This is a take on me as a child and my nieve way the thoughts go....

Enjoy!!

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself. Harvey S. Firestone

I have spent the morning working on a canvas in progress...the one I did years ago with the roses I didn't like (I was a beginner)so...I started playing with it and this is what I have come up with...some painted acrylics, watercolour crayons, mixed media....layers and layers....
Please be critical as I need all the help I can get ....




Bernard Malamud’s The Natural (”We have two lives…the life we learn with and the life we live after that.”).

I have been working on some journal pages. It has taken me a long time to get around to doing this...a bit here and a bit there but too scared to jump in for fear of ????....I took the plunge to work on them...
A page in progress, picture of my daughter and my animals past and present etc...still a work in progress.
Another work in progress page is the Black and Yellow one...it depicts dark days and hope for some light for survival...
the next page is a Brown and Pink page that was supposed to represent tears but went off in its' own direction and I think it is finished...last night I didn't think so but this morning I am thinking a yes...


I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.” Cat Stevens

Happy Friday Everyone!!!

I did a couple atcs for a group I am on and thought I would share them with you.
One is downsized card that I designed....and wanted to use it again as I like what I did before...
hope everyone has a wonderful Friday.

I think a little menace is good to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation!
Raymond Carver

I just had to add this guy...I saw a commercial on TV and this was my take on it.

Ahh I feel better now...I added the word ecclectic and spent most of my day working on my canvas...

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Paperbag Studios

A rainy Friday morning and I have been in the creative mood this week...and that makes me very happy!! I have been working on an old canvas of music roses etc...didn't like it before. (I did it a few years ago). I pulled it out and have been changing it quite a bit, lots of good ideas from my new friend Julie Pritchard...she is amazing...
Along with that I seem to have gotten sidetracked in to word art and I am putting up a new piece today...a work in progress, so that you can enjoy the journey with me if you would like to.
These are words that describe me...but I left off the most important word...."Ecclectic"....well I will be refining it anyway so I can add that later....
Now I will upload the piece, but remember this is just the beginning....ideas are jumping around like crazy in my head so I have to organize them and get them out to my subrate....

Have a wonderful creative day no matter what you do...

I am trying something new in my work.....

Here we are...another day but not another dollar...hehehehe
I am working on my journal today and hopefully tomorrow I will have a couple pages to put up...that is if I am satisfied with them....



I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)

Here is Mr. Word Dog....I am off on a tangent....what fun and I am thinking of more things to do with word art...I distressed the sides and on the words themselves to give an aged look to some of the parts...

when I was perusing some blogs today I came across a lady named Vicki who put up a word art piece...what a good idea...so I also did a word giraffe but that credit goes to her....I also photocopied from a colouring book on dogs (got this years ago because it had my Papillion in it and would be good for tracing and painting)....I just grabbed a dog and photocopied the page...now I will put words on him that describe a dog...
These things that I do will go in to my journals at some point somewhere (big smile)....
Here is a great idea especially if you have kids....print out a picture of their pet and get them to write words that describes it and then you can cut out the words and glue them on or you can print out all the words and make a template of the pet and glue them on....the ideas will keep coming once you start....

“"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."

Well I had the best of intentions today!! Organized myself as to chores and art...hmmmm, I got the bed made, the kitchen cleaned then stopped in my studio...wrong thing to do...here I have been all day and I have to go out in a while and my chore list not completed!!
The good part is I got swaps done and did some creating....so that's a good thing I would say...
I have put up a couple of atcs for a swap I am doing and a Spooky Cat card which I really like...
started off with a completely different technique then the Art God sent me in this direction and I am very happy with it...

It is layered paper, transparency and the paper underneath was to make the cat black and orange which I achieved and love...

Now I am off to do a couple more chores and will no doubt end up back in here working on my journal before I leave....


We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Kenneth Clark