Bring the boys home...

I love this song it was originally done by Freda Payne, but re-recorded by Jan Arden. I bought her new CD today and listened to it on the way home. I immediately knew what I wanted to do, this is my grandfather, and I had a blast making this. I crashed a paper bag, inked it, inked the paper found some images and there it is....I just finished watching Jericho. Well March is birthday month and I will be an unnamed number and I have been thinking long and hard if I want to retire from my job this year or next. At this moment it is today but then sanity returns and I think okay just 12 more months and I am a free agent, able to rise when I want, do what I want..I can do that is what I keep telling myself. Next year I will have been there 35 years ...I know what is wrong with this girl, was there no other jobs out there for me. Well as it happened I loved my job and actually still do. I am the boss, and I love that part of it.....well thats enough philospy for one night ....talk to you tommorow...

Adore Me....

I was down in the studio tonight just doing some painting techniques practising, colours. I used an old coaster from a restaurant and painted on it, it took the paint really well and this is what I came up with, I am also practising my printing skills. Today was not productive day for me in the studio or at work. It was a blah day, a day where really you should have just stayed home and slept in. Hopefully I will be feeling more like my oldself tommorow. Today I feel like i should pack in this blog, as really not to much interesting stuff happens in my life. So right now I am signing off for today...hopefully tommorow will be better...

Shoe.......

Off to the Art Gallery...

Just a quick note to say I am off to the art gallery with my picture (not this one) I will post the picture tonight. Talk to you then.

Grandpa goes to War

This is a picture of my Grandpa (in the middle) going off to war, notice the price of the paper in the background 3 cents. I have been going through some old black and white pictures of my mothers and scanning them in hopes of making some projects out of them. My other grandfather was a chauffer ( i have a picture of that as well) i am going to post tommorow night. I have not been creating to much in the studio just really going down and playing around with my paint and paper making a few cards, throwing them away trying to get the creative mojo working, but its seems to be sadly lacking lately. Must be a blue period I am going through trying to sort out my life. In my goals for 2007 one of them was to take a course. Well I have been mulling that over lately and thinking about taking a University Certificate program in fine arts. What is holding me back, well a number of things:
1. I would be the oldest in the class
2. What if my art is lacking (I mean really lacking in talent)
3. I dont know If i have the nerve to do it....
Well I quess that something for me to start really thinking about. But on the brighter side we have a great art gallery in the city where I live. And at the end of march they are tearing it down to build another. So for the month of mARCH THEY ARE having an anybody art show. Today and tommorow you have the oppournity to bring your art down to the gallery and they will hang it for three weeks. Now when will you ever get to say I had my art hanging at the Alberta Art Gallery...I did not go today, but I am going to go tommorow. I am going to show my shoe project. I will take a picture tommorow of it and post it....Well enough of this for one night, I hope you are all having a great weekend.

I am working at a snails pace today....

Haven't had much time to post as work as been quite busy.....I dont know why I was thinking about a snail (just a glimpse into this mind of mine) but thought I would make a great weight loss card. So here it is....I have been in the studio a little, trying to work on some paint techniques, trying to get it right so I can create layout with it. Well gotta go make my lunch talk to you hopefully longer tommorow night.

Inspire me Thursday....

Ever give up on a piece of art that just did not turn out as expected? Sometimes there’s no choice but to throw it away, but other times we might hold on to it with hope that someday we might get inspired to finish it. Your challenge this week is to search your studio for those abandoned pieces of art that are beckoning you to finish them! It might be fun to show a before and after photo of the piece of art.

I made this piece last year and struggled to finish it, after awhile I just decided it was finished. But its not finished , I look at and think its need moreof something. So its sat and sat on my workbench in my studio since completion. I just don't know what to do with it, I have thrown it in the garbage a few times, only for my daughter to fish it back out and say its to good for the garbage. So I am totally open for suggestions on how to make this piece speak to me...

Friends Since 6th grade....

It's my friends birthday this month, and I wanted to do something special for her. I decided to paint a picture on canvas an get it framed. Now I know when you look at you are probably thinking its since childlike, and I hope you think that because I painted it to look like that. I thought long and hard on this one and fished it out of the garbage a few times. You are the first to see it, I still have not decided fully that I am going to give it to her. As you can see we have been friends forever, we both grew up on an airforce base and that is where our friendship developed and we have remained close friends ever since. Diane doesnt look at the computer so she doesnt look at my blog so its okay to post the picture here. She has had many health problems and manages to cope with them daily and still has time to smile. I value our friendship and cherish everyday that I am with her. Well we are having a long weekend in Alberta, as Monday is family day, and I dont have to work. I am going to clean up the studio and work on some cards. Well must go talk to you tommorow.

A Snails Life in the fast lane....

Well hello!!!! I havent posted in a few days, been busy creating in the studio, sketching ideas, and trying out new techniques. Here is a peak at something I am working on at present, its just a quick sketch...more to come later. It feels like spring here today after the deep freeze we have been in, so its made me quite happy. I lost a pound and that made me happy. Other than that nothing new around here. I read other people blogs and they have these important things to say and then I reread mine and think why would anyone read this ...but I do have a few family members who read it. Speaking of family, we are off to dinner at the mother in laws to meet up with our niece and newphew (2 parts of triplets the third could not come) they went to ski in the mountains and are on there way home, I think with 6 friends, so should be quite the night, full of laughter and fun, and Ian and Linda if your reading this I will post some photos. (Linda and Ian are in Guyana at present ministering...Well hopefullyyou will see some art work tomorrow, once I know what Inspire me Thursday is about...

2 days till Valentine's

Am I big on valentines day, no I am not. We might go out for dinner, buy each other a card with lotto tickets, but thats about it. This year hubby is away on business. This is my card for my weight loss challenge, this is my favourite choclate bar ( only 100 calories, when I feel like something sweet), I usually have some in my fridge. Well today was freezing here and snowing, same tommorow, its not suppose to warm up until Thursday. Well must go and make my lunch...talk to you tommorow....

Strangers at the Mall

A while ago while shopping at the mall, I got tired and decided to sit down have a diet coke and do what I like to do best People watch. While sitting there a woman approached me and asked if she could sit with me. Now my daughter always accuses me of being way to friendly to strangers, but that is just me. The lady and I just started talking, it started about how busy the mall was and went on from there. The lady wanted to talk to somebody (a stranger) she was wearing a turbine on her head and expalined why that she had just recently go through a bout of chemo and had lost her hair. From there on we discussed our lives, what we did and what we dreamed and what we wanted with our lives. A fairly heavy topic to do with a stranger, but I felt the need of her to talk. We talked about things we wanted to accomplish in our lives, and she told me 10 things she wanted to accomplish in 2007, she wasnt looking any further than that. I felt a connection with this stranger and we parted, we did not even tell each other our names, but we connected. Isnt that the way with some people you meet in your life just a instant connection. I didnt forget this woman and wanted to do this layout as part of my women series. This is from my memory she looked much better in person....Just wanted to share....

The Girlfriends....

Found this card today well browsing through the card section at Walmart, it just made me smile so I bought It. I love cards...Well this weekend has flown by as usual, but It was great. I went did some accessorie shopping today for my house. I bought some new lamps for the family rooms. New cushions for the living room. Some small desk items for me to redo in the studio, on sale for 2.00 each and really cute. But no art, I did work on my Lab 555 book with some new ideas, things that I want to to try, paint techniques etc, but not much else. I am going to spend the afternoon in the studio working tommorow, so may be tommorow night I will have something to post. Watched the DVD Flags of the Fathers, I thought I was long and the last part dragged on, but really not a bad movie. Well must hit the road and hopefully talk to you all tommorow.

Inspire me Thursday...

In honor of Valentine’s Day, this week’s challenge is Hearts. Heart-shaped art… the symbolism of the heart… hearts folded, cut up, torn, broken… the anatomy of a heart. Be creative in your interpretation!

· · ·
I ceated this 8x8 with paint, chalks, stamps, and paper. I think its a little busy, but here it is....

Moving On....

No I am not moving...I am moving on, I have not been good on my diet lately, and I am getting over it, and moving on, I will lose weight, I am back on program as of today. You just have to let it go and say alright I cheated and get right back on the horse. So that is what I am doing. Well no studio tonight I had some major cleaning up to do around here, so its all done so I dont have to do it on the weekend. So the weekend is free for me.....I love this picture (even if I must say so myself) doesnt everyone woman has something that she wants to wear and it just doesnt look right on her and she says oh just a few more pounds. Well mine is jeans, designer jeans, expensive jeans. Oprahs skinny jeans....So there you have it my secret wish to fit in skinny designer jeans, one pound at time....

Pretty Boys

Tonight I just went down to the studio and played. I have a few ideas kicking around and I wanted to play around with them. This is one of them, Pretty Boys is going to be a piece, so I did a rough sketch and wrote down a few ideas. That's the way I have to do things, I envy people that can get an idea and just create it, I do not work like that. I have to actually sketch out the idea with the message. I also worked on another card, which you will see tommorow night. I just went and the flow happened, you got to go when that happens. Well tonight my favourite show is on Heroes so this will not be a long drawn out blog. Just had a great day and a great night and wanted to share, hope you all had a great weekend, and I will talk to you on Tuesday....

Inspire me Thursday- Only 2 days late

Inspire me Thursday was to create a portrait using any medium we wished. So here is mine, I used paint, some magazine words, drawings etc. This is me, not really what I look like but an abstract part of me. I enjoyed making it, I actually made it a while ago, as part of an ongoing art journal on women. Thanks for looking

An apple a day....

Happy February 1. Here is my week 5, I drew the apple, painted it with acrylics, and use graphite for the edges, and my trusty sharpie for the writing. I did not get to the meeting tonight..I know there should be no excuse, but I was at a work retreat all day from 7:00 to 4:00 and I had enough of listening to talking. I came home and had a little nap, and a little peace and quiet. I enjoyed the retreat but sometimes it is just easier to go to work. Well my mom got home safe and sound from her trip and she enjoyed herself. She came back to cold weather, gosh I wish it was april. I have been thinking quite a bit about my art, I am having a bit of a creative block, it is bothering me, nothing turns out the way I see it, I am sure it will pass and something will inspire me. Lab 555 has inspired me, and gottomakesomething has also inspired me. Well I am going to bed early because I was exhausted this morning. Talk to you on Friday...