"Graffiti of My Life" Teaser

I signed up last week to take Dina Wakelys' Graffiti of Your Life class. I've been admiring Dina's work for over a year now. Her style looks very complicated, but since taking my first class I've found that it is not at all difficult. This is my first foray into stenciling and I'm having a MESSY blast! I've had some Adirondack inks for a while but hadn't taken the time experiment with them. They're SUPER messy and fun at the same time.

I still need to stencil my color field backgrounds then I can assemble my journal this weekend. I thought I'd give you a sneak peek at all the components. Enjoy!

Art Journal Round Robin Update

I finally finished my spread in Paula Phillips journal. I've had the journal for about a month, which is a week longer than I should have. We try and hold each journal no more than 3 weeks, but life just seemed to keep getting in the way this time. Anyway, I did my pages last minute. They are a bit hurried, but I still like them. I'm commiting myself to be more timely and creative with the next journal that arrives.

Enjoy!

Golden Girl

We went to Tallahassee to visit my parents this past weekend. Anytime I go to another city I make it a point to seek out art stores, bead stores and quilt shops. Saturday I headed out to the bead shop and on my way back to Mom's I noticed an art store. The art store is called Utrecht and until recently I had never heard of them. I am a big fan of the new reality show called Work of Art: The Next Great Artist on Bravo. On the show the Utrecht store in New York City is where the contestants shop for their supplies. So, upon seeing the store in

town, I was excited to check it out! Sunday morning I woke bright eyed and ready to go visit a new art store. I begged my husband to ride up there with me. He obliged! I walked in and saw that the Golden line of paints (my favorites) were 40% off! Holy Moly! No one in my town ever puts Golden products on sale. So, I swooped up a few of my favorite fluid acrylics and headed off to check out the rest of the store. While at the checkout counter the girl that worked there noticed I had Golden products and told the guy that was helping me to give me the bag of freebies that was behind the counter. I LOVE freebies. When I got in the truck I was shocked at all the goodies in my bag. There were all sorts of different mediums, crackle paste and all kinds of fun stuff. Along with this were 2 oz. jars of medium acrylics and 3 bottles of fluid acrylics too. I was thrilled! I am officially a HUGE fan of Utrecht Art Supplies.

Jewelers in Training

These photos above are evidence as to why I get so little jewelry made when I go into my studio. My boys are wherever I am, even when they're Dad is home and available, lol.

These pics are from last weekend. I wanted to make some jewelry and Noah, my oldest, decided he wanted to use my dapping block to make some domed metal. Then Seth decided he wanted to use my rawhide mallet and bench block to pound Noahs' domed metal flat. Needless to say some bickering ensued, the refereeing began and the tools were quickly taken away as I shooed them in the living room to their Dad.

It's quite an honor to know that my boys love their Mommy so much that they follow me around like little ducklings. And look at those faces, who could deny them anything! I mean really! LOL

New Trinkets!

Here are 2 new items in my Etsy shop today.

I've got the house to myself all weekend and I'm beading till my fingers fall off.

I'll have some more goodies tomorrow!

Head over to my shop and pick yourself up a little something pretty today!

Art Journal Round Robin - Round 2

Here is the new journal that I received a couple of weeks ago in our Art Journal Round Robin. This one was created by Paula Phillips. I've had it for a couple of weeks now and haven't had the chance to work in it yet. I hope to do that this weekend and send it along to it's next recipient, Kelley Brown. I'll post an update once I create my spread in this little beauty.

I'm Back!

Whew! It's seems like forever since I posted last. I've got some new things to share but will have to post those later this week. For now, here's 2 new necklaces that I made earlier in the week. I love them both and had a hard time deciding to part with them! They're in my Etsy shop now if you'd like to go take a closer look.

I'll be back in a day or so with some more to share with you.

Be blessed!