Party!

This is my 2nd year participating in the Where Bloggers Create Party! It's so much fun checking out the other blogs.

My space is in our basement. It is small, but it works. I wish I had natural light and a sink. Maybe one day!

Right now I am into journaling and creating mixed media paintings. Some of my work is in a gallery in Hinsdale, IL where it is for sale. I clean up when the mess becomes too much for me to take, but it quickly becomes messy!

Max, my Havanese, keeps me company whenever I come down here. He was rescued from a puppy mill & is a fabulous man!

I hope you enjoy the party & find some new inspiring blogs to follow!

Stamps

I'm getting back into carving my own stamps. The imperfections make them perfect! I'm loving the fact that over the last two years, I have moved away from making my art look exact or perfect. I now believe if you want your work to look machine made, go buy it . I guess this is why I truly enjoy binding my own journals & the entire process that goes into it!

Journaling

Here are some recent pages. I've been spending lots of time having fun creating backgrounds, but then I've been getting stuck with where to go from there! What do you do when you get stuck?

Happy Birthday!

Summer vacation is taking over my life! I've been home with my kids for the last month having fun. The weather, here in IL, has been insanely hot!

Gia turned 8 this past Sunday. I can't believe she is 8 already! We moved here when she just turned 3 & I am amazed we've lived here for 5 years. Her dinner choice was Kiku and we had tepanaki. Always yummy!

I'm still working on my painting for the Whimsical Characters class. Just not finding the time to finish it.
Time (the lack thereof) definitely is a theme of mine.

Happy 4th of July!

Guest Blogger!

I am SO excited to share that I am the guest blogger today over at Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's blog!!!!  This is my first time as a guest blogger. Go check it out!

Target find

Look what I found at Target today! They are solid wood sized 8 x 10. Looking forward to trying them out!

Struggle

I struggled with this page! There are probably more than half a dozen layers here as I just kept reworking and reworking. I wasn't feeling it and just kept layering paint and carving into it. I played with a friend's new stamps and then finally decided to fingerprint some faces. I like playing around with shading faces in various colors. I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Not sure what I learned from this, but I had fun just doing it.