Lunch is served....strawberries, dried cherries, pecans, black olives, red onion, cucumber, romaine, sunflower seeds, and croutons.  Yummm

More art journaling.

Art journaling with paint and paper.

Linda and EB took me out for my birthday lunch to Magnolia.  The food was great and so was the company.  Those sweet potato fries, ymm.  After, we went to a new bakery at the St.John's plaza and brought back some goodies and enjoyed them with some tea.  A delightful day.  I have the best buds.

Sitting here stuffing my face with red raspberries.  Have not seen the black ones yet.  I think those are sweeter.  It is a beautiful day/weekend.  Just hangin out and relaxing.  Thought I would catch up on my blog.  I have been held back by the notion I should catch up on everything and then I decided that it is all just old news.  So instead I will post some things I have been working on.  I decided to take some online classes for different art mediums.  I joined LifeBook 2012 and am enjoying it although I am way behind on doing the lessons, big surprise.  Also, signed up for 21 Secrets and I am enjoying that also.  Having access to all 21 lessons at once was a bit of a struggle.  I just did not know which one to do first.  But it is nice this way as you can work on what strikes your mood at the time.  So that has worked well for me.   I also decided (like I did not have enough on my plate) to sign up for ICAD offered FREE through Daisy Yellow.  It is "index card a day", whereas, you create your art each day on an index card and quickly.  I will post pics on those later.

Nature Angel

8x8 paper and paint mixed media collage

 

Whimsy Birds LifeBook 2013

Art journaling 21 Secrets

Heading to Country Living Fair Ohio

I will soon be heading to Columbus, Ohio for the Country Living Fair.  This will be the fourth year I have attended.  Let the shopping begin.  So much to see and do at this fair.  Very well organized.

So much fun at Bethany Beach.  The boys love the ocean and the sand.  Ahhh brotherly love.

Day at HersheyPark with the Family

Elden planning his next adventure.....

Auric and Tim......

My favorite ride of all time...............

What happened to summer........

I can't believe I have not posted since June.  So sorry.  The summer got away from me in many ways.
Enjoyed spending time with my grandsons of course.  Crafting and painting etc.

Here is what I have been up to.....

and before that....

One of my sweet little books. 

In case you ever wondered.....what kind of mess I make when I am working on a project.  This is "some" of the mess.  I recently visited a blog that I love by Nancy Maxwell James called Sugar Lump Studios.  She does a lot of work with Paper Whimsy pictures which I happen to love.  She recently did a sweet little book using PW photos and some "left overs" (scraps).  I ended up with two sweet books of my own and about a 6 foot square mess to clean up.  So worth it.

This tiny rose bush puts out the lovliest roses on these nice long stems but the bush itself is a sight for sore eyes.  It can hardly even be called a bush.  It looks like a couple of sticks with roses on top.

Spent a day at Hersheypark with the boys.  Elden rode my favorite ride twice with me.  Auric and I rode the cars and he drove.  We had a fun day. 

Elden turned 6.  As you can see is one happy kid.  He is ready to take on the world everyday. 

John brought home a hugh box of blueberries.  I thought how could we eat that many blueberries so I  mixed up some pie dough and added blueberries and just kind of pulled the crust up over and Viola!

Crafty Apron

I wanted an apron to wear while crafting in my studio that would help inspire me.  With a 50% off coupon in hand my friend EB and I went to Michaels and I picked up this pink plain bib type apron for $2.99.  We then stopped at the local antique market where I found this round table topper with this wonderful lace trim and stitching.  I just cut off a portion of it to fit the apron and sewed it on and applied some trim from the Fabric Outlet (next door) with Fabri-tac.  I added lace at the top that was cut off a portion of the fabric. 

Mini Book Making Class

Lynne Spurlock held this class at my friend Jean Van Brederode's Studio.  We all made these adorable tiny Booklace's (book necklace).

FAIRY GARDENS

Last year was one and now there are three.  They are just too fun to create.