Finished Art Journal pages

Took me a few days to get them finished but I did it :) And I am very happy with the result. I'm trying to work more out of my comfort zone and try new things. Can't say techniques cause well I am just sitting there and playing with paint and images and stamps.

 See those little birdies at the top right :) Those are part of another set of pages I have started working on. Seems I do more work in my art journal lately than anything else. I still have a card to make for next weeks Stamp Club meeting :) My cousin says I always wait till the last minute but I always come up with something creative. We will see lol

 a close up of the heart I made with the molding paste. I like that I tried something and it came out right :)

Well I am off to enjoy some much needed peace and quiet, only the oldest and I are home and I am thinking of getting us a movie to watch.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend :)
***edited to add new pages***

 Figured my art journal needed a front page :) The polka-dot paper is a piece of an envelope that the oldest got in the mail today.

 2 pages I did today. I have so many odds and ends of stickers, die cuts and such from scrapbooking that I am going to encorporate them in here when I can.

If you open the door it says Home Sweet Home :)
Ok, it is now after 1 am  and I should be sleeping but just can't seem to get myself into my bed lol

WOYWW

Welcome to another WOYWW hosted by our fearless leader Julia over at Stamping Ground. Be sure to pop on over there to be nosey haha and check out everyone elses desks this week. Make sure you have something to eat or drink cause you will be sitting at your computer for a while :) There is actually stuff on my desk this week. Mind you, it didn't get there till yesterday afternoon because well my mojo had left the building and did not see fit to return till yesterday :) The journal page you see is inspired by Miss Donna Downey Simply Me. The link brings you to last weeks Inspiration Wednesday's post. The album I am working in was also inspired by her but I can't find the original to share. But she was using newspaper as her base and going from there :)

 Up above my desk I have a pegboard filled with alot of my stickers (I really need to start using them), misc. foam stamps and such. On the wire shelf I have cute little baskets and such holding all kinds of who knows what (been a while since I looked around in them).

 This will be the right page that goes with the one on top. I made the little heart with molding paste, paint, gems and SU's Crystal Effects. I will be sure to post a pic when it is done.

 Here is the front cover of the album. It is made with canvas that I sewed and painted and added stuff to. The beautiful stamp and the person is from a big Ali Edwards set that I bought a good while back.

 Here is the back cover, kinda plain lol but when I made them I didn't know what I wanted to put on it. Maybe soon I will get an idea lol

Off to mundane household stuff until later :) I have told my oldest daughter that we are walking up to the Salvation Army later today, I'm hoping to find some things to use for my crafting :)
Hope everyone has a wonderful day and thank you to my new followers for the comments and also all the other comments :)

WOYWW

Well here is my desk for yet another edition of WOYWW. Be sure to click on the picture to the right to go to Miss Julia (our fearless leader)'s page and check out all of the desks :) Not much going on mine today, yet. Spent this am paying bills YUCK!!

 Also included is the under right hand of my desk. This is storage for my SU stamps, markers and down bottom is miscellaneous tools like punches, my labeler, dremel etc. Oh and you can also see the corner of my very first issue of Cloth Paper Scissors. Loving it so much I treated myself to a subscription.

 And here is another art journalling page. I used my stash of MM scrapbooking paints and on the right page I painted with my fingers lol.

That's about it for today. Gloomy here in New England, woke up to more snow, wth, I want spring.
Have a good day all :)

The ugliest teddy bear lol

I'm so embarrassed to post this picture lol What started out as a good idea turned into the ugliest teddy bear I have ever seen. Now that I have made this for the grandbaby, my youngest wants me to make him one with flames on it, ummm really now haha. I'm gonna give it another try and hope it comes out better. I don't know how this one came out so misshapen when before it was sewn it look perfect lol
Off to undertake the huge task of cleaning up the basement so I can clean out the storage area I have been using since April of 2006 (I'm tired of paying them so much money to hold my stuff--I want my stuff lol).
Have a good one all.

Skirts :)

 This one was originally a long skirt that I got at the Goodwill. But I cut it to use for another project and just decided to make a short skirt with what was left.

 Old pair of Dickies white painter pants. Hard to see but in the v I used the leg part from a pair of black jeans. I have to do some more work on this one, I didn't measure haha and the back sticks out way too much lol.

 I think this is my favorite one. Notice more fabric from 1st skirt above.

 A little bit shorter one to wear with leggings.

Black dressy one.
I am also almost finished with the teddy bear but I am a little embarrassed to post a pic. I think it is ugly lol We will see when it is all the way done. I also have 1 more skirt to make but I am tired of sewing at the moment lol so, will be taking a break to work on this months Stamp Club project- a gift card holder or money holder.
Hope everyone has a great day.

My 1st ever blog award

Even though it took me 3 days to see it, I have received my first ever blog award :) from Miss Virginia over at Celtic House.

I have to pass it on also. So here you go ladies :)

Paula Gale

Little Miss Crafty

Wipso

Miss Julia

Now I have to list 10 things that make me happy:

1) coffee

2) seeing my kids smile

3) texts from far away friends

4) sunshine

5) cooking and baking for my kiddos

6) my grand daughters smiles and coos

7) friends that love me even if I am different lol

8) discovering blogs with beautiful pictures

9) 1 to 2 hour phone calls with my sister

10) projects that I thought were going to be difficult but proved to be easy

Wow, that was a bit harder than I thought. Granted just because I put coffee lol as #1 doesn't mean it is #1 on my list, I just put them as I thought of them. I have had maybe 1/2 hours sleep in the last 24 so it is a bit difficult to think straight at the moment.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day. We are in the middle of a snow storm that has stalled over our region. It is gorgeous out there right now but I am so tired of this winter wonderland lol

WOYWW

Late posting my pics today. We have gotten slammed by a lovely (insert sarcastic tone) snow storm here and well I was busy shoveling earlier.
But anyway here are the pics of my desk that I took this morning.

 Stood a big farther back this time. I have so much going on and it all has ended up on the desk.

 Closeup. Still working on yoyo's, baby's teddy bear, haha have my nail polish sitting there too. Hopefully by next wednesday nothing will be on there lol Well, not these projects anyway.

Since I did a swing the last two times I decided to go to the left and down a bit. The left underneath of my desk is where I store all my paper. Top shelf is 8.5x11 and 6x6. Bottom is 12x12. In the milk crate is my stash of magazines, it is full to the brim and HEAVY!!! The jeans sitting in the pile are going to be made into skirts (well, I hope so anyway lol).
Well that is about it for today. Be sure to pop on over to Miss Julia's (our ever faithful WOYWW leader) page to see the rest of our desks :)