thick as a brick

journal page-

It started out as a written rant, but when I thought about it a little, I decided that her intrusiveness would have her reading all about herself, so I went visual instead. Maybe it will fool her. She's thick as a brick.

Any way... "She" is a neighbor of mine. She spends way too much time here.... I'm not much on fluffing the esteem of insecure people. This seems to be the duty she most wants me to perform. I also don't have patience for people with a shortage of common sense. She's seriously lacking in that department, too.

Also, it offends me when people I don't particularly like walk into my house without waiting for me to invite them in. It also offends me when said person decides to stays for hours on end, despite being told that there are many jobs to be done that day and no time for visitors. The fact that I continue doing whatever I was doing and don't drop everything to entertain should offer a hint of some type, but like I said: She's thick. As a brick.

She doesn't leave her house in winter, so I have a reason to look forward to it this year.
"Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!"

not so great at sharing, huh?

I haven't posted anything here for a very long time. I've spent hours and hours scanning stuff, but when I start browsing through my folders, I don't see anything worthy of public display. Not that this is any more worthy than anything else, it's just time to get back in the swing of things.

I'm not sure who this woman is. I started with the cat eye glasses and was thinking of Aunt Dee. She and Aunt Karen have been having some issues recently and I (jokingly) offered to make Karen a voodoo doll to take her aggressions out on, which promted me to start thinking about what details I would use to convey that this was representing Dee.

The cat eye glasses. For sure. She's sporting them in her 8th grade graduation picture. The only other thing that stands out to me about her (as a physical characteristic) is a picture of her with her skinny little legs poking out of her communion gown at the hospital while recovering from rheumatic fever. Beyond that, I'm at a loss.... and I'm not making the doll anyway. It was just something to ponder.

But this looks more like my mom. Who also sported some cat eyes back in the day.

big stinkin' giraffe

:o)

what's my sign?

I've been staring at this sign for years. It's what I see when I look out the window from my seat on the couch. I decided since it was such a regular part of my life, it deserved a photograph of it's own. I think it will end up as the cover for a photo album I keep, honoring the effort of pulling our home into the current century. I think we'll be well into the next century before we get there...

It's an actual photograph, colored with my latest new toy... caran d'ache neocolors II.

They're kind of like a regular crayon, but much smoother, water soluable and very blendable. They provide better coverage with a much smoother finish than regular crayons. I like Crayola's portfolio water soluable oil pastels, too; but these are different. Firmer... less messy.

This paper (regular ink jet paper) wasn't the best surface for working on. Blending was nearly impossible and the addition of water just makes a big mess.

remember who you really are

This was inspired by teesha moore's work.

It's a journal cover that I made this past weekend after spending some time enjoying Teesha's website.

I've got a long way to go before I'm in the same league as her, but I had a good time with it.

The colors look funky in this scan... the pinks aren't quite so bright and the background is actually purple, not blue.

another recent journal page.

"found poetry" is amazing... no matter the subject of the written text, i can usually find a couple words on that page to describe what i'm feeling at that moment.

this one is a gentle reminder to myself that i need to listen more, occasionally look the other way and always show my love.

... it also reminds me of the path i travelled when those things weren't shown to me.

secrets

This is another journal page...

I made it while I was visiting my bestest bud in Florida for a long weekend. I took more art supplies than clothing that weekend and it caused me excessive worry about whether I'd have to pay additional mega-bucks for my bags being overweight. It weight exactly 38 lbs... phew! (and my clothing bag had a few pounds to spare...)

I was slightly hungover after having several drinks for the first time in several years during the creation process.

The night before, after consuming those drinks, we wandered through some galleries in Delray. I felt very inspired by... ahhhh, can't remember his name right now... Salvatore something. His work is almost all hearts. Very textural, intriguing, colorful hearts. He tolerated my drunken ramblings in the middle of his gallery like a true gentleman. (And he's a real cutie, too!)

I've come to the conclusion that this represents something I still carry as my own "little secret". I'm still not telling!

snooper!

a page from my journal.

these things seem to invite prying eyes!

this one is a marble composition book... the kind you used in grade school, with the black and white covers.... except it has blank pages instead of lined.

i like to leave them laying around.... someone always picks it up and starts thumbing through it. they don't even think to ask if it's okay until they've finished. ... cracks me up when they realize what they've done! and even funnier is when they realize i stood there watching them the whole time!

little do they know... i love that they peek! and enjoy seeing them enjoy it....

uniform

A doodle from a promt... I think it suggested drawing my favorite outfit.

Since I dont have a "favorite outfit"...
I drew what I'm most comfortable in and wear almost every day.

I finished it off with watercolors and twinkling H2O paints, which I discovered a couple of months ago and absolutely LOVE! The finished texture is smooth and great for writing over, plus it twinkles!

trees

Something fun I did the other night.

Weird, too....

I went to visit a website that had creative prompts. I liked the ideas, so I printed out the list and took it to my play room. I completed one item on the list, decided I needed to go back and read more of that site, and then moved into doing "my own thing".

I returned the next day, poked around, and found a collage that this artist had done. It was very similar to "my own thing".

Guess I'm not as original as I thought!

But I swear.... I didn't see hers before I made mine :o)