And on today's agenda....

A CHALLENGE YOU SAY???? Thanks to Lynn, I had somewhere to go with some creativity today! :)

PROJECTS projects Everywhere...

and INK all over my hands ;) LOVE IT!
My very first altered canvas project. I wanna know something though (kind of throwing myself a curve ball right at the start of the post...nice)...WHY is it called an ALTERED canvas?? Essentially EVERY canvas is altered from its original blank state if it is painted on or sketched on...so why the word altered??? Okayyyy...nevermind. TO THE PICTURES batman!

The canvas was teeeeeeny -- only 2.5 x 2.5 (not the one in the photo) --- I wanted to start small just in case it turned out hideously (seriously, there is always the slight possibility of gross-happenings).


I used acrylic paints, alcohol inks and glimmer mist (chalkboard). I had gotten some clear stamps, used Tim Holtz ink for those. old Maisy Mo white rubons are tossed in there as well. Dictionary page clippings --- definition for LIKE. THEN - this is the most awesome part of it that had me excited and jazzed for DAYS - image transfer done with gel medium and a photocopied picture (printed "mirror image" so that the pic would turn "right side" when tranferred). That was the most awesome thing I've done in a while!! It turned out WAYYYY more cool than even I thought it would! I'll like out the site I found the directions for it...I don't have it right now lol

When all was said and done, gel medium put over top of it, placed on the black easel, ribbon with some charms on the ends and....I love it!!

This is where it will sit for now :) better pics in the daytime!

and with a happy Heart...

I thought I would take this opportunity to announce ...

A Good Day.

I had one. It's not very often that I can look on a whole day and say, "wow, that was a good day" and have it encompass the WHOLE day. This one fits that description. I like it. I am a fan. I want more of these.

My man visiting. Had breakfast with him and my dad. Then a trip to the mall, back home, made yummmmy potroast in crock pot - toss in all the stuff and forget it :) ... then a NAP!!! My nap lasted FOREVER, which was spectacular.

Then??? when I got up I got a box in the mail from one of my bestests Lynn ( http://murphyslaw-lynn.blogspot.com/ )! It was like a scrap-extravaganza-attack in that box.

Treasures to discover - some of which I am sharing with G-force because she's girly and will love them ;)

My newest "thing" upon entering into the scrapping world again has been canvases. I am working on a TEENY canvas right now - 2.5 x 2.5 - it is turning out SO awesome! I've got a little bit of stuff left to do before I consider it "finished" (and yes, I will post when I'm done, Lynn). I even dug through my stuff and found my ProvoCraft Chizzlet tool -- bought forever ago, packed away, finally brought back out and played with today too.

All in all, this was a really good day. My heart smiles

Needle? Meet haystack...mix it up people.

Oh bring it on.

What's missing now?
A shoe? no that was tuesday.
Socks? no, that's pretty much every other morning.
Phone? No, no, not that. We have the phones. I have mine. Kids have one too. Their dad bought them phones. Right now, he's paying for service on one that hasn't been on in like 12 days. Why? because that phone belongs to an EIGHT year old that refuses to keep track of her crap. It's dead -- because she can't find the charger. Does any other charger of the 132i3209482348 that we have in our "omg what is this" basket FIT her phone?? Oh hell no. that would be waaay too easy.

SHe balances her life well. Lose the charger for her phone for almost 2 weeks --- and got Citizen Of The Month for her school. Seriously. "...was selected for demonstrating positive character in her homeroom, in the school and for confronting the challenge to use good manners everyday." Really? So to tackle the ramifications of getting Citizen of the month --we can lose a charger that only serves ONE PURPOSE...to charge the PHONE that we "oh so desperately needed". REALLY????

I think I'm gonna balance this out by doing a couple of things. I'll either have to drink copious amounts of alcohol until this makes sense to me....or I'll color with crayons. It's a coin toss...

Creating and wanting to create...often the two do not meet.

That is where I am stuck today. The WHOLE day long at work...thinking about a project...nearly obsessively thinking about it. Planning in my head, scribbling down notes in my little notebook for such things. Making mental checklists of things I want, things I may want, things I have to do, things NOT to do....and then what happens??

Life.

Errands to run. Groceries to get (and I absolutely detest this task...grocery store time SUCKS...but that is another post entirely). Dinner to cook. Chores to be tended to (and a task master/slave driver to the offspring). Dishes. Laundry? yep. *sigh* SO I'm left with what now??

Oh. I'm left with a mental checklist. A notebook with scribbled notations of the creating that I wanted to do. Pictures/gel medium/transfers/paint/glorious plans in my head for the creating that I want to do...and didn't get to do today.

Life. Gotta love it!

I FOUND IT!!!!!!!

I found the ability to scrapbook something. I know, I know, shock and awe. My house still may not be what I want it to be, but my scrappy creative self is having a blast...just sayin!

A New Year....New Rambling...

Okay.
I read Ali E's new word for the year. This is the time of the year that a word that inspires YOU is supposed to help to give you hope/joy/less stress/inspiration...blahblahblah.
Wanna know my word of the year this year??

*stability*

Yep, seriously. Well, I figure I would either have that word, which seems kind of inspirational to me, or I'd pick "SERIOUSLY" but since I used that so much LAST year, I may give it a rest a while.

My 2011 word will be *stability*. For my home. For my family. For my stupid finances. For our FUTURE.

You know what? 3 days into the new year, I feel as if my ass has been completely kicked up around my shoulders. Really I do. I'm just going to keep reminding myself -- OVER and OVER ...

*stability*

something to strive for.