Evolutions

Open Book: What? Me?

So...Christmas flew by. New Year's Eve & Day flew by. Lots of family time and celebration. Very low key...nice, nice, nice. I'm having a hard time getting back into the swing of normal life. This is the first (and only?) full week of school for my kiddos this month. I'm anticipating lots of warm and cozy with them.

I feel like I've been creating SO much art. Every day I'm waking up inspired and painting and drawing and doing. I kept thinking I would spend one day just photographing and sharing and as I investigated further, I'm not sure I have much in the way of finished product/projects. I hope I'm not the only one who does that.

I have been sharing lots of previews on Instagram...now that I've updated my iPhone to the 4S, I've been using the camera like crazy. So....here's a couple of photos that I shared on Instagram... Hope that's not too disappointing...eeeeeek!

On a related note, it seems I could (*blushingly*) share that I was invited to do a little interview over at the fabulous Create Mixed Media for their Journal Fresh blog column. The marvelous and completely inspiring Dawn Sokol sent me a list of questions and I'm pretty sure that I come off as a complete ignoramus...but just in case you might be interested: Blog Post. If, by chance, you came to this blog from that article...I'm so flattered and would love to hear from you. ♥♥

I think my next blog post is the big #200 that I've been obsessing about. I may take a little time between now and then to do some blog updating (you know design, links, galleries and such)...so don't be alarmed if you don't hear back from me until February...it is, after all, the month of love and boy do I have big plans for my readers in that department!!

In the mean time...one more little preview. You just never know what it could mean. *wink, wink*

Open Book: Commissioned Art & Some for You

I mentioned in my last post that I met Amber on Ravelry, who asked me to create an art piece for her. I was happy to do so and we had a nice little trade. She let me know she received her quote, so I am officially sharing.

I moved on to making another 'saying' for my niece and then had so much fun with the technique I used to make hers, that I made a few more. The fun part of these? They're really not one of a kind (like Amber's). I'm putting the three below out as a free download. If you like them...print them, share them...but please just don't claim them as your own. It's Christmas, don't be a grinch.

These guys are big...11x14, actually...I, personally, don't see a point in small prints. So..if there is one you like, click on the title:

HAPPY LIFE

ONE YOU

AWESOME

and then right click and 'save-as'...if you need more help on downloading/saving, just let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Happy Holidays!

 

Open Book: Winter Musings

I'm still caught up in lots and lots of holiday makings...how about you? I wanted to take a little time (before I forgot...because, sadly, that happens a lot, lately) to put up some winter/holiday journal pages.

These are a little less abstract than usual, but I'm also trying for a December daily album and I thought these might fit in to that nicely. It's still in random pieces, sticky notes and digital files...but I'm hoping I can pull it all together at the end of the month?? Is that laughable? Delusional? Anyhow...

Another exciting project going on right now is a commission I took from a super sweet knitter I met on Ravelry through a yarn de-stash. Funny how these things happen, but she asked me to illustrate her favorite quote. I don't want to show the entire thing until I know she has it and loves it.

This is probably a less wordy post than usual, but I wanted to also add a few photos of our beautiful, icy winter wonderland...no snow yet...knock on some wood-for me, I'm quite happy without it!

This is post #197...still taking opinions on what to give away....