On a roll

I have been on a roll with starting and actually finishing projects. We all know how that goes. Starting new projects isn't the hard part it's actually finishing them. Lastnight at 9 'clock I decided to start putting together a 4x6 Donna Downey canvas album. I started out thinking I would just paint the cover. Finished that and thought,well that didn't too long so maybe I'll just paint a few of the pages.Before I knew it I was knee deep in the project and wasn't about to not finish it.I used a poppy red paint mixed with a little pink and all the pages I painted a light sky blue. I trimmed all the pages with orange and bright green ribbon to keep it simple. I didn't go too crazy decorating the pages because my goal was to just get them ready for pictures.I don't think the picture does it justice as far as showing how pretty how colors I used are. It reminds me of Sherbert.I of course had fun putting this project together until 5 a.m. this morning.Totally worth it!

Ready for Texas

I leave next Wednesday for Texas. I'm going home for a short visit with my daughters. I have really been trying to finish up all those unfinished projects I have laying around. I bought the Donna Downey 12x8 canvas album at inspire and decided I wanted to use if for this trip.
So I started it and got completely sucked in.I'm a bit of a night owl, so as the sun was comig up this morning, I was just hitting the hay!I really wanted to finish it and to say I'm notorious for losing track of time would be a understatement.I would have loved to take pictures of every page but I wouldn't want to bore you so that's why I took a side view picture.I'm so happy it's done and can't wait to fill it with pictures.

Whoa Baby

After Hattie's makeover I found another cute pic of a baby but the background was wah wah wah.... booorrriiing! I gave the baby a cool place to hang out & he definitely loves his butterfly wings. It was a quick project but fun to do.

Hattie Hogan

So are you at all curious as to who Hattie Hogan is? Me too.I know she's from Greely Kansas. I bought her picture in a antique store in Boerne, Texas.I know she needed a makeover. You know the kind of surprise makeover like on tv!I got the idea from my somerset studio magazine.The photo was the normal Sepia color which made her dress look like a light color just like black and white. I started by cutting her out.Then I began putting different scraps of fabric around her until I found one I liked. I took my alene's glue and just started shaping it to cover the one she was wearing. I added some flowers in her lap, some in her hair, and of course I had to give poor Hattie some bling! I took gold stickles and made her a ring, necklace, earrings, and a gold bracelet. Homely Hattie is now Hottie Hattie! I can't be sure but to me Hattie almost has a little grin on her face now. I think she's loving her new look!

Sunshine Friday

My Grandaughter enjoying a day at the pool.


Woo Hoo the sun is out, the heat temperature is up & I'm loving it!I'm from Texas! I have to love the warmer weather.I guess I would have been up a creek If I didn't. Today is one of those days that I'm all over the place when it comes to figuring out what I want to do today. Isn't that annoying?! There is the "I need to" list & then there's the " I want to" list. So I need to go to the gym & after that I'm putting in a good movie & working on something fun.I just might have to cook something yummy while I'm at it or even better yet, I'm gonna order some shrimp pad thai. Yummm. I hope everyone has a fun Memorial Day. It's nice for all of you who get a day off from work so enjoy whatever you do & if anyone creates anything really cool, send it to my email & I'll post it here on the blog for some inspiration for someone else!

Vintage Sunday

This picture is my Mothers wedding picture taken in 1945. She joined her soon to be husband in South Carolina where they were married before he shipped out for Germany. It's probably one of my favorite pictures of her. I wanted to give it that vintage look because it was the 40's after all. I used old lace, broken vintage jewelry pieces.The paper I used was Basic grey,& Graphic 45.The flowers and stick pins I used were Prima,& maya road.The charm in the corner was by making memories. Behind the photo is an old doily I had. I distressed the edges with Tim Holtz walnut distessing ink. Because the photo itself was so light I tried to add color in the embellishments. Pretty paper & flowers for a pretty picture.

Inspire pictures

Here are a couple my inspire projects. I really didn't think I had a favorites but when I went to take pictures these were the two I picked up first.I've done encaustics classes before but never bees wax with pigment in them. It was so fun building up the wax on the hearts which is a new technique to me.



When I first saw the felt tree with the jute I wasn't sure how I felt about it but when I saw it I loved the whole idea right away. It was time consuming and took a ton of glue sticks but fun to put together. I'm not sure if you can see how the jute is twirled to make patterns which was a little tricky but still alot of fun.So that's all for now. You'll have to keep watching my blog for more pictures!:)