Friday's Lovely Links

:: delightful to visit ::

enjoy.

• carrot cake cheesecake **CAKE** - wickedgoodkitchen.com
• Illustration - Neus Lozano
• egg carton flower garland (tutorial) - sayyestohoboken.com
• artist - Sandy Welch
• illustrator / graphic designer - Agata Krolak
• typography sketchbook -pinterest.com

Have a wonderful weekend.

:: HAPPY EASTER :: 

painting in layers

:: mesmerized :: 

To any artist, worthy of the name, 

all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, 

read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

AUGUSTE RODIN

Inside my collage box

:: snippets ::

collectively, become part of my work

as I ravish through bits and pieces... to make sense of it all. 

 A collage piece comes together as the starting point;

keeping the elements is progress;

working through the design... is telling the story successfully.  

painting

:: simply sinister :: 

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

HERMANN HESSE

We do not appear clearly to those... who have no character them-self.

My thoughts to share. Be a little sinister. 

Friday's Lovely Links

:: delightful to visit ::

enjoy

• painting - artist vanessa cooper
• bunny project - blogguidebook.com
• cacti LOVE centerpiece - fromezterwithlove.blogspot
• homemade rubber stamps - blogguidebook.com
• artwork - artist takakiro shimatsu
• blueberry lemonade (recipe) - thewoodenspoon.net

Have a wonderful weekend! 

DIY

:: decoupage eggs ::
A whole gang of these cuties.

I was very inspired to take on this project.

After posting the link 

HERE

I altered the project, and went about crafting these eggs slightly differently. 

I decoupaged each egg using several different materials:

tissue paper

printed napkin

masking tape

torn book pages 

Each one had it struggles. 

I found using the masking tape, to be my favorite way to decoupage the eggs.

There is no right or wrong way to go about creating...

as long as you use your imagination and put your heart into it! 

Enjoy.

a peek inside...

my Strathmore visual journal

:: visual word play ::

 

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again

 and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. 

What is broken is broken - 

and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best 

than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

MARGARET MITCHELL 

ME -self

Egg-stra Special

:: eggs ::

crafting an egg out of brown paper bags... always cracks me up!! 

these were so fun and simple to do... I know you will enjoy them too. 

Have fun creating something EGG-stra special.

Friday's Lovely Links

:: delightful to visit ::

• decoupaged tissue Easter eggs- www.myfabulesslife.com
• DIY - altoids watercolor tin - shealynns-faerie-shoppe.blogspot.co.uk
• lemon crumble bars (recipe) - www.thecountrycook.net
• mind maps - artist martha rich
• DIY - travel keepsake box kits - www.marthastewart.com

Have a wonderful weekend

:: HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY::

Away we go...

:: bunting ::

mini paper bunting 

a sweet treat to unravel and unfold... 

to have and to hold.

This mini paper bunting was so much fun to create! 

I am absolutely, delighted to share this artful decoration with you. 

 painted papers (collage scraps) 

scissors  

 butcher's twine (any embroidery string will work)

craft glue

stapler

wire gauge

It is the simple things in life, that are colorful!

Sketchbooks and Journals

:: a pile to treasure ::

A personal pile of mine.

 A stack of stories in my studio. 

A collection of sorts... some handmade, hand-bound, altered, and recycled.

 Honestly, these art journals and sketchbooks are hard to pack away...

 They have become a part of me, a part of my studio, a part of my "why".

You know... those days when your inner critic tells you, 

"why do you bother making art anyways ?" 

This is when, I can open anyone of these books up and be reminded...

and fall in love all over again! 

I think these can wait, just a little awhile longer, 

before I pack them away to our new place.

Our journals are such a part of us, don't you think ?