Side effect

Another good sign-ink on my fingers!!

4-2-1

I'm not keeping to my daily blog post.  I'm also not keeping to my plan to create every day.  And that is the subject of the journal page I just made.

1-1-27

I haven't really been creating anything much.  Last week I worked entirely too many hours and they were very hard hours, so I still feel entirely drained even this late on Sunday night.  I can't keep this up much longer.
Anyway, I did manage to make a page for my Psalm journal.  Last night, I think.  Today I frogged 2/3 of the black shrug I've been crocheting and got back on track with the help of a cheat sheet on the edges and what to do when turning.  You certainly don't need to see another photo of that project, so here's the journal page.

1-1-21

So I didn't really have much time after a 12-hour plus workday last night to create much, but I did get my new journaling bible and started marking the reading I'm at in John.

1-1-18

I've wanted to try art journaling for a while but was held back by two things.  First, it is daunting to create something from nothing at all-that blank page staring at you.  Second, I have nothing profound to say and so the idea of decorating my lame words seemed... stupid.  Then the solution dawned on me.  What are the best written words ever???  And of the Bible, the Psalms are the most personal and emotional, so that's where I started.  I recently came across Psalm 119 and despite the cute acrostic-ness, it is a very profound set of words.  I debated a while over which translation to use and settled on The Message, at least for now.  The most "regular language" version I have.  I don't think I would recommend it for anyone's only Bible, but I picked it up cheap at Goodwill and for the Psalms, in my "art journal", I think the language is right.

1-1-14

Some of the steps for creating a snow-less globe.  Paperarium.  I can't come up with a good name.  I tried glitter on the bottom seam of the newest one.  Pink.

1-1-13 part 2

I've added crochet!

1-1-13

Well, this isn't crochet, but I'm getting it finished.  Something I've been fiddling with for months, off and on.  I had trouble with the technicalities of the components.  I wanted to use salt dough but waiting for it to air cure was taking too long and I didn't want to risk sealing it with uncured dough--mold!  I read it could be microwaved and that works great but the holes for the tree twigs move then.  Today I splurged and bought myself a Dremel.  Now I want to crochet a little trim for the bottom and my prototype will be done, finally!

Catching Up

So, I have been doing some work.  I wanted to add the photos - these are the recent ones, all in the last year or so.

I just added the closures to this last night - the pattern is from Lion's and the yarn is Vanna's Choice.  This knitted up in no time flat, and I haven't even knitted in a year at least.  I will also say that steam blocking acrylic is my new thing to do every time, now, although VERY carefully, never touching the piece directly!

I made this little book last night.  Paper was 4/$1 at Michael's, so with the ribbon I already had, this book only cost a dollar.  It measures 6 x 6, has a little junk mail glued into the cover for stiffener, and has 12 pages.  (It's for exercise-blech!)  It also only took about 1/2 hour!!

I made this little ditty when I first got my new machine.  It holds all the little feet and wahtnot, and even has the feet letters written in paint marker.  It usually hangs off the right end (I moved it to the front for the photo)

I'm trying to multitask and paint my nails while uploading these photos AND watch (listen to, really) Criminal Minds {I'm so GLAD they're getting rid of Prentiss!!!}  This is the plan for adding pansies over the second layer of grey.

This is, well you can see the label in the background.  I bought a knitting magazine a few weeks ago after the purple sweater success, and they had several gorgeous sweaters.  This one was in gold and brown in the magazine, but I thought the grey might be a little easier to wear.  The lower cable-band took forever to knit!  I also was trying to knit it on circular needles, but I prefer squinching everything onto 14" because I like to tuck one under my arm (or even up a sleeve!)  I'm not certain I love it anymore...  :(