Wednesday Means Wish Time!

Jamie always asks just the right question to get me moving and thinking, doesn't she?


Today her question is:

What do you wish to remember?

Right now, in my life, the things I wish most to remember are:

I am strong. I am powerful. I am capable.
I can make good things happen.
I am creative and successful and blessed.
I can do anything and everything I set my mind to doing.
I am good. I am worthy. I am loved.
I am necessary.

There are so many more aspects I can travel into this, but none of them will be very productive.
So, I'll stop here...

Blessings...

Beautiful Boy

I love my son.

I love watching him sleeping.

He turns 6 in September.

He still nurses in his sleep, just making the motions as if he were still doing so for real. It's beautiful to watch.

Tree

I have a thing for trees...really I do.
I agreed to go back to cracker barrel when I really wasn't in the mood for their food--just so I could take my camera and wander through the parking lot like a lunatic, taking pictures of the trees.

They have such amazing character.

I could not help myself.

Here's one photo. These trees were posing as my models...there will be drawings coming soon....

See How Good E's Curls Look?

Recycled T-shirt Into Curlers

for the tender-headed amongst us...
she is ever so proud when she has curls in her very straight hair....
we even bought hair gel to keep the curls in longer--they stay longer with nothing in her hair...but the gel does make her hair fuller after the curls fall out...and the curls look spectacular when the curlers come out....very impressive....

Preparing For the Next Full Moon

This was started on the New Moon. That's when I was playing with the gel medium and everything else...that's when I had a huge spate of I so cannot sleep and I have to be busy doing something anything energy...before it degenerated into I can't sleep I can't think I can't move energy. :-)

I have plans for it, to take it farther...I just haven't had that burst of gotta do it yet...but it is building within me, deep inside...I can feel it...

New Doll In The Works

This is her in a really rough draft stage...she is currently awaiting some beads and wiring....

Just Playing

I was doodling with water colour pencils...I was trying to draw an evergreen sprig...but when I was done...all I could see was the fairy there..so I kinda played it up a bit...so here you go...

Gel Medium Background

I so want to say, please ignore the glitter along the corners...but it seems to be there for good....

This is my canvas piece...before I started to play with modeling paste upon its surface....

My New Best Friend

Gel Medium....it is way too much fun....

This is the first page set in my art journal for 'the creative entrepreneur' by Lisa Sonora Beam...
I have no clue why I didn't take pics of the next 2 sets...only the third was also done in gel medium--this time in reds and oranges...

With everything else that has been going on lately, I haven't gotten very far into that yet...but I am getting there...slowly but surely...

DreamBoard Set

So far, so good...everything is coming along nicely....thank you all....

Can You Identify This?

We would like to know what kind of spider this is...
and if you know this--we have a jet black one w the same markings, only it's smaller in size, living in our linen closet....
clues and ideas are welcome....

Shots of the Girl

Industry

a board, some nails, a hammer--my kids have been busy for weeks with this thing...

Hollow

This was an illustration friday about 3 weeks ago. Done with water colour pencils....

A Doll Knitted

The Princess fairy doll, per request. I still have not written out the pattern for the dress yet...but I might get there at some point...

Made for my niece...per her specifications...the only thing it doesn't have that was requested is wings...and that's because by the time I was finished w the dress, I had nowhere else to put the wings....

Can't Figure Out What's Missing

Here is the beginning of this piece...all drawn w coloured pencils....
you should have seen it before-I swear I posted it here on this blog somewhere...


This is the after gluing hand-made paper pieces on and then painting everything--and then going back to outline the spirit forms with sharpie.....there's glitter and glue involved as well..I do believe....


Something is missing yet. It still feels unfinished. I am not quite sure what it needs...although I have a partial story evolving in my head around it....

What We Did This Week-End

We coloured 'easter' eggs.
For some reason, my nibby little boy found the easter egg colouring we didn't use this past Easter...and he LOVES eggs--and he loves to colour eggs...he won't eat an egg to save his life...but he loves to crack 'em open...and he loves to colour them...
so we indulged him....
over 2 dozen eggs--I am SO happy the boyfriend loves deviled eggs...otherwise I would really be at a loss...

What The Dog Does

this is what Kendall does to tennis balls...

Why I Love My Daughter

A fresh container of margarine...yes....