AJ everyday progress

I just wanted to share a page in progress with you guys. This is for the AJ everyday challenge I am following over on Julie's blog. I actually really like it so far and I like the way the journaling for each day is going. Since I was playing catch up I followed Julie's idea and just did simple journaling of what I did on that day. Nothing exciting, trust me! :D I work later tonight so I will journal that b4 I go in and see if I add anything else to the page. At the moment I am not feeling anything but we will see! :D

Spoons

If you guys remember I did a post on spoon art here. Here are two I made last night. My first two. I am not overwhelmingly happy with them but I will try them again. I had hoped to make two necklaces but I have yet to bend the spoons over and had no luck trying it the first time myself so not sure what to do about that. My colors are not vibrant enough for me. I have few alcohol inks and the blue I had is a light one so it did not work out too well. Might get some more inks before I try again. :)


A bit blurry but trying to show the color better.

Journal Everyday

Over on Julie's site she is doing a great thing every Friday about journaling everyday! Basically taking jut small times and doing something, not stressing yourself out about not doing a whole page in one day. Which I really like!

SO I signed up for April. Last month I started to make backgrounds when I could and was kinda testing the waters on what I could do in a few minutes each day. I did a bit and then didn't do everyday which is OK too! So I am siked about April, I have started this month feeling very inspired and organized, and am really gong to try and be diligent about making all my time more productive.

First I found Julie through the Prima ustream site where she did a travel journal, which is super quick and simple. I love it, I have made one already and ave another in the plans! And so on. SO after watching her ustream, I went to her site and discovered all sorts of things about her! Loving all the info, she does several different classes, lots of info on her site, she features other artists as well. I definitely encourage you to check out her site! :D

SO for today I do have a journal spread finished. The book boards are from a faber castell kit that is for beginner journals. They are approximately 6 by 5 or something. I have not measured just giving you a size to go by roughly. I laid down some acrylic paints with water over some masking tape, then took off the tape and another layer in a different color. I added some black and white polka dot paper then I brayed some gesso over the pages in a few spots. I wanted to just add black and white details but then when my husband and I went to dinner the chopstick wrapper matched the coloring great, just with that touch of green so I added that in. A bubblegum wrapper and washi tape finished it off and then I drew some circles and journaled a bit inside them.

Anniversary

Today is my husband and I second marriage year. We made it unharmed...fairly :P We had a yummie nice dinner at a Japanese reataurant. Yummie sushi and hibachi, mmmmmmm!Hoping to get lots of crafty goodness going this weekend while I am off! :D

Altered Cook Book Journal ~Serenity~

Serenity is my zen word! I got most of my inspiration from that and the paper line I mainly used which is from 7gypsies. I am so truly in love with this one. Thrilled with how it came out and cannot wait to make another one. I have got to get to the thrift stores to get some old books! :)

Inside front page

fanning of pages

xoxo :D

Steampunk Junk Journals

Fronts

Backs

Inside of one I gave away on YT channel for giftaway! Yt winnner was 5redbird

Inside of mine! :)

Filled with watercolor papers, scrapbook papers, tags, envelopes, misc papers and lots of love! :D

Google Reader

My new best friend! Who knew? Yes lots of you i am sure, but not me. I had heard it mentioned on someone else's blog who uses it and beyond that was like ugh another application for something another, right? Wrong! With such alon list of blogs I follow and only seeing the tiny view that shows up on my dashboard page I was annoyed at trying to see it and all it was never ending it seemed. And today as I was looking I saw the view it in google reader option and thought well I will try it. I am so glad I did, lol. I have yet to make it through all the posting I have missed but I will. And with trying to spend less time online and more time creating, this will so help since all the new posts show on one page instead of me hopping to each blog, yeh like a millisecond taking off because it was not hard to do the other way. But I like it!

So personally I am glad I tried it, and if you have not. Just check it out and see how it works for you. :)