Gifts from the Heart

Hello Everyone!

I have a post on the The Crafter's Workshop blog.

Gifts from the heart

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uP cLoSe AnD pErSoNaL - A Selfie Bullet Journal

Happy Sunday

I'm so excited to show you a new journal I started.

I'm hoping I can keep it up on either a daily or weekly basis.

I called it "Currently".

I do a lot of writing in a journal before I go to bed.

It helps get everything out of my head so I can sleep.

It doesn't always work.

This one is a selfie, bullet kind of journal.

I wanted to write down thoughts of the day.

I always loved reading my mother's letters and notes.

I thought this would be a good thing for my daughter some day.

The prompt "Currently" is perfect for me.

It gets me writing immediately.

Here is what I'm going to use.

I'm doing it simple so I can keep it up and take it with me on my travels.

My cell.

Polaroid Zip Mobile Printer

Polaroid Premium Zink Paper 2x3

My journal which is a Midori Travelers Notebook Passport Size

Date Stamp

Tiny Tags

Ranger's Archival Ink Pad in Jet Black

Black Pen

It was fun doing the first page.

I just wrote about why I started it.

Do you have a selfie journal?

Or a journal you're hoping your kids will read?

My inquiring mind would like to know.

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Pathways

Hi Everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I will be celebrating with my daughter.

I'm so excited.

It's also my birthday so enjoying the day with my daughter is a special birthday gift to me since she lives so far away.

Today I have a Yupo painting titled Pathways to show you.

I've been hooked on the Squared Scrolls stencil from The Crafter's Workshop.

Here is a close up of all the layers

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Have a great day!

Do Over Time! Purple Haze

It's time to show you another do over.

It just wasn't working for me.

I didn't like it and threw it in the closet.

It was sitting there since 2014.

Sorry it's blurry.

Even the camera didn't like it.

So I pulled it from the closet and added some white, black and shades of blue

It's amazing what adding more color can do to a painting.

Now I love it.

Here is a side by side comparison.

  

Although I love the final result, did anyone like the original?

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uP cLoSe AnD pErSoNaL

For me, as an artist, the hardest part of creating art is letting someone have or buy one of my paintings.

My art are like children each created differently.

Can't be duplicated.

So it's hard to let them go.

I love looking at close-ups of my paintings.

The layers and brush strokes or in this case brayer strokes give me more inspiration.

Most of the time I paint intuitively.

I lose complete track and time.

This year I let four paintings go for a good cause.

They were put in a raffle.

It felt good.

It felt even better that those who won my paintings actually loved them.

Yes, I was afraid no one would like them.

I may let more go to new homes.

My mother was an artist.

Although she's no longer with us, she's my biggest fan along with my daughter, of course.

Sometimes she had a hard time letting her art go.

This is one of her paintings called The Ugly Duckling.

She painted this piece by a photograph she took.

She worked full time and during her lunch time she took pictures for inspiration.

This was damaged during an art show.

It started to rain and she didn't get it out of the rain fast enough so it's a little water damaged.

These small paintings I have in my house.

This one was painted on black paper with only white paint.

She loved painting animals.

When she started selling her art again, she wanted to find something different that she can sell but didn't take a lot of time to create.

She started painting on milk bottle caps.

My father would wash the caps, sand the inside of the cap, and glue the magnet in place before she started to paint each one.

She started selling them at the church's craft show.

People loved them so much they would come to church on Sunday giving her baggies full of caps.

She even painted special orders.

Customers would give her photographs of their pets.

This was the first one she tried.

This was my dog, Heidi, as a puppy.

As you can see her art work was amazing.

Have you sold your art?

Was it hard to let it go?

Where do you sell your art?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Me too!

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I can't wait to read your comments!