I will be MIA...only for a little while...

Hey everyone!! I just wanted to let y'all know that I would be missing for a few days (until next week to be exact). We are going camping for Thanksgiving. My aunts/uncles and cousins go every year around this time and we are going meet them. It will be a very relaxing 4 days. We will be out in the wilderness (being one with nature)...LOL!!!! We will be a circle of campers out there. It will be fun. The men/boys always go riding on the trails with their 4-wheelers and dirt bikes while us woman sit around the campfire and talk. Sometimes we go on the walking trails...that's fun too (and also very good exercise). I will hopefully have some pictures to share when I get back...if I remember my camera! I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!! I'm a little early but, Happy Turkey Day!!! :)

Baking Banana Bread...

I went online to Cooks.com to find a recipe for Banana Bread. I actually found 3 different ones that I liked. I wanted ones that I would have ingredients in my house already. I didn't want to have to go shopping. I love the internet for that reason...you can find anything there.

I am not going to go through all the different steps, because I cooked these a few months ago and I don't remember. I know...I am behind in telling you about it, but what can I say...I have been busy showing art stuff.. instead. LOL!!!

I LOVE my Kitchenaid Mixer...I have the "professional" one. It is amazing!! I don't use it as often as I should, but it's there when I need it!! :)


Here is the yummy batter (3 different kinds to be exact) being mixed.


Here is the batter in the pans, all ready to go.

Baking is the best part. I like watching it rise and brown through the oven door. Doesn't it look yummy?!? MMmmmmm....

Here is the bread...all cooled and ready to eat. I don't bake very often, but when I do it usually comes out pretty good. :)

Closeups of a few pages...

I just thought you would enjoy seeing some random closeup pictures of some of my pages. I don't always show the details in my work, but I will try to more often now...especially with my big book coming up. I don't even know if I will be able to fit the whole page in one picture. LOL I am having fun trying to fill it though. I am branching out of my comfort zone a little with that size. I am not used to working that big. Pictures of that will be coming up soon!!


As you can see in these pictures above...I have even started stitching around edges of things using old yarn that I had. That has been a new experience for me too. I am enjoying it though.


I love using magazine images in my work. My favorites are W and National Geographic. My family members have started keeping their old magazines for me to use too...they have things like Country Woman, Birds and Blooms, Parenting.



I need to get a new white out pen. I have a hard time finding white pens that will write over all of my layers. Does anyone have any suggestions for white pens that I can use?

More journal pages...

Sideways pictures...

These are the ones that I have been wanting to show you, but they are only uploading sideways. I don't know how to fix them so I am just going to leave them like they are. I don't understand it. They are saved the right way just like all the rest, but these just show up sideways. It's driving me crazy!!!

I am still annoyed with my pictures...some of them are still showing up sideways when I upload them. I am giong to have to resave them or something. I will have to figure something out.

Update...

Hey everyone! I just thought I would get you a little caught up with my life...all I'm doing is: working, eating, sleeping, I'm pregnant, working, eating...wait a minute...YES, you read that right...I'M PREGNANT!!! I can't believe it myself. I found out a couple of weeks ago. I am only about 7 weeks and I haven't been to my actual OB appointment yet, but I plan on going next week. My regular doctor told me that my due date is June 30. I am still a little in shock!! If you know anything about me then you would know that I had a complete aversion to having a baby. I never really wanted one, but I figured that it was now or never. I don't think I would have ever had that feeling of actually wanting a child so I just did it. I got pregnant. I know that I am going to love it and not regret having one so my hubby and I talked about it and I said why not?!?
Everyone is super excited. We haven't had a baby in the family for a while and they said that it was about time there's another baby around.
I will let y'all know more about things whenever I find out more. LOL Have a great day! Create something fun!!!

Lessons 8 & 9...

Here are the last lessons of the Layer Love class!! I had a really fun time doing these backgrounds and I know that you will too! :)

Art journal pages...

Journal cover...

Here is the front and back covers of my last art journal. I hung some decorations and made lots of tabs sticking out. I don't normally like things sticking out of my journal, but I really enjoyed making tabs in this one...I don't know...it just fit with my ideas.




(These two above are sideways and they shouldn't be...(see bottom of post)...



Question: Is anyone else having trouble uploading pictures with blogger? For the passed few days whenever I upload my pictures they are sideways, but when I saved them they aren't. Blogger keeps turning them or something. It is really aggravating me. Two of these posted here today are turned, but it worked out so I left them.

Here are some of the journal pages from my recently finished journal.

My mom is working on some quilts to help her quilting guild. They are giving them to kids in the burn unit at the local hospital. Isn't the fabric cute?!?

Kreativ Blogger award...

Lynda from Butterfly Dreams gave me this blog award yesterday. Thank you so much Lynda!!!

Here are the rules:

1 Thank the person who gave you the award

2 Copy the logo and place it in your blog.

3 Link the person who nominated you.

4 Name 7 things about yourself that no one would really know.

1. I like to watch cartoons.
2. I would like to be a runner/jogger, but I'm too lazy.
3. I wish I could sleep late, but I always wake up early.
4. I love music.
5. I watch infomercials.
6. I have lots of allergies.
7. I don't like bad weather.

5. Nominate 7 "Kreative Bloggers".
This task is the hardest for me to do. I can't nominate just 7 (it would be impossible). I read so many different blogs that all deserve this award. So, I am giving this award to everyone who wants it!! Thanks again Lynda!!!

Just talking out of my head...

I'm so sorry to everyone for being MIA for a while. I have just been working a lot and I haven't really had time to take the pictures off my camera and post them. I would like to get y'all caught up with the pictures of my recently finished journal. I need to start showing you my new journal. It is really big and it is challenging to fill, but I'm enjoying it. I think I am going to cut my hair today too. I really need one. That is the only thing I don't like about short hair...you have to keep it up or it starts to look shabby. I'm sorry! I am just rambling a bit today. By trying to help the environment by using my old junk, I am allowing my art room to be a pig sty...not anymore. I am still keeping some of the stuff, but I will be limiting what I keep from now on. I have too much collage materials and I store too much junk away to use later, but I never end up using it. I actually threw some stuff away yesterday. I feel really good about it. I don't work well with clutter.

My pretty "new" computer...

BEFORE:


THE STICKERS I USED:


AFTER:



ISN'T IT COOL?!?

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Awesome giveaway of the book Good Mail Day. You should check it out...

More layer love...

This is lesson 7 and 8 of the Layer Love class...

I think lesson 7 was my favorite. I love how I can still use "girly" colors, but make them look "dirty"!! It was fun!!

Journal Spilling

Here is my new book by Diana Trout. I have to say that I am enjoying it. I like to just read it and look at the pictures. I love the pictures.
It is teaching me how to just by messy with my journals (not that I am "clean" with them now...I am rather messy already). It is also giving me different prompts that I can do pages with. I just love her use of the term "spilling"!! I love how I can just pour out my whole self onto a journal page. I definitely would recommend you get this book!! :)

Just talking...

Today has been a pretty good day so far. My mom and I went walking this morning for like 30 minutes (maybe a little bit more). Then we went help my aunt prepare some food for her jewelry party tomorrow morning. That was fun too! I haven't done much since we got back. I am just hanging around mom's house today. (I am so glad that I didn't have to go to work!!) My brother came to visit...he comes once a week to wash his clothes over here...so we like to come see him when he does.

The best part about today is the weather. It is cool outside!!! Yay!! We had horrible thunder storms over here during the night, but it was worth it for this cool front to pass through. It feels so good. It has a really cool breeze. It is wonderful!! (That's why we went walk outside this morning)! The whole weekend is supposed to be like this. I'm really excited about it! I wish it could stay like this all year. I love the fall!!

Where the Wild Things Are starts tonight at the theaters. I am not going to go see it tonight, but I do plan on seeing it sometime soon. I will let you know what I think of it. I am happy about it though. I love the book so I am sure the movie will be really great too.

Anyway...I'm gonna go now. I didn't bring anything for me to do at my mom's house today. I am going to go home and get my art journal or maybe my knitting. I haven't decided yet. I hope everyone has a good weekend...do something creative!!!

Layer Love...5 & 6...

You should check out Julie's Layer Love class!! I love using these techniques in my journal pages...either as a background or just as a page itself!! :)

New books!!

I haven't read them all the way through yet, but when I do...I will let you know how they are. I can tell you, though, that I have skimmed through them and the parts that I have skimmed...are AWESOME!!!