Proverbs 3:3

I have been going through Proverbs at church and in my on-line bible study and this verse just had to be put down in visual form. It is my verse for this week maybe even the month.

Proverbs 3:3

Let love and faithfulness never leave you,

bind them around your neck,

write them on the tablet of your heart

New Art journal

I started a new journal. I think I have five I am working in right now but there is always room for more wonderful journals to join the group. Last year at this time, art journaling was all new to me. I had just gotten back from Art & Soul in Hampton and had commited to art journaling everyday. I kept that up for most of the year. Life got busy and took me down some other creative paths and I stopped working in my art journal as much. I miss it terribly and decided to start back up again but this time I am challenging myself further. This new journal will be done with only drawings by me and maybe a few things taped or stapled in when I am out but no magazine pictures. I really want to focus on my own creative pursuits. I want to develop my skills and this is where it is going to happen. I put together an art kit that I can carry with me in my purse/totebag with my journal so that I can start doing more art when I am out. Because I can't take acrylic paints out with me I am using Stabilio pastel water pencils for color. They are my new find and I love them. They blend like pastels and are in pencil form but you can also use a water brush on them like you would with a watercolor pencil. Here are some of the other things I have in my little kit that I take with me.

1. Alphabet stencil
2. Water brush
3. glue stick
4. Sharpie poster paint pens (basic colors)
5. mini stapler
6. blending stump
7. black & brown Ancient page inkpads
8. mini alphabet rubber stamp set
9. Micron pens 05 & 005
10. White jellyroll pen
11. Marvy DecoColor black paint markers fine & broad
12. Copic ciao gray brush pen
13. White eraser, woodless graphite pencil
14. pencil sharpener
15. mechanical pencil
16. Journaling stencils
17. Honeybee scissors

Holy smokes, I have this really small bag and it all fits in there. I know it sounds like a lot when you list it all out but I have never been known to pack lite. I don't think anyone can tell you what to pack because it really depends on how you do art journaling. I just thought of all my favorite things I want to use in my journal and pared it down to fit in my small make-up bag so that I could carry it with me.

The journal page above is based on the book, Sisterchicks on the Loose by Robin Jones Gunn. The ladies at my church got together Saturday to discuss the book after we had all read it. It is the funniest book. If you need to laugh this is a good one to read. I was in a waiting room last week and kept chuckling to myself and finally a lady waiting there looks over at me like what is going on over there? I just threw up my hands and said how funny the book was. One of the characters in the book uses the saying, crazy like a daisy, and I have decided I am adopting that phrase for when my niece and I travel. The book was about two best friends that go on a unplanned vacation and all the crazy things that happen to them. I have a few trips that fit into that category too so I am going to be using that line a lot. I have left some blank space on the page to add some journaling later. Well, I am off to do more laundry and then I'm heading out to do some research for a project I am working on. Happy Monday!

Teri the Terrific

I was a super hero today. That's all I can say for now, stay tuned in later this summer.

Victoria painting

I got some time to play today. I love the coloring on this piece. I got some new colors of paint so that I could paint a picture for my living room and decided to try it out on a smaller piece. It is funny how the layered background lines show up so much more in a photo than in person. I will have to work on that with some blending but I am done for today.

Crumple this page

Wreck this Journal started yesterday. This is the oddest, craziest journaling experience I think I will ever have. I am a follow the rules, color inside the lines type of person so this is going to take me way out of my comfort zone. I'm not sure exactly how you are suppose to start this journal since you make up your own page numbers and it tells you to do whatever page you want anyway. I tore out a page and crumpled it up. I should have torn out the one that says there are no rules and made a rules page. Maybe I will anyway since there are no rules, he,he. Today I poked holes in one of the pages. I think I will make those holes into something fun. It really is a lot of fun but the poor journal is going to be a mess when I get done with it.

PS I'll tell you a little secret; I kept the crumpled page, straightened it back out and stuck it in the back of my journal. This is going to be interesting. You can follow the link on the side bar if you want to see what other people going through this book are doing.

Goal reached

I reached my goal weight yesterday and will now be heading into transition. Whoo Hoo! I had to go out and celebrate and buy some new clothes. I got a summer dress, two tops and a cropped sweater to match. I also got a new pair of jeans. I think this is the first time in my life that I have not had a pair of jeans and I was seriously going through withdrawals. I just wanted a comfortable pair of jeans to throw on everyday. As you can see my color choice is bright pink and orange. Happy colors. Now I just need some warm weather to go along with them. We have had a week of weather in the 80's and now for the next week we will be in the 60's or low 70's. They say timing is everything. Oh well, it will come back and I will be prepared. I also bought a new pair of jammy bottoms and a green cropped sweater to match. I had the white tee already. Two of my kids laughed at me because accidentally I bought them in colors that match my new comforter. HA, cracks me up too. I slept so much better just having all that perfectly fitting, pretty yumminess around me.

Follow Your Own Path

Worked in my art journal today. It always feels so good to spread paint and get those lovely pens out. When my oldest child was little I used to have to stand her outside at some point to just scream. Something just built up in her that had to be released and that is what happens to me when I don't get to work in my journal. Something just builds up and I feel like I am holding my breath and it is let out and released right onto the pages. Whew, I feel so much better now. I even got another page prepped for later.

I have decided that the colors of this summer are lime green and turquoise. I bought a new bedspread in those colors and I find those colors showing up in my journal more and more.