Okay, trying out the new way of adding photos...

I did a little zentangling the other day. The first I've done in quite a while!

It was fun! This week's tangle looks kind of difficult, but I may give it a try tomorrow. It's late, so I'm making this short.

Au revoir and shalom from Minnesota! (I think I have the hang of this Picasa web album thing!)

A little decoupage...

I picked a small bouquet of wildflowers while walking around the pasture fence yesterday. (Checking it to see why it wasn't sparking!) So I decided to dry a few to decoupage onto my scripture journal. I hope to eventually have it positively encrusted with flowers!

Have you ever dried daisies? I wasn't sure they would turn out, but they look pretty good!

I also picked some hyssop. I used to call this mint (and it is in the mint family), but I found out later it's hyssop. Like in the Bible?

Here I'm Mod Podging a daisy and some little yellow flowers (cinquefoil?) to the back cover of my journal. I love this! The columbine looks great, don't you think?

I also felt like splashing a little watercolor on paper, so I did a little background painting on these pages of text. The pages actually came out of my scripture journal because I was reducing the number of pages to make room for expansion as I added stuff to the pages. (Does that make sense?) I will, hopefully, do some pen and ink drawing on these later.

Yesterday I did a couple more drawings using the auraknot tangle. It's a lot of fun, so I keep trying new things.

I'd better get to bed!! I had a great weekend doing a little art, spending some time outside and helping with baby Audrey. Please send up a prayer for my daughter Micah. She has to take it easy and rest a lot until baby Hazel is born. That's hard for her to do! She needs six more weeks for Hazel to be a good size. Thank you, Lord, for protecting Micah and baby Hazel, in Jesus's name. Amen.

Good-night and shalom.

The Diva's Weekly Challenge #69-Groovy!

Hippy alert! To be honest I almost passed on this week's challenge. The groovy tangle looked too much like "scrumble", which is a tangle I have a lot of trouble with! However, on the way home from work the word "Groovy" just stole my heart! Yup, I'm an old hippy... Anyone who lived a few miles outside of Boulder, Colorado between the years of 1966 to 1980 has a warm spot in their heart for all things groovy. I thought, "This is too FAR OUT to pass up!" So, here is my rendition of this week's challenge...

Peace, baby... :D

Disclaimer: I intentionally didn't look at anyone else's tangle before doing this, so if there are thousands of peace signs out there...I DIDN'T COPY! lol! Oh, and for those of you with Wordpress blogs, I promise I am visiting your blogs, but it's just too hard to leave a comment! :(

I'm off to visit other groovy people for the Diva's Challenge!

Shalom! (Peace, of course.)

WOYWW!

Here it is! I've been mostly having fun with zentangles this week and beginning a scripture journal which I'm making out of an old copy of Barchester Towers. You can read about that in my previous post, if you're interested! Do you like the roll of toilet paper behind my WOYWW badge? It's handy for blowing my nose AND for blotting my paint brushes. You will also see a scrap of paper that I'm practicing a tangle on and the ever-present headphones! :)
This is my zentangle for the Diva's Challenge for this week. We were to use auras, or extra lines surrounding tangles. It was a lot of fun!
This is a much larger zentangle that I'm just playing with a little at a time. Something to fool around with and then put down for a while, which is a good way for me to do art.
Here's my little scripture journal cover. The label didn't cover the bookcover design, so I turned it sideways. I've pasted a couple of maps in it, but I'm going to do some Bible study before deciding what else I want to put in it.
If you want to visit some other desks from around the world go to Julia's Stamping Ground! Everyone have a great time with your art!

A new Diva Challenge!

So glad to hear that Artoo is on the mend and baby and mom are home! The hospital is not a pleasant place to be, though we appreciate their care. I've missed the challenge, though I've done some tangling on my own.

This week's challenge over at the Diva Challenge is to use "auras" in our zentangles. I thought this was a lot of fun! I learned several new tangles, which isn't difficult to do, since I'm a rank beginner! Go over to the Diva's website to see more zentangles!

Here's mine:

I may try another before Saturday...or I may work on my larger zentangle.

Here is the cover of my scripture journal.

I've glued a couple of maps inside, but I'm not quite sure what I will add next. I think I will do more reading and studying of the Word before deciding on something special to put in it.

Everyone enjoy your zentangling!
Shalom!

A beginning for my scripture journal...

As I'm reading through Galatians I see many scriptures I'd like to write about in my journal...but first I need a journal! I've already removed pages from this copy of Barchester Towers in preparation for making an altered book, so I'm going to use it for my journal. .
Rather than putting gesso on all of the pages I'm going to write my scriptures and thoughts on old pieces of paper from a 1905 copy of A Child's Garden of Verses which I dismantled earlier. (How could I tear these two books apart?? you may ask. The Garden of Verses was in very bad shape and falling apart already. I posted earlier about saving the cover to make an art folder out of. I'm also saving the colored prints and some of the poems for other projects. The copy of Barchester Towers was a nice one, but I see copies of it at the library book sale all the time, so I can easily get another to read, though I'm not sure it's my cup of tea anyway. This one was nice, with a sewn binding that will work for an altered book. I've taken some of the old blank pages from The Child's Garden of Verses and (between sneezes) painted some watercolors on them. When these dry I'll try writing on them. These pieces of paper I will then cut to size and paste into the journal. This will leave the text in the altered book still exposed and I will either draw or paint over that. I'm not sure how it will turn out, but it will certainly be an experience! :D
The paper to the far left is curling and behaving differently than the other two, so I'm not sure if I'll use it. Oh, and here's how my zentangle is coming along!
I'm enjoying listening to my YouTube favorites list while I do art. Ah, this is the life!

Shalom to all who visit here! :)

TSMSS and progress on a zentangle...

I love this version!

Remember this from a few days ago?

This is what it's looking like today. I haven't quite got the hang of the "featherfall" pattern, but I like it!

I'm off to work in a little while, but wanted to post something. Last night at work was SO hectic. I'm really tired! Sigh. Wish I could stay home, take a nap and then draw! But life costs money, so I'll muddle through. (End of whine.)
Everyone have a great day!
Go with God!

Two Journal Ideas...

With all of the challenges beckoning on the web I've had some trouble whittling the choices down to a manageable few. I'm working on it, because I know I can't do everything! :) I'm trying to "stay loose" and only do an art challenge if it really speaks to me. I don't want to feel like I "owe it" to someone to take their challenge just because it's there.

So, I'm trying to get in touch with myself and figure out what would really be fun or important to me personally in the area of art. As of today (lol!) my choices for projects would be two particular journals:

1.) I discovered this morning that my hubby has been writing 4 line silly poems about farm life. I thought it could be a lot of fun to make a small book of his poems with my illustrations! Later, I could make copies for all the kids.

2.) My second idea is a journal of scriptures with illustrations. I'm finding so many wonderful scriptures in Galatians and I'm sure I'll find many more that I'd like to have in a journal.

Besides these I'm sure I'll do the occasional zentangle or painting. I'm just trying to keep art from becoming my master instead of my joy.

Speaking of zentangles, here's the beginning of my next one. This one fills the whole page instead of a 3"x3" square. I've only just begun with my string and the very beginning of the featherfall tangle. As part of my new resolution to keep things under control a bit, I'm planning to take a good long while to fill in this page a little at a time. When I finished this little part it was getting late so I said to myself, "Okay, that's enough for now. I have the rest of my life to finish this. No hurry." How mature of me, eh? :D Baby steps...



Shalom!