Light :: Journaling

Collage: vintage ledger, library card, napkin.

Thank goodness for miracles and for choice.

Darkness or light?

I choose light.

Peace to you,

~k

Letting Go:: Journaling

Sometimes getting past Stuff

is hard.

Sometimes Difficult,

means On the Path to Good

or Better.

~k

Tomorrow's another day, but...

~k

Luau Time!

Every July I throw a Triple-Birthday-Party Luau.

We had pineapples, coconuts, limes,

Hawaiian meatballs over rice,

skewered chicken with red peppers and pineapple,

sweet potatoes with bananas,

and more...and of course,

three birthday desserts:

homemade ice cream cake,

chocolate raspberry cake,

and key lime pie.

Yum

 

Thought I'd share a little bit of the fun!

Friends

Family

My son Drew, my mom, my daughter Michelle, brother Mike, nephew Jimmy

Birthday Girl Mom-in-Law & my  husband Michael

Happy Birthday Ma!

Oh, and here's me...aloha!

Thank you for visiting,

~k

Art Journal Page

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

I had my annual Triple Birthday Party Luau yesterday...

I'll post pictures hopefully tomorrow!

The heat & humidity finally broke,

so the luau weather was perfect

instead of stifling. yea!

Happy Monday!

~k

Painting & Dreaming, in my Journal

If you're going to dream, dream Big.

Happy Friday!

~k

Summer of Color: Final Week Already...#6

It's safe to say that we all love Kristin's Summer of Color...and 

this one went really fast!

The color combination in this final week is Sage & Sepia:

Vintage comes to mind right away... and then botanical...

which made me want to use my poppy pod photo

and newly carved botanical leaf pattern stamp.

~Delight in Summer!~

 "Hot fun in the summertime!"

Remembering that nothing's perfect,

I seek to embrace my itchy bug bites with glorious sunshine,

muggy humidity with the ice cream evenings...

because 

I 

 L.O.V.E  summertime.

~k

Thank you, Kristin! Your summer party was INCREDIBLE

and so are YOU!

xoxo

Stamp Carving :: a mini tutorial

I was really in the mood

 to carve some botanical stamps the other day, 

ones to use to make repeat patterns in my journals...

 or for cards, bookmarks, etc.

There are lots more great tutorials out there

but feel free to ask me any questions.

You know I love to hear from you!

~k

Me and my Journal...in Progress

Above, the completed journal page.

 But below is how it began,

 in my Strathmore Hardcover mixed Media Journal,

 size 9" X 12".

~a vintage

Fairy tale book's table of contents, top left corner,

vintage ledger book, top right corner,

and

vintage sheet music,

with 3 tickets glued on the bottom.

I then scraped gesso about...

 

Next, craft paints in aquas, and

white acrylic paint-dipped & recycled 

scotch tape roll (love them!) for the circles/bubbles:

  

 

The silhouettes you see collaged at the bottom

 of my completed page,

are handmade, too. I traced a few

magazine model bodies

onto various papers

and cut them out with scissors.

(I sometimes use them for masks, to spray around).

Some stamping "Be You",

and my journaling with just a ball point black pen.

Here is a close-up of the bottom.

Thank you for looking!

Thank you for sharing art journaling with me,

and for sharing your comments,

which keep me inspired,

and make me really happy.

~k

Summer of Color :: Week #5!

This week's colors:

Candy Apple Red and Yellow!

My head is filled with poppies blooming in the sunshine.

Here, they look a bit off-color...hmmmm...

what's up with looking chartreuse and orange??

 

But, on the bright side, I managed to fix our computer !

Technology may not be my middle name,

but the other night, I rocked it.

~k

Faith & Trust :: Art Journaling

I had this sketch looking at me for days, uninspired.
Today I felt it.

Unfortunately, technology is not working for me.
So, here is my attempt to photograph on my ipad, 
which never cooperates,and edit & post from a broken down PC.
Clearly, I need help. (Does anyone know what iOS5, for ipad, is?)

I may have a techno-meltdown,

but then again,

if I have faith and trust...

and endless patience, maybe not...!

Thank you,

~k

My Texture Walk...and Journal

Yesterday evening, I took a "Texture Walk"

around my yard

 It then turned into a "Color Walk" 

because I have surprise orange poppies this year

...aaah....love....

Then, it led to this journal page.

Here are some details.

Thank you for looking and

for sharing in my texture walk of color!

 What inspires you most in nature?

~k

A Sketch...and Summer of Color3 Week #4!

Kristin's Summer of Color SOC3 is already into week #4!

See lots here at her awesome blog.  It's never too late to join!

This week's color combination is

Charcoal Gray and Pink.

 I have been wanting to practice drawing, drawing, drawing

and sketching faces.

Here, I wanted to try my hand at sketching a face at an angle,

for interest and a change.

I took a piece of pretty pink background paper, and my pencils...

and here is what's going on so far.

I say "so far" because I may do more with it,

such as glue it in my art journal... write on it,

add to it.  You know...

Have a creative day!

~k