* We've been officially finished with school for a couple of weeks now. Unfortunately, the weather hasn't been very conducive to summer vacationing. It has been very rainy and unusually cool for May. By this time we usually have our pool cleaned and are swimming everyday. It's been too cold to even attempt cleaning the pool. Hopefully we'll be able to do it in a week or two.
* After five months of stitching, I have lost interest in cross-stitching. I'm about 3/4 finished with my current project. I will finish it, but it's been hard to find the motivation.Here is a progress shot:
As you can see, I've only done a small amount since the last update.
* Art journaling has become my new obsession. I've done if off and on for the last year or two, but it's been some time since I've given it much attention. Now it seems to be all I can think of. Ha.
As I've said many, many times, I am not good at it. I'm not an artist and I never will be. But it's fun. There's just something about smearing paint on a page and gluing things down that brings out the kid in me. It's also soothing when I get anxious.
My favorite part about art journaling is making the backgrounds. The hardest part is deciding what to put ON the backgrounds. lol
This is what the page looked like before I added the writing, doodles, and other layers.
It all started out with a collage gone wrong. You can't tell, but underneath all of that is an elephant, a beach, and a plate of green beans. Ha! That's the beauty of it- if you make a mistake, you can just cover it up!
* I had a lovely Mother's Day. I will write about it in a later post, because I still need to take pictures of my gifts. :)
Until Next Time....
*Edited to add the two newest pages
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