Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Changes

Sometimes you hit a fork in the road and neither road looks right.  Other times you'd just rather stay put and wait for someone to come along and ask you to join them on the path they are taking.  Either way at some point you have to change and you have to move forward. It certainly doesn't mean it is easy, however I have found that the more you live in the moment and tackle what is in front of you the easier it is to keep going and move through whatever change you are going through.  The best part is that there are often many good things along the road as you travel.  Today I discovered some of those good things and I am grateful for them.  Looking forward to tomorrow and discovering more good things. 

Yeah I know that is all yada yada stuff, but you always have to remember this is public  so being straight and to the point is not always possible.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Art Journaling

Truly not sure what I am getting myself into, however I want to push myself outside of my comfort zone.  So here goes.

I started out by picking a colour I would not normally use, a dark green. Then I started layering and seeing what else would peek my fancy to use and by the end I had a page created.  I see a lot more creating in my future.

You all remember tole painting (no clue at the moment how to spell that).  Well I think I purchased just about every colour Delta Ceramcoat came out with.  When I moved in 2006 I had already moved on to scrapbooking and left all of my paint and brushes behind.  A few weeks ago my mom came for a visit and brought me 96 bottles of those paints.  Yup 96...

I found myself looking through the colours tonight, rediscovering all of my brushes and the small joys of having all of those colours.  Remember when you were a kid and you finally got the big box of crayons,  so much fun.