Making journals/notebooks again

I love making journals and notebooks and all sorts of things with paper to write in. I guess it's because the chest beside my bed is just full of little books with notes in them and ideas and such. Since I love writing in them myself, I guess that crossed over and I also love making them.

I am back to the larger size 8 x 5 lined journals with many, many pages in them. I particularly love the quality of these.

These two are new listings that I have on Etsy.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26978823

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26918219

Mix It Up With Melange on Wednesday

Here is my piece for the challenge at the Melange blog. The theme this week was "Bliss". This pictures absolute bliss for me. Lying in the sand at the beach; lying there and dreaming away of things to come. Yes, she has on a dress, but that's all part of it for me. Being in a bathing suit at this stage of my life just doesn't bring to mind the word "bliss". But this piece has beautiful color and I just love it. It will soon be offered in my Etsy store.

Mix It Up With Melange Wednesday

The theme at Mix It Up With Melange blog for their challenge is "serendipity". With massive computer problems and my brain not working very well, I just could not wrap myself around this one. I had to dig extremely deep and think about when a "happy accident" so to speak, had contributed to my art. I finally remembered one Easter when I walked down the candy aisle at WM and thought, "those papers are so pretty, I must be able to use them". So, I bought a bag (unfortunately, I ate all the candy), glued the candy papers to transparencies and wrote an article for Stamping Arts&Crafts. That was many, many years ago.

Can't find any of those pieces but I did use candy papers again a few years later on aceos that I sold on Ebay. Here is one.......

Mixed Media Monday

Another lace challenge, this one on Mixed Media Mondays. There is black lace down the side of this mini composition book, but it's hard to see.

Art Creations Friday

This is a tag that I did using the sweet little girl provided for Art Creations Friday. She is the cutest. Didn't have much time, so I put together a tag for the challenge.

Mix It Up With Melange on Wednesday

I finally got my challenge piece done for the Melange blog's Wednesday challenge. It is a collage that I did, added stamping and paint.

Here she is, the theme is "fly".

Mixed Media Mondays

The challenge for this week on Mixed Media Mondays is "layers". Love that one. Here is mine.