Monday, May 27, 2013

2nd Half of our Jersey Shore Memorial Day Trip to The Beach

So if you missed it - heres' the link to check out my 1st day post.   We stayed overnight at the Tradewind still highly recommended them if you need


after we woke up to a gorgeous summer day... we walked across the street to grab breakfast.

Our favorite Breakfast Place on the Island.
The Sand Dollar Pancake House

Enjoyed the 3 Buttermilk Pancakes... Yum Yum

THen we decided after breakfast to walk to the beach - or course we had to pass "Salty"
Now here's my position on this place.  WAY TOO EXPENSIVE.
They try to offer breakfast and dinner - food is not good and too pricy.
They do ice cream...  I would rather walk the 3 blocks to Music Man cheaper and we get a show.
The family that run's it are some of the nasty people I have every met
And they have only gotten nastier..

these are photos from them cleaning out the garbage I feel horrible for The owners of Sand Dollar and the residents of this town.   it's a Total Eye Sore.  And I can say first hand they don't care
When i said that to my kids how gross it all looks - the owner called me an "a**whole**... I looked him in the face smiled and said "Karma" smiled and waived good bye.


It really just annoys me when people just think about themselves and not how it will hurt other people.

Boardwalk is in for most towns.  Hi Dunes..







Thought this was nuts the way they were raising the house.




More to come on this blog... Got very inspired to do a Beach Mixed Media Abstract place and have started working on it - Tomorrow I'll be posting Part 3 of this post with all the photos of the process.

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Monday, May 20, 2013

My Tracey Weinzapfel May Challenge... A Letter to my Infant, Toddler or Teen self.

So Tracey Weinzapfel May challenge was to write a letter to the infant, Toddler or Teen Self....   I'm taking the approach of lesson learned...

"It's Not Selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, & to make your happiness a priority.   It's a necessary.








I used gelatos, Pastels, Paint, Washi Tape, PITT Markers, and Montana markers

I hope you enjoy...  I love her challenges






Sunday, May 19, 2013

Been doing a ton of drawing... Here's a bunch of different Art Journal Pages I've created....

As I said I've been drawing and drawing... I've been self teaching myself to draw faces and I have to say I love it...   Highly suggest I would never have thought I could draw anything that even looked like a face...

Pinterest and YouTube are amazing tools...



Below if my first time using watercolor pencils.


Below is my first time using charcoal.



Below is my first time using watercolor paints.





Below is using water colors pencils, Using Caran D'Ache Neocolor II, and Gouache Paints, Pitt Pens


Finally below was my 1st attempt at Pastels


I hope you enjoy - and really hope you grab a pencil or whatever and you start drawing...

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

ReOrganization of areas of Studio... LOVE IKEA!!!

So I hit Ikea this weekend and purchased a few things to make my life much easier...

Some photos to share.


I have a target cabinet organizer that I have all my mixed media products on - and I love it because I can see all the way back.

I have double tongue & Grove tape where I hang the distress inks from Ranger.

I also included the Dignitet Curtain Wire with Clips  $12.99


 And then my love of my love...
Raskog kitchen cart I got it in Blue
$49.99 

I can't get over how much fits into this cart.
I'm going to go back and get another one for all the mixed media products
It frees up so much space 
I have boxes of other things that I can't ever see because they are in boxes
This would get it out so I can see it...


Below is from Ikea it's a Letter Tray White - by Kvissle $19.99
I am missing 1 tray so I could put all of my Inks with the top on it it wouldn't fit - but I can pull the tray out to get them all.



I then got the Bygel Rail $2.99
and got the Bygel Containers each $0.99

I put different things inside the containers - and all those little things that I can never find mostly..


Hope you enjoy... I love how it all came out .

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5-5-13 My Puppies...

So wanted to introduce you all to my puppies.

Ella - is an imperial Shiztu that we rescued.
She is 3 years old
And is the perfect angel

Cleo is a Yorkie Poo
She is almost 2 years old
And we like to refer to here as Satan 
LOL....  She's a good girl
They are both just opposite.



A Good shot of them in my art studio




Thursday, May 2, 2013

Mixed Media - Art Journal - Strength - Inspired by Dina Wakley 5-2-13

I follow Dina Wakley - her blog, pinterest and facebook and instagram.. You name it I follow her.
She's amazing.

I saw her post a mixed media page of an amazing drawing - and painting and I just loved it.

This is my version. 




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