Be Yourself

Linking to Sunday Sketches and to Kat's Reverb '12 at I Saw You Dancing. 

Going in circles

Just playing with lots of doodles and colors in the journal...  This one might have just a little too much going on at once! :-)

 

 

 

 Linking to AEDM #27!

EDM #251: Draw perfume

I wish I were someone who could wear any kind of delicious smelling perfume out there, but I suffer from migraines and am very sensitive to heavy, perfumey scents.  Fortunately, there are a few exceptions and one of my favorites is a light airy scent from Issey Miyake.  It takes me FOREVER to get through a bottle... sometimes, when I know I'm going to be spending most of my day indoors, I don't even use it, I just open the top and let myself take a little whiff to get my day going.  I even love the shape of the bottle!

 

 

 

Linking to AEDM #19 and EDM #251. 

Dream state

My night time dreams-- when I manage to get enough sleep to actually fall into a dream state-- always end up being completely surreal.  People from various times and places in my life will come together in one place and form friendships and hang out at my parents house and come over for barbecues with our neighbors-- neighbors that we don't even know when we're awake. 

Sometimes, as my alarm is waking me up, I want to shut it down just so that I can stay in this surreal, imagined dream world and see where things go next.  As I wake up, I wish I could accurately capture it all, because I'm quite sure that it would make for a brilliant, harry potter-esque novel.... or maybe there's a reason why those dreams slip away so easily! 

Hope everyone else is having fun in their dreams!  Linking to Sunday Sketches and AEDM #11.

Fall Fearless and Fly: Black and White

 

This week's prompt for Fall Fearless and Fly at Artists in Blogland is challenging for me because I have a heard time with sticking with black and white and not adding any color at all.  So, true to form, I did add a red frame. 

The prompts included: 

Headline Prompt:  Triumphs and Defeats:  What do you see as your greatest triumphs or defeats?  What have they taught you?  Which have you learned more from?

Color Prompt:  Black and white

Quote Prompt: Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

I stuck with the black and white color prompt, but I also figured that not adding any color is also a bit of a triumph! :-)

Also linking to Day 7 of AEDM!

Quick Fixes: List It Tuesdays

Quick fixes from Artsyville's List It Tuesday describe a list of things that I COULD be doing very quickly but that continue to remain on the bottom of the daily to-do list.  Maybe one of these days I'll become an organized person... But for now, I prefer the magic of shocking my sweetie by being able to instantly find exactly what I'm looking for amidst the chaos.

Also linking to AEDM!

It's time to meet the muppets

When I was a kid, I loved the Muppet Show, so I couldn't resist watching the most recent version of the Muppets out this year.  It wasn't quite the same.  I'm not sure if I've just grown up too much or if the world is just not innocent enough to appreciate their nerdy charm anymore, but it did bring back a lot of great memories.

It's time to meet the muppets
It's time to light the lights
It's time to get things started...
Why don't we get things started...
It's time to get things started on the
Muppet Show Tonight!

Linking to Show and Tell Saturday on Artists in Blogland!

EDM#1: Shoe

For a long time now, Danny Gregory has been one of my greatest inspirations--not just because his art is so wonderfully accessible, but because HE is so wonderfully accessible.  He's amazingly funny and down-to-earth and has created an entire movement of people based on his "Every Day Matters" philosophy.  What's really exciting is that there is an entire Yahoo Group of folks who are doing the same thing!  And even more inspiring... recently, Danny's gone back to his roots and has been working his way through the EDM list of exercises.

One of the things I struggle with most is WHAT to draw-- which is really rather absurd when you think about it.  Really, everything is fair game.  At the same time that I'm whining at myself about not knowing where to start, I've been admiring the way even old shoes can be made interesting when you look at the different ways people approach drawing them.  So, with that, I'm going to stop lurking and admiring what others are doing with the EDMs and try working my way through prompts myself in the hopes that I start to train my brain to see everything as fodder for my sketchbooks.

This old shoe is EDM #1.




 Also linking to Paint Party Friday to see what's inspiring others this week.  Check out the great interview with Martha from AyalaArt.

RIP Nora Ephron

I have to admit... I'm not much of a 'rom-com' person.  I think even the term sounds silly.  In fact, I make fun of my sweetie for loving sappy movies like Love Actually, The Holiday, P.S. I Love You, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 

HOWEVER, pretty much anything that Nora Ephron touched was the exception to the rule for me.  I'm not sure why... maybe because her characters always seemed a little more quirky than the one-dimensional characters found in most formulaic romantic comedies.  Maybe because all her films-- even though they were set in modern day-- had a nostalgic feel to them.  Whatever the reason, I rooted for Harry and Sally to get together. I was devasted when The Shop Around the Corner closed because the big, bad Fox Books moved in.  I was sure that in some small hotel in the midwest, Michael the Archangel was adjusting his wings, drinking his milk right from the cereal bowl and smelling like cookies.

I was saddened to hear that Nora Ephron passed away this week.  I will miss her and her charming characters.  There was no one quite like her.  RIP.

Linking up with Paint Party Friday-- always a great place to find lots of inspiration!

Weekend!

No matter how busy my weekends shape up to be, they are always the highlight of the week.  Staying up later, sleeping in, running errands, working on whatever projects strike my fancy and date nights with my sweetie.  Does it get any better than that? 

I tried to capture some of the excitement and vibrancy I feel on the weekends in this journal page. 

I will also be checking out what others are doing this weekend at Just Journals and at Show and Tell Saturday.  Be sure to check them out!!

I believe...

i love collecting quotes... in part, because of their wisdom, or their humor, or their brutal look at the some truth or another.  in part, i love quotes because they're far more interesting than just writing the alphabet over and over again! :-)

sometimes the best quotes come from the unlikeliest of sources.  although I've always been a big fan of audrey hepburn, i just recently came across this quote and it really resonated.  i believe, too!