Day 4 of #90daysofblogging

Today is day 4 of the 90 day challenge, so far so good!

This is a page I did practicing different lettering, inspired by Joanne Sharpe, as you can tell LOL

I just used colored pens to letter with and then used a black gel pen to draw and doodle with. I then used water color crayons to give it some background color. I really need to work on my lettering, I love the different ways you can write but I just can not do it without looking at someone elses work so I really need to practice more.

Thanks for stopping by, HUGS and don't forget to visit the other ladies blogs that are doing this with me.

Tamiko McCurry

Sandee Setliff

Sandy Beach 

Sharon Estes

Yvonne Armitage Gebauer 

Day 3 of #90daysofblogging

Today is a watercolor painting done using just water, watercolor crayons, and a pen well I guess you will need a paint brush also......

All I did was wet the paper then get my brush wet and touch the crayon to make puddles of color, when it was dry, I outlined what I thought may look like flowers (not real flowers, you would get from a loved one  wink, wink) but flowers from my mind. I then just added some details with my gel pen. This was a challenge for May on the Mixing It Up Facebook page I belong to. Go check it out and follow along. We have great fun.

   You can also check out the other blogs of the ladies that are joining me in the "fun" adventure. They are wonderful women so please check out their work also.

Tamiko McCurry

Sandee Setliff

Sandy Beach 

Sharon Estes

Yvonne Armitage Gebauer 

Thanks for stopping by

Days 2 of #90daysofblogging

This is day 2 of our 90 days of blogging.  I have beautiful blooming trees and bushes in my yard. The first one to bloom is always the plum tree then when the flowers on that start to die our apple/crab apple tree blooms and it is just beautiful. It is an apple tree and a crab apple tree that grew together into one tree, weird but very pretty when in bloom. It does produce apples and crab apples. We don't spray the tree so they are not edible, the bugs get to eat them first and then the squirrels and birds. It does attract beautiful birds. We also hang a bird feeder on it and have a bird bath under it in the corner of the yard.
On the first one is a picture of the two, you can hardly make out the white flowers that produce the apples, the pink part is the crab apple tree.

This picture shows a better picture of the apple flowers but again barely.

 


The bottom picture is a picture of our Plum tree, we don't treat that one either, we leave them for the animals. But it does produce fruit.

Aren't they all beautiful? I think so. I would take a picture of  my Lilac Bush but for some strange reason, the city dug it up this past winter. They did leave a small stem that has a couple blooms on it and I am hoping it grow to become a huge bush again. We still to this day have no idea why they even were working in the creek by our house. They never did accomplish anything :::shrugging shoulders:::. Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful day.  

Day 1 of 90 day blog challenge

Well, today is the first day of a 90 day blog challenge I have agreed to.........what have I gotten into?!?! We, meaning myself and 3 other friends have decided to blog every day for 90 day. Will she be able to do it, you are asking yourself. Well, we shall see LOL

First of all, maybe I will learn a few tricks along the line, like how to link up their blogs so you can check them out :::as I yell for Tamiko McCurry to help me with that part::: and other things I have no idea what I am doing. (pssst, don't tell everyone I don't know what I am doing, we will keep that our little secret).

We can blog about anything we want, it can be about art we have made, our gardens or what we did that day LOL. Hint, my life is boring so I may have to embellish a  bit here....

I have been wanting to get my hair cut but can't decide on what I want to do with it. I always find a picture I like but I think what I do is look at the woman that has the cut and think that's cute when really, the woman is cute. So then I get my hair cut just like it and wonder why I don't "look cute".

Here is the one I am leaning towards right now

 Isn't that cute? Or is it the woman that looks cute with that cut?!?!?! I would love to find the right beautician that will be honest with me and tell me whether or not something will look good with my face structure and my age! I want them to give me suggestions and tell me straight up, no that won't look good but.........and then show me images or what they have done with other clients.

Well, that is my blog for May 1st, 2015,  my other friends are Tamiko McCurry, Sandee Setliff and Sandy Beach. When I learn to hook their blogs with mine, you will be able to check theirs out.

Hey....ta do....here is Tamikos LOL http://mikosspot.blogspot.com/2015/05/day-1-of-90daysofblogging.html go check it out. She is fantastic as are the other two. Ok, see you tomorrow on the 2nd.

Puling Weeds

Here's another project I made using another piece of that wood I found while taking our dog for a walk. (I picked up a few pieces....ok, maybe more than a few :) ). And this will work out great. I may never have weeds in my yard again because........I don't have a doorbell! LOL

Anyway, I painted the wood with this cute little bottle of paint I picked up at ACE Hardware. They are just small samples but the bonus....they have a small "paint brush" build into the lid. How cool is that? I then used my brown Faber Castel Pitt Pen to write the quote then used a stencil I picked up at Walmart to make the "weeds", I used American Yellow Green and Apple Barrel Spring Green. I then used twine for the hanger and added raffia to make it look like weeds already pulled.

Can't wait to see who starts pulling my weeds......

I love using found objects to repurpose.

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #11 "April Showers"

Today I made a card for the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #11 called April Showers. You can find all the details on the blog here http://mixedmediamc.blogspot.com/2015/04/mixed-media-monthly-challenge-11-april.html?m=1. It is a simple card but it has to do with rain. You can use boots, rain drops umbrellas just anything to do with rain.

Thanks for stopping by and check out the challenge and join.

Wicked Witch plaque

This is a plaque that I just finished. I will be hanging it on my front porch (it represents how I have been feeling lately, LOL)

I took 2 pieces of wood that I found while taking my dog for a walk one day. I saw them and thought, huh, I could make something with that. Come on, you all know you have done that before!

First I started by sanding them then Then I used some white craft paint from Apple Barrel and painted both sides and of each piece. I then took Americana acrylic paint called Pumpkin and painted the outside edges. I found some images on the internet and traced them and then painted them with DecoArt Carbon Black. For the green areas, I used Faber Castell Big Pitt brush and the orange around the rim I used Faber Castell orange Gelato. When everything was dry I went over it with DecoArt traditions satin varnish. I then used some raffia to make the broom and used small twigs from my yard. I then glued them on using Aleene's Turbo Tacky Glue.

Here is the finished product, side 1 when I am home and side 2 when I leave the house LOLOL

Seems I need to wash my siding this spring...