Friday, April 11, 2014

Think Love - Live Joy!

Here's a fun project that is dedicated to a new friend I was destined to meet.  Try this out.

 

After I put gesso over the burlap background, I painted the background with Distress Paints,
Broken China, Evergreen Bough, Frayed Burlap, and Pumice Stone.  It dried pretty quick.
I tore some tissue paper and glued it down with matte medium randomly in the corners.  So far 
so good.



Every morning during coffee time I select a few videos to learn and get inspiration for my day. Well,
I tried not to fall out of my chair on this one.  Anna-Karin is one of my go to videos.  She used embossing paste as the medium to allow the honeycomb pieces from Tim Holtz framelits die
to create this mosaic.  It was a little tricky but I loved the end result.



This artwork is dedicated to my new friend who crossed my path while I was junking last week.  She was in a store called Junque Dynasty and she was so full of life and joy.  She too was an artist and invited me to her show this weekend.  We discovered we had much in common.  Our meeting was no accident.

On her business card and website it reads...Think Love - Live Joy. She paints nature,  especially birds.
Pam, this is dedicated to you.  Here's to a long life of paint covered days!


Monday, April 7, 2014

Joys of Junkin'



"Let's go for a drive."  My husband is always trying to get me into trouble.  On this particular Saturday, he wanted to go junkin'.  I'm in!  So we headed to Round Top and sights along the way.  What we did not realize was that it was the famous Antique Week, where thousands of people migrate to Round Top and Warrenton to rummage through the best junk in Texas.  That's the good news.  The bad news is the traffic is horrible.  The minute we got into town and saw the line of traffic we knew we picked the wrong weekend for a lazy day of junkin!  Oh well...here's some of the jewels from the junkin road I wanted to share with you. Unfortunately, I didn't get to come home with them.


Check out these blue beauties...


Love these tags.


The orange trunk was stunning mixed in between.


Springtime pink watering can. Sigh...


What a crock!


Batter Up!


Great marketing advice!


I want to learn how to make things look old like this wood.


And like this desk.  Love the look. And finally...


Tim Holtz...check this out.  I thought of you.
Isn't this crazy?  It was an organizational 
dream for someone.

And so ends our day in Round Top...tired and happy.