Thriving Art

    What's On Your Work-desk Wednesday. , is here again and for all you deskers it means time for some good snooping.  Not my normal photo format for my blog, these were taken with my cell phone.  I am pleasantly surprised at the quality it has.  This wasn't a test run, BOTH batteries for my camera were deader than dead........oooops!   LOL   I had to back away for this first photo of Betsy so you could really see the pile up around the desk.  This is how I left it this morning, planning on coming back and getting a jump on some seasonal cards, then I picked up a book I had started last night and weeeelllllllll........it was a good book. So here is what is ON Betsy, like I said I had planned on coming back and working..........  I had sort of cleaned off the desk before I got the binder down, so there really isn't much to see from this angle.  Oh look there are Hannah's flip flops on the floor to the left and a bag of ...

Alphabetical.......that is the prompt for Journal 52 this week.  I watch a lot of cooking type show on TV and they are always de-constructing something.  So as I started this alphabet page it occurred to me that the alphabet is just de-constructed words.........right? I did have a play making the letters in all types of fonts, some graffiti style, but decided to only color in the letters that spell words, and the oval with the sentiment.  After last weeks page, this one looks quite quiet! Thanks for stopping by. Inky Hugs Krisha

WARNING: THIS IS A LONG POST WITH LOTS OF PICTURES   Welcome to T-day to T-Day............say what???  I am actually starting this post on Tuesday August 19, yes I know this will be read a week later, that's the To T-Day part....LOL  But WHY? you ask!  Well, THIS morning (the 19th follow along as best as you can here) I woke up to find a dead coffee pot!  Yep! deader than dead!  Yep, there was water in it and coffee grounds where they were supposed to be, the timer was correct, the delay switch had been activated, and it was plugged in..........................................................but NO COFFEE!     The final picture of this coffee maker.......may it rest in peace.  I will keep the pot itself, they make great watering pots for the smaller flower pots, and a good measuring pot for some of the fertilizers.   This poor OLD coffee maker has been around for over 35 years......can you believe that?  It wa...

Journal 52  time, once again and this week the prompt is Gratitude, as in what are you thankful for?  It would have been just super easy to just list what I'm thankful for, but the entire list just wouldn't fit on this page.....LOL  So I narrowed it down to just having a good life, and the things that are VERY important to me. I think I got a little carried away just playing around with inks, stamps, Washie tape and modeling paste.  The word "EDIT" does come to mind when I look at this page.......LOL Thanks for popping in for a look, let me know you came by and I will return the visit. Inky Hugs Krisha

Happy Friday bloggers!  Geeesh, it's the end of the week already, are you ready for the weekend?  Any great plans? Last night was one of " those " nights where Mr. Sandman was late in getting here, so after tossing and turning, and messing up the bedding I finally just got back out of bed and had some very quiet time with Betsy (my desk) and some snippets.  Earlier I had played around with a new Prima paper doll stamp, and doing some paper piecing.  This stamp is a bit smaller than the regular ones (actually I bought two of them........grin) The regular size is great for journals and large tags, but a little hard to put on a card.  This "new to me" size works great for a long slender card that will fit in a 9.5" x 4.1" envelope........the size bills usually come in.  Anyway, she was just kinda shifted from spot to spot during the day until I remembered that Tuesday Morning Sketches  has a sketch challenge going on this week.  So out...

Once again I'm trying to get back in the rhythm of WOYWW , and posting to my blog in general, instead of sporadically posting.  But then it HAS been a sporadic summer......LOL So you came to see the desk named Betsy this week?   This is how I left her last night, just a drag and drop zone.  I had been working on a new journal, I made some time ago,  but I had drug it, the drawer of water color pencils, and the clip board to the sofa to get started on it.........so that is the pile in the middle.  It is all stacked on the next Journal 52 page, that is finished, but needs posting.  Around the edges are what nots and a few cards I've finished, my controller for the I-Pod.  While cleaning and moving Betsy I discovered not one, but TWO ATCs from the big swap we did for Julia's celebration, that I never did post.  Now I am really BAD,  'cause I just now remembered them as I and telling you about what's on Betsy............

Welcome back for T(ea) and this week I really am drinking tea.  It is Exotic teas from Teavana, brewed slow, then iced down with a touch of sweetener.  A really great way to end a day of shopping with my DIL.  We were on the hunt for decorations for my GD, Hannah's birthday party this coming weekend.  She is turning 8 and wants an "under the sea, shark " birthday party. They are lucky enough to have a pool, so we should be able to pull this off. They had been watching shark week on tv and that's where she got the idea........no more princess parties for this girl....LOL.   I needed a beverage container for my warn drink when we got to DILs house, so she kindly loaned me one of her insulated glasses, with a straw.  They are from the Dr. she works for.  She has quite a few in different colors.  I was lucky enough to snag a clear one so you can see how pretty this tea blend is.  I am starting to think I'll just keep this one....