Thriving Art

Happy T-Day Deskers!!  Thanks for stopping by, and if you came from Elizabeth, The Altered Book Lover , and enjoyed the walk through the Botanical gardens with her, then your right in time for tea.......ooops!  Looks like all my cups are dirty, hope you brought your own....LOL! As the title of this post says, we are getting the Playhouse back on the road again.  We are leaving tomorrow morning for Temecula, CA, about 4 hours south of here.....depending on how many stops we make along the way....grin.  This trip is an annual rally for the owners of Heartland RVs.  Last year was our first year to attend and we enjoyed all the people so much we are making it a longer stay this year.  PLUS it is right next to a Casino (this is on Indian reservation) and it is also in the heart of one of the southern WINE countries.......yay!  This is where we took Flat Susan last year (remember Neet's little world traveling friend?)   Needless to s...

  Making the 20 minute drive home, from Bakersfield, this morning I was thinking about the Journal 52 prompt for this week:   "Week 42: Magic For this week’s prompt, think of something magical. Maybe it’s a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, a magical place, mythical creatures, fairies, or even some magic potions for those of you ready for Halloween!" Well, I'm about finished with Halloween, maybe one more card to go with the book of spells. (see my last post)  So, my mind was wondering about what I wanted to do that would incorporate "Magic".  I kept going back to the Harry Potter movies (I'm a super fan of Harry Potter ya know) I loved the Sorting Hat in the very first movie and decided to go with that.  I had to look up some pictures on the internet to remember just what it looked like........I have slept since the last time it was on TV, even though I do own all of the Harry Potter movies, the internet was faster......grin! I st...

   Happy WOYWW deskers!  If you don't know what this is all about the info is HERE. Betsy is showing signs of the Halloween spirit this week.  I finished the step Halloween cards and a G45 book of spells for a friend.  There's my little addy book to t he left, a pile of Christmas embellishments all sorts of pens and pencils scattered about, an empty candy wrapper on the bright pink lid, large bottle of water, my cell phone and an envy I was getting ready to send the book in.  What's missing, cause the picture looks empty???  My glasses!!!  At the moment I was taking the picture, they were on my head holding back my hair.  I got it cut last week and this new style will not go into a pony tail any longer, yes, I finally got a grown up hair style!....LOL Here is a closer look at the step cards that were scattered all over Betsy last week.  The same, but different.   This is the front of the G45 book of spells....

For TEA this week I have a multitude of pictures to share.  We traveled to Ramona, CA for a cancer fundraiser that was put on for one of my son's employees.  It was discovered, early this summer, that he the had three cancer tumors, stage 4 in his head.  They could remove all but one, and he is right at the end of all the treatments and is doing quite well, for the circumstances.  So, with a multitude of bills, even though he has insurance, my son, friends and family put on this fundraiser. Of all the pictures I took and I didn't get one of Brian and his family, of course just trying to get them together FOR a picture was an other story.  His daughter and son were too busy having fun with all the rest of the kids.  I don't know how much was raised, but there were over 200 people at $20.00 a plate or $40. for a family.  Brian has kept a positive attitude and a smile on his face, and we are blessed to call him and his family our friends. So, now ...

  Betsy is silently waiting my return as this is how I left her Monday night, full of Halloween bits and pieces for a couple of step style cards.  All the die cuts were made on the Cricut using the Haunted Holidays cartridge.  There is the glass of dirty WATER, looks like milk this week....LOL  I'll have  to explain that one of these days.  Last week I said I didn't care for my new Ott light, that is the base there on the left.  It isn't the light itself, love Ott light, but the design of the thing.  As you can see, I can't see, according to the two pair or reading glasses laying there.  I always try to keep a pair on Betsy and happened to be wearing a pair when I came in to snap a picture of my cell phone.   This is the message that kept accruing on all cell phones as an "Alert" as I was procrastinating about joining the WOYWW gang this week.  Yep, procrastinating cause the Playhouse is sitting outside (most likely cove...

  Over the weekend I had a little "playtime" in one of my journals.  When I had finished the lettering I painted just the letters with Gesso, so the inks wouldn't soak in, and I could smear them around a little.  Then I went back and added the white gel pen.   Since I did not Gesso the whole Dream page,  the inks soaked through in spots on the back.  So I added the same ink sprays to this page and did a tangle, and again with the white gel pen, finished it. Thanks for stopping by. Inky Hugs Krisha

Happy T-day!  Yep, an other week has disappeared into the yesterdays, and it is once again time to link up with Elizabeth, the Altered Book Lover  to see what's being drank in Blogland.  If you didn't come by way of Elizabeth's blog then take a moment and dash over there.  She is hosting a great post about her neighborhood and their Safe Communities Event.   My "Today" journal has me drinking from a cracked cup....LOL.  I really do sometimes wonder just where my brain and MOJO take off to when I look back on some of these journal pages.  Absolutely hate the background on this.....oh well.....  Journal 52 week 41  has us working in mosaic this week.  So I did a little stamping and coloring, and spritzing and spraying and cutting and gluing and this is the finished page.  The Stamps are of course Jofy stamps   These are three "Quick" Christmas cards I slipped in and did one afternoon.  I had bought all the ...