Paint Party Friday

Hello Old Friends

I know I have been missing in action for some while now....I do drop in and check up on folks...just have a lot on my plate right now and have been reducing my  cyber time.

 I have been keeping busy and still searching for the missing Muse. 

To keep myself creatively active I have started painting aprons for co-workers. I paint on their work aprons and they donate yarn to my Hats for Charity goal for 2013. I made the first one on a whim for a friend and she picked up the baton and started an all out campaign for yarn. Here's her apron...

...and this is just a sampling of the yarn that has been donated since ..

My goal for 2013 is 100 hats :)  I have already finished 18  and with the help of my co-workers and friends I think we are going to reach that goal and have some pretty cool warm home made hats to give away. 

I've also been working on my my Inspirational Quote Card Deck and will get that out in the mail in a few days.

Now if I could only wake up Mother Nature so she can turn on the Spring weather here ! So anxious to get out in the warm sun and play in the dirt  ♥♥♥♥♥

Linking to:

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/ 

My First DreamBoard

I have recently discovered Jamie Ridler and her work with DreamBoards. I love her outlook and her willingness to share her creativity with others. 

Check her out here:

http://jamieridlerstudios.ca/full-moon-dreamboard-the-full-snow-moon?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JamieRidlerStudios+%28Jamie+Ridler+Studios%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail

I'll be trying very hard to create a new dreamboard with her every month on the full moon.

This month was the Full Snow Moon and  and the question:

"What desires lie deep with in?" 

Here's what I came up with for my first board :)

29 Faces Catch Up and Paint Party Friday

I really have been doing the 29 Faces challenge and I"m really not that far behind...

Except when it comes to posting them :( 

Seem to have run in to some type of mental block with posting on any of my 3 Blogs...

So unlike me to not have a thing to say. 

So here are the faces I have done so far .....

Pencil sketches of a really cool statue I picked up at a resale store...

Mixed media painting on a laminate sample..  

Another pencil sketch which will probably be painted later on..

...one more laminate sample mixed media...

...pencil sketch of the statue.... 

....My most read book..."GONE WITH THE WIND" ... old and yellowed... the dog at the cover and first several pages...it's been dropped in the tub (guilty as charged here ) and I still can't make myself throw it away... so it's being used as background pages in mixed media ...

THE FIND!
The statue that will end up in the flowerbed around the fishpond...I do love yard art or art in the yard :0) Not to mention thrift store finds are a real HIGH! 

Linking to...

http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/contact.html

....and ....

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

I think this brings me up to 10 Faces in Feb....see ya soon :0) 

29 Faces Days Three and Four

Last night was TV night so I decided to do some sketches in my art journal while setting in front of the Brain Chiller :) 

I was having a bit of a problem getting into the drawing on this first one. Looking at a magazine photo and watching a TV program was not working out well. 

The next one was better.....

No picture to draw from but I was watching one of those  Life in the Alaskan Frontier survival shows ...it definitely had some influence :0) 

Can you say "Baby it's COLD Outside!" ? 

Alaska is beautiful but I don't think I'm up for those sub zero temps at all. 

Linking to....

http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/contact.html

Paint Party Friday and 29 Faces ...very late :)

Can You See Me? 

Still working on the mixed media that just won't end. Love how he has turned out ...but still not feeling like she is finished growing up yet. Will probably leave it alone for a bit and see what happens when I get back to her. 

This will also be my first 2 faces for 29 Faces in February. Only the 3rd day and I'm behind as usual but not stressing at all.  It will happen when it happens. 

Feeling at odd angles with myself these days. After 5 years of taking Cymbalta for my Fibromyalgia and not at all happy with how I feel still I have started a "ween off program" to put it in my past. So if I drop in and out just give me a bit to get this crazy drug out of my system and find out what normal is going to be for me.  Kind of scary but exciting too. Kind of like the idea of being in control of my health instead of just masking it learning to live with it. 

Now off to check out all of the great art posted so far :) 

http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/contact.html

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

Paint Party Friday

My Muse is on Vacation 

I'm sure she is somewhere amazing

Playing in warm ocean waves and trekking through lush  tropical rain forests... 

....absorbing all that Mother Nature has to offer.

Becoming one with the universe...

Spiritually growing by leaps and bonds! 

Temporarily leaving me alone....

struggling with this WIP...

...3 weeks and very little progress...wondering low long she will be gone and if I will ever get this Mixed Media thing done. 

I know she'll come home.... I think she's trying to teach me a lesson...

Will I learn? 

Linking to 

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

Oh and so so sorry for showing up late again. 

Paint Party Friday

Can you say

Late! LATE! Late!?!

I had such great intentions and started it early enough. And then that nasty flu bug that is getting so much attention in the news struck :0( 

I was down for the count...and just when I thought I was getting better it took off in a different direction and I was down again. 

So what started out as last weeks PRF 's work is now this weeks and is even late for that. 

This year I have also joined Guada's Circle 

and am participating in the 

Totem Animal Mandala Challenge for 2013. 

Here is my first Mandala 

The picture sucks...used my cellphone :0/

I re-purposed a 8 X 8 inch canvas that I had done an acrylic abstract on last year...using the abstract as the background. I did the Mandala in acrylics and India Inks. I had intended to put lettering at the top and will probably go back and do that when I'm more recovered. 

Linking to ....

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

and

http://guadascircle.ning.com/group/animal-mandala-challenge?xg_source=msg_wel_group

Thanks for stopping by!