“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes:chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.” ― Aristotle This is your color prompt. Photograph something that...
"good habits" - 36 of my ICADs from last summer Just a quick reminder that index-card-a-day starts on Friday! If you are playing along in June and July remember to check the ICAD secti...
“The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.” Jack Kerouac
pages from the noticing journal, a book altered into an art journal A page about the garden, thinking about how I designed it with flowering perennials so that there would be flowers all year ...
{republished from Nov. 2008} ponytail holders | mandala In the beginning, Daisy Yellow was a blog about adding creativity to your life in small ways every day. Since my kids were little, I wrot...
“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave ...
"Im relearning the ingredients of happiness like memorizing the periodic table." Connie, Dirty Footprints Studio arting outside while the kids splash 9x12" canvases knock-out roses...
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the sam...
“Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.”David Mitchell Stamping words into the noticing journal, an altered book turned art journal. Used Tr...
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”Pablo Picasso 24x36" canvas If you work on a big canvas, you have real estate galore. You can have a bunch of little paintings ...
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.” John ...
“Dont be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after...
Yes. Its happening. Again. Go read all about it! Index-Card-a-Day 2012 Found a stash of old index cards in my dads attic! Painted (well, dripped) with green and white Golden airbrush acry...
Explore acrylic painting techniques and get messy in an altered book! Registration is officially open for my new art journaling workshop, The Museum of Simple Things. In the workshop, well explore ac...
comparing the pentel slicci .25 and the pilot hi-tec c .30, both wickedly thin lines, very similar The Slicci comes in a variety of nib sizes and I ordered the smallest at .25. {2 photos above}...
“Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. Its those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time ...
black is the new black limes at the fort worth art festival scarves at the art festival bracelets at the mall symmetry at sonic the road, isnt it glorious, i had to stop to take a photo, no one aroun...
“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”John Kennedy Toole, A Confeder...
The Museum of Simple Things: An Art Journal Workshop Alter a hardback book into an art journal as you learn 5 new art journaling techniques. Registration Opens Today! Workshop begins May...
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” Jane Austen, Pride an...
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that youre not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”F. Scott Fitzgerald This...
“It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you ...
The Museum of Simple Things: An Art Journal Workshop Alter a hardback book into an art journal as you learn 5 new art journaling techniques. Registration opens May 1, 2012 Workshop begin...
“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.” John Green working in two journals at once {left is the altered hardback, right is this page in the exacompta} so while one dr...
shiny bits in my sewing box A quick hello to start your week. Happy Monday! Remember to take a moment and look around you today. The way the cement sparkles after the rain. The grungy logo on the gar...
{a new acrylic painting on canvas, exploring lots of new ideas + a short handled brush}
This past week, I had the opportunity to take a workshop locally with artist Janet Takahashi. As you know, what you create in a workshop is a result of the workshop environment. It is not comple...
Decorated a metal sucrets cough drops box with washi tapes, to hold calligraphy pen nibs, found stamps for mail art, moo cards, eraser, etc. Please find a tiny metal tin of candies, cough drops, mint...
“Without pain, how could we know joy? This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it...
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesnt hurt.”― Charles M. Schulz Dream it. Build it. Draw it. Make it. The inside cover and first page of the noticing...
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