tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84066112024-03-13T01:40:38.404-05:00On the banks of Bay CreekMostly I post my journals done in composition books, but whatever catches my fancy is likely to show up here. You can click on the photos to get a larger view.Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.comBlogger638125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-54826378624061304412012-06-21T19:38:00.003-05:002012-06-21T19:43:04.134-05:00I can't believe it's been ten months since I posted any journal pages. True, I haven't journaled much in that time, but I have done some. I will attempt to catch up starting today.<br />
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<br />Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-44326244392936870302011-08-27T20:32:00.007-05:002011-08-27T20:48:15.877-05:00Catching Up<div style="text-align: left;">I did pretty well with the Art Journal Everyday until school started. I skipped the two weeks we've been in school, but I got back in gear today. We'll see. Here's what I did while I was actually journaling every day and a couple of older ones I had forgotten to photograph. I'm still journaling with limited supplies as I can't get up to my workroom due to the broken bone in my foot. It's been seven weeks, but I'm still in the boot.</div><div>
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Maybe I'll try that, too.</div><div><br /></div><div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC18x_3hfuyGky_OdL_WbI6gCvBXll2bd7cBhIJ324h8kvlcgNAR3N_Ey3PU0FYFcpDTSG_R-ig2dPV2LZBgA9eT7Tv3b0YHugtx6qA-j94e9g3ZXOakhwMJEhPhvkiIIFaXIN/s400/IMG_9232.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636640211665785106" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Ynr3ByAXfi7jx9AYhFEcsXGfRDgKfkuUWDJGe2_z1bmj01zPhF3I5GGLayrb80TCBqSMqViYFSpNYHjrGLikljcjqty6aO4VBo6IEI8R9GXpLMxckgYfcBMLg45sNute4UPZ/s1600/IMG_9231.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7y8XuN_pqmV3NycgMElQkEMUEGDtk3FcSEi01mwPcu5Z-zBMMZiq3b8EnR2HVQ5JXWcImevXihzDUUZcznUbHzFUil_E_ISN3CFCHQIJwMpDftfCbjNxaepB0Y7e3DwofnTe/s1600/IMG_9230.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXq_RARxK5dSJYqfVigmZaAJRS8r0TmBZ32whPAvymHPUI9mYIw6k9Tegy4IuoDwyzhze3agj-yctFgP_DYvPQZYYto2bAjWv4Lh-7Bj_9ux8z4RLPZidS4MWrieSgnO8_CloU/s400/IMG_9228.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636638350408953218" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyDH_AskG4OqpG1N50gOVooKzVOjLDP9xr1UxoRKE3zrJ_QN0P9N8nqnK6h2er5mbAoGnTBcW4b8Ou4oN5GQqOJ8EZ9zl3M8PhC1BKNHhR3aVfWE8JSLbATX3xu947BC0nhmN/s1600/IMG_9225.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyDH_AskG4OqpG1N50gOVooKzVOjLDP9xr1UxoRKE3zrJ_QN0P9N8nqnK6h2er5mbAoGnTBcW4b8Ou4oN5GQqOJ8EZ9zl3M8PhC1BKNHhR3aVfWE8JSLbATX3xu947BC0nhmN/s400/IMG_9225.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636638346445045602" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Click below for all of Julie's posts on <i>Art Journal Every Day.</i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); 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I pondered it for days and finally just sat down and wrote something.</p>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-47593222701067028392011-08-03T09:12:00.001-05:002011-08-03T09:12:18.957-05:00Things I learned in Mexico<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/5937434977/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6017/5937434977_08bda2fe2c.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/5937434977/">Things I learned in Mexico</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/">Crazyquilter</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> Well, the 52 lists isn't working so well. There were some list prompts that were just hard for me. I did manage to do lists 2 and 3. I need to see what I've missed and work on them.</p>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-91928968855461657422011-06-05T22:53:00.003-05:002011-06-05T23:16:17.711-05:0052 Weeks, 52 Lists<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtQZ0ZqvW0-BdGCu9bVMQVkfUXESzfX6WBeacBCJURpX0zwQbYPTUoVwt1Lvgb3nGhesUwMk_tF6hMmXy-uLba9DQJ5yQzGnh876L-m3eXx59GbG6H3Nu_xueSYlrN_Ro6MBFq/s1600/IMG_8656.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtQZ0ZqvW0-BdGCu9bVMQVkfUXESzfX6WBeacBCJURpX0zwQbYPTUoVwt1Lvgb3nGhesUwMk_tF6hMmXy-uLba9DQJ5yQzGnh876L-m3eXx59GbG6H3Nu_xueSYlrN_Ro6MBFq/s400/IMG_8656.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614954934921540050" /></a><br />A new <a href="http://getthewordsout.blogspot.com/2011/06/year-in-lists-52-weeks-52-lists.html">challenge</a> is just what I need to get myself journaling. I actually wrote a page recently about doing a 365 with a list a day in my journal. This is more doable. Maybe I'll start slowly with a list a week and nudge myself back into journaling. Maybe...<div><br /></div><div> I used a pre-painted page. Reminder to self, don't use such dark pages to write on. I still need to work on the facing page.</div>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-66481489576229219162009-10-09T21:19:00.003-05:002009-10-09T21:40:18.933-05:00Journal on Black<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJpBB_ECu9G6FeGn5ZPZXebgN2HD1Ai4UU3f1jFSVUCN_kiCXbaXYg8h4qOU7A1Nmygc6KIAYb5kIpp2cAzOretZ_JQsz5Syq1YyrI6lAd7XBNqqazCF4C-IkSFexB9FT9I5pM/s1600-h/3996773026_ceae954f51_o.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJpBB_ECu9G6FeGn5ZPZXebgN2HD1Ai4UU3f1jFSVUCN_kiCXbaXYg8h4qOU7A1Nmygc6KIAYb5kIpp2cAzOretZ_JQsz5Syq1YyrI6lAd7XBNqqazCF4C-IkSFexB9FT9I5pM/s400/3996773026_ceae954f51_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390793264593529026" /></a><br /><div><br /></div>If there is anything that can make me post a blog entry, it's a <a href="http://www.michelleward.typepad.com/how_cool_is_that/">GPP Street Team Crusade</a>. The current crusade, <a href="http://michelleward.typepad.com/how_cool_is_that/2009/10/crusade-no-34-come-over-to-the-dark-side.html">No. 34 ~ Come over to the Dark Side</a>, is right down my alley. I love journaling on a black background. I've tried it lots of times in the past. As soon as I read what the new crusade was about, I had to head up to my craft table and get busy. <div><br /></div><div>I recently retired a pair of shoes, and as I was tossing them I happened to get a look at the sole. I'm always on the lookout for a good background stamp, and the price was right. I grabbed a knife and cut the sole off the shoe. It became the rectangles stamp I used on this spread in gesso on the left side of the black and in black ink on the other page. I won't be discarding any more shoes in the future without checking out the soles for possibilities.</div>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-64313023127906744572009-04-21T21:09:00.000-05:002009-04-21T21:27:57.018-05:00Vital Statistics<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3uNer9Uyws3u9rLcAWMfGcvmi9OBDr8X0NgDRahnCOPN0HG2Vd8K7axpkSGeWKidGxZr9s5NIqCpHhUVoGX5-RXne05UXsAa3rI156NRQNh-6oWZVeHzVYOAVXAnEdRw2WIfT/s1600-h/3463732527_bf879e687e_o.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3uNer9Uyws3u9rLcAWMfGcvmi9OBDr8X0NgDRahnCOPN0HG2Vd8K7axpkSGeWKidGxZr9s5NIqCpHhUVoGX5-RXne05UXsAa3rI156NRQNh-6oWZVeHzVYOAVXAnEdRw2WIfT/s400/3463732527_bf879e687e_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327332720777176642" /></a><br /><div>A couple of weeks ago I decided that I needed to know how many pages I have done in my journal since I started painting the pages with acrylic paint and thus bridging over to being a visual journaler, never to turn back. As I was counting (and perusing) my old journals, volumes 1 to the current volume 9, I also decided to count the postage stamps and fruit stickers that are a constant add-in for me. I wound up with 1,385 pages. Part of what got me interested in finishing this task was mentioning that I thought I had only done one spread totally without words. As I was going through I actually found two spreads. The second one only has the date on it. I guess I'm just a wordy kind of girl.</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyLnCgGl2rXNAWNzgVNeqxLGvG35i_kph-EJY_0Zau3HuNe-o86V30AW7ix4ZMBMy9PFdtL-rsrNHtYIONmA3c9T2rtC9VZkxNw4p-vakp4PRcLQl_feVoNQvSyYxSy4BCpr-o/s1600-h/3457611290_77e4c9be8f_o.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyLnCgGl2rXNAWNzgVNeqxLGvG35i_kph-EJY_0Zau3HuNe-o86V30AW7ix4ZMBMy9PFdtL-rsrNHtYIONmA3c9T2rtC9VZkxNw4p-vakp4PRcLQl_feVoNQvSyYxSy4BCpr-o/s400/3457611290_77e4c9be8f_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327332717706426898" /></a><br /></div><div>I wish I would get my act together more often, like I did in March, and make a calendar page at the beginning of the month. I like this style where I can increase or decrease the date block size as needed. A side benefit of doing calendar pages is that often once I have the journal in my hands to do my little bit of journaling each day, I wind up doing or at least starting a full spread.</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPhALxZCSSuhE3-JdASTjhwf1yikHOcZjBBejoZ2zUfQbSnAfgXoJSfsbKgyykA4H05WA9dzO-ehk3V4eBxj94Ep9IPHPvTL8ITvHIl9YMzKg4ifDV0ITGOj2ckjkVsjaWrJ32/s1600-h/3464568676_2337de1494_o.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPhALxZCSSuhE3-JdASTjhwf1yikHOcZjBBejoZ2zUfQbSnAfgXoJSfsbKgyykA4H05WA9dzO-ehk3V4eBxj94Ep9IPHPvTL8ITvHIl9YMzKg4ifDV0ITGOj2ckjkVsjaWrJ32/s400/3464568676_2337de1494_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327332717426329938" /></a><br /></div><div>We don't have much of the garden in yet, but this evening I hoed all that we have planted. My shoulders are a bit sore. That's last year's collards in the front. There is an advantage to not cleaning the garden up in the fall. Besides the greens we got from these, we also enjoyed the greens from the turnips that came back, and their flowers are making quite a show right now.</div><div><br /></div><div>In addition to this bed, we have a row of snap peas, half a row of spinach and a bed with more lettuce, a few broccoli, kale, and one cauliflower plant, also a largish bed of onions from sets.</div>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-40915359484178930252009-04-17T21:13:00.000-05:002009-04-17T21:17:34.503-05:00One Hundred Books<div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">I found this list on the blog of <a href="http://profesoraloca.blogspot.com/">a Spanish teacher</a> and had some fun with it. I thought I would share in case anyone else would like to check it out. I googled, but couldn't track down where it originally came from. A couple of other blogs had it and said it was from The Great Read, but I couldn't find it on their web site. The woman whose blog I found it on had read 52 of the books. Unless I counted wrong, I've read 51. Surprisingly there weren't any that I'd hated, and only one that I never finished. Anyone spot any that you consider must reads?</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">I found Middlemarch on <a href="http://librivox.org/middlemarch-by-george-eliot/">LibriVox</a> and am planning to download it. I have a 45 minute drive to work and I love listening to books while I'm driving.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">I've been reading more lately and am looking for some books to read this summer.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">***********************</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Original blogger's intro, my marks.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">This was a list of the top 100 selling books published by (some publishing house). The original post said that the average American adult had not read 10 of these books. </span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">1) Look at the list and put one * by those you have read.<br />2) Put a % by those you intend to read.<br />3) Put two ** by the books you LOVE.<br />4) Put # by the books you HATE.<br />5) Post.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">*1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen<br />**2 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien<br />*3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë<br />**4 Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling<br />*5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee<br />**6 The Bible (the whole thing, all 63 books)<br />*7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë<br />**8 1984 - George Orwell<br />9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman<br />10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens<br />*11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott<br />*12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy<br />*13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller<br />14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (most but not all)<br />*15 Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier<br />**16 The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien<br />17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks<br />*18 Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger<br />*19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger<br />%20 Middlemarch - George Eliot<br />*21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell<br />*22 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald<br />23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens<br />24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy<br />*25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams<br />26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh<br />27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br />*28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck<br />*29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll<br />*30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame<br />*31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy<br />32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens<br />*33 Chronicles of Narnia- C.S. Lewis<br />*34 Emma - Jane Austen<br />35 Persuasion - Jane Austen<br />*36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis<br />37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (I started, but never finished this one.)<br />38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières<br />*39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden<br />**40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne<br />**41 Animal Farm - George Orwell<br />42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown<br />%43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving<br />45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins<br />**46 Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery<br />47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy<br />*48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood<br />*49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding<br />50 Atonement - Ian McEwan<br />51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel<br />*52 Dune - Frank Herbert<br />53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons<br />*54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen<br />55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth<br />56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon<br />*57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (listened to this one)<br />**58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley<br />59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon<br />60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />*61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck<br />*62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov<br />63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt<br />64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold<br />*65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas<br />66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac<br />67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy<br />*68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding<br />69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie<br />70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville<br />*71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens<br />72 Dracula - Bram Stoker<br />**73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett<br />74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson<br />75 Ulysses - James Joyce<br />*76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath<br />77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome<br />78 Germinal - Émile Zola<br />79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray<br />80 Possession - A.S. Byatt<br />*81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens<br />82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell<br />83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker<br />84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro<br />85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert<br />86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry<br />**87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White<br />88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom<br />*89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (all of them)<br />90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton<br />*91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad<br />92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery<br />93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks<br />**94 Watership Down - Richard Adams<br />95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole<br />96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute<br />*97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas<br />*98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare<br />*99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl<br />100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span> </div>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-51445862947895818232009-04-16T20:55:00.000-05:002009-04-16T21:32:31.815-05:00I like the idea of travel<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfFhZsP5_YTj3m0-k9M8kiaLL5EhIzp_FM5NSe1yrq4oLj0RbzO4uDRB5pmEsTNsVzCRe3RFwKGHBlwKQb5DXUBMJ_A8yKyYpquF_I0K378aUvJYPhqomUraWsefjnEas2YexX/s1600-h/275751111_20a28518dd_o.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfFhZsP5_YTj3m0-k9M8kiaLL5EhIzp_FM5NSe1yrq4oLj0RbzO4uDRB5pmEsTNsVzCRe3RFwKGHBlwKQb5DXUBMJ_A8yKyYpquF_I0K378aUvJYPhqomUraWsefjnEas2YexX/s400/275751111_20a28518dd_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325473103605639602" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This is the page I was talking about. It's made from a couple of photos from an Anthropologie catalog. The spread is from 2005. Text on the left reads: </span><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I like the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">idea</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> of travel.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-size:13px;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Road Trip</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-size:16px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">No particular destination in mind.<br />Finding out what makes </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">this</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">place</span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Different from all others.<br />Unique, worthy of the time.<br />Scenic wonders,<br />Yes - written large on the land,<br />But also the marks made by man,<br />Quirky, individual from place to place,<br />From ridiculous to sublime.<br />I want to see.</span></span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-size: 48px;"><br /></span></div><div>We actually got to take a road trip across Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee a couple of months later. I'm ready for another road trip, maybe this summer.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In the center top the text reads:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I prefer two-lane roads. Away from the interstate, slower, calmer - more to experience along the way.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On our trip we mostly took the two lane roads. They are lined with homes and farms. I love traveling this way when you don't really have anywhere you need to be.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Text where the model was cut out from the door reads:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Open your eyes to new sights,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and your ears to new sounds, </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and your mind to new thoughts, </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and your heart to new people, </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and your wallet to new needs. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There is enough of you to spread around, </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">some to each sight, sound, thought, person and need.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The text is written really small in silver metalic gel pen and you can't read it until you hold it just right in the light. Then it's perfectly legible. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>I thought of this spread for the current <a href="http://michelleward.typepad.com/how_cool_is_that/2009/04/crusade-no-30-cat-got-your-tongue.html">Street Team Crusade</a>, but it's also perfect, I think, for <a href="http://michelleward.typepad.com/how_cool_is_that/2009/02/crusade-no-28-portion-control.html">#28 Portion Control.</a></div>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-85682071370893459062009-04-16T18:25:00.000-05:002009-04-16T18:49:21.924-05:00What if?<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp-QgQT8Sv67VmyT38PwKLXQhg402oyG78XjVXUBAX15cr7hlrD50HFLAoKga5DlyYoE1XqDENIBASjk2-_Kwh_5TNrAk4Dgm2mEuZ3xEhsOtOUXjw622DMK-dD76MO1xS7U2Q/s400/2819123787_c1735084ce_o.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 246px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325434862386519746" /><br /><div>I could post a page a day for a long while just catching up on my journal pages. Maybe I will. I was embarassed, just now, to see that I've only made two posts this year. Both of those were this week. Michelle's latest <a href="http://michelleward.typepad.com/how_cool_is_that/2009/04/crusade-no-30-cat-got-your-tongue.html">Street Team Crusade</a> has got me motivated to post. I just love adding text to journal pages. In fact my first forays into paper arts were altered books. I loved the fact that the books already had text on them. </div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, I wanted to post the above page. I'd had the black birds quilt image laying around and wanted to get it into my journal before I lost it. The page was done last Labor Day. I love the way the writing turned out mimicking the stripes on the quilt. It's fun to go back and read too, now that it's close to the end of the school year.</div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKAgdZ6c1gcqcIInPHiSTdKtpL9PyxZm8ZugalvQvuBk4QKPhLCUbthV5hIzf8CO5YMCLt_ZgSDMWBx2_1TVN96hEI2_dgMU5fGg_fUac-HApAHKnMh9UZyf53zQyabhMct_0p/s400/3359765786_93d36496cf_o.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325434864054616914" /><br />The next couple of pages are more recent. I like the way the text flows on the one above. I did all three spreads in one marathon session, pushing myself to do just one more page.<br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggQcIdPmn82q1UZVUD3b78wowBrjJ_ebfhMb3le4YMB9x_2tXWcsBGNkAm7itDMBJPCgC751JpwM8Qi9Hhq562M5afLTYSiFx_kSd95fuM1u5IQE1cN_Co4gdpm1n-mKaZgwsN/s400/3358948209_2495472000_o.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325434860202804914" /><br /><br />The bit of text inside the photo of someone's garden journal was a bit of a mistake, brought on no doubt by my decision to journal quickly without thinking too much. I had the photo laying on my abismally messy worktable. In the rush to add images to the page, I cut the flowers from the back of it. When I turned it over to add glue, I realized what I had done. I flinched a bit and glued it down, and then grabbed what was left of the photo and glued it down too. I love the way the two pieces look together. They remind me of two ladies facing each other. I've used the technique of writing inside a photo where someone's body has been cut out on other journal pages. I'm not a big fan of gluing photos of just anybody in my journal. The person's face has to appeal to me. If it doesn't I cut the person out of the photo and use the spot to journal in. I'll try to look up one of my favorites and repost it.<br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixD2j9DIARUi1SzjGT6pAWmZe4jY9GcHjyUovwFcsc3SOX6GjAb3S29JzKOZAs-Itr62X3G7dh9hwnQOOfkEUXSNiitg-ebpXWcqTFaKGX3DJXFf68G-Z6jJNiwLj0MOiUzroB/s400/3359767488_3afdb2c6c2_o.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 276px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325434866623063538" /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">When I first started adding visual things to my journal, I just changed the style of my writing. Page after page of the same looking text was starting to bore me. I love to write in different pens and different directions when I change direction in my thoughts. I'm truly not a lineal thinker. My thoughts bounce all over the place. This style of recording them suits me.</div><br /><br /></div>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-86574270062860707692009-04-14T16:53:00.000-05:002009-04-14T17:01:02.826-05:00Red shoes in my dreamsMichelle asked if the red shoes on my journal page were my shoes. They aren't. It's a great photo I cut out from a magazine.<div><br /></div><div>In fact, I can only remember owning one pair of red shoes in my entire life. They were a damaged pair of Soft Spots that I got at a salvage store for a dollar. I wore them in the garden and loved them, both for their comfort and their color. I never had red shoes as a kid either. In the fifties and sixties redheads didn't wear red... at least not in my family. I wear lots of tomato red now and love it.<div><br /></div><div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY-d27j8otc4GmXlZVp84juzCfJvZuKEswcKO7U9l4WOBtPQnDzXICDQpXkvYRpkeEFViSXNSNI0G6mRDIKTpqjwft9SNTGdk-Hh_cFeSjJw5S1aH7stsGyqZmnRLo6u1VvQZH/s400/red+shoes.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 232px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324669748485745474" /><div><br /></div><div>I used the other half of the magazine photo in this spread. I really need to be on the look out for another pair of red shoes.</div></div></div>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-89718312732871350542009-04-13T21:29:00.000-05:002009-04-13T21:45:52.434-05:00My journals have words<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz36Yv8dMWsxxYNcCUll6CPHqscUSoL3wD1wrd-Zx-6-gN74vB5R0yyEZg7f5VklyUIyqjeQaWcSKfKwXsBEkhZEQ5_K8Rl3DRKo_Wu2IvEYC7xK-qnfb2_fRUM76M-WChJCYX/s1600-h/2009+4.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz36Yv8dMWsxxYNcCUll6CPHqscUSoL3wD1wrd-Zx-6-gN74vB5R0yyEZg7f5VklyUIyqjeQaWcSKfKwXsBEkhZEQ5_K8Rl3DRKo_Wu2IvEYC7xK-qnfb2_fRUM76M-WChJCYX/s400/2009+4.jpg" style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 243px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324369637335207890" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></a><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz36Yv8dMWsxxYNcCUll6CPHqscUSoL3wD1wrd-Zx-6-gN74vB5R0yyEZg7f5VklyUIyqjeQaWcSKfKwXsBEkhZEQ5_K8Rl3DRKo_Wu2IvEYC7xK-qnfb2_fRUM76M-WChJCYX/s1600-h/2009+4.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I have been a bad blogger. I admit it. I finally have started back working in my journal and I've been walking on the treadmill, so I do have some redeeming qualities. </span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz36Yv8dMWsxxYNcCUll6CPHqscUSoL3wD1wrd-Zx-6-gN74vB5R0yyEZg7f5VklyUIyqjeQaWcSKfKwXsBEkhZEQ5_K8Rl3DRKo_Wu2IvEYC7xK-qnfb2_fRUM76M-WChJCYX/s1600-h/2009+4.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I've been having fun with befunky.com. I love this shot of my granddaughter. It inspired the whole page. Fun, fun. </span></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz36Yv8dMWsxxYNcCUll6CPHqscUSoL3wD1wrd-Zx-6-gN74vB5R0yyEZg7f5VklyUIyqjeQaWcSKfKwXsBEkhZEQ5_K8Rl3DRKo_Wu2IvEYC7xK-qnfb2_fRUM76M-WChJCYX/s1600-h/2009+4.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">My reason for finally hitting the blog this button though was the</span></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz36Yv8dMWsxxYNcCUll6CPHqscUSoL3wD1wrd-Zx-6-gN74vB5R0yyEZg7f5VklyUIyqjeQaWcSKfKwXsBEkhZEQ5_K8Rl3DRKo_Wu2IvEYC7xK-qnfb2_fRUM76M-WChJCYX/s1600-h/2009+4.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"> </a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://michelleward.typepad.com/how_cool_is_that/2009/04/crusade-no-30-cat-got-your-tongue.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Street Team Cat Got Your Tongue crusade #30</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. My journal pages have words. Almost all of them. So much so that when I was working on a page for Crusade #29, which I never got around to posting, I wrote, "If I had anything to say I would put it here." </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7pS6hwW7eT7Fjj-BVNcAstafAwGxB-Tp-8UUupI-VHy9KTdotQXQWVekQXwwqf-PovTOikSQc9ZrLJ7ZnN3DJkt8ulaSW10LPbCYBzpVUXKgSpSO3L49KofyBjo7vLu1y5Xk4/s400/2009+4a.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 238px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324370629926837970" /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It may be because I started out as a text only journaler. For me it's about recording the moment and that just calls for words. It would be interesting to go back and see how many of the many journal pages I've done haven't had any words. Off hand I can just think of one spread. My.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">If you are interested in what I've been up to in the months since I've posted, check out my flickr site. </span></div>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-2733118815871232162008-11-29T12:25:00.000-06:002008-11-29T13:34:55.197-06:00<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274157534841229730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3OpqJUmZfjikT4enJfORSZoV950fTw1NwhQboqL14jkWZKmUag66Fa_HMZytBl_ZwcHEjiz-uRGBqzqiWS1-Iquo8j_93SONcVNCinAcYWwdx3vZK-oHkEuB7hNZCPQ-H4Zcp/s400/20081130_2418.JPG" border="0" />I finally got my journal out this morningafter a two month hiatus. The fruit stickers on my window sill were thecatalyst. I was starting to put them on the horizontal surface. I figured I would have a two page spread, but it wasn't quite full. I found one on my monitor and lots more that my daughter-in-law had saved for me on baggies. They filled the pages nicely. It feels good to be journaling again.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzybDNzwMn_Ymq9_HSAQVmu9v4CbIlsmo5DMtyETTL9sVAjSCJiQVmH1X5S_ZtpLlw3VCDLRMgRve0YL3KNx_VNEmpI-FIU9OR0xyWE30OFlqvBkndieGjFBZL7_jRyBFykHho/s1600-h/20081129_2417.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274157527574049378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 284px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzybDNzwMn_Ymq9_HSAQVmu9v4CbIlsmo5DMtyETTL9sVAjSCJiQVmH1X5S_ZtpLlw3VCDLRMgRve0YL3KNx_VNEmpI-FIU9OR0xyWE30OFlqvBkndieGjFBZL7_jRyBFykHho/s400/20081129_2417.JPG" border="0" /></a> </div><div>It was so nice to wake up this morning with the whole house relatively clean, lots of leftovers and nowhere to go. I could get used to retirement I think.</div><div><br /> </div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274157515446135730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 252px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM5YomB7wib6-3NI3woEa5-wxYxymEW-ERof9ujD8cdfpiNdV5LKsBDYojQ3MjdhNtuRbUZO96ylei9SyUv69Fy-2khRwNXPSQ7VCvQlmLMn2-S8QgCbn69FpfupHTgXiAlWPb/s400/20081129_2410.JPG" border="0" /><br />Last week there was a sale on Tiny Betsy dolls by Tonner. I've been wanting one since they first came out, but could never make up my mind which one. I liked this one which was dressed in a Mondrian dress, because I thought she looked like me in first grade, but I wouldn't pay what they were wanting for her. Well, at half price it didn't take long to have my order in. Isn't she a cutie?<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1X32EM1p84rsJQDKz4VonM8Zh2kZ93NWBNYDwq0B4YdWNP-apbXmF8p9lYJ1f0ZH7OqX06tNMalArgWSxNYdT3Rys04ObZneeQQxj8c2P0bx5Bmm3__x13VXLysUxnt9pVtv/s1600-h/20081123_2407.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274157528927066866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 226px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1X32EM1p84rsJQDKz4VonM8Zh2kZ93NWBNYDwq0B4YdWNP-apbXmF8p9lYJ1f0ZH7OqX06tNMalArgWSxNYdT3Rys04ObZneeQQxj8c2P0bx5Bmm3__x13VXLysUxnt9pVtv/s400/20081123_2407.JPG" border="0" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-39346517520743663262008-10-10T22:48:00.001-05:002008-10-10T22:54:57.149-05:00Journal catch up<div class="flickr-frame"><a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2885997390/"><img class="flickr-photo" height="254" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3098/2885997390_39e30732d1.jpg" width="436" /></a><br /><span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2885997390/">Journal - closet dreaming</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/68499916@N00/">Crazyquilter</a>.</span></div><p class="flickr-yourcomment">No way I can get caught up on posting my pages here, not that I've done that much in the journal either. I have been putting them on flickr though if anyone would like to see them.</p>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-78148846455147066772008-10-10T22:31:00.001-05:002008-10-10T22:31:38.033-05:00DSL arrives<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2917225896/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3021/2917225896_c3c52e30f2.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2917225896/">Geraniums</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/68499916@N00/">Crazyquilter</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> We joined the fast lane tonight. Finally DSL has arrived on Bay Creek. I'm hoping that this wonder will lead me to post here more. It can't hurt.<br /><br />Aren't the geraniums pretty. They have been such a welcome every time we arrive home. I'll miss them this winter.</p>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-79580112069057230412008-07-19T15:16:00.001-05:002008-07-19T15:34:34.701-05:00A tale of flip flops and green beans<a title="Journal July 17. 2008 by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2680671057/"><img style="WIDTH: 439px; HEIGHT: 275px" height="343" alt="Journal July 17. 2008" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/2680671057_0e067a9dd1.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />OK, I have truly lost it. Our new dog, a stray who showed up and stayed, chewed one of my flip flops a few days ago. I picked it up and threw it away. Then I got to thinking that I might be able to stamp with it, so I dug it out of the trash. Thankfully, it was right on top. It makes great stamps with two different designs, one on the sole and one on the strap. Plus, I have this reminder of a $1 pair of shoes that served me for three summers. That's the sole print on the right in blue and a piece of the strap in purple on the lavender stripe.<br /><br /><a title="Green beens ready to pick by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2681803960/"><img style="WIDTH: 437px; HEIGHT: 326px" height="398" alt="Green beens ready to pick" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3103/2681803960_a2bb2e0e13.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />Our new fence appears to be working. So far no deer tracks or mischief in the garden. For the first time in ages, we have green beans.<br /><br /><a title="Green beans by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2681463804/"><img style="WIDTH: 439px; HEIGHT: 269px" height="334" alt="Green beans" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/2681463804_6fbe3e4c86.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />I picked this batch last night about 7:30. I had forgotten just how low bush bean plants are. I'm considering pole beans next year. I would rather reach up than bend down.<br /><br /><a title="Green bean prep by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2681814078/"><img style="WIDTH: 440px; HEIGHT: 267px" height="334" alt="Green bean prep" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3291/2681814078_b0a1e68ec5.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />I've discovered that I much prefer to snap the ends off when the beans are dry. I wipe the blossoms off then too. It's much easier than after you wash them, plus I can watch tv or blog surf while I'm doing it. With my slow dial-up, it's good to have something else to do while I blog surf.<br /><br /><a title="Freezing beans by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2680998995/"><img style="WIDTH: 438px; HEIGHT: 270px" height="334" alt="Freezing beans" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3218/2680998995_e8d16283f4.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />I used to can beans, but we much prefer then frozen. Plus, now that we are empty nesters, it's nice to be able to take some out of the bag and only prepare what we will eat.<br /><br />I boil the beans whole for two minutes in small batches, and then cool them down in front of the fan, or air conditioner if it's on, and pack them into the freezer bags.<br /><br /><a title="Ready for the freezer by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2681822346/"><img height="500" alt="Ready for the freezer" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3042/2681822346_264d78659a.jpg" width="398" /></a><br /><br />I wound up at 11:45 PM with eight quart bags full. I should have started earlier, but then I would have burned up in the garden.Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-83018329648505153722008-07-14T14:26:00.000-05:002008-07-14T14:33:55.844-05:00Gardening on my mind<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2640361845/" title="Art Journal July 3, 2008 by Crazyquilter, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3156/2640361845_ea91c267c9.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="Art Journal July 3, 2008" /></a><br /><br />I always think I will do lots of journaling and sewing in the summer and somehow it never really happens. Lately I've had gardening on my mind and when I'm not thinking about that, the addition we are building is there to occupy me.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2641196676/" title="Dogs I have known by Crazyquilter, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3274/2641196676_5423ac9e3f.jpg" width="500" height="337" alt="Dogs I have known" /></a><br /><br />I have managed to do a few pages. I also got my copy of Dawn Sokol's 1,000 Art Journal Pages with my pages inside. I was thrilled to see them there and am enjoying looking at everyone else's<br />pages.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2667626063/" title="Blackberries by Crazyquilter, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/2667626063_0cc941798e.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="Blackberries" /></a><br /><br />I got up this morning and went out and picked a few blackberries. These are growing on the edge of the yard. We've nearly finished eating them already. I need to decide if I want to go look for more bushes on the farm. We've had an unusually rainy summer and there should be lots.Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-86549792522147340612008-07-04T19:58:00.000-05:002008-07-04T20:47:55.713-05:00<a title="June 24, 2008 - Madelyn's art by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2637937218/"><img style="WIDTH: 438px; HEIGHT: 277px" height="339" alt="June 24, 2008 - Madelyn's art" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3083/2637937218_205f59f3ab.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />I love to include my granddaughters' artwork in my journal. Last week when I was at their house the oldest, Madelyn who is nearly five, added her doodles to a couple of dates I had written down and doodled around.<br /><br /><a title="Journal June 24, 2008 by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2637952866/"><img style="WIDTH: 440px; HEIGHT: 269px" height="329" alt="Journal June 24, 2008" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3100/2637952866_c7ee158be4.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />Whatever Madelyn does, her little sister Erin wants to do too, so Erin was soon drawing too. She is twenty months old and is just starting to really like making marks. They looked so sweet as they sat side by side at the breakfast bar,heads down concentrating on their drawing.<br /><br />I've been using my NeoColor II's a lot lately. My big box, of 15 I think, finally showed back up. I had even cleaned my atelier looking for them. They were in a different room where I had tucked them away when company came.<br /><br />The bear is from a recent Free People catalog. I like the catalogs because they remind me of someone's journal pages.Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-33954648819377072152008-06-21T14:10:00.000-05:002008-06-21T14:20:57.782-05:00Journaling with Madelyn<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2597732479/" title="June 11, 2008 journal by Crazyquilter, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2597732479_5b36d57c4b.jpg" width="500" height="341" alt="June 11, 2008 journal" /></a><br /><br />Whenever I babysit my four-year-old granddaughter, Madelyn, she likes to do art of some kind. Painting, stamping, gluing bits and pieces, she likes it all. I was looking forward to sharing the crayon rubbings with her. We did several pages in her tablet of her shoe soles, sticker sheets and various toys. She enjoyed looking for textures. I did this one when she got tired of the activity. I decided that I like it without paint and didn't want to take a chance I'd mess it up. I love the idea that it has the soles of several pairs of her shoes on it including the Dora shoes that she has now outgrown.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2597739953/" title="June 17, 2008 Journal by Crazyquilter, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3250/2597739953_4266600540.jpg" width="500" height="321" alt="June 17, 2008 Journal" /></a><br /><br />The next week we painted outside on the deck. I was getting a migraine, so we didn't stay out long. I'm not sure what type of paint this was, but I liked it. It is in little jars. She is getting good at cleaning the brush between colors so she doesn't muddy them up. I journaled on it a couple of days later with a cream colored pen that I thought had dried up. I'm glad I didn't throw it away.Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-31101230185914182542008-06-10T22:17:00.000-05:002008-06-11T22:15:19.679-05:00More wax resistI had to try the <a href="http://michelleward.typepad.com/how_cool_is_that/2008/06/crusade-no-21-irresistible.html">Street Team crusade</a>'s wax resist again using something a bit more personal. I decided to try the carving on my bed and a vase I got at a yardsale last month for a dime. The Christmas tree ornament that came from a different yard sale, but cost a dime also, was an afterthought.<br /><br /><a title="Wax rubbings? by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2569644762/"><img height="390" alt="Wax rubbings?" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3081/2569644762_eeb273ed91.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />Rubbing in the journal on a vertical surface wasn't easy, but turned out ok. I filled in the edges with the vase. I would have never thought of using a vase if I hadn't seen a rubbing done on a glass by another Street Team Crusader. The ornament rubbing was an afterthought. I did it on a separate paper. The front of the ornament had too much relief, but the back worked great.<br /><br /><a title="June 9, 2009 journal by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2569637974/"><img style="WIDTH: 448px; HEIGHT: 310px" height="339" alt="June 9, 2009 journal" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/2569637974_3fb4f2a047.jpg" width="500" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-36647935836779890232008-06-07T22:10:00.000-05:002008-06-07T23:26:48.307-05:00CRUSADE No. 21 ~ IrresistibleI'm finally out of school and finished with VBS. The rest of the summer is mine to do whatever I want. I spotted the latest <a href="http://michelleward.typepad.com/how_cool_is_that/2008/06/crusade-no-21-irresistible.html">Street Team crusade</a> and knew I wanted to try it. I've always liked the magic of rubbings, and Michelle's suggestion to add paint resist into the mix looked like great fun.<br /><br />I grabbed the first thing that looked like it might work that was sitting near my worktable. It's a rubbing plate for kids that I got at a yard sale.The painted paper that I cut up to use was painted by my four-year-old granddaughter Madelyn yesterday. I like to use her artwork in my journal every chance I get.<br /><br /><a title="Wax resist by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2559441743/"><img height="334" alt="Wax resist" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/2559441743_891497d100.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />I rubbed over the plate directly into my journal since the paper is thin. I used a gold crayon.<br /><br /><a title="wax resist by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2560296072/"><img height="334" alt="wax resist" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3095/2560296072_2f95bd71eb.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />I used acrylic paint over the rubbing.I liked the blue paint over the gold better than the red. The marker is one of a set that my granddaughter Madelyn picked for her treat at the Everything's a Dollar store. It has roller rubber stamps at one end. She likes crafty things.<br /><br /><a title="June 6, 2008 journal by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2560316628/"><img height="334" alt="June 6, 2008 journal" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/2560316628_87b61b23c5.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><br />The collage bits on the finished page all came from the newspaper that Madelyn and I were painting on. I seem to be adding chunky bits to my journal lately. I'm sure it will make it harder to work on the remaining pages.<br /><br /><a title="June 6, 2008 journal by Crazyquilter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2559525041/"><img style="WIDTH: 467px; HEIGHT: 307px" height="337" alt="June 6, 2008 journal" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3127/2559525041_2c7900292b.jpg" width="500" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-28809360896181175532008-03-23T21:31:00.001-05:002008-03-23T21:31:08.382-05:00Resolved<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2356748886/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2359/2356748886_cfbd0db698.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2356748886/">journal 2008-3-8 to 18</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/68499916@N00/">Crazyquilter</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> I made some resolutions the other night, just because. So far I'm doing pretty well with number one, fair with three and not at all with number two. Not bad as resolutions go.<br /><br />I'm still behind posting journal pages. I've put a few more on flickr.</p>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-9106948652151739142008-03-22T15:08:00.001-05:002008-03-22T15:08:44.070-05:00Flu days<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2353012986/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2086/2353012986_8e7a6bcd94.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2353012986/">Flu days</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/68499916@N00/">Crazyquilter</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> This page explains a bit of why I have been absent from here. I had a yucky case of the flu that turned into a sinus infection. It took me ages to get back to normal and then allergies set in. I have been journaling some and posted several pages yesterday and today to flickr.</p>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406611.post-14724369991365572352008-02-21T16:10:00.001-06:002008-02-21T16:10:53.760-06:00Blah, blah<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2281788969/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2055/2281788969_ee7ab3396a.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68499916@N00/2281788969/">Blah, blah</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/68499916@N00/">Crazyquilter</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> I was wanting to do a page for my black.red.white.book group, but the yellow crept in. I've had the text clippings on my craft table for a while. I knew they would fit my mood eventually.<br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.flickr.com/groups/blackwhiteredbook/</p>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007683717926269963noreply@blogger.com2