A mouth full

OOh two posts in less than a week. Am I on a roll or what?

Tomorrow my friend Ellen and I are making the trek to anthropologie(2 hours away). I am not sure if I hope I see lots I love or nothing I adore. Then we are going to some junkie/antique stores. I'm on the search for old lace, nice old fabric, and an old metal truck (toy) that I can put art stuff in. Should be fun. And I got to cancel Chloe's orthodontist consultation appointment to go. See now I can use the orthodontist money at anthropologie . Kidding guys, I won't let the daughter walk around with a wreck of a mouth. Well the mouth is already full of sass, but I want the teeth to at least look nice as she uses that sarcastic wit she mysteriously aquired.

Maybe more on Sunday with documentation of my finds...

Orange you full of cupcakes?

Bonjour mon amies,

Hope you had a great weekend. We had some fantastic weather. Great for outside running. So above journal page was my attempt at working with white paint on a white background with a person which obviously didn't work. I know I have to tint the white paint very lightly, but I am not one for subtlety (did I really spell that right?) so I shall keep trying. I tried on another page too but it twas a disaster. I covered most of it up with tissue paper and am trying something else.

Update time: Alas I still have not run into the van I am suppose to follow to Italy.

I did manage to wear the lavender heels (not the ones below) all day on Monday. I was very proud of myself. Tuesday it rained. Then Wednesday I brought the below purple ones and wore them for about 40 minutes but I felt a bit foolish and also they were too loose so no cowboy boots this week.

Whoa baby, my leg does not look too enticing in this picture. The cupcakes look much more delicious. Speaking of which... today the little chef whipped up some cupcakes with orange runny icing(she must miss Halloween.) She even left me with a big glob of icing in the bowl to wash or eat. Guess which I picked?

Au revoir for now.

lluf

Okay here's my french outfit I wore the day after writing my blog last week but it looks more like a french frumpy thing than anything too glamorous. Still I like it. The skirt wasn't really suppose to be there but the dress thing was too sheer. Anyway, I'm even wearing my Eiffel tower necklace. n'est mauvais.

This week's wardrobe challenge is to wear heels all week. If I get through the whole week in my purple heeled shoes (if you're lucky I amy include a picture), I told myself maybe just maybe I could finally buy some cowgirl boots.

Ah, last wee-end I was behind a blue van that had a bumper sticker that said, Follow me to Italy so I thought, Okay, and I did for several blocks until another car cut me off and there went my trip to Italy.

I did do some journal work this week-end but can't scan it because the page next to it is all glued up. Maybe during mid week. I still can't figure out how to do white on white painting. Any one have any tips on that?

Guess this is a shorty. I'll try to put my page up soon. tra la la.

Full of Kit Kats

Pages pages, here are some more pages I worked on this week-end. That extra hour really seemed to give me time.I love chairs so I had fun with the chair page. I tried using my new glazing fluid with my paint but I think I used too much paint with it. I will have to try again. Next time I want to try and do some white pages- everything in white tones.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween. It isn't my favorite holiday, but that's okay. Orange is growing on me. We only had about seven trick or treaters (I think our street is too dark and filled with older people) so I now have a whole bag of

Kit Kats to deal with. Such dilemmas. Eat or give away? They are orange which is kind of interesting. They just don't taste like chocolate when they are orange. More like a white chocolate type of confection. Probably more than you need to know about my left over Kit Kats.

I am missing France/Paris and realized I am no longer wearing my Parisian clothes so since it will be warm tomorrow I will get back into them. They made me feel lighter and bouncier. It also looks like time for a hair cut. My hair feels like it's strangling me after running. Okay so now you know way too many trivial things about me this week- what about you? What are you up to? What have you created? What are you enjoying wearing?

Thanks for visiting.

Two pages full

It was a journal day. I worked on these two pages. Next I hope I get some sewing done. I really want to make a rose rabbit type of doll so that might be next, but alas I must go do my running chore for today and make dinner.
What do you think of my new banner girl next to half full up above? My cousin helped me achieve this goal. It is a bit odd since she has to be lying down but I like it in a way like that. Maybe she's saying okay I've had enough.
Here's how I am doing on my apron. I found this floral linen fabric piece at the antique mall and I want to sew it on to the apron, but I am scared that I will ruin it. Wish me luck. I guess that is about it for today. Thanks for visiting.

just half full

I have started a little scrap book full of just pieces of stuff I have piled around. I could probably fill an encyclopedia with all my scraps. It has been really fun to do so far but I have a ways to go with this book. Looks like I have to work on my scanning technique as well. More color saturation and pixel action. Thanks Kelly for the idea. And DJ's bird is hiding in the cool frame on the right. I'll show more when I have finished.

Full of cibo amare

Buongiorno Amica,

I know the timing is not good financially, but my heart is saying Italy, Italy, so I think I am going for it this summer in June. I will even get to go to the water buffalo mozzarella cheeses farm and see how they make limoncello. (Did someone say samples? ) For those of you who say "you always go places and never tell me"- I'm telling you now (uh that would be you Lorraine) and would LOVE to have a traveling friend so if you want to go or are even thinking about it let me know. Two(or even more) is much more fun that one. I promise I won't hog all the mozzarella up.

No, I won't be bringing the darling daughter. She asked if she could come with me today and I reminded her that they spoke Italian there, but she was still interested. As much as I love her, I think not.

Nothing else going on other than dreaming of Italy. Cupcake week went well but now it's days and days of fund raiser art- actually it isn't too bad. The artists are liking their themes and the third grade has really impressed me with their egret pictures(much better than mine).

Funny I look at my profile of favorite places, books, and music and nothing has changed. I am not sure if that is good or bad.

Ciao bellas until I create some new artsie thing.