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My new shawl, Eventide

site admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:28:36 +0000

Look, it’s NOT a journal page! Ever since I got a Ravelry account, I forget to post my knitting stuff here. I thought I’d show this off, though, since I don’t have a new journal page but I do have a new shawl. I call mine Eventide but the pattern is called Daybreak. These are not my usual colors for clothing, but I couldn’t resist them. The orangey pinky one is called Archangel and I think the dark one is Cordovan. They are Malabrigo sock yarn and oh so yummy. If you have a Ravelry account, you can see my other knitting projects there. My username is Gottamake. I’ve got a cozy green cardi blocking now so I’ll have pics of that soon. I’ve actually got lots of things finished since my last knitting post here. Maybe I’ll remember to post some more soon, just to break up the journal page posts a bit, LOL.

Mixed Media Monday Wings & Love

site admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:41:48 +0000

I did this spread in my journal for MMM’s theme of wings & love. If you click it, you’ll get an image big enough to read. It was too big to put here.

Same old title

site admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:45:25 +0000

Yesterday’s page, done in a simple gluebook style, from yesterday’s junk mail. I put the wrong date on the page. I saw 04 on the page next to it and put a 5 on there without thinking. It should be a 7. Oh well, it isn’t the first time and I’m sure it won’t be the last.

New pages

site admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:11:53 +0000

Yesterday’s and Today’s page. I drew the bird and used watercolor crayons to color him, trying to make him look like the bird in the magazine clipping. On today’s page, I did something I haven’t done in a while. I ripped a section of the image away, and drew it back in. If you enlarge the image, you can see where I ripped away the girl’s midsection and redrew it with colored pencils. I also ripped off her head and gave her a new one. I’m not crazy about the head, but oh well. This paper doesn’t take the pencils very well, so I coated it in gesso, first. That makes it a little too rough for getting details, though.

Journal page

site admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:37:44 +0000

Just a simple page with a quote for yesterday.

Starting a new journal and some doodling.

site admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:46:55 +0000

Time to start a new journal! I made this one a while back, so I’d have it ready when I finished the big one. I think It’s going to take just as long to get used to these smaller pages as it did to get used to the big ones last time.

The orange page is really the inside cover. I’ll probably add more to it as I go along, which is what usually happens with the inside covers. I love drawing these little birds with watercolor crayons. I put some in my last journal and I guess you’ll be seeing them in this one, too.

My ice queen is such a party girl that she doesn’t just wear a lampshade on her head, she wears the whole chandelier!

The 2 black and white images are just doodles that I did at night while pretending to watch TV with DH. The one of the hallway isn’t finished, but I rarely go back to these doodles so I’m calling it done anyway. On the other one, I kept turning it round and round as I worked, and now I can’t decide which end is up, LOL.

Note: I don’t know why some people are having trouble pulling up the doodle pics. Try these links, and see if that works:
Doodle 1
Doodle 2

Last page. Time for a new journal!

site admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:01:37 +0000

I did the last page in my big handmade journal today. It’s the orange one. The other is the inside back cover. The colors scanned kind of dull, compared to how it really looks. I need to get an updated driver for this scanner. Obviously, I have not had the best day today, but I always feel at least a little better after some painting, cutting, and gluing.

Been lazy.

site admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:59:59 +0000

Been feeling rather icky lately and have just been knitting instead of gluing and painting. I did finally scan in a few more journal pages, though. There’s only 1 page and the inside cover left in this journal. This one was huge. Time for a smaller one soon.

Gimme 5 for Opus Gluei

site admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:51:26 +0000

This week’s Opus Gluei theme is Gimme 5. I had a 3 day migraine this week, so I just did a journal page on 5 things I love. That’s about all I was up for, but it was nice to do SOMETHING after 3 days of absolutely nothing productive.

Look what I won!

site admin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:56:22 +0000

Look at this super-cool pendant, made by Terri over at Pringle Hill Studio. I won it! She just had a little 100th post celebration on her blog. I left a comment, which is no hardship because she has a very interesting blog, and today I found out that I actually won! I just love it.

PS – Go visit Terri’s blog and be sure to check out the Friday Freebie while you’re there. This weeks freebie is not your average vintage photo!