Yep! I Admit It, Part 2

OK I have worked and worked and made some progress in my art room! Please look at the following photographs hopefully in the right order as the previous post! No Guarantees, but here they are:

There is still TOO MUCH stuff in here, BUT at least I can move around and find stuff again! And since my art table is unpacked, I can actually do some journaling! YAY!

Oh and in Pic 3, the stuff hiding behind my sewing chair is a couple of birthday gifts for the Hubs who will be a Happy BD boy tomorrow! Then that stuff will be eliminated from the room!

Just wanted to give you a before and after post!!! I be proud!

Later!

Yep! I Admit It

Raising my right hand, I state, "My name is Sharon and I am a art supply hoarder!"

There I said it! I am in trouble again. Oh me oh my! I have a sickness that I am just now admitting to for real. As you can see here below:

My art room is only 12 X 10 but actually if you measure out from the book cases it is more like 10 X 10. So....

I believe that if I could take a  year off from my day job and dedicate myself to my art room and my art, I could be healed. Because 1, I would not have the funds to continue to purchase art supplies I do not need. And 2, I could actually work in my art journal and use up the too many supplies that I have now.

What do you think? Do you know someone with this exact same disease? Is there a group like art supply-aholics anonymous out there somewhere?

I recently found this You Tube video on this exact subject.

Please watch and see if you agree with me and this fine lady about what the world of videos and art books has created.

http://youtu.be/r3D77sMmwd8

Until next time!

It's been a very long time

Hi folks!

Yep, it has been a very long time since I have posted. Too much day job and too much drama has almost stopped all Me Time activities lately. Sad!

Daddy turned 95 on Thursday and even though we had a party. I didn't get the best pics of it. Insert the Drama Factor here! But I survived to tell about it. But I feel as though the weight on my chest won't leave. Sigh...

But on a lighter note, I bought a Wacom Bamboo Connect tablet from a young man on Craigslist. I have always wanted one to goof with. Cool! 

I belong to an monthly art group called Art Menagerie. We meet the 2nd Saturday every month to create art. And since it is geared towards AJ, makes me happy. Last month we met to spray paint with stencils. So today I am helping everyone cut down their Graffiti papers to make a small journal. WoW look at me heading an Art class! Anyway this has become my escape each month from the Day Job Drama!

And with that, I am outta here! 

 

Mobile Blogging Test

I added a new app to my phone for blogging. And so today I thought I would try it out. It looks easy to use and if so you might see more posts from me!

This last week my Mom turned 91 years young.  Here is a pic of me and my Sister with Mom in the middle (scroll down for pic) And she really raked in the loot. Almost 300 bux including what she got for Mothers Day last weekend. Yikes! And of course she wants to take it straight to a casino. LOL 

Of course like always Blogger put the pics backwards. Oh well,  now here is Daddy with his shirt unbuttoned, of course.  He will be celebrating 95 years in July.

I have some arty stuffs to share but this is a test post so will try again later to do another.

And since I can't get the curser to go below Mom's pic, I guess I will end this now.

Bye bye have a safer week than last week.

A Great Happy Weekend

Hi everyone! OK things don't look so good this time. Blogger hates me!

I just experienced a greater than ever weekend that I want to share with you. It began with meeting a person that I began following when I first jumped on the AJ wagon like 7 years ago. Samie Harding has been a great inspiration to me and I have always loved her and her work. So this past week she flew out to San Francisco to do some video work for Mati (pronounced Matey like a pirate would say). So my friend Beth who is also a great fan of Samie's and I cooked up a plan so we could meet Samie face to face! We drove to Berkeley and met Samie at Mati's Studio (wow) and spent the afternoon with her in San Francisco at Japantown! It was a big mall with a ton of great shops. I had never been there before but know I will be going back! We went to Kinokuniya's



It was an amazing Japanese book store. OMG! I thought I had died and went to heaven. And we also went to Daiso's of course, since I can't pass up a trip to any Dollar Store! Then we ate at a great Japanese resturant, and since Samie can speak Japanese, that made it even more fun! So lots of fun and lots of shopping and getting to spend a few hours with a friend in person that has always been an online friend forever makes for a great day.The next day Beth and I ran around Modesto going to thrift shops on a book search. As everyone knows, I am a book nerd and so is Beth, so that was great. But the best part, is Beth got to come to my house (finally) and visit my art cave! Lets put it this way, she came with 1 suitcase and left with 1 suitcase and 5 bags and 30 books! Hee! So enough of my jabbering, here come some more photos of the weekend that I will be talking about for a very longtime. Samie and Beth in Maido's. Some great paper I got at Blick's. Oh yea we went to Dick Blick's in Berkeley also:) Look at these great neon pencils I got at Blick's also. This is a whole 'nother blog post in itself. It is a Sensu Stylus Brush for the Ipad and/or Tablet. Samie is teaching an online Digital Art class and I had
 to have this to go with it! Wow! It is amazing!

I have been wanting this book for awhile. Grabbed it when I saw it this time! Had to grab this cool book from the best Goodwill store in Madera when I took Beth home yesterday. And last but not least, my Hubs bought me a new Laser Printer for my 59th (again) Birthday! I see transfers in my future! Whew!

 For a week that began very sad with the Boston Marathon bombings and the Texas Plant explosions, at least for me the week ended on a good note.

Please stay safe! Have a good week ahead!

Just Getting Along

Hi Folks,

It is time for an update from my crazeee life!

On April 1st at 5:30am, I was already up and on the computer when my phone starts ringing and it was the Hubs. Asking me if I would come downtown to the Transit Center and pick up a little friend that rode his bus from the yard. Well at first I thought it was an April Fools joke, but I went ahead and got dressed and drove down there and here is what I found:

Meet Buddy! A nice little cuddly boy maybe 8 months old. Of course this is Cat # 4 in the house. Yikes! I am going to be called the Crazy Cat Lady! He calmed down Sox, the other boy we have. Sox would torment our old cat, Maxie, but since Buddy has moved in, Sox plays with him and leaves Maxie alone. YAY!! Good news. I just realized this pic is creepy looking, but he was stretched out in the box upside down so I took it.

On the art side, I went out today and used my new spray paints and shot through stencils in my big Dyan Reaveley Journal. They turned out swell: except I didn't get this one turned around.

 

Looks blue but actually black.

 OK, if I take the pic with my iphone and save it to my desktop and turn it, it saves right side up on the desk top but won't stay saved for Blogger! GRRRR

Oh well, this is the last one anyway. It was fun and I want to do more. I have been buying a can of Liquidtex Spray Paint every time I go to Michael's with a coupon. I am up to 11 cans, but 2 of those are from Aaron Brothers, called Montana Spray Paint. Low odor, if you use them inside. I always spray paint outside. Safer!

 

And speaking of safer, I am in the middle of taking a 30 hour online OSHA class! It is going to kill me! I have been working on it for 1 month. And I think I am only at 17 hours, Ugh!

 

So that's what I have been up to lately! Have an arty week. Bye!

I Survived!

This is a short, very short, update to what I have survived lately!

My son's visit went well. He is a little on the strong side about politics, because HE is right! But after he preached for a while and he got his belief's out of his system, he calmed down.

He was only here a week and spent a lot of time with his Grandparent's talking more about Wrestling and Wrestler's and that made them VERY happy, and just to have him within hugging distance made it great.

My son is one amazing kid. He reached out to his Father (who said he wasn't his 37 years ago, but now admits he is) about 2 years ago, when he called a number and left a message, wishing him a Happy Father's Day. So after 37 years he got to visit him and his half brother and sister's. They all loved him and he was so glad. He spent quite a lot of time with them also.

Just so you understand;

This man had nothing to do with him when he was growing up, nothing! But like I said, Jason is one amazing kid to want to meet him, and get to know him and not hate him. WOW! Here is us! Yep, he is very tall!

 

 

Here he is with my parent's and the doggies! I think my Mom has her eyes closed. LOL

 

Me, myself have had too many Dr appt's lately and yesterday I went in for a Colonoscopy AND and a Esophagus enlarging. They did them at the same time! Anyway, nothing much wrong in the colon, so no cancer! But they did a biopsy on something at the bottom of my esophagus. Haven't had this procedure since 2004, and my food was starting to back up and get stuck again. So we will see, when the results are back. I have to have another Colonoscopy in 5 years! Usually it is 10 but this Dr insist's on 5. And this was my first one. Which wasn't bad except for the prep! WOW! That I could do without. Let's just say, I am having my first cuppa since Saturday morning and it is great! LOL

So that is about it. The Day Job of course is still trying to kill me. At this time I am in the process of taking a 30 Hour OSHA Class on line! Yikes, and I am only at 17.5 hours. Guess when it is due? Yep, the 31st! I am not going to have it completed by then. The company paid $185.00 for me to take it, so I am trying. Really! It is sooo boring!

Anyhoo, just wanted to let you know I have survived the last couple of weeks!

Have a safe and artful time, until I get back here!