I Actually Made Stuff AND Wrote a Blog Post!

Hey,

The title of this post says it all! I actually did stuff this weekend instead of my usual vegging!

I actually cooked both yesterday and today! The hubs is in shock but full! LOL

I actually went to a local hospital and visited a girl that I lived next door to when she was born. We had a lot of catching up to do since I left there when she was 10 and she is now 35. Not all of it was fun though, since I actually found out about 5 different deaths that have occurred in the last couple of years, all of people I knew including her Mom! Sad! She is having her gallbladder removed tomorrow.

I actually also did my weekly Sunday visit to my folks! They are fine.

And then:

I actually made 2 spreads  in my art journal! Yay! Me!

Not actually completed yet! But I did some work in my journal!

And I have added some more cards to my Scrap-O-Dex. It is looking fatter each day. And the bottom pic is a close up of one of the cards. It is a ton of fun!

I have actually also been cleaning and doing more organizing in my art cave.

I have been trying to get all of my tapes in the same place in here. So I bought a couple of Reflections containers about 9 X 9 with a lid that locks. I have 98 rolls of tape just in those 2. I have a ton more, at least enough to fill 2 more of these.

I am also having a good time listening to my new audio books in my car. I even dusted off my Library card and went and checked out the next Alex Cross book by James Patterson. I have only 3 more of that series and I will be done. And then I will be starting on another James Patterson series, called the Women's Murder Club. I loved the first one, so I will read/listen to those. There is 12 in that series. I listened to the 1st one this last week and was HOOKED! I never get enough books. My goal is to have read 40 books this year, and I am now at 32.

And I have also been cutting up my arty and Juxtapose magazines, not my art books, but the magazines I will never look at again. I am cutting words and images out to use in my journal.  I will never be selling anything, so those images are fine. I love cutting up magazines for collage fodder.

And that is actually what I have been up to lately or at least this weekend. I was headed for the Bay Area this next week but with the BART strike happening, I will stay away until it is settled!

Actually, is the word I have repeated all over the place in this post!

So actually I am gone!

OK, Ok.....

Hi,

Thought I would write a spell and see what turns up.

Lately this is what has been going on:

My laptop caught a virus, even though I had ACTIVE virus protection software! $282.00 later, the virus is gone, and I am not a happy person for having to spend $$ on something stupid, but I cannot live by Ipad alone.

On that very same day I had to send my son $300.00 for something also ridiculous!

I am now addicted to red very crisp  grapes. I eat them everyday, and I believe I am doing my body good by snacking on grapes instead of eating cookies and ice cream and other much loved junk snacks!

And speaking of my body, I am now under the realization that I will have to lose 100 lbs. before the end of the year, just so I can get off of at least 6 prescriptions, so I can afford the Affordable Care  Act. The latest figures for me, because I work, is $6850.00 out of pocket each year. I am still looking at other solutions, I must!

I have been obsessed lately with cleaning the house. Well, really that is a little white lie. I AM cleaning, but actually looking for a Law of Attraction book I had in my hands 4 years ago. I know it is in this house somewhere! So little by little it is being cleaned. And if I find the book? Ha! The cleaning stops immediately of course!

I have a baby possum living in a tree in my front yard! Yikes! He appeared when the Hubs was trimming the trees back for the winter. I guess he is still up there somewhere. I don't have time to play with a possum!

I am now listening to books on CD's while I am driving, which is what I do 90% of my time, because of work travel. I am now on the 4th one, a Patricia Cornwell book called  Trace. Very cool. Never occurred to me that I would like this as I am a "have to actually have a real book in my hand" kind of book nerd. But because of the cleaning,  I have also been taking books to the used book store for credit, today I have 75 bux of credit! Yes, I have a few books, quite a few!

Art? Eh, not much, except I am still working on my rolodex cards for my Scrap O Dex! Soon I will have them all covered with paper and can begin to add embellishments, so they will look super! I am even going to stich on them. And I am taking a Kelly Kilmer class tomorrow in Niles! Can't wait to get out of my art slump!

Talk soon!

Cards, Kids & Cats

Thought I would post again.

I have been working on a new arty project recently and wanted to share, but go here first and scroll:

Patty Van Dorin

This lady is a genius, if I haven't said that before. I loved her "Scrap-O-Dex" art journal a couple of years ago and always wanted to create one. So I recently bought a vintage Rolodex:

 

 And then I began making cards for it:

And this is what it looks like now with only 25 cards completed and inserted:

This is the most fun I have had in a while. I even bought a Rolodex card punch, Sorry, I did not take a pic of it, but it is a very small plastic squeeze punch that only punches one card at a time. At this time I am only covering both sides of the cards with assorted papers and punching the holes. Then when they are all covered, I will add stickers, quotes, embellishments and maybe even stitching. Again, after you check out Patty's blog about this you will be hooked. It's so fun!
I got the vintage rolodex on Etsy and it came with dividers and cards. The punch, I bought at Office Depot. And believe me I did NOT have to buy any paper for this! LOL

The kid part of this post is about how I now have a Grandson that is a Senior this year, a Granddaughter that began Middle School this year and I miss seeing them. Plan to go back home next May when my Grandson graduates HS. Yep! That is the Plan!

The cat part of this post?

Is my Buddy! In this pic, he has sleepy eyes since I woke him when I got up and  started taking pics of my Scrap-O-Dex! Of course I have been up since 3:00am! If I wake up and start thinking, then my brain won't let me go back to sleep! Grrrr! The trials of being a genius! LOL

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.