Art Every Day Month. Day 21

Here are the pictures I promised of out sweet little Boutique. Wendy and I are excited to see what a Saturday crowd will be like. Well, we are just excited to leave the kids with our husbands and sit together all day!!!!

Wendy doesn't particularly like having her picture taken, but I love showing you my best friend!!

The tree in the bucket? Not quite what we hoped for. I just couldn't get to my Christmas decorations in time for the boutique to get out my bigger trees. This one was from the dollar isle at Target. It's now known as the Charlie Brown Tree. Plus our labels are ridiculously large!!! Our friend, Debbie let us use some raffle tickets, as you have to have a part that the cashier can tear off. Wendy told me someone said to her, "What's with the raffle tickets? Do we win a prize or something?" Uh...no. It's called learning to label. Maybe if we said yes, we would sell more?

This dress form was a steal at Pier One. I love it!! The only problem was when we put all the key chains on, she toppled over. Wendy thought if we could find a base and wire the dress form to it, it would solve our problems. So, off we went to Goodwill, and waiting for us was the perfect size cutting board. We drilled holes in it, spray painted it, and, TA DA!! A base for the dress form.

Wendy, (again) came up with the awesome idea of how to hang all the domino necklaces. We brought out the spray paint, bought some foam board, she had some beautiful velvet material hanging around in a box, and...TA DA!!!!

Wendy (the queen) had an idea for hanging dominoes off of a tree. They ended up being too heavy, but we loved the decorative effect. So I found some branches at the dog park one day, put them into a vase with my dried hydrangeas, and added little sparkle charms for fun.

Another Goodwill find we spray painted to hold the paper weights.

I found an old c.d. rack at the same Goodwill to hold cards. Do you love thrifting, or what???

Charlie the tree isn't so bad up close.

I found out that my friend, Pam is there selling her gorgeous Silpada Jewelry. I love Silpada Jewelry. Love it.

Did I mention that when you throw a Silpada party, you always end up with free jewelry? What's not to love?!

Time to walk the doggies and get on over to the boutique. Enjoy your day, friends!

~Lynn

Art Every Day Month. Day 20

Yesterday was a VERY full day!! Getting ready for the Boutique, going to B's school to meet the therapy dog that visited the class, setting up the Boutique, getting to a Tim McGraw concert on time!! (very fun, but our seats were HORRIBLE. We were the absolute last row!  It was at a big Indian casino here.)
This Boutique thing is kind of a wild learning curve for me: focusing on why Wendy and I are doing it, is it still fun? (YES!) When is our effort enough? (Wendy is much better at this guideline than I am.) What prices do we put? Will anyone come? We had a big lesson on tagging every item. 1. Do it BEFORE setup. 2. Small tags are good. 3. It's nice to do it with a friend who's head is not going to pop off like yours over the frustration of tagging.
Ahh, well. I don't have pictures of our set up yet-I had to get to the concert before we were all finished. (Thanks, friend!!) But, I do have some fun pictures to share of the therapy dog that came to Brenna's class. Her name is Nutmeg. It should be Nutmeg the Perfect Dog. She came and did tricks, let the kids love on her, listened to stories that the kids read to her, and gave lots of love back.

How could you not love a dog like this?

The kids chose "dog-themed" books to read to Nutmeg. Brenna read the WHOLE book of Go, Dog, Go. Way to do it, Brenna!!!!!!

Thanks, Miss Nutmeg!!

Enjoy whatever it is you are doing today!

~Lynn

Art Every Day Month. Day 18

WHEW!!! What a day of creativity. Or productivity. Does that count?? YES.
Here are pictures of what I worked on today. The boutique set up is tomorrow. Maybe I should have been making price tags, but there's always tomorrow morning, right?? This was more fun!

more bottles:

I tried my hand at crowns. I think they are a little funky. Not real sure how they will go over at the show.

Can you tell I'm not very sure about these?!

they are not for wearing. just for fun decoration, I guess....

Last but not least, paper weights.

Gotta run. Dogs need exercise, (they are driving us NUTS but what else is new?) the dinner fairy forgot to deliver dinner-AGAIN, and we have a parent-student-teacher conference at 7p.m. Guess who hasn't taken a shower yet today???

Happy creating!!

~Lynn

Art Every Day Month. Day 17

Is it just me, or is November flying by? I think posting every day keeps it moving pretty quick as well. I think, "the 17th??? It's not the 17th, is it???" Apparently it is. Better get on the band wagon!!


Today, I did the journal class with the 7th graders. I tell you what, it is so much FUN!!! We looked at a verse and wrote it out in different ways, adding pictures to help remember what it is the verse is telling us. The verse was from the Message translation, Psalm 31:15, "Hour by hour I place my days in your hands." We talked about how it is easier to remember something like this when we draw it out or add pictures. There is so much that they just memorize, spit out for a test and keep going to the next thing. Hopefully, it will encourage some of them to take time and put things down on paper (in a fun way)that they would like to recall later on.

I also asked them to fill in as much space as they could with color. This was to get them to put something other than one picture on the paper and call it good! I love this next one. It was from the student who whined the most about filling in with color. I think it's a fabulous use of color and it all melds together!! I'm not sure the student appreciated that thought so much-it's hard to tell.

There is always the "ransom note" look. I specifically talked about how not to do this. Whatever. Like the color in the background? Yeah. Me too. I guess not everyone is that into art journaling. Whyever not??

                                

Loved these!!

                             

Have a great day!!

Lynn

Art Every Day Month. Day 15

Hi, Gang!
I did not post this weekend because of a lack of creativity, but because of a lack of a camera. Yeah, I forgot my camera when I went to my friend, Wendy's house to finish up production for the boutique this weekend. Brilliant, I know, but what can I say?? I remembered to pack up Brenna, so that's good.

O.K. So, all that said, I did bring home a couple of Christmas bottles I made. (everything else was left at Wendy's house.) What do you think?

 I finished the Christmas dominoes (waay cute!) and will post them later this week. They are all

 "sparkle-d" up and hung on a small tree.

 Who doesn't HATE these??

Oh! My creativity for today?? Throwing myself back under the covers to get rid of a sinus headache after I took Brenna to school. (I hate those worse than ornament hangers...well, I don't know-they both make my head hurt!)

Until tomorrow!

~Lynn

art Every Day Month. Day 13

this:
(dremel tool)

plus these:

and add in this:

equals a pretty good day!

~lynn

art Every Day Month. Day 12

Today in my journey of being creative everyday, I took a little twist. I spent 45 minutes teaching a "Life Skills" class to 19 seventh graders. My subject is art journals. This group took to it like a bunch of ducks to water! What fun it was. They were eager and willing to participate. (whew!) They even said it was fun!!!

We started off by talking about journaling, and what meaning, if any it had for them. Not a whole lot of response there. They have journal prompts for english, but that's about it. I thought that was strange. I have been keeping some sort of journal since I was 13!!! Am I odd? Or is it just a generational thing? Anyway, I showed them mine and how I pick a verse or a saying and work on it for several days. These kids are used to stuffing information in, spitting it out for a test and moving on to the next thing to memorize. I emphasized how working on the same piece for a while really makes it stick in my head and heart.  We then moved on to emotions and what colors signify that emotion. The kids came up with some doozies! Turquoise was my favorite for being peaceful. Then I handed out composition books, magazines, stickers, scissors and glue and they got to split into two groups and hang out on the floor. They rifled through the magazines looking for colors or images to match their feelings. Some went on to do two or more pages, some put all their effort into one page, and one guy put down the word angry and a head shot of Darth Vadar. Wow.

I took a couple of pictures for you, but not much as I didn't really get the permission from the kids to show their work, so here are some bits and pieces:

They even wanted to do the front of the books.

I love this one, I wonder what was going through the student's mind?

What a fun day! It was amazing to get outside of myself and show something new to someone and have them actually like the process. Kinda revives my faith in doing art is what I am supposed to do.

Hope your day was just as good.

~Lynn