Living in the dorm rooms, I have no space for any art supplies and I have been in a bind this semester with storage ideas because I'm living in a smaller place. I've been using 2 of my dresser drawers for art supplies and I just cleared up a bunch of space with this little gem of an idea. I think it came from Jean in the Mixed Media group I'm in on Facebook and I love it. So THANK YOU, JEAN!!! It's absolutely genius! :)
Total cost = about $11 (little expensive for me but I had to make it work for my own sanity).
SO! Grab yourself an over the door shoe rack from Walmart/Dollar Tree/your preferred retailer AND HANG IT UP. Haha! That's it! Unfortunately for me, the doors are too thick for the wire hooks that come with the organizer so I had to buy 4 3M hooks (the ones that hold about 3 lbs each). I followed the directions, hung it up and filled it with most of my stuff that I use all the time or were causing clutter somewhere in room. Needless to say, I'm happy!
Here are some of the stills I took and there will be a video tour at the end! :D
I put a lot of thought into what my "word" would be for this year. Last year was rough and this year didn't start out any better. But I believe that this year will bring wonderful changes, wonderful paintings and hopefully some wonderful adventures. So my word of the year is
I woke up to news that a high school friend of mine and my boyfriend's died at 3:30 this morning. So I'd like to take a moment and say Rest In Peace to Codie. He will surely be missed by all of our band alumi. And to my followers, I wish you and your family a healthy and happy new year and to say I love you whenever you can and to hold your loved ones close.
On a lighter, more creative note, I have a project that I've been working on for a bit that is finally finished. I'm calling it the "Rosewood Album." You can see it in my previous post for a minute. But here is the finished album! I'm really proud of it. I had done a process video of it but didn't like the way it was piecing together so I tossed it.
This album was made out of a baby book I found at Goodwill for $.75 and I took out the pages, left the covers and spine, covered the outside with old book pages, white paint to dull it down and inked the edges. The inside is covered with raw canvas and I used my crop-a-dile to punch the holes to bind it. :)
Here's the video!
The cover also has a butterfly that I dipped in UTEE (I'll have a tutorial for that soon!)
The red papers in this album were a little overwhelming for me because I'm not a "red" person. So I added a pocket and a tag to break it up.
For this red page, I broke up up with a pocket and tag. This pocket also has a UTEE dipped flower cut out from the paper line.
I hope you all liked this. Leave your comments and questions!
Hello everyone! It's New Year's Eve and I am alone tonight on New Years for the first time in my life. But I have work tomorrow and had no choice but to stay at the school.
This is going to be a short post about what resolutions I plan to make (and probably break)
Resolutions 2013:
Make sure to blog all the projects that I make. Whether they be big or small.
Be healthy. (this I will probably break. Lol)
Use up my stash of art supplies. I'm going to try to not buy any art supplies or anything unless I run out of it.
Get an apartment in May.
Well. There you have it. I hope you all have a safe and happy New Year.
It's been a very long time since my last blog post. But school gets in the way and I got a job that takes up most of my time. I started therapy at the school for my depression. I've been diagnosed with Hypothyroidism. I got a D in a class that is only a D by 9 tenths of a point so I was sinking again.
This year is coming to an end very quickly and I feel like all my time goes into work and school and trying to think of new ways to make art.
I don't have a long blog post for you today because I have to be to work at 10 (yep. Working 10-6:30 on Christmas Eve). So I have a few videos for you to watch and see what I'm working on at the moment.
The first video is a "haul" video. Which. I don't think it is. It's more of a rant that tells you to use coupons and look at how much I got (and these are things that I needed and finally had the money to buy them).
This second video I have for you is a video about what I'm calling my "Rosewood Album" (original, right?) that I'm working on. It's an Altered Baby Book that I took the pages out, separated them, paint the edges with brown acrylic paint and I'm going to add the papers to them after I buy a new corner punch.
The final video I have for you is my Christmas album that is another altered book that I started showing you in the first video (I need to start using all of my baby books that I've been hoarding and get rid of them). I'll do a step by step post about that when I start working on it completely. :)
My hope for the new year is going to be a better blogger about the things that I make. I'm going to try and document all of my journal pages from the Big Mama journal and every project that I make to be on this blog.
I hope that if you celebrate Christmas that you have the most blessed day ever and that you have an amazing new year!
