Mini Layout Challenge Day 5

Due to the lack of pictures of when I was a child, I haven't been able to do The Big Idea Festival Challenge in order, but here is my Day 5 Challenge

One of the themes you get to choose from is "iconic candies" as you see here there are lots of them that you might not recognize, thank goodness for the internet where I found the pictures of candy from my country, Ecuador, like

Tango which is out Oreos, with the difference that instead of being a chocolate cookies, the cookies are vanilla with a chocolate cover,
then we have the Chiclets (bubble gum),
Salvavidas (Lifesavers)
The candy corns from here which we bought everytime we came to the States and take them to Ecuador,
and last but not least the candy on the bottom right corner are Chinese candy that my Grandfather gave us everytime we went to his house :) (sigh) they had a rice paper cover that melted in your mouth, so delicous, I miss them :)

Hope you like it, thanks for stopping by :)

Mini Layout

I am participating at The Big Idea Festival




and the lack of pictures of my childhood is amazing lol
Anyways here is my layout about my memories at my grandparents house... sigh,
All the love they gave us :)

One of my grandparents "Pancho" had a little tiendita, the corner store in his house, and everytime we went to visit He would give us a pack of cookies "galletas amor" but not just that, He would let us (my sister and me) sit on his lap and eat them with him so mom wouldn't complain or take it away from us lol so funny.

And my other grandfather from my mother's side "Enrique" He had a little hardware store adjacent to his house, but He had some special candy for us, from China (he was born there) the candy had a drawing of a little bunny and it had rice paper inside... so delicious!

Thanks for reading, and thanks for this challenge bringing so many good memories of my childhood :)

On My Bedside

Just for fun I decided to take a picture of what I have on my bedside, sometimes, well most of the time, I don't watch TV, so I just sit next to my husband and start creating something, either art, drawing, crochet, knit, hand sewing, whatever I feel like doing that night, so you can imagine I have a lot of projects going in my head, but usually I don't start one until I finished what I started, I love to see the projects finished :)
So here is my art carry all, it started as a travel art journal kit that I made myself but I couldn't take it on my trip, so I left it next to my bed and is working fine there :)

As you can see it has a little bit of everything, all very basic stuff
glue, mini notebooks, pens, pencils, eraser, colored pencils, watercolors, markers, brushes, ruler, hole puncher, sponge brush, chalk, and a few paper clips.
How do you like that? :)

Completely Handmade Sunglass Case

I finally worked on my sunglass case, I've been wanting one for quite a while, I actually bought one that was the right size for my sunglasses but when I tried to close it, it wouldn't close, my sunglasses where too wide for it, so I decided to make my own, and here is what I got

I followed this tutorial that I have on my pinterest board "Crochet"

The only thing I did different is that I sewed the fabric by hand (I don't use the sewing machine at all) instead of gluing it, it seems more professional with a better finish to it.

What do you think?

Do You like it?

Thanks for looking :)

I'm getting the hang of it

And I love it!!!

Call me crazy but today I got up so sore, my whole body aches from working outside in the backyard trying to give our bunny a place of his own. I am so out of shape that even my fingers hurt. ha! but they don't hurt THAT bad! that I can't do art :D
So I got up and after doing a few house chores I decided to get my creative juices going,

 here is what I made :) another background in my own personal art journal,
Men! I am really liking this, it is kind of adictive, you can be yourself and do WHATEVER you want.
I LOVE that!!! lol
Anyways, here is a close up

 

As you can see here I went crazy trying different methods, the background has gesso, and let it dry, then I tried watercolors, just cheap school watercolors for now until I get better and can afford better ones,

I did this in green and blue inspired by my trip to Puerto Rico this summer, then I didn't even let it dry and put some soft yellow acrylic paint to a bubble wrap I found and sticked it to my paper :) but still needed something else so I used a plastic container where my brushes came into and put some soft pink acrylic paint and put it in my page where it was kind of empty. So far it looked good as a background so I am letting it dry.

Just in case you are wondering about that Winni the Pooh box, is where I keep my cheap acrylic paint :)

Well, thank you for taking a look, I really like art journaling, it gives me an opportunity to let it all out and be myself, to put in paper what I like and try some new techniques that I maybe use some day in my scrapbooking.

First Art Journal Page

Ok so I finally got brave enough to make my first art journal page.
I've been watching tutorial for a few months in youtube here and there,
so I had a good idea on how to start.

This page is not a big deal one :) but I did wanted to make a page
with something that I like and that says something about me...

So here it is...

Btw, I found out that my problem with blogger is my browser, I am still using windows 7 :D
I love it and I don't want to upgrade it yet, but I know eventually I will and all my computer problems will be gone, but for now I am just going to live with it,

Thanks for visiting :)

Problems with Blogger

I am not sure if I am alone in this one, but my blog is acting up, I closed it with frustration, but I am reopening it to see if I get any help from somebody out there.

It is not letting me highlight the text to add a link to it :(

it is not letting me continue writing after I add a picture to my post

it is also not letting me go back to the middle or beginning of my post to fix or add something

Does anybody knows what's going on?

I have sent feedback to Blogger but never answer back

I know is not my mouse or keyboard because I have try them in other programs and it all works

Very frustrating, can somebody help me please?

Clemencia