A Sketch

Sketching is something I seem to do good but I haven't actually put it in practice much.

I love the feeling of peace when I draw things that I see, so quiet and peaceful, I think I'll do this more often. :)

New Year, New Art Class

Effy Wild opened registration for her new Book Of Days BootCamp here:
http://wp.me/p1ZQyo-1nw

Choose to Focus...

I love to read and I want to share what I learn as I read them.

This is one of the things I learned today,

I hope you like the way I made it

I love playing with my PSPX2 program :)

With Love,

Grow Where You're Planted

I been taking some time for myself lately

taking advantage that I've been sick and need to rest

(which I really don't do)

but I did take some time to do some art in my new journal

with some basic stuff I have.

Here are some detail pictures also

I used stamps

doodles

and star stencils that I made myself with a star puncher :)

Creative is how I felt that day :)

So here it is :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Love,

I Am a Proud Mom of a Daughter in College

This is an email she got from her college :)

Congratulations on your 4.0 GPA!  
The Honors College faculty and staff are so proud of the dedication, commitment, and hard work you have put forth to achieve this high honor.  You stand among 409 Honors College students with 4.0 GPA in Fall 2014 term. 
Again, congratulations, and keep working towards your goals!

Dean Adams 
and your Honors College faculty and staff

just awesome :)

Learning From My Daughter

My daughter's school had an open house and her art was one of the chosen for the exhibition.

Wow! I am thinking... how brave! How brave of her to paint on canvas, something that mom (I) haven't try before.  Her innocence and courage has enlighten me to be brave and explore outside my comfort zone.

When you think about it, what can go wrong? Nothing! absolutely nothing!
If you make a mistake fix it or do it again, is that simple.
It just gives you more practice and experience.

Well, that's all for now...
Thanks for stopping by,

Love,

A Lesson With Every Experience

Yesterday I learned a lesson... an experience that it has repeated in my life over and over again and I am finally saying to myself... enough is enough.

I work a part time job Monday through Friday but I didn't work yesterday (long story) so I decided to catch up with my house work. I am very dedicated to my family and I cook every night to be able to eat healthy meals for which I needed to start my day by going shopping.

Well, I ended up going shopping for food to three different places, they are all close to each other but still it took a couple of hours to do all that, then I came home and decided to clean the refrigerator to see what leftover did we have and make different meals out of them. So that took me into cooking and might as well since I was there, cook dinner too.

Next thing I know I had to go pick up my daughter from school, help her with homework, science project, etc.

Then my husband gets home criticizes her project, help us get it right (I hate science) lol while I am serving dinner and the whole shebang. After dinner was done, we put everything away, wash dishes, etc. etc.

By now I super tired, sleepy, out of energy. I didn't want to do any of the things that I love to do, not even blogging :( so all I did was lay down on my bed and make an effort to read, but I was in such a bad mood because I didn't have time to do any of the things I like that I couldn't concentrate on what I was reading.

It is my fault for not giving myself time, not even 10 minutes to at least draw or play in my art journal, for not giving myself the attention I needed when I had the opportunity to do so.

Lesson learned... Take time for yourself out of your day, every day for at least 10 minutes to do something you like. (Ideally I will increase this time daily :)