Skype And Art Journals!

We did it!!  On Thursday Twinnee and I skyped and worked on two pages together in our Dylusions Art Journals.  It was so much fun.  Earlier in the week we chose three projects each, emailed them to each other and then made our choices.  On Wednesday we did our prep work - gessoed our pages and gathered everything together so that on Thursday all we had to do was focus on the project.  Of course we found our ideas on Pinterest.  The one we chose was from Dina Wakley.  I'm really happy with how mine turned out and am looking forward to using the techniques we learned in other projects.

Then we moved on to the second page.  At first I wanted to do something that tied into the first page but that was a bit of a disaster so out came the gesso and I started again.  I used a cake decorating sheet that Twinnee had given me and pressed that into the gesso whilst it was still wet.  It's hard to see it in the photo but you can see it in the flesh!  I used the same colours as the first page and added a few butterfly stamps that I'd just bought at Michael's the day before!

The time flew by.  We were very happy with what we achieved and are planning on doing it again on Tuesday!

I've also been busy out in the garden.  I'm just doing "clean up" at the moment but have some big plans for my sad looking vegetable garden.  I'd like to set up my little bistro table and chairs and put up my umbrella that I made hubby carry home from Europe a few years ago - it's just a cheap thing we bought for the beach, but it has lots of fun memories of that holiday!  Hopefully I can get out there this week in between work and meeting up with a couple of girlfriends.  Maybe a trip out to some Garden Centers and a purchase of a vegetable or two might motivate me as well!!

And yes I've been taking my photo-a-day again.  It seems like I've taken quite a few from inside the house watching the birds and this one squirrel.  Well here goes, these are from this past week.

This weeks pix are my guinea pig mug with a hot cup of Vienna (the mug is from mum and dad from this last visit - we have a thing for mugs!?!), a Carolina Wren building a nest in a wall mounted planter by the kitchen window on the front porch, my work table with my stuff for my travel journal, the seat of a shopping cart (at Target) - we thought Bean was funny 'cos that's what I call my first grand daughter, my resident squirrel, the stamp on the package I received from Twinnee and lastly the beginnings of a fern unraveling - a bit blurry but you get the idea!

Hope you all had a fun weekend, looking forward to another busy week so until next time...