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We're back! Two and a half days, 53 records, 27 VHS, 14 books,  seven craft projects, five dresses, four shirts, four plastic picnic plates & matching mugs, three coloring books, two mini raccoon pictures, one rabbit mini cake pan, one Chia Head Professor, one purse, one McDonald's pencil case, and one alarm clock later. 

Now we have to find a place to put all of this stuff...more pictures of our stuff & our trip soon!

30 Day Journal Challenge - Days 9 & 10 +

Day 9 - Play with typography - describe someone special.

Day 10 - Collections!

The picture describing my fun embroidered/needlepoint art collection is inspired by these gems I got at a weird thrift store on the west coast a couple of weeks ago.

I'll be mostly blog-free this weekend, as I'll be taking my Friday off + the traditional weekend and spending it here:

(source.)

Vamos a la playa! Hasta luego!

30 Day Journal Challenge - Days 7 & 8

During the summer, I have Fridays off. It's really amazing and it's turning me into a spoiled brat, but it also means that my Monday - Thursday are extra long. I feel like I wake up, go to work, come home, eat, sleep, repeat.

Luckily, I'm holding myself to the 30 Day Journal Challenge, so I get to sneak some creativity in everyday. And, lucky for you, the magic of cell phones with the ability to load directly to Flickr allows me to share my pages!

Day 7: What you feel like today (Sunday). I was, clearly, all over the place.

Day 8: Inside jokes. I could fill a whole book. These are some of my favorites.

I really enjoy putting my wacky brain on paper.

30 Day Journal Challenge - Days 3- 6

I'm still going strong with the 30 Day Journal Challenge. Today is day six. Below you'll find the pages I made for days three through six.


Day 3: Draw a picture of someone you love & write why they mean so much to you


Day 4: What does your heart look like?


Day 5: Favorite blogs


Day 6: Draw something that represents time & things that you need to do at this time

I'm having so much fun with this. It's also really great to see what other people are doing on the Flickr group.

Summer Camp: Project One!

My friend erin is joining me in my Red Velvet Art Summer Camp adventures. I have Fridays off work during the summer, so we've designated Friday as Summer Camp day.

Today, we worked on the first project, the Summer Log journal. We each used purple woodgrain fabric and puffy paint for our covers.

Erin's:

Mine:

We're going to end up waaayyy behind schedule, but then we'll have projects all summer! Are you working on anything fun this summer?

Sleep...

I finally did it - I bought a body pillow. Being short, it's basically as big as I am, but I love it! I splurged and got this awesome bicycle cover for it at Target. I want to make another cover for it myself, but I couldn't pass up this cute pre-made one.

Hooray for snuggly sleeping!

30 Day Journal Challenge - Days 1 & 2

On Monday of this week, I started a new project: 30 Day Journal Challenge! I've wanted to journal more frequently, but never seemed to make it happen. Something like this is great motivation to go for it.

I'm a big fan of Moleskine kraft notebooks, so I decided to use one of those for my journal.

I also really like the look of black Sharpie on the covers, so that's what I went with.



The first day's prompt was to create an introduction page using your name.



Today's prompt was "the best part of your day".



As much as I hate waking up in the morning, I do enjoy the time I get to spend alone, eating my breakfast, drinking my coffee, and watching whatever ridiculous television I want.

Do you journal? If so, do you share your pages anywhere?