The irises outside our front door just started blooming. They make me happy. The color is so rich and beautiful. Also, I updated my Inspired Images traveling moleskine blog, if you'd like to check out mine and Beth's latest collaborations. Thanks for looking!
Bill is out with some friends from work, so I've been spending the evening home alone, and much was accomplished! I finally finished entering my grades online, and I created a page for our memory book at school this year. Lots of laundry and listening to good music. Also, I completed 43 4"x4" pages for a "chunky book" project I'm involved in. I've been procrastinating working on this for a long time, so even though I enjoyed making them, it is a *relief* to have them finished. I hand carved a self-portrait print and printed it on each page with water-based printing ink. Embellishments are stamped flower designs, sequins on pop dots, and Strano ribbon. (if you like ribbon, you must check out that link - their stuff is to die for!) 
Looking forward to tomorrow. We're having breakfast with a friend from high school that I haven't seen in a long time, and in the afternoon my mom and sister are coming over from Des Moines. The four of us are going to look at a HOUSE Bill has been looking at on the internet for months. It is expensive, but I think it may be somewhere we would want to live for a long, long time. I'll decide after I see it in person, but it is an exciting prospect to be even thinking about buying our first house together. Mom and Bethany are staying overnight and then we're going to an all day employee scrapbooking crop at Reminisce. Well... I'm starting to get sleepy, and I think I might paint my nails before I go to bed, so off I go.
Just a couple deco pages I made last night using some Technique Tuesday stamps and acrylic paint. I think they're fun!
I'm not sure if the student who left this picture on my desk meant it to be a portrait of me or not, but... I'm definitely having moments when I feel like this. LOL. Only 6 1/2 school days left until summer! Ok, back to working on grades...
Altered frame gift for my mom for Mother's Day. Using a photo from our wedding day, Chatterbox paper, Foofala buttons, and a Heidi Swapp silhouette.
Altered 7 Gypsies clipboard frame for a class I'm teaching at Reminisce on June 27. I tried to get the example together early so that I will hopefully have a full class of 12. Last time when I made a mini-pet book, I only had 4 people come, and it really wasn't worth my prep time.
The irises outside our front door just started blooming. They make me happy. The color is so rich and beautiful. Also, I updated my Inspired Images traveling moleskine blog, if you'd like to check out mine and Beth's latest collaborations. Thanks for looking!
Only 1 1/2 more days of school - woo-hoo! Now I just have to figure out how I'm going to get the art room clean enough to check out for the summer! Worked on lots of mail art swaps last night. These are a couple atcs to go with the theme "Everything but the Bird".
We (my sister and mom and I) had a *great* time scrapbooking on Monday. All my sister's excellent pictures gave me good reason to covet her new digital camera. Look at what it can do! You can select one color (like yellow) and turn everything else black and white - while you're taking the picture! So cool.
She also captured lots of funny pictures of Cleo. 
Bill is out with some friends from work, so I've been spending the evening home alone, and much was accomplished! I finally finished entering my grades online, and I created a page for our memory book at school this year. Lots of laundry and listening to good music. Also, I completed 43 4"x4" pages for a "chunky book" project I'm involved in. I've been procrastinating working on this for a long time, so even though I enjoyed making them, it is a *relief* to have them finished. I hand carved a self-portrait print and printed it on each page with water-based printing ink. Embellishments are stamped flower designs, sequins on pop dots, and Strano ribbon. (if you like ribbon, you must check out that link - their stuff is to die for!) 
Looking forward to tomorrow. We're having breakfast with a friend from high school that I haven't seen in a long time, and in the afternoon my mom and sister are coming over from Des Moines. The four of us are going to look at a HOUSE Bill has been looking at on the internet for months. It is expensive, but I think it may be somewhere we would want to live for a long, long time. I'll decide after I see it in person, but it is an exciting prospect to be even thinking about buying our first house together. Mom and Bethany are staying overnight and then we're going to an all day employee scrapbooking crop at Reminisce. Well... I'm starting to get sleepy, and I think I might paint my nails before I go to bed, so off I go.
I'm not sure if the student who left this picture on my desk meant it to be a portrait of me or not, but... I'm definitely having moments when I feel like this. LOL. Only 6 1/2 school days left until summer! Ok, back to working on grades...
Altered frame gift for my mom for Mother's Day. Using a photo from our wedding day, Chatterbox paper, Foofala buttons, and a Heidi Swapp silhouette.
Altered 7 Gypsies clipboard frame for a class I'm teaching at Reminisce on June 27. I tried to get the example together early so that I will hopefully have a full class of 12. Last time when I made a mini-pet book, I only had 4 people come, and it really wasn't worth my prep time.
Tree deco cover - photo of a tree in Iowa City by me.
page by Tam
pages by Jessye and Annie
both pages by Cairnlae
pages by Victori and Trish
