new beginings

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
~St. Francis of Assisi~

So I have been doing what is necessary and when talking of bringing a new site to life that is quite a lot.

Some of the things that I thought I would not be able to do have been made possible and so now I am almost onto the impossible.

Still working on the new site, classes are still happening and the impossible is almost a reality!

“The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.”
~David Weinbaum~

Fingers crossed that the end of the week will herald that new beginning! 

Hugs

L

what do you see?

When you look at a blank canvas, what do you see?

White space?

emptiness?

 How about possibilities? 

That's what I see Possibilities, endless possibilities.

Things around here have been very stressy the last few days (insert weeks and even months and you get the idea) so I decided to do something that I have not done in ages. Forget about everyone and everything and grab some paints and a canvas and just paint.

I think it has been a year or more since I made time to paint a canvas. something just for me.

The thing I love about acrylics is that if it doesn't work, if you don't like it, then you just paint over it.

I thought I would make it easier and instead of carting out my paint carrier with all the paints I just selected a few, add in a couple of brushes, nothing little as I just wanted to get colour onto canvas.

 Last year I took a photo and I had always thought that it would make a good painting. But today wasn't about copying something. Today was about the paint and the canvas. So I used the photo as my jumping off place so I had a fair idea of what colours I wanted. But being stressed makes me not be able to decide on things so I cut the paints down to just a few colours on my pallet.

I thought I would see how these couple of colours worked on the canvas. So I started to paint and after half an hour I had blocked in the shape and some of the colours.

 On a roll I just kept painting and painting and painting. I had forgotten how good it feels just to paint, not for anyone else just for me.

 I love when a canvas starts to 'talk' to me. I don't know how else to put it, its like the canvas starts to tell me when I need more colour or more movement etc. after an hour my arm was hurting and the colour choice had been added to. But I had only used this one brush

 Next thing I knew out came Sam and he joined in, grabbing a small canvas and painting away beside me :)

 The stress is gone and the paint is flowing

 Notice that Sam has a paint brush in his mouth? both his sister and I do that, we usually have multiple paintbrushes in our mouths stuck through our hair etc lol it must be a genetic thing

 no where near completed but definitely on the right track

 Sam and McGee both seem quite calm and I don't feel so stressed any more. 

My to do list is still there and the issues have not disappeared but for a few blissful hours I forgot about it all.

 Not worried if anyone else likes it or not My goal now is to make time to finish it.

I decided to share these as a reminder to myself and maybe to you, that we all need time to just be. Just to be for ourselves, not for our loved ones or for our friends, relatives or customers but just BE for ourselves.

I hope you all had a great weekend

Hugs

L
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A little bit special

Today's post is all about a very dear friend of mine - PB.

She is special in the very nicest of ways. And lately, in fact for all of this year, she has been battling illness. She has had to take time to look after herself, and as a mum she finds that hard to do. Her time as always is divided into time as a mother, a daughter, a wife and a friend, which leaves very little 'me' time.

She is one of my great cohorts in terms of scrapbooking and good times and to be honest I really miss spending time with her....

Now earlier this year I was lucky enough to do some wonderful workshops with the fantastic women of Graphic 45. And I know PB would have loved to have done them, in fact had she not been ill would have definitely been there by my side as she has been on so many occasions in the past. And while I loved the workshops I was sadden that she wasn't there.

She expressed her delight when she saw the project I had made during one of the workshops. This gorgeous Frame and mini album, which is for my grand daughter.

I love the Graphic 45 papers so many opportunities to fussy cut (my new favorite term that I learned from the owner of Graphic 45 Diane Schultz).

So I decided to take some of the left overs and make a 'get well' card. It started simple but then I just kept going, it was a delight to make and I knew that PB would appreciate it.

front:

inside:

and even the back:

So after fussy cutting all those blossoms, I mounted some with foam and then went over the centres of each with sparkles - I used the light silver one. The stamp is a Daisy Bucket one and the very cute little coat hanger is one from a pack of three that are new from Collections. (just realised that we have sold out of the coat hangers, more will be coming soon).

And to top it all of I know that it gave PB a smile when she got it, and after all that's what we do this craft for!
Get better soon Miss PB cause I wanna hang out some more ;0)

Hope I may have inspired you to get out your scraps and see what you can come up with.

Hugs
L

A little bit of whimsy

This was such a fun little project. I actually made it thinking of Melbourne Cup but as the day was windy and wet I did not wear it then, who knows about the future....

It is made from the new Graphic 45 range, Hallowe'en in Wonderland.

A great range of papers and tags full of whimsy and colour with the lovely Heritage twist that is so Graphic 45! We have put a template on the site so that you can make one of your very own!

 A special thank you to Laura De Rosa and her wonderful project that inspired mine.

 This is truly crazy formatting going on, on this blog now :(

 so hugs till next time

L

Incredible, amazing and intricate...

Some people are just too clever for words! I really love the quirky and talented nature of this artist...
His name is Dalton Ghetti and he takes the ordinary everyday pencil

and turns it into something quite extraordinary!

this one is my favourite

You can see more of his work here.

Hope you have a bit of extraordinary in your life today!
Hugs
L