paint and Palette

Here's a few pages from my book of days... I did a spread of my goals and resolutions in circles, and the next pic shows my "palette" as I usually have only a few minutes hear and there to paint instead of a few hour stretch, so to save time and make it easy to pick up if I have to quit... I just paint right out of the bottle caps and mix colors either in the caps or on the painting. If I had longer I'd use better paints and a real palette, but for now it works!

(linking to paint and palette, you can click on the side bar to see more palettes)

This photo is of another page in my altered book that fits the theme at Butterefly effect of "Into the Woods".  When I heard the theme I expected to think of fairy-tale forests, nature goddesses, fairy houses, sweet dappled woods and such, instead I actually thought of a very real, very clear forest, the forest I seem to have designed in my plan for the year. Somehow I think I expected to write out my goals and they would appear, but now...

I've mapped out the woods, each tree by tree, yet I haven't seemed to have suddenly started to do Yoga more, or eat better or any of those things...

so how to enter the forest?

 that's my dilemma...

I guesss I just need to walk in,

one step at a time...

tree by tree...

this week... friday already

time is flying as always...Happy paintparty friday! This week I finished my spread in the wonderful sketchbook of http://artbrat.blogspot.com/. It's so much fun to have them arrive in the mail and to slowly look over the few pages that are already done. I can't wait till they're almost full when they arrive. It will be that much harder to pass them along at the end of the month...

This spread is for June and I meant to go for a lady falling thru chaos with sharp landings, as I really hated the thought of June during each of my daughter's senior years. I hated the whole year actually, too much worrying and such. But once graduation came around I was fine and so were they. Anyway, this doesn't really represent my  thoughts so I tried again with the second picture. They just always come out cuter than I expect. Not the best photo this week...

and for the fiberart friday people... again I have to post my daughter's work, not mine...

Very Cheery! Her etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/barefootbananas?ref=ss_profile
won the nonteamchallenge this week, and everyone is using her snails: Gazpacho and Alfred, that I showed a few weeks ago, for the challenge. Hundreds of treasuries with those two little guys. So much fun! If you want to join here's the link to the rules:
http://treasurychallengenonteam.blogspot.com/

and hello to the other friday and wednesday sites:
crafty friday, creative friday @ natural suburbia, and also to whimsical wednesday as always!!!
see ya next week!