Sisterhood of the traveling sketchbooks

This is what's on my workdesk today... The sisterhood is a group of 13 women  and we've all purchased sketchbooks and are going to mail them around the globe each month, after we've each painted a spread  in one of the sketchbboks. We've just been working out the details and finally got started. As there's 13 of us... the first spread painted is in our own sketchbook as a way of introducing ourselves , then after that our painting will each be based on the month we're in.... our feeling about May for example...and at the end of 13 months we'll get our own book back, full of great stuff! My first spread is of 2 women, both "me", exept I really don't look like this ... one on a bad day , the other on a much better day. That's just the way it goes.

I still have to decorate the cover but I've got a few weeks before we have to mail it out so I'm all set. I plan to get the other sisters blogs posted up on my sidebar soon so you can all check out everyone else's sketchbooks as they progress too. So exciting!

And I have another big project I started last night ,,, I should have photos of that by friday!
Oh and I almost forgot... go here:
http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/2011/04/whats-on-your-workdesk-wednesday-96.html
 to see more workdesks! It's fun to "snoop" if you have time...

This week so far...

For all the what's on your workdesk wednesday followers... this is what's on my desk in between actual day-job work:

It's the current painting I'm working on in 2 stages of completion.... should have her done by friday maybe.

See more workdesks here:

http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/

Made this little diorama in an altoid tin this weekend after being inspired by Susan Faye at:
http://365catladies.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-inner-child-is-alive-and-well.html
After you check her out you can see more whimsy at dthaase's site here:
http://dthaase-lines.blogspot.com/p/whimsical-wednesday.html

Also just wanted to thank the handmadehomemaker of
http://forrestdweller.blogspot.com/ for this great giveaway I won from her blog. It's beeswax and smells sooo nice! Check her out at her blog or her etsy shop!

Lastly, my mother's wisdom for today was "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"--Picasso. and she tells me she should give credit for her idea of the jar of folded origami stars to ...
Creative Kismet's blog.
Thanks for stopping by!

What's on your workdesk wednesday!

This is a gift from my mother, and is just the greatest thing! It's a glass jar full of bits of wisdom that she wrote herself from all different sources and folded into small origami stars. She even decorated the jar up and put on a little metal tool for opening the stars. I love it and so do most of my co-workers, and has become known as "your mother's wisdom". It looks about like a jar of candy sitting so pretty on my desk.  I've shared some fortunes with my friends as there's enough to last almost a year she said. Today's was "forgive eveyone everything" A hard one but I'll actually give it a shot, (which was really hard after my neighbor, a large young man, kept shoveling his walk 5 feet from me the whole time I was stuck in my driveway before work and had to go get my 15 year old to help push me out. My neighbor never once said a word or offered to help us. I'm normally pretty forgiving but that was pushing my limits. Anyway... according to my co-workers I need to heed my "mother's wisdom" so I'll try.)

You can see other workdesks here:
http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/