Wow

Has it really been over a month since I posted on my blog?  Guess  it has.  That's what the date says. 

Well, it's time to get back to my art.  I haven't been doing much art wise lately either.  I do manage to get out to the studio for a little while on some evenings.  I have been working on a project for myself, my sister and my brother.  Our mother died over 37 years ago.  I guess because of her not being around, her scrapbooks have always held a place in my heart.  She had a scrapbook from her high school years, one from her nursing school days and one after she married.  The nursing school scrapbook got mold all in it and of course, the paper is all old and fragile.

 I decided to take the pictures and some of the articles and things in the scrapbook, scan and print them to preserve them.  I am now making altered art scrapbooks for each of us.  It is a lot of fun, but since it is my first altered art book, it is also hard.  I am learning by doing one book at a time.  I have done the covers and have the backs cut out for all of them, but the inside is being done one book at a time.  My sister and I will have to choose which book we want, but my brother's book is not so fancy- more masculine for him.

The pictures that I have posted today are the covers for the books for myself and my sister.  I will have to take pics of the one that I am doing for my brother and post them soon, along with other work in process pictures.  The covers are not totally finished either, but are pretty far along.  I'm sure that I will have the urge to add more as I get closer to being finished with the books.

gray days

I have always disliked cloudy, gray days. I tend to have a bit of SAD, I think. This has been a cloudy and dreary day. Today I decided to see the beauty in dreary days.

The first thing that I should like about cloudy days is that sometimes they bring much needed rain. It hasn't rained today, but it is supposed to Fri. or Sat. Rain brings grass up for the cows and donkeys and I appreciate that! The picture of the windmill is pretty, I think, but it doesn't show what was really going on. This picture doesn't show the darkness of the rain clouds and the weather that was going on. I really wanted to show the dark clouds, but they show up more as a blue sky background. My blue lacy dogs enjoying the rain that came after the picture that I took of the windmill with the rain clouds in the background.


Today, as I was going to the mail box, the sun was peeking out of the clouds for just a bit. How beautiful it was, just causing the clouds to glow a bit. Wish I had the camera with me!

At first I thought that I would post something to brighten up the day. Then, I thought, that if I am going to like gray days, then I need to not worry about brightening them up! I have a few pictures that I think are just beautiful and just like the day, they are gray. Hope that you enjoy them.


A beautiful, old, gray tree stump.












An uprooted tree with the rocks still in them.















A pile of puppies that are called blue Lacys, but like greyhounds they are really gray. They are known as blue lacys or lacy dogs. They were bred in Texas back in the 1850s.
















And, last but not least, a picture of an altered art cross that I did that is done in beautiful grays.