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The Year in Review

Posted in Art, Family, Fitness, Just my Thoughts, Simple Abundance, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , on 27 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This post can take many forms.  I may talk about the world view in review but the original intent is to review the aspirations I have set for myself for this year that is soon coming to a close. There were a lot of areas that I wanted to improve on for 2008.  There were [...]

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How do you exercise your brain?

Posted in Fitness, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , on 6 August 2008 | 1 Comment »

We all spend a lot of time – because it is in the news a lot or because we care about our quality of life – worrying about exercising our bodies, making our bodies more fit and ready for aging (okay, so the teenager that exercises regularly probably doesn’t think of that).  The question today [...]

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Book Review – Three Cups of Tea

Posted in Book Reviews, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , , on 3 August 2008 | 1 Comment »

I started reading Three Cups of Tea as I took my 17 year old son for what we both hoped was his last orthopedist’s appointment due to a broken ankle.  I had picked it up in my summer reading pile.  I have read many books about life in the Middle East but most of my [...]

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Hammered Copper

Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , , on 25 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Another process from Julia Andrus’s Paper Transformed is hammered copper (or gold or silver or probably bronze).  I love the look of this technique and tried it on a couple heart diecuts.  The diecuts are from a Sizzix die.  The copper used is Pearl Ex.

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Patina

Posted in Art, Family, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , on 25 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Patina – by definition – is a film or incrustation, usually green, produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value.   I have always loved those “fake” patinas that artists create.  I was so excited when I saw that learning to create a patina look was one [...]

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Sand in Gesso

Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , , , on 24 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As those of you who visit often might recall, I am doing a year long workshop based on Mary Todd Beam’s book Celebrate Your Creative Self.  I am tad bit behind the group but was catching up by doing a painting using sand in gesso. I agree with Todd Beam in that the one thing [...]

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Summer Reading

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , , , on 17 June 2008 | 1 Comment »

Not only do I love to read, I really think that is what summers are all about – friends, family, maybe a beach or two, tons of music and good reads! Some of my favorite summer reads have been discovered by accident.  I love Jimmy Buffet’s novels.  Two summers ago was the discovery of this [...]

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GPP Street Team Crusade #21 – Irresistible!

Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , , , , on 12 June 2008 | 8 Comments »

Every month I look forward to my visit to Michelle Ward’s GPP Street Team blog so that I can see what Michelle has come up with for the crusade of the month.  Last month it was paper casting which is something I love.  This month it is IRRESISTIBLE – wax resist!  I set off to [...]

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Summer Movie Time

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , on 9 May 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I have to admit that I am a huge “Sex and the City” fan.  I never watched it when it was on HBO as I didn’t have HBO but my daughter would watch it at friends’ homes.  We would rent the season’s DVDs and watch an entire season at a time.  I still watch the [...]

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Celebrate Your Creative Self – Seascape

Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , on 22 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In the workshop I am doing this year that is working the way through Mary Todd Beam’s Celebrate Your Creative Self, we are working on a seascape this month.  I have been behind due to some unforeseen and some foreseen life circumstances.  I just started mine today.  This post will be a continuing one with [...]

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