Oh boy oh boy oh boy...I've got a few more pages from Rhonna's 21 Day Challenge to share with ya! I'm doing pretty good with the keeping up on my water, vitamins, and rest. Amy also suggested Vitamin Waters! Yum!!!
In case you're interested, for my pages I'm using a Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen (my favorite!) and Caran D'ache neocolor II watersoluable crayons. I started using these for projects since buying them for Anahata's Symbolic Icons class and I pretty much haven't looked back.
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
So none of these turned out quite as refined as I had envisioned. But I blame-a myself. I couldn't find a fine paint brush and so I used a sponge brush. Hmmm....lesson learned!
So I've got a couple of things winding down this week. Kari's Sweet and Sinister Swap is due to be mailed by Monday, October 1. I'm feeling behind because LOTS of people have already mailed and started posted about their packages. My sweet swap partner, Debbie, has already mailed my package AND I've already received it.
As penance for not getting my package out to Debbie yet, I am not opening her package. :-)
It's gonna sit on our mail table until I've learned my lesson! Actually, it's not penance...I'm not that mean to myself! I'm just trying to motivate and save opening it as a reward for when I get Debbie's package in the mail. Oh and you can be sure I'll still post a few sneaky peekys of the contents before I mail it!
So here's a little something about me that you may not know already...if there is a deadline, I will work right up to it. I run off of deadlines. If there is a deadline, I rarely miss it. If I don't have much going on, I will come in early; however, that's just not the norm. That's just how I've always managed my time. Home, work, and art. Someday when I wise up and stop jumping in to every fun project I possibly can (nah...never!), I might get things done ahead of time. But for now, this is how I roll.
The other swap coming near the end is the Paper Dress Swap that dear Heather is hosting. I'll get that one done and dusted this weekend! Whoo-hoo!!!! And you know what??? Heather's having a giveaway on her blog so you'd better GET over there and leave her a comment. She's giving away SIX prizes!!!
Oh and also...I would like to say thank you to all of you who have been commenting lately. That means SO much to me. You are always just so encouraging and I completely love that you take the time to leave a note. I mean, really, getting comments and "meeting" people pretty much keeps this blogging thing fun fun fun and motivates me to share which, in turn, keeps me motivated to learn. You all really mean a lot to me. I hope you can feel the love I'm sending you RIGHT NOW!! Thank you. :-)
HOW do you work, eat, live & breathe.... and keep up with the swaps, challenges, journals, etc....I am so impressed with your talents!!!!
Posted by: Amy | September 25, 2007 at 11:44 PM
Wow! I absolutely love how you are creating your journal. It's gorgeous!!! smiles...
Posted by: Christi | September 26, 2007 at 02:18 AM
MIchelle,
That's how I roll too! Last minute but at least if I have a deadline I get it done. I am in the swap too and since I am in Canada, I had to push my deadline up to make up for postal time! So it is sent ONLY because of that reason. It's too funny to see your package sitting there and not open it. That would be TORTURE for me - lol!
Cool journals too!
Cheryl
Posted by: fromthepines | September 26, 2007 at 07:25 AM
eek, i wonder what's in that package!
your journal pages are so pretty. some day i hope to have journal pages almost as pretty as yours. some day...
Posted by: tricia | September 26, 2007 at 08:22 AM
Oh, I like these pages even better than the last batch. I must get out my water color crayons and play a little!
Posted by: Jeanne | September 26, 2007 at 09:03 AM
Hey Sugar.....I LOVE your pages! Very stylish, simple-yet-powerful.
You're cracking me up with the unopened pkg! I think that's hilarious :)
Posted by: Lilli | September 26, 2007 at 11:25 AM
I love your "dream" page. I love the colors, the writing, the meaning, everything. I feed my dreams and I live off of my dreams, so of course, me like-a the dream page. And you should no "blame-a" yourself for anything Mario. You do so much as it is, that I can hardly keep up just reading about it. "Knocka-Knocka, who's a-dare? It's a-me, a-Mario!" (I had to thrown that in!!).
Love you!
Posted by: SIMONE | September 26, 2007 at 01:23 PM
these journalpages are just sooooo darn cool, I keep coming back to look at them. simple design, yet so colourful and fun! thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Hanna | September 27, 2007 at 10:27 AM
I love all of it...there is no way I could even sleep knowing there was a package in the house waiting for me to open it!
Posted by: Claudine | September 27, 2007 at 04:56 PM
Oh HOW can you not open that!? but I do admire ya for it! got mine today and tore that puppy open....it's fab.
Posted by: andrea | September 28, 2007 at 10:55 PM