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the doctor comes for a visit.

October 1st, 2008 by maryjojo | 1 Comment | Filed in art journal

Doctor Who Visits
I had a visitor this evening as I was painting away at background for a new challenge on art journalling. No one else but the Doctor. Oh how he is just fantastic to show up near my new find from the thrift store. A cute little very narrow mug. I realized that I could have it hold some pencils near my work computer. A great fit that allows my “finds” to mix in with the rest of our clutter. :)

As I was mentioning before the Doctor showed up, i was working on some backgrounds for a challenge that our fearless leader, Suzan, brought for in the Many Manics Creating Art. I’m up for the challenge! She wrote that we can’t use any pre-made images such as clippings, photos, paper in our work. Something that I cling to when working on art journalling. I thought this would be a great time to one, working on some watercoloring, two, work with some watercoloring I found at the thrift store (why waste good stuff?), and 3 work on layering. So I have some examples drying on my easel.

I’m pretty happy about how my layering working on one example.. It was fun to have the watercolors layer over each other and yet gained a zen sense by just making squares over squares over squares. Quite nice.

While I slaved away at my art, my DH and friend was working on flooring in the kitchen. It’s looking fabulous! Definitely getting there. Hopefully by tomorrow night it’ll be all done and, after three days of no traffic (geez!), painting begins. It’s been a week without a proper kitchen. I had to clean a BUNCH of dishes today before they started otherwise I swear we’d have something else living in there.

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I hate

October 3rd, 2008 by maryjojo | No Comments | Filed in just a post
And the truth is, on women's health issues, she's way out of the mainstream. When she was mayor of Wasilla, women who were raped literally had to pay up to $1200 out of their own pockets for the exams used to prosecute their attackers

Pix of CL

October 3rd, 2008 by maryjojo | No Comments | Filed in just a post

Here is a great way to search Craigslist.   I have been wanting something like as I visually work better than reading line after line.  Maybe I'll find my breakfast nook or table this way.  :)

http://mywisebunny.com/

As I wake up early this morning…

October 13th, 2008 by maryjojo | No Comments | Filed in just a post

… I wonder if I will “really” wake up.  I’m not a morning person usually.  I love to sleep in.  Why today am I so eager to wake up?   I’m a BIG fan of Zen Habits. One post of his talks about 10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It.  Leo’s blog is very insightful and inspirational.  Certainly I just woke up and got ready instead of going at it slowly so who knows if I’ll be able to do this tomorrow.   Well, see eh?

One of his suggestions to get up early is to set a goal.  I ponder at what goals I would chose.  I could always chose something artsy and work on some art journalling.   It might be too early to work on sewing projects.  I doubt there’s a good amount of time to work on the painting in the kitchen.  It would be interesting to go out for a jog or a walk as then I would get my blood pumping, but its so darn cold out and not something I would jump out of a warm bed to do.

As I write this, thoughts of a warm snuggly bed invites me back towards the bedroom.  One things Leo writes about waking up early is the thought of going back to bed can’t be an option.  Well, I took a shower and got dressed so it be best if I didn’t go back to bed and get my clothes all wrinkled.

I could start working on my web site again or even this blog’s header.  The design of this site is from a template from WordPress and even though I dig the header, it was created by someone else.  I’d like to get my own stamp on the design and i have been mulling it over.   I want to draw something cool like one of my doodles but haven’t doodled it out just yet.

Well, I shall go to dafonts.ccom and look at some fonts as I would like to get a stamp made for my business.  A new business logo sounds like a good idea.  I’m not sure if it’s kosher in the big world to keep changing it, but I always enjoy a new redesign.

Cheers! MJ

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