Archive for November, 2009

¡Feliz Día de los Muertos!

November 1st, 2009 by maryjojo | 4 Comments | Filed in art journal, crafts, project

Wow it’s already November!  How time flies when you don’t notice.

¡Feliz Día de los Muertos!November 1st means Day of the Dead!  Woo hoo!  Not only do you get a day to dress up in a cool costume but the next day has more celebrations!  I dig the decorations for today’s holiday.  I finally got to my DOTD skull today.  Quite fun and relaxing to doodle with bright colors on a pure white skull.  It’s even better that I finally had energy to do something.

Last week was c¡Feliz Día de los Muertos!razy.  Being sick for practically the whole week but not having the same symptoms as Jeff made it difficult to realize that I was sick.   Jeff felt ill on Monday and I think I finally gave in on Wednesday.  I’m not sure what type of flu it was but it sucked the energy right out of doing anything except for sleep, eat, and drink.  I’m glad that it’s finally gone and definitely happy it was before we go to San Diego in a few weeks.

San Diego will be interesting as I think we’re going to Disneyland with young niece and nephew.  I’m unsure if it really has been settled that we’ll be going to Mickey’s house but I know we’ll be going to a concert for Edgar Winter.   That’ll be a hoot!!  It’ll be good to take some time off.

I’ve also signed up for a few online art things.   One is for the whole month of November.   Everyday, I will be doing something artsy.  It’s called Art Every Day Month by Leah [ Creative Everday].  I stumbled upon it today and thought it would be a great kick-off to my other art thing: { 12.31 } by Dawn DeVries Sokol [ D'Blogala ].  It’s all about documenting the holidays through creating your own journal and something other things that I haven’t heard yet.  The project starts on November 6th and goes to the end of December.  I’m excited.

So today’s skull design is brought to you by my first day of ADEM.  Enjoy.

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If only I had super powers…

November 2nd, 2009 by maryjojo | 6 Comments | Filed in art journal

…I’d probably be asked to do more in a day.

Just super duperToday was a good day back at work: easy yet lame.  I doubt having any super powers would help the day get any better but definitely open more job opportunities.  I’d probably be on call and not get any more sleep than I would these days.

All I gotta say is I’m happy that I finally got to go to trainer session today.  I am ready to kick my booty into shape and prepare for that snow season.  Maybe once the snow comes i’ll be so pumped that i could do flips…. ok. maybe not.

So remember yesterday where i said i signed up for that “Art Every Day Month”?  Well the journal entry to the right is my art for today.  I think I’ll add more to the page but after working out, i didn’t have much time or energy to actually spend time on it.

All in all… I got another day done.

On another note, I’ve been hinting to a certain person about something I did.  Not sure if that certain person reads these posts and knows that I’m talking about that person or if they know what will be coming by the end of the week.  Tee hee. I wanna so tell that person but I’m working up the surprise. tee hee.

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when i fall…

November 3rd, 2009 by maryjojo | No Comments | Filed in art journal

Not much going on…  got my hair done today and worked.   Just one of those days where you go do X, then time to do Y, and in the end, catch some Zzzzs ;)

when i fall

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Just another manic friday

November 6th, 2009 by maryjojo | 5 Comments | Filed in just a post

Busy week.  that’s all i gotta say.  Did as much art as i could do everyday but haven’t posted to share with all AEDM peeps.

Be Happy in Chaos

As part of {12.31} project, i’m working to find out what colors I want to use. I thought the project would start today but it sounds like it’ll be awhile before. So playing with colors and any holiday stock of paper and things to be ready for when the project starts.

Colors for 12.31Craft items for {12.31}

Sleepy now.  Getting up early to do the scrapbooking convention and hanging out with the mother unit.  It’ll be fun.

A day of scrapbook-i-ness

November 7th, 2009 by maryjojo | No Comments | Filed in just a post

I had a great time today!  Hanging out with my ma, looking at various crafty eye candy, and shopping.  Who can not like shopping?  Well, maybe the next day if it was overdone, but still fun.

Ma drove herself up to the house early in the morning and we all went out to grab some breakfast.   We went to Gilbert’s Deli in downtown Bellevue.  Always good food and always too much.

CKC Seattle 2009

CKC Seattle 2009

Jeff then dropped us off at the Meydenbauer Center where there was long long lines to get into the vendor faire.  It was quite funny how long it was because after we got our tickets to go in, the line was already gone. :)

CKC Seattle 2009

We walked all the whole faire and gazed at all the new scrapbooking paper, embellishments, and tools like this glue tape gun.  We tried it after the lady showed us how ease it is to remove the carteridge as well as place it in backwards to cover the tape end while traveling.  Very handy!  So we both got one.

We also found this awesome booth / group called Cocoa Daisy.  I think I saw there stuff before and its basically a kit company where they bundle stuff together to do scrapbooking and have a new kit every month.  I ended up signing up for their subscription.  There kits had awesome stuff like 7Gypies, Jenni Bowlin, Basic Grey, etc.  All companies that I dig.

After this booth, we found good $1 bargains as well as the booth is what I all “Basic Grey” booth where they have all new Basic Grey lines.  Wonderful paper goodness. Everywhere in the faire had awesome scrapbooking products, but we soon got through the whole faire and was tired.  So we left to go home and upgrade Ma’s mac to OS X 10.6.

CKC Seattle 2009

While the computer was installing 10.6, we popped over to the Value Village in Redmond where there is always awesome findings, but only lasted so long as we missed lunch.  So we picked up a pizza on the way home and called it a day.

Was that enough craftiness for the day?  Sure, but I did get in a bit of actually using crafts and created the front to one of my albums.  Finally.  With my newly bought stuff too!  :)

Memory feeds imagination

Now I am tired and so am sleeping in tomorrow.