Everyday Adventures

You KNOW you want them. Just go ahead and admit it. Flower POWER! No these are not the latest fashion trend in summer eyewear UNLESS you are taking Everyday Adventures over at Big Picture Scrapbooking. These are my Goggles of Enhanced Perception. The class is based on the "How To Be An Explorer of The World" by Keri Smith. We also had to make a field journal to write down our observations. Here's a couple of other pics of my glasses too:

 I'm already having lots of fun with this class and I'll show you some of our 'adventures' in a couple of days.
I've also been trying to catch up on some art journaling prompts from both Your Life Spelled Out and A Year In The Life art journal sites.

My Voice

Ouch

I Am Not Afraid

Un

Soar

Move

And also here is this weeks Scrapperie Book of Me prompt: Pet Peeves or #PunchInTheFace. My friend Laura (Cameron_Crazy) was ticked about something one day and started the hashtag of #punchintheface. Well it's caught on with our little group when someone ticks us off or there's a situation we don't like we give it a virtual punch. 

 Ok that's it for the week. I've been a crafty busy girl! And lots more to do this week with birthday presents to make and kits to design with and art journal prompts to host & National Scrapbook Day next weekend. So go get your craft on!

Picture Spring

Spring is officially here in the land of the Yellow Brick Road. Not only can I see the clues but I also have the allergies to prove it. And the AC is on. I'd open the windows but they are painted shut. I'm involved in a Picture-A-Day project with some of my Twitter girlfriends thru BPS called Picture Spring. I thought I'd share those pics with you today.

First day topic was Beginnings. I took this lovely pic of the Forsythia outside Nana's house:

I also liked this pic in the ivy

 Day 2 was about our morning routine. I'm not human until I have my coffee!

Day 3 was to take 30 steps from where your camera is and take a pic. That's the end of the walk for me and it was either my car (very dirty car) or this light post:

It's been lighting my way into this house late at night for years. When I was editing pics I saw the solar choice & thought this looked cool in solar

 Sky's the Limit was Day 4. Our sky yesterday was free & clear of any clouds BUT it hadn't been on Friday and I had taken some pics.

 I think these look cool in solar too. Look how stormy it makes the sky!

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Getting Grounded was today's assignment & I had a lot of fun with this and took several pics and now I'm having trouble choosing just ONE so help me out and leave me a comment on which is YOUR fav of the below pics.

Ok that's all of them. Help me pic the best one. I have 3 favorites but I won't tell you which ones they are.

Sick Sick Sick

I guess I'm better now or I wouldn't be blogging. I am keeping food down now which is nice, although I'm not eating any to keep down in the first place.  Gaterade/Sprite diet for me today. I'd planned on starting back on my eating plan this week so I guess that was quite the kick off weekend huh?
I got some Happy Mail this past week from Meep from Vermont and you can check out her blog HERE. I swear she is psychic because I had just put a new zip drive thingy on my WM list.

Then I've got some lo's that I've done over the last couple week. First I did this one for Scraptivitiy's blog. I just love this pic of the full moon over the Bay Bridge in SF last Feb.

Then the new Gutter Girlz Prompt is up and here is my take

 

Over at Scrapperie I'm the new team leader for the Book of Me prompts each week. Our first prompt was to scrap your Word of the Year. My word is Feed: feed my soul. feed my spirit. feed my spirituality. feed my body with healthy food and exercise. feed my recovery. feed my creativity.

Next is one of my assignments for my class at Big Picture Scrapbooking. We were to scrap a color or around a couple of colors. I picked my fav color of course

 

My friend Amy is having a little boy in a few weeks and his name will be Owynn. We had her shower the other night. Owynn's room is a jungle theme so I painted her an elephant for Owynn's wall

The first prompt is up over at Year in the Life Art Journal. You can join the ning site by going HERE. Here's my cover page and my page for the prompt of What

 

I'm also participating in another art journal site called Your Life Spelled Out. They have daily journal prompts and weekly art journal prompts. I'm a little behind but I'll catch up soon. Here is my first prompt. Again with the color

 

Ok I think that is it for today. The headache is back so back to bed I go. Hope none of you get this. Have a happy week.

 

Inspirational Resources

So I'm taking this class over at Big Picture Scrapbooking called Inspiration Defined by Elizabeth Dillow. I felt I had lost my mojo and some Twitter girlfriends were taking it and I joined in their party. So far I've started a Tumblr blog for links and quotes and pictures that I find inspiring. I'm also posting my Project 365 photos there which I'm taking this year on my iPhone and posting with the Project 365 app. I'm editing those pics with mostly the camera bag app so far. You can check it out if you want Just A Girl Inspired and if you follow me I'll follow back.

So one of our assignments was to make a list of things that inspire us. I'm inspired by so many things. These are the things that came to me right away:

• Color
• Photography
• People's personal stories
• Paintings
• Sculpture
• Graphic Design
• Art 
• Cute little Japanese toys
• Animals 
• Feathers
• Sequins
• Sparkly things
• Things that light up
• Candlelight
• Design
• Printmaking
• Drawing
• Computer Graphics
• Fashion 
• Nature
• Snow & Ice
• All 4 seasons
• Architecture
• All kinds of vintage items
• Modern sleek design
• Collage
• Movies
• Music
• Song lyrics
• Quotes
• Poems
• Books both reading and visual
• Travel
• History
• Friendship
• Suffering
• Triumph
• Overcoming obstacles
• Dreams
• Nightmares
• Jewelry
• Paper
• Ads
• TV 
• Textures
• Laughter
• Love
  

Anything on your inspiration list I might have missed? I'd love you to share.