WHAT A DAY: September 14, 2013

Another day that involves ART & FOOD! (AND MELISSA :)

First up....Gelli Print Class.

Lunch: TacoBell (Cantina Bowl was delicious)

Afternoon: Assisted with birthday party.

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Dinner:  Mimi's Restaurant = poor service waiter, but yummy food....with muffins to go :)

WHAT A DAY: August 24, 2013

How HAPPY does this image make you!!!  I am not a huge Starbucks fan, but do love their Refresher drinks (and this image).  So that is how I started the day after a few errands at Wal-mart......because I was headed to the studio to complete a special belated birthday project for a friend, Teresa Kepler, with my artsy friend Melissa McClary. YAY!!!

And then it was a double bonus that day when I arrived and sweet little Kharma was at Donna Downey Studios.  This is Donna's newest pup.  Complete adorableness...and Holy Tinyness (yes mother, I know those are not real words) 

I couldn't resist taking pictures of her Sweetness! 

Doesn't she look like a baby fawn in this picture.  ADORABLE!!

Well since the day was all about Teresa....we got started after Melissa finished working.  I ended up buying a few new goodies they had in store: horse & feather roller stamps & US stencils and got set-up/began my own projects while waiting. 

The goal was to complete a journal inspired by Donna.  Hence I purchased these mini SMEAD 9x6 manilla folders and we gelli printed on each one using various colors and techniques.

These are the result in order they will be placed in the journal for Teresa to craft/journal/art over.  I loved the results and hope she does too. 

Here we began the prep work for awling holes in the journal using Donna's as inspiration.  Melissa plans to use fabric and canvas to cover the folder.

And off our mailer goes to sweet Teresa.  We used a male figurine and decided to go with a "David" style art piece with a little "Chippendale" attire. :)  HAPPY MAIL (MALE)  GET IT!!

And the meal for the night was a White Pizza from Mama's Pizzeria.  Delish/Garlicy/Greasy....but I loved it.

TRUE FREE SPIRIT: Primitive Art



"SEE THE UNIMAGINABLE" BY ALI GITT 2013



WHAT A DAY: August 18, 2013

So excited to head to DONNA DOWNEY STUDIO (if you have never been, GO!! the place is awesome, full of inspiration, artsy goodness plus they offer so many amazing classes)  for an art day with my artsy gal pal, Melissa McClary. :)  Today was full of gelli printing fun.  A lot of trial and error, but a successful day, nonetheless. 

We used several stencils, and random object to create prints, but a majority of the prints were done using cut-outs from my Silhouette machine.

Love my little army men, which I plan on putting in 2 frames and giving them as a gift to an ARMY guy.

I used a cityscape to create the Charlotte image.  One thing I kept forgetting to do was reverse the image on the plate (Hence why the word Charlotte was glued on from the actual Silhouette printout)

My little HAPPY MAIL squirrel.  I will be doing a Fall Journal again this year (in fabric) and plan to put him in it with a heart in the center of the letter.  Hopefully during those months I get a Happy Letter :)

And THEN after a long day of art....(about 6 hours), Melissa and I went to the restaurant Duckworths.  I had the delicious fish tacos w/ chips and pineapple salsa.  A bit spicy, but good.  And Melissa had the Chicken Quesadilla which looked awesom.  And what's a meal without dessert:  Chocolate & Cocunut cake.  YUMMY!!

During the day, I also started another project....blog to be posted soon.  Can you guess what it will be?!?