What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 152

Good day fellow WOYWW-ers! 

The hallowed day hath arrived again...

 Head on over to:

Stamping Ground

To have a snoop... er, look at what everyone is up to this week. 

Nothing 'in-making' on the desk this week.

Coffee... there is coffee...

Celtic Prayer book out for Beltane stuff yesterday...

Pretty new boxes for stashing stuff... That's on my 'list' for today. Staples: $3.99 down to $1.99, down to $1.00, then 49 cents... yesterday--> 25 cents each! Grabbed 5 (1 of each color) the eldest snarfed the Black one before I could blink. ..and I bought some snazzy tiger stripped erasers too. One is hiding just under the parcel there... sneaky bugger! I went in for pens... so so so sick of trying to do outlining and journaling with a Sharpie Marker, they gum up and refuse to work. Found 2 that work beee-oooo-tifully. 

Happy Sarah.

Yellow Book of To-Do's...

Parcel from Art House Co-op arrived!!!! *squeeee!* (more below)

and the usual mess of sh-tuff that keeps me making!

Sooooo....What's on YOUR Workdesk Today?

Yesterday my parcel for The Mystery Project at Art House Co-op arrived!

I need to ponder on the contents....

(Can you smell brain smoke and hear the gears trying desperately to turn?)

 

Mum Update:

Sleeping a little better, they eye tweaking seems to be taking... which means she'll need to drag out for an eye check. Surgery Results= Change in Prescription. 

She's also gone along for a few errands and stuff this week... Sat while my Dad bottled wine this week and also when he saw his Chiropractor. Normally she is a SUPER active person that barely sits still, walks eeeeeeverywhere. This is so hard for her.

The 1st card arrived!!! 

THANK-YOU to those that have sent/are sending cards... 

The arrival of that 1 card had her smiling for days.

Book of Days: May 1st ~Beltane~

I have new pens... I *needed* to play!

Greg took me down to Staples and let me splurge on several 'gawd I hope one of these works' pens/markers because he's sick and tired of listening to my wrath and ducking the occasional flinged Sharpie in the Studio. Needed something that would go over paint, not smudge and be fine enough for detail work.

Don't use Gesso in my books... don't like drawing over it with pencils, when I erase my base lines it gets all smudgy and 'dirty' looking. I use $ store acrylics, they are matte and I loooove the texture of brush strokes in my book... it's more 'real' not a print feel to it.

(yes... I pat my books... lol!)

There were to CLEAR winners!

For super fine lines-details: 

Sharpie PEN (not marker... those I was throwing at Greg)

For thicker lines, GREAT writing:

 Staedtler permanent Lumocolor

Bought both in Black... and I'm in luuuurve. Smitten with both of them!

erm... yes, Book of Days...

Today is Beltane so I did a Beltane Page.

Pencil sketched the Fairy in then traced over with the Sharpie PEN.

Outlined her in Stampin' Up! Markers doodling out a bit then used a wet paintbrush to spread the color out over the rest of the page. She's also colored in with SU! Markers.

Journaling done with the Staedtler Lumocolor.

From Celtic Devotional: Daily Prayers and Blessings by Caitlin Matthews

Song of Beltane

I am the calm, 

I am the intoxication 

and the force,

I am the silence,

I am the singer,

I am the stallion 

galloping to its source.

I am the bright pavilion 

and the feasting, 

I am the wedding couple 

and the bed,

I am the morning chorus 

and the heartbeat,

I am the goal to which 

all paths are led.

 

Scrapbooking.com - May Issue Pages - Publication

The May issue of Scrapbooking.com is up!

This month my pages are in 2 shared-articles...

Graduation: Cool Dude

Article

Video:

Wedding: Time for Love

Article

Video:

Elements: Air- Beltane Page & 29 Faces

Today 29 Faces begins...

It is also Beltane so I had planned to do a page in my Elements Journal...

Your-Fer, Go Fer A Two-Fer!

Here she is all done... 

The Maiden of Flowers

Saw this Icon floating around the internetz, thought the fleurs in hair look was awesome. 

My Journal page is completely inspired from this:

  

I also popped on some YouTube Tune-age while working...

This is what I listening to today:

Started  with a pencil sketch...

Stamped a variety of Bugs and Flowers (all Stampin'Up!) in with StazOn...

Outlined the face/hair and defined the stamped images...

Then colored it all with Stampin'Up! Markers.

The added the Journaling...

The following is from Caitlin Matthews book "Celtic "Devotional"

Maiden of flowers, open the door,
Smith of souls, come you in.
Let there be welcome to the growing strength,
Let there be welcome to to the Summer of the Year.
In bud and blossom you are traveling,
In fruit and fragrance you will arrive.
May the blessed time of Beltane,
Inflame the soul of all beings.
Bringing energy and effort to conflagration.
From the depths to the heights,
From the heights to the depths,
In the core of every soul. 

Book of Days: April 25th - 30th

Golly Gee... got behind with the pictures again.

April 30th:

Full Spread

 

April 25th:

WOYWW 'cheater' day

April 25th:

Full Spread

April 26th:

 Inspired by a uote posted by Tracey Lewindon for the Sisterhood:
"Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other... you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be." ~ Gary Har ~

 

April 26th:

Full Spread

April 27th:

Errand Day... dreaming of the escape.

April 27th:

Full Spread

 

April 28th and 29th:

All weekend long 'Game of Thrones' Marathon!

 

April 29th:

Full Spread

 

April 30th:

Good Bye Imbolc. 

Hello Beltane...

BUSY day.

Yee-Haw... 29 Faces here I come...

Looks like I'm jumping in feet 1st for another month long challenge!

 

See you there?

29 faces May over at Ayala Art

Back by popular demand! We start again in May 1st.
We have 31 days to make 29 faces. That means 2 extra days of room to wiggle!

Guidelines: PLEASE READ
* It's all about a face! Any medium, size, techniques and forms are welcome.
   --It is OK to post an unfinished work too! Don't stress if you can't finish the  whole thing the same day.

* Your posts have to include the label/tag 29 Faces (make sure you type it in every post for this challenge!)

** Write an introductory post in your blog, tell people what it is etc AND use the tag/label. THEN click on that label, (it will take you to another blog page) then you copy the URL from your browser and paste it here in the Linky

Example: http://ilove2paint.blogspot.com/search/label/29faces  

The link you post will take the readers to ALL your individual challenge's posts. This way we only post one link, and have all our 29 postings showing!. (^._.^)  

Grab the button in the left column for your blog. The more participants the merrier! 

Don't hesitate to ask me any questions if you need help!

Unrelated links will have to be deleted. 

P.S.  Please make sure your verification code "captcha" is off. I am told blogger has issues in many blogs and people can't post.

Soulistry: The Well Within

 Finished Art-ing the next section in Soulistry for the Book of Days -Premium Program. 

Only a partial share this time... 

The actual written bit was quite personal so I'm not posting it on the Blog. 

Will share the round-up Quote added to that section:

Knowing what is right is like
deep water in the heart;
a wise person draws from the well within.
~Proverbs 20:5~ 

 

Which led to the Quote I used on the opposite Art-ed side:
To fulfill the well within, we must 

commit our bucket to the well of another. 

Only then will you pull a full pail of 

living water from the well spring of life’s 

love. Only then will you have sufficient 

living water flowing into the cups of friends, 

coworkers, and neighbors. Commit your heart to 

loving another with the freedom to share from the 

well of love. ~Lee Down~

 

Picture was taken several years back near to when I reached a major cross-roads in my life, 

One that had me re-evaluating and learning to reach out again after being isolated within for too many years.

 

Journaling:

A single drop of water is not a well

In the deep I learned I needed to TRUST... Reach out... and share... TO BE.

I need more drops to fill my well... and I need to help fill others wells... TO BE.