A little something different...

My Mom had given me this large tin as I like to use them for storage in my "sewing" room... it was gold and had a poinsettia on the lid.  I started revamping it last night and should of taken a before picture but alas I did not.  I snapped some photos today...

After a little prep of sanding the tin, I painted it white and then an orange color.  Then a jade green next with some hot pink toned down with some raw sienna. Next I started adding some magazine clippings, scrap paper and pages from a book that I painted for use as background paper....

Then I added some words along with some drawing and stamping I had done....

I painted the lid and the sides of the tin and it looks like this with everything...

I have been wanting to do this for some time... was in the mood last night and this morning. I am now painting a tin can to hold pencils or something not sure. Well.... I need to go back to ripping out stitches in my quilt so I can get that finished this week.  Thanks for looking!

zentangle #33 - Viva Las Vegas

I started this zentangle while sitting by a pool at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas last Friday... having  a few bloody marys and Coors lights....

I finished it today... (left some space to journal)

and played around with some digital adjustments...

I need to start working on these on my lunch hour at work. Hide out in my office and forget the world out there...  It's a good thing it's Friday tomorrow cuz I am still tired from my trip... Thanks for looking! 

Zentangle #32

I was inspired to do this drawing by my notes I take in staff meetings.  I always end up doodling in between my notes...

I finished this while driving down to Las Vegas last week... We just got back yesterday.  If you ever get to see a Cirque Du Soleil show I highly recommend it.  We saw The Beatles LOVE! Oh my gosh what a show.  We originally had balcony seats, got to the show and they upgraded us to front row right at the stage. It was awesome. We drove down on Thursday, I sat by the pool all day Friday and our hotel, the Golden Nugget, and started another drawing.  I am almost done just adding more details and color. Took today off from work, need to go unpack now.  Thanks for looking!

A different kind of doodle... quilting

When both my girls graduated from high school I made them quilts with photo's incorporated.  My youngest graduated in 2007 and I got the top done but not the quilting.... well, I recently took a longarm quilt class at a local shop to learn how to use the machine and yesterday, I quilted her top!

I love that fact that I have been doodleing and zentangleing (word?) because the free motion quilting came easily...

There were a few problems.... the gal that up me get started didn't thread the machine correctly so, the first pass of quilting I didn't realize the tension was off so when I rolled it....

So, I need to rip it out and re-quilt it... the gal also cut my batting to the size of my quilt top and not my backing so that came up short... luckily that was an easy fix. So, I will be ripping out some stiching (3 hours worth) and will go back to re-quilt it...  Needless to say the rental on the machine was free for that day... today I am going to finish working on a zentangle, change oil in my truck and go to a BBQ...  Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Zentangle #31

This list my latest drawing... I worked on it all last week and finished this morning.  Actually I still am going to journal on the "ribbon" part so I am not really totally finished.  Started with the upper corner after drawing the "ribbon".  It took me a while to figure out the pattern, found some directions at I think at tanglepatterns.com. It is a cool pattern, put it didn't flow right for me with the rest of my drawing.  I may draw another version of this page with an idea I have brewing in my head. 

Now it's the beginning of a new week that I hope is calmer than this past week. Dealt with a work load is extreme (and will be the same next week), on top of that, a crazy event that happened with an employee on leave (not good) but, the best was the celebration of my daughters best friends marriage.  We have known her since first grade... my daughter was in the wedding and so we basically had two nights of fun!  My calves hurt from dancing. Have a great week and thanks for looking!