recycled box....

I always need some kind of storage to put this and that in so I took a box - a 12-pack box and did this....

I covered it with pages from a old book.

I then started painting and gluing.

And then finished up....

It's a very sturdy box. I have done a few boxes now and they really are sturdy and it's good to recycle.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Work in progress....

This past week I have been working on my "fabric". I have been learning as I go in using acrylic paints. I hand to laugh at myself for not following the directions on my flow aid. I have been mixing it straight into the paint and you are supposed to premix it in equal parts of water first before you mix it in the paint. That is what happens when you are teaching yourself how to do all this stuff. I need to figure out some more designs to go into the paisleys. I have started another zentangle, more to come on that. Going to spend some time doodling....Thanks for looking!

Finished my recycled box and some drawings...

I have been working on this box and I have now finished it....

Front view

top view...

side view...

stuff inside...

my silly drawing....

my next silly drawing....

I had a very busy week this last week and weekend... I finished my box, did these two drawings, finished ripping out the stitching on my daughters quilt and requilted it (now need to bind) and have a new zentangle drawing almost completed.  It is amazing how much time I have when I am not working overtime for my job....  well thanks for looking.... have a great day!

recycling... transformation of a cardboard box and silliness...

For my birthday this year a received a nano ipod from my husband (yeah!). It a a glitch so I had to send it into Apple and they shipped it back to me in this box:

So, I decided to see if I could turn it into a box that I could either put some of my do-dads in or even use it at work for paperclips, pens or post it note pads. I began to cover it with pages from books that I have from using the covers for journals....

on the inside I added background papers I created using the same kind of book pages...

I then decided to paint the outside of the box... I started with an orange then used green and then ended up with this...

I used some masking fluid and masking tape to create some of the, the not sure what you would call it "texture" and now I am using my pens to draw around the circles... It is not complete yet, will keep on working on it. 

The silliness part, I am taking an on-line class from Carol Sonheim called The Art of Silliness 2.  She sent us a test page and this is what I did and the story I wrote:

I am looking forward to some silliness as it should relieve the stresses of work or may me forget about it. Well, thanks for looking!