No Place Like Home

Yup, made it home - and will be here a few days before heading out again. Dulles Airport has an eerie look to it and so did the baggage area. Once home finished up another art journal page started yesterday. Take care peeps and remember what tomorrow is.... April Fools!

Busy Bees Among Honeysuckles

Dearest Peeps, I've been a busy beaver today with my art journaling. The small pentalic sketch book is about 4 x 3. Bought it at Art and Soul a few weeks ago. In my Lesley Riley class, Navigating the Soul, one of my goals is to do what I think of as "true" art journaling - meaning images AND the written word. Today I share with you 4 and 1/2 pages. Hopefully the "art block" has gone! Hugs and have a good night. Yes almost nighty night for me. Marlynn

St. Louis Baby

Hi, Peeps! Hanging out with family in St. Louis after a 2 1/2 board meeting. Unwinding and working in a small art journal I prepared before traveling. Yes, tried to post before flying out on Monday but the weekend got away from me. Am posting from IPhone and will leave you with some images. Take care!

Breezing By......

Yes, time for a check-in and a sharing moment with a note from my Universe. You all know how much I love these notes!  Just put your name in where mine appears and read this uplifting note,


"How'd you like a little peek into the future, Marlynn? Oh, I really shouldn't, but, well, you so rock, I figure this indulgence, just once, will be all right.

You're sitting around a warm and cozy fireplace surrounded by friends and boisterous laughter. Early-morning snow gently falling across the countryside is visible from the enormous, ceiling-high windows beside you. Everyone is sipping hot chocolate, and reminiscing about the fabulous circumstances that have brought you together, brimming with excitement for times ahead. And then you chime in, "If only we'd seen it, we never would have been so hard on ourselves. If only we'd had just the slightest inkling that the challenges, lacks, and issues we faced back then were of our own exacting design, and that they'd soon make possible the whirlwind of events that so swiftly followed, we'd have been, well, as proud then as we are now... and every bit as photogenic." 

And then everyone starts clapping, smiling, and taking lots of pictures. 

Not a word to anyone,
    The Universe"

Always remember it takes time to get from point A to point B and there are detours along our way. However, trust me, you will get to point B and by looking back you will realize the universe was giving you signs pointing you in the right direction, you just didn't know it at the time. This was just a quick check-in and I wanted to say "hi" - thinking of you. Have a glorious day my Honeysuckle Breeze Peepers! Spring is here!

So you think this is boxing?

You know, the weekend starts out and you think you have all this time to play and create BUT other stuff pushes some of that to the back which is neither bad nor good. Just happens.  Oliver pup went home Saturday morning and I went to play tennis.  After tennis, you know, I got lazy and just hung around.

By today I needed to get some stuff done like run into the office for a few hours, grocery shop, and play with boxes.

You know this is boxing,

And this is boxing.

Michelle Ward is doing a workshop in Somerset, New Jersey, July 20, 2012, Debris Journal.  Now I have seen this journal and held it in my hands. It is magical. So rich with left over art, i.e. debris, and the corrugated cardboard rich in beauty! It has been featured here and there around Somerset Studios and I just love love love it to the point I want to make my own. I do have plans to go to a workshop with Michelle at Valley Ridge and the July 20 date is not available in my calendar. The Valley Ridge workshop is called "Synchronicity" and will, of course, be loads of fun and she will push me and my art.

As you can see I am working and playing with cardboard right now. Something I can do in the evenings and gives me fun in "ripping" boxes.

We will see what happens.

Also have to show you this beautiful cereal box. OH my, let your eyes wander ..... there are many art projects waiting to be created.

What is the line, "so much to do, so little time."

Well, as we know, spring has sprung all over the place. What an absolutely strange winter all of us have had. Take care this week. Mine will be busy but not so busy that I won't have time to stop by and say hi!

Busy week

Oliver pup is visiting and enjoys watching tennis with me. I am headed to boxing soon and wanted to post a quick "hi." After being in a meeting all day Monday, was happy I could play in my Navigation Journal.

This was a journal begun at Art and Soul in a workshop that was suppose to be taught by Lesley Riley. My goal is to do art journaling in a specific way using words. Played with the page which is enhanced with a photo app on the iPhone. And I am going to try to duplicate the "posterized" colors on the page-blue, pink and gold. It is 80 degrees today. Oh my!

Good Morning Experimentation

Posting from my little beauty of an iPhone to see if this is gonna work. If it does you, my honeysuckle peeps, may never get me to shut-up. Thought for this morning. The clock reads one thing but my body is feeling something else! LOL

Just another day......

"It's not as if one could be bored enough, feel frustrated enough, or complain enough that their life would suddenly turn around. Doesn't work that way.
     Whatever anyone "is," Marlynn, they become more of. And anyone's is'ness is whatever they say it is.
     Happily,
    The Universe"

Whadda way to start a day, hey? I love my mentor, The Universe, as you know and would encourage each of you to sign up for your own little itsy bitsy notes...


And now to another topic which I have been reviewing lately but am not taking any drastic steps about.... Time Suckers - yes, I am referring to FaceBook and the new Pinterest. I love Facebook and do posts and keep in touch with all my friends. But as I have said here, I just don't pay attention to my blog and other blogs out there anymore. Many of us are not posting to our blogs as we once did. As you know I work a full-time job and the last thing I want to do is show up at home and get on the computer. Nope, I don't wanna and I'm not gonna and whine whine whine.  I'm thinking I can manage my FaceBook and my blog and creating - but at this point, although, signed up, not devoting any time to Pinterest.


Love my friend Cindy's recent post on her blog entitled, "Useful and Beautiful" She is inspiring me to take on this project, especially the one talking about her desk. I could do this while unpacking my Art and Soul stuff? Ya, think?  I see shoe cleaning in my future this weekend. Thank you, Cindy, out goes shoes that hurt my feet.


So here is to changing our clocks on Sunday morning at 2AM and to all of our little time suckers that lurk in the twilight hour....that time before...

.....I hear the Twilight Zone theme playing in the background. Ghost Adventures is new tonight although that has nothing to do with nothing I don't think. Hugs, peeps.

Ramblings and Art and Soul

It has been a busy month since I last visited with you in February.  Thank you peeps for checking back and leaving comments. I was under some deadlines on several fronts. But that doesn't mean I haven't been having fun and creating some art which I plan to share with you.

It is amazing how quickly time passes. Last week I had a wonderful experience. I attended my very first Art and Soul Retreat in Virginia Beach, VA.  I signed up for two Lesley Riley workshops.

I also met up with some very good friends. We all talk about how we have our blog friends and believe me - it makes no difference if I have ever met laid eyes on some of them - we have already connected via our blogs and Facebook. We are "old" friends and it is so much fun to meet up with them face to face. At Art & Soul, Jan and Terri (sitting) showed up and we had marvelous fun between chatting, eating, classes, shopping, and creating together.

One class I took which I am raving about was Lesley Riley's TAP - Transfer Artist Paper - OMG is it wonderful. I printed images onto TAP prior to class and then we started transferring images. (Yes, Patty and Lovey, you two have told me all about this product and how great it is, not that I didn't trust you, I am just transfer-handicapped.) A shout out to Lesley - we knew you were sick one day but thought you had recovered. You covered it up, get well soon (nasty flu bug is still making the rounds).....

Yes, below is one of my favorite clip-art from ArtChix. My little Cute Hannah. I use her a lot. Here she is transferred onto an old French page..... such a cutie,

Yup, scary clipart (transferred onto muslin).... oh oh..... the clip art below the muslin is transferred into the "Lost Chord" book which I am still working on....

And a sneak peek at the next blog post on the second class I took with Lesley - kind of (remember she was sick) - stay tuned...

This page was begun in class and then created in my hotel room...... from the page - My 15 Favorite Words, (two young girls are PaperWhimsy clipart)

The view from my hotel room (posterized LOL),

For the time being, I will be here at home and not travelling until later on in the month. Oliver pup comes over next week for a few days. So what does all this mean? I have decided to do some fun stuff and tell you all about it.  Saturday a trip to the National Botanical Gardens with a friend. I will take my camera. In all the years I have lived here I have never been to the Gardens. Can you believe it? Well, I can't either.

And, I did ease up on my workout schedule so I have a little more time to myself. Interesting stuff churning and it is fun and exciting to go with the flow. My new word right now is "spontaneous" - and that is what it is. Still loving my iPhone and my pink boxing gloves.  Need to fix dinner and then will be back with you sooner than last month. I know you don't believe me and I will have to prove myself, and yada yada.  Hugs, peeps, hugs.