Jeremiah 33: 2-3

““This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it—the LORD is his name: ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’”Jeremiah 33:2-3 NIV

I knew that there would probably come a day when the words  couldn't, wouldn't, shouldn't be a "picture" so I had this ready and waiting...I just left it "blank" waiting for the words.  Today I scanned the "blank" and used the computer for the text....WAY MORE control that way!  I'll probably go back later and hand write it, and add color to the flower, it needs something ... just not today.

Story about this scripture.... Today when I read it, I had to go outside and move the trash to the road.... while doing it I kept repeating  verse 3... "Call to me and I will answer" "Call to me and I will answer"  As I was coming back in I noticed a dead tree in the back yard that could fall any day.  Then the question came to my mind... Hummm?  I wonder if it will make a sound if no one is around when it falls... .you know that question.  As soon as I "wondered" that, the answer came to me... no!  It will make sound waves, but if there is no "receiver" to "receive" it there will be nothing, just sound waves... like radio sound waves have to have a receiver, a radio ... this is the same thing!


That brought to mind the question I have always wondered...if Satan can talk to our thoughts can he also hear them?  That is definitely one of those questions that I can't "search" for the answer.... I believe I got my answer!!!  Not telling, ask Him yourself, then let's compare answers.   :-)

LOVE IS....

This ended up having to be a hybrid  ... not on purpose, its because I misspelled a "angered"!  Thankfully I noticed it before it was colored.  I scanned the b/w version, took it into PSE and erased the misspelled word, then printed it again.  Watercolor painted the background of the heart the used markers for the words.  Scanned that so I have that version... but I cut out the original colored copy, glue it down into my journal and did this:

I just couldn't stop there!

I always feel like I have to fill the whole page!  ... and this was the big tablet again so it took a while!

You Have To Be Different

I just finished this last night... started it week before last... 

Lessons Learned:


- I don't like 9"x12" paper!  There is TOO MUCH space to fill!  
- A regular black sharpie works best to outline when everything is this large.

Two Hearts

Nothing much to say...I wish it had better depth... I LOVE the red!  That's the color I spent lots of $ to finally get!  Unfortunately it took almost every red I have to finally make it the color I wanted.

Lessons Learned:

I knew when I started that I wanted the lines intertwined and 3Dish... I should have made them all consistantly smaller on one end and larger on the other so it looks like they are going away from me... they don't even look "under" and "over" to me... hummm

Never Too Old To Color

It is all I can do not to tweek everything I do with Photoshop.  It could look so much better but since this is as far as it gets there really isn't any point!  It is what it is... 

The good news is, I see what does and doesn't work with every attempt.  Looking forward to the "Just Right" place.


I started with no end in mind.. just that I wanted to use turquoise, red and yellow


- Started w/ border...
- Added flower then leaves so that brought green into the mix
- decided to try paisleys because I've never drawn one...and clearly I had no clue what to put inside of one!  (I need to find some pictures!)  I'm happy with the two large ones because they have a 3-D feel... the other two, ugh.
- then I had to figure out what the heck to do with the rest... ho-hum...gotta get better...that's the hard part for me...filling the "white" space
- last minute decision to add the text...it needed to say something!


I drew it on a homemade spiral bound half sheet of regular printer paper then when I finished it I decided it would look better on black so I tore it out and mounted it on black card stock.

Today's Doodling

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OK, I'm having too much fun "doodling" now, here's today's....

Now that its "finished" I hate that the colors don't look good together!  Every bit of it was testing the color more than the design....all the beads are new markers I have and I wanted to see what they looked like in the book.  And the "JUNE" is colored with PrismaColor Nupastels...I got those because I learned this week that you can add water and blend colors!  And it worked!  Loving that!  Now that I look at it though, I covered the blended colors with the black...hummmm...oh well, I saw that it worked.  

Actually here was the original test:

 great coverage and good blending!  YAY!!!

OH!  Did you notice what I am doing with one of my $1 books... WAY cheaper than other paper to practice/test/doodle on!!

Need I Say More

First Letter Ideas

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And, this afternoon I played with some letters...just trying to get a good Uppercase letter...here is what I came up with... different options and of course I can change the "filler" for each depending on what I'm doing because I like some better than others.

Today I Made a Yarn Stash Book

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HUH? What's that you say? Well, I have a friend that knits and yesterday was her birthday soooooo, I decided to make her a book she can track all her yarn in. (no, I'm not worried she will see this, she too busy knitting!)

Outside:

The guy on the bottom is thinking ... "I knew the new guy wasn't gonna fit!"

Inside pages: 

And I found this idea on Pinterest.com.  I thought I could put different colored solid ribbons so she could quickly find the "Reds" or "Yellows" etc.

Speaking of Pinterest.com.  OH MY GOSH!!!  I have found a whole new world!!!  I've known about it for a while but only just last week started using it.  OH MERCY!!!  I have found one of my "happy places!" And I'm having a hard time not just living there!  Come follow me there... click the link below and see what I have pinned already: