Soldier Girl's Thoughts

Word{less} Wed.

60 mm Manhattan Subway Tape

Sticky Tape Parade

Recycled handmade Washi tape bows

Washi Clothes pins .. CUTE

Have a wonderful HUMP Day. I am missing out on the humping since the hubs is in Germany at the Academy. Wait this is suppose to be WORDless aye?

Ha well before I go I have to tell you about Willowing! I signed up for her class the other day her FREE class and am pretty excited about it. She has always been a fave of mines. Class starts 18 Oct so if you are ever interested in Art Journaling and drawing and things now is your time to take advantage of this one time opportunity.

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scroll down and you will see the info under Art Courses .. 

.. inspired to create ..

are there things that inspire you to just do something different 

are there things that make you wish you would just step out of your comfort zone

are there things that push you to do something other than scrapbook with paper 

are there people that often judge you because you do something different not knowing it has always been apart of you and they "think" you are just on the bandwagon.

are there supplies that you have you just have no use for and instead of creating with them you purge, well I sort of just decided that I am tired of giving a way what my hard earned money has purchased ... even if it is for a good cause .. sometimes at the end of the day it can be a waste .. 

so now .. I am SELF- CHALLENGED to create more and do things I have always wanted to do .. or building up to do for over 9 years (photography) and new things in the present day (altered art) .. 

be it from photography, altered art, digital scrapbooking, hybrid scrapbooking, writing a book, re-opening my Etsy, teaching classes and whatever else I choose ...

 .. we all have some creative beast in us .. just sometime TIME is never of the essence to tap into it at least until now I have all the time in the world

  .. I am always paying someone to show me what I already know ..  . but I rather just look at it as supporting a fellow crafter .. 

Hope you guys had a wonderful Father's Day celebration honoring those past and those that you are still able to share your day with. 

Tomorrow I will be featured over at Couture Cardstock as their Guest Designer .. so check it out if you have time .. and as always THANK YOU for those of you that support all artists and not just the handful out there .. and thank you for always giving me a chance to be apart of your team.

Hugs and love .. xoxo

Another 3 day weekend

I love these long weekends, no uniforms, just relaxing and scrappin and oh yah making baskets...sure not making any more babies..hee hee.  Okay so yah today I did a couple of layouts, completed one basket and started on a bigger one.  I did another rectangle basket with flowers and I am going to leave it unstained.  I am working on a bigger basket now..see the pic below in hopes that I finish the braiding tomorrow if not tonight, but my wrist hurt.  The braiding can be a lil painful on the fingers, depending on how big you have to make it and or how many.  My wrist hurt alot too...but the finish product is soo worth it .. well that is all I have to talk about today...Nothing really too exciting .. but hey it is exciting to me ... to have more than one talent...you know? Well below are the pics..the big one I am still working on .. I really like how this one turned out..I use this one for my thickers, and regular long stickers and they fit in perfectly ... the long way.  I am so excited and happy I took the class on base in Japan when I did, they offer so much at times at the overseas bases, I have taken a framing class, pottery class, and my next stop is wood shop I think.  I want to build my own scrapbook table/storage one day...I mean I feel that you get better usage out of items you make for yourself and or that someone else personally makes for you, than going to the store and spending an arm and a leg on something that is going to collect dust, but that is just my personal opinion...who the heck am I you know...well here is the other one that is almost complete but not really...