Feeling Zen

Creativity has mostly been put on hold the last two weeks as my life revolves around the acquisition of our new home.  Today we have our inspection and we move one step closer to the American Dream. I guess creativity hasn't truly been put on hold, it is just taking a slightly different guise...such as picking out cabinets and designing the space for my new art studio!!

You may have noticed the new look of my blog as well! Creativity has cropped up there as well as i spent the better part of the week learning how to tweek the css and html to make my blog more "magickal."  I photo-shopped my Samhain BJP images to create the banner and background, added some buttons, blogroll and a nifty moon phase widget (did you see the witch fly by??) and voila! Let me know what you think of the new look!

And finally, i finished up two zen doodles--one that includes "x"s and "o"s for my second contribution to the Street Team and one that reflects my longing to get back to my garden!!

Hugs and Kisses

GPP Street Team challenge this month is to create "love letters"--to be exact, the letters "x" and "o"

---inspired by some of Michelle's hand carved stamps, i cut out some stencil letters in a "gothic" sort of font and used black ink on red cardstock to create both positive and negative images.  i outlined some of the letters and then stamped text here and there...

Whole lotta creative goin on....

While i didn't work on any of my "home" themed projects last week (well, not directly, but I have been researching the techniques I want to use on my Hearts at Home art quilt and we did go see a few more houses this weekend), I have been creatively busy.

With Valentine's Day less than a week away, I am scrambling to complete several of each of my two designs for this year.

Being a BIG BIG fan of Tim Holtz and all of his products, I just had to create a log book to keep track of all that I have and all that I want! It's still i a work in progress, but I like the way is turning out! More to come---

Cover showing tabs....                                                                                 ....page showing stamp pads etc.

And my latest obsession--"zentangles"--if you haven't tried them, you should! There are lots of examples and tutorials out there! The are so simple and so relaxing! I have so many ideas for this artform!! Definitely more to come!