First of all I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We sure did, but I must say that I'm a bit exhausted.
And now let me talk about my favorite Christmas present. I've mentioned in passing ever since I first found about this, that I would really like it, but I didn't think that anyone was really listening.........but you know what? they were!
My Art Journal blog in a book.........published!!
And this is page 1--
And then when you turn the page, you'll come to the table of contents--
And it continues on for a total of 359 more pages.
Is this not the best!! I can flip through actual pages of a journal that was created by me and no one else. So although I did not make an actual art journal in 2010-- I really did! And now when I'm doing something in my room and want to re-create a technique that I did on my blog, I'll have this source of reference right at my fingertips. This is volume 1--it covers the first complete year of my blogging--here's hoping that there will be many more volumes to come. I would advise anyone to get this--it's great!!And now that all of the gift giving has come to an end, I can show you a couple of presents that I gave to my daughter and son-in-law. I didn't want to put these on my blog before--just in case anyone in the family saw them.
The first one was created by Rebecca from Penny Lane Ink. If you're not familiar with her art, then you must go to her blog and view it!
This is Marc, Jen and of course---Bob! Along with her very cool art, she also does custom portraits in her very unique style. You can find out about it at her Etsy shop.
And speaking of Bob, look at what he gave his Mom for Christmas--
He contacted Kelly after he saw the beautiful pendants that she made me. He knew that his Mom would love this. Kelly will make these personalized pendants for anyone--and all you have to do is go to her Etsy shop as well. The wonders of today's technology--all I had to is email these photos to Rebecca and Kelly. So it goes without saying that Jen and Marc really loved their Christmas presents!
And there's one more thing that I wanted to talk about--Lovey! She was guest curator at Crescendoh.com this last week, and each day she featured 2 blogs. Well today, mine was one of the blogs that she featured. I just want to thank this special lady for including me with all of the other very creative blogs that she featured--seriously-- these are all wonderful artists. And I want to congratulate Lovey for being published in the latest issue of Sew Somerset--her art is as special as she is!
