Forgotten

I realized that I had forgotten to scan these journal entries in and post them! I don't really like either one of them, but here they are.

Cows

I think I would have liked this page better if i drew my favorite cow up-close rather than drawing the whole shelf. Too much brown.

Ralph

I've had Ralph forever! I love him even though his ear is falling off.

This was done in Pitt pen/marker like all of my other journal pages.

Bottle Caps

This is an art project that I have slaved over for about 3 weeks and just finished today. I'm absolutely giddy at its completion. Words really can't describe the joy I am feeling right now =O)

It's an 18"x12" drawing of a magazine picture picked out by my art teacher. It was an intensive process but worth it!

Healer by Planetshakers

This is a song called "Healer" by Planetshakers. It's an awesome praise song and Dad and I are going to sing it this Sunday in church. I'm excited and hopeful that everyone loves this song as much as I do.

I decided a long time ago that I wanted to cover my room in pictures and drawings of illustrated verses and songs so that when I'm having a hard time, I will have a whole room of encouragement around me. So this is my first step.

Go Wild

This was a jungle/forest themed trade called, "Go Wild!" for doodlerssketchpad. I have Spotted Owls in the first one, tiger stripes in the second and a Gorilla in the last.

Short & Stout

I actually drew this teapot before that last drawing of my treasure but I forgot to scan this in. This is a little teapot about 4" wide from spout to handle that we found at the Renaissance Fair. We bought it for my mom because she couldn't go with us. So we got her this trinket to let her know we thought of her and it was perfect because she collects teapots!

Worth Its Weight In Gold

These are my precious trinkets that I have collected over several years. My newest addition is a little monkey and the thing that started it all was a miniature of Jose Carioca from the the Three Caballeros. So here is pretty much everything in between. I have bull dog salt shakers, rubber lizards, Polly Pocket dogs, puddles of glue that dried and I wrote on top of, pet rocks, and many other vending machine finds.

Pink Pocket Purse

This is a purse that I purchased from the well-loved Goodwill. It's has a corduroy feel with nice big pockets in front. It's big enough to hold my planner and finding a nice purse that big at Goodwill has not been an easy search. I put so many things in it, though, that it makes me feel like my should is going to dislodge itself from my body.

Numerous Giganticus Opus

My mom got a Color Cutter pen for Mother's Day. It has an Xacto knife inside a silver marker. She let me try it out and I had lots of fun. Mom and I were also talking about how we've never been able to get the hang of Opus. So I thought maybe I should do a whole Zentangle of Opus' so I could practice and get it down. I think it turned out rather nicely.

Eye <3 Xyp

I tried a new variation of xyp and I really love it. I think it turned out really nice.

Pink and Orange

I made these for a Doodlerssketchpad trade. The technique I used for the card on the left is one that I learned from a lady at camp. I'm not sure what it's called but you take your water color and make it really wet. Then you put a big glob on the top of your paper. You can shake your paper, tap it on the table, whatever you want to get the paint to drip down the page. You can try to make it change directions but that's really hard to do.

You get a really neat effect when the colors run together and you have two layers of color.

6 Circles 3 Lines

These I also made for a trade and my mom liked them so much that she keeps pressing me to put this in the Zentangle Flickr group. So here they are, why not put them on my blog first. My parents are trying to persuade me to keep these cards and send different ones instead cuz they like them so much hehe

Stars

This is what I made for the "Colorful Stars" trade. I think I like the one on the right the best. I called it "Stocking Star" because when I see red and black stripes it remind me of socks. :D

#1 Nails

I went with my friend Becky to #1 Nails in Waterloo so she could get her nails done for prom. There was a wonderfully nice lady getting hers' done and I tried to draw her without success. But when I showed it to her, she said it reminded her of something her husband sent her home from Iraq and she had it framed in her house. How cool! Something I did reminded her of something she had framed in her house! Definite confidence booster!

"I'm a little teapot!"

This is a teapot set that I made for my mom in Mary Engelbreit style out of salt dough.

A-Z

Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of "W, X, Y, &, Z" So this is only 4/5 of my Zendoodle Alphabet
When I sat down to make these cards, I thought I would stop trying to make a font and instead use the same pattern to make a letter. I really like all the cards from this bunch but "A" and "B" are my favorites.






This was my first attempt at using colored pencils in this way. I think the "G" turned out the best but I like the pattern of "H" better.









I like "N" and "O" best of this group. These were actually the first cards I made. The ATC trade went out of order so that made it interesting.








I think that my "S" and "T" worked out very nicely in this pod of cards. I hope whoever has them now enjoys them!

Sony Ericsson

One of the coolest features is the built in Walkman. It's neat to have some of my favorite music to listen to wherever I go.

Flowers

It was so nice out yesterday that I thought I would spend a few hours outside drawing some of our colorful flowers. I drew tulips, daffodils, and what we believe are grape hyacinths. I drew each flower three times using graphite, water color, and Pitt Pens.

Nashua, IA

This wasn't a very good scan. But you can kind of tell that this is a sketch of a bridge. This was something my mom and I decided to draw while driving to my sister's house. We thought it would be neat to draw the old bridge in Nashua framed by the new one.

Catching Up On Old Times

It's been so long since I have made a blog entry. This is what I have been making lately.
The funny thing about this journal page, is that I have managed to spell "attic" wrong, twice!
This was at my friend's birthday party. My dad was in a conversation with her and I figured she would be there for a while so I thought I probably had enough time to draw her. I wish I could have captured how beautiful she really is.
I love the library. It's one of my favorite places on earth. The environment is just so inviting. So I got to sit by myself and read. After a while I looked up and realized how nice the rocking chair in front of me was. I simply had to draw it.


I laughed so hard after finishing this, below, when I realized that the firefighter looked like the Joker so i had to emphasize my mistake and outline her mouth in red. Now I like Caramel de Lites even more than I did before!

Isadora

I finally got her done! I know this was the third challenge but I finally have an elf to call my very own!

Zen Vases

The first vase is just something that I saw on the internet and ZenDoodlified it. I used the shapes and color to show that the case was hollow. The second one, however was inspired by a woman that I used to know at the nursing home. Her name was Josephine and I named that card Joe's Vase. The "shadow" kind-of makes a "J" shape and the flowers, which look like hearts, represent all the love that she had for life and everything around her. She simply put color into everything around her. I miss and love Joe and this is just a little something for her.

Cassie

This was the challenge for Make-Believe Mondays group: Draw something with more than four legs. I used watercolor to paint this picture and I think that it turned out nicely.

After a long day of deiciding what to wear,
She threw on her old sneakers because she didn't care.

She had the perfect outfit, the perfect one to wear,
But she couldn't find matching shoes, not a single pair.

She finally heaved a sigh, put her shoes against the wall.
She decided that it was better to wear no shoes at all.

Melvina

Since my BFF, Liz, and I are both happily single, we decided to get each other gifts for valentines. When you squeeze their tummies, the say, "Muah! I love you!" Hence the quote. We were going to name it Melvin after the giraffe in Madagascar but we realized the the voice was a girl's so we femenized the name.

Mini Muffins

Actually, It took about 15 min to make and I only worked for about 3 of them :D

Jewelry

I made the first necklace with hemp and shells, the second one with wire and rubber beads and the earings with gold wire and glass beads.

Giant

This was for the Make-Believe Mondays challenge: Giant. I don't like it as much as the one my mom started, but I think it's cute.

Nerdinator

That's actually supposed to sail "failed" tests not "faied"

Major Blingage

*laughs* I think it's going to take me a long time to get used to writing the new date. I didn't think I would mess up on the month/date, though. I thought for sure it would take me forever to get the year. But I guess since I'm trying so hard to get the year down that I forget about everything else...

George the...Monkey?

I won him in one of those games where you have ducks (plastic) floating in a bowl of water and there are certain ones with "X"s on the bottom and if you got two of them you won a prize from the prize table. The table was so full of prizes, so many things to choose from but I saw George and I knew he was the one I wanted.

Jake & Todd

Jake is a huge stuffed animal! He is wider than I am and about half my height. He sits in a full-sized chair. When I talked my mom into garage sale-ing with me, we came across Jake. I thought he was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. But I let him be. Then when we were almost done going around town I asked Jon to walk back to the house with me so I could buy Jake. When we couldn't find the house, Mom and Dad picked us up and drove us there and miraculously enough, he was still there waiting for me.

Todd was a beanie baby that Jon got from Barnes & Noble. We named him Todd because he reminded us of the fox from Fox and the Hound (still one of my favorite movies) and I gladly took him into my stuffed-animal family.

I used to have church in my room where I would set all the stuffed animals lined up on my bed and I extended my desk as high as it would go and I would have announcements and I put my CD player on for the worship and then I would get my daily reading bible lesson and "preach" to the "congregation" it was pretty cute.

Heroclix

These are a big deal around here. I'm not so sure if it's the game itself or if it's the opportunity to spend time with James that really makes people love them. I went and played Pictionary with the chics that came and we had too much fun. I loved laughing with them.

The little game peices are 2" tall and the disks they sit on have an inch diameter. They're pretty small. Loads of fun to draw.

F. Spot Fritz Gerald

Rosettes

These cookies are like eating air. You could eat a thousand of them and you wouldn't get full. You would gain a lot of weight though...I decided to try something new with my shading and I took two different colors and cross-hatch shaded the side. I thought it turned out pretty neat.

Sad Froggy

This is actually a musical frog that I drew. When you press his foot, he ribbits "Jingle Bells" it's pretty cute. Even though he sings a Christmas song, I always thought he looked sad. So after I tried to draw a basket first, I was able to sympathize with him even more than before.