Oak Tree

This is my first attempt at painting Impasto, and using only a palette knife.

My Recipe Book

Poor Baby

 

It's not funny when your mom folds back your ears and then takes your picture!

Just Chillen!

 

He's trying to be adorable so his mom will pick him up!

I've had several request for a tutorial on how I made my mini books; So if anyone is interested in a Ustream class please leave me a note in the comments on this post and I will set one up.

Starfish

 

San Jose Mission in San Antonio

 

My Little Helper

LOL Jose decided that I was paying more attention to what was happening on my craft table than I was to him. So he climbed up off my lap and curled up there!

Pepper Painting

 

Oil painting on canvas board

Hot Summer Daze

 

Fairy Grand Daughter

 

Fairy grandmother

 

I painted this in acrylic paints in a composition book on a layer of news paper.
It was a lot of fun to do. I hope you enjoy it.

Art journaling

 

 

My Garden

 

I had to re post this picture to get rid of some spam comments; since I could not figure out how to remove the comment with out removing the post.
and I have 6 very large Pumpkin blossoms keep your fingers crossed ;) I hope to get some pictures this evening to post of how much they have grown.
I also hope to do another video on my new art journal. you can view pictures of my other art journal here. and here.

I'm sorry I had to remove the last post due to being spammed.
I had my blog set so it did not have that irritating box with the letters that you had to copy that no one can read; and so had to put it back on so the spam can't get threw. I thought I was being kind to people like me who can't figure those boxes out LOL! Guess not.

My Christmas mini

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Hello evryone I am sorry I have been MiA for so long, I just had major surgrey last week and the recovery is going kinda slow. So I thought I would pop in and say Hi to every one. I have been working on mini books and loveing it! Well I was up to last week any way for right now I am on hold. I am saying with my sister until I am back on my feet. I can't wait to get back to my crafting; I just bought a cricket expressions machine (my sister is a bad influence on me) And I can't wait to use it on my mini books. I hope to be able to post some pictures for you soon.
also I have put together some mini book kits for sale and I will be giving one of those mini book kits away! So check out my other site The Crop Hop and have a look!

My Back yard residents

 

Half size folder albums # 1

half size folder album #2

half size folder albums #3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

File folder album

This is one of the mini albums I have made out of manila file folders

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOL I have a Chu Chu underneath my Christmas Tree! Get it?
My Cat's name is Chu Chu.

Well it’s almost Christmas time again and I am so excited, I love the fall and Christmas season. I always have and always will this Christmas has gone very well for me I am off of the horrible meds that were sucking the life out of me and making me sleep all the time; and I am able to breathe better since I took the treatments to shrink the tumors in my chest.

I finished the Christmas countdown which is an Organizational tool form the Organized Christmas site. And by the first of December I was ready for Christmas.

I decide last year how I was going to do my tree and wrap my gifts. And I bought the paper after Christmas when it was on sale in the colors I wanted. I also started getting the spools of wire ribbon to match my paper when ever I saw them mostly at the dollar store. And I scrapped my gift tags which you can see on my Christmas blog; So my gifts look fabulous under my tree this year.(It’s almost a shame to give them away lol )

I put up my old green tree in the dinning room and my white tree in my living room.

I did my kitchen in gingerbread men and the whole house looks great! I have all my new wood laminate floors and my new French doors in the dinning room with the evergreen garland around them with the white lights and the matching wreathes I made to go on them.

My Halloween was also wonderful I had a Halloween party and while it was small it was fun; I am hoping it will be much larger next year.

My decorations were so cute I had every room full of fall stuff. My kitchen was full of bats and the dinning room full of skeletons and owls.

The living room was all pumpkins (see my fall blog)

We had my back yard done with the twinkles all up in the trees for light.

And we had a piñata for the grown ups it was so funny.

We almost had a hay ride but I waited to long to get the bales of hay; I was afraid that if I got them to soon that they would get full off fire ants.

Any way I hope to do better on my blog this year see you all in 2010!

And may God bless all of you.

Happy Thanksgiving Every one
And God bless You!

Donna & Jeff

Tree Monkeys