Well finally some real art time....

Hi Ho All of You

So my hubs is in hospital and after a 

frenzied week of details taken care of

extra chores to figure out, and a general

'what the heck'....

now it is a 3 day Holiday weekend here 

Canada Day Weekend with the holiday

on Monday.

Had all of my ducks in a row by Friday,

with the full intention of doing something,

anything creative for myself.

Seems my mojo has been on a slow burn

all week, but what better way to get some

quality creative time....

So I dragged out my big rolling 

rubbermaid cart full of my 

liquid acrylic paints from my 

decorative arts days and grabbed a gel plate

and Walla!

Didn't have the patience or time to drag out

my huge collection of stencils and mark makers,

that would have taxed my brain a little too much currently...

Just wanted to make a pile of colour and designs to 

start a little project with my collection of Mole Skin books...

So once I had all the papers printed on the gel plate

off I went on cutting and pasting pieces into a brand

new blank mini-mole skin book....

My idea is to just take bits and bobs of pages,

even the pages I rolled my brayer out on just

to created backgrounds in the entire moleskin

so as the mood, time and inclination hits me

I can just grab and do some collage, pen work

for a few minutes or for an afternoon....

This part of just pasting them in the book is

creative enough for my brain currently,

picking and choosing which 'pages' might go

well together for backgrounds....

...I find just looking at all the colours is 

uplifting in itself....

...also as I'm pasting them in, ideas are

sparking off in my brain on what to do

on the pages....

So between actually making the pages all

morning, then clean up from it all, 

having the blank mini-moleskin in the ready,

I can now spent the rest of the holiday weekend

pasting away to give the brain some much needed

de-stressing and worrying about the hubs....

...Barkley's worried too about his fur-dad

but more nose out of joint that I'm keeping busy...

GRIN.

So Happy Canada Day

to all of my Fellow 

Canadian Followers

and a 

Great July 4th coming

for all of my American Friends!

Cheers!