Pinning!

Here are some of my favorite pins from this week!!

Enjoy!

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Happy Pinning!!
xo
janel

The Sketchbook Project

Yes, I am so excited because I just signed up for the 2012 Sketchbook Project!

I didn't get a chance to do it last year so I am so beyond stoked to participate this year!  I love that the project is going international too!

Here is some information about the project that I took from their website.

I think you should all sign up.  I love love love any kind of creative challenge. There are over 40 different themes that you can choose from for your sketchbook and I chose the one "This is a sketchbook." Lol. I am so original right?

Here is a map of all of the places that the books will be touring to:

I am really hoping to catch it in Chicago :)

I mean, who doesn't want their art in galleries all over the world? I do.

So yeah, sign up with me!!  Let's do this together.

Let me know if you do!!

xo

janel

inspired by...

Courtney, again :)

The other day, Courtney created some amazing stickers for a swap she is taking part in.  I loved the way the black inked drawings looked on her water colored background.  I liked it so much, it had me immediately busting out my watercolors to create something similar.

I absolutely love that feeling.

When you see something so lovely, you just have to try it out yourself.

So, I took the water colors and my felt tipped pen and went crazy in my sketchbook.

Here are some of the things that I created:

I heart it!

I also did a whole little crafty set in my sketchbook too that I didn't get to scan in.  It's always so refreshing to try something new and challenge yourself creatively.  

Big thanks to Courtney for the constant inspiration!! Plus, I can't wait until you sell those stickers!!!

xo

janel

a week in the life...

of my iphone :)

some are taken with the regular camera app, some are from the Instagram app and others are from Picture Show app.

Here you go!

good times were had by all.  Remember life before camera phones?? Insanity.

Adam and I are all bunkered in for the night with threats of tornados and hail screaming over the sirens. 

fun fun.

I hope all of you are having a safe and cozy night :)

xo

janel

inside my journal...

Would you like a peek into my newest little sketchbook? I have been journaling and drawing in this book every single day since I got it!  When my sister and I went to an art teacher conference, we were given these cutie sketchbooks for free and I love it.

The size is perfect to throw in your bag AND the pages are really heavy so nothing bleeds through and you can try different mediums in it :)

This is just a little sampling of what is inside my journal right now.  It's actually getting really close to being full.  That just means that I get to buy a NEW JOURNAL for Elaine's Ink Blots class May 1!! I am counting down the days :)

I hope you enjoyed the peek.

Have a great day!

xo

janel

a mili...

Hello Friends!

Here are five new things I wish I had " a mili" for :)

Enjoy!

1.  My lovely friend, Katie, sent me the link to this one and I instantly fell in love :)

2.  This print, and almost every thing else in her shop too :)

3.  I LOVE these vintage Mexican dresses.  I need one, like immediately!

4.  Pretty pretty pretty!!

5.  and from the same shop as above...this

Too many lovely things to dream about.

Happy Monday.

xo

janel

treasure hunting...

Courtney did a little post the other day about some treasures that she had found thrifting.   I really loved seeing all of the great items she found and at the bottom she asked her readers to share some of their recent thrifting finds. 

Well, I haven't been thrifting in a couple weeks but we did find some real treasures at garage sales yesterday!  Yesterday was the first real day of the garage sale season here :)  Here are our finds from yesterday:

2 gorgeous vintage thermoses for my collection: $1.00 a piece

I have been looking for this set of bowls for a couple of years but they are always WAY too expensive at the antique malls. 

Set of three pyrex bowls : $4.00!!

Vintage sewing basket with tons of cute vintage sewing notions: $2.00

Cute vintage suitcase that I am going to use to make my sister a suitcase dollhouse like mine : $2.00

(I love all of the cute extras inside too)!

and FINALLY my most favorite treasure of the day...

a vintage Mattel “the Littles” Dollhouse from 1980

in perfect condition with all of the furniture and people!!

The little details in this house and on the furniture and little extras are amazing!!

Some of the things even light up!!  I wanted to see more about this house and I found a great little post on this blog.  She has a lot of great photos and descriptions of it all.

The dollhouse+all of the furniture+the dolls+accessories = $4.00

4 stinking dollars!!

All in all, it was a great day for garage sale treasures.  I can not even wait for next weekend!

What are some neat treasures that you have found lately?

xo

janel

you're beautiful...

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The days will come when you don't have the strength 

When all you hear is you're not worth anything 

Wondering if you ever could be loved 

And if they truly saw your heart they'd see too much 

You're beautiful 

You're beautiful 

You are made for so much more than all of this 

You're beautiful 

You're beautiful 

You are treasured, You are sacred, You are His 

You're beautiful 

I'm praying that you have the heart to find 

Cause you are more than what is hurting you tonight 

For all the lies you've held inside so long 

And they are nothing in the shadow of the cross 

You're beautiful 

You're beautiful 

You are made for so much more than all of this 

You're beautiful 

You're beautiful 

You are treasured, You are sacred, You are His 
You're beautiful


-Mercy Me

Top Five Favorite Blogs

Don't you ever wonder what blogs your friends read?  I do.

I compiled a little list of my Top 5 Favorite Blogs as of late.  They are in no particular order.  I promise you that I could have easily came up with a list of my Top 100 Blogs as well but I decided to scale it down to just five.  I'm sure that you have probably heard of all of these and/or follow all of these but these are the ones that I am finding so incredibly inspiring right now :)

Enjoy!

Cakies

Hart + Sew

Bleubird

Aesthetic Outburst

Moorea Seal

I would LOVE to hear your top 5 favorite blogs too!  I need more to add to my Bloglovin' list.  Let me know in the comments here or do a post like this and link me up to it so that I can check it out!!

Thanks!!

xo

janel

P.S.  Happy Record Store Day :)