Toad in a Boat

The Three Muses invites us to use the written word in a piece this week. I made a collaged pendant, adding some text cut from a novel. I still need to solder over the edges and add the jump ring when I find my soldering iron. The pendant is double sided so I can wear charming or how delightful, whichever I am in the mood for.

I braved the 94 degree heat to do a quickie sketch of my new geranium that is getting ready to bloom. It was a gift from my mom this weekend. Geraniums are one of my “happy flowers” and I can’t resist them. The tiny little buds look so cute, just waiting their turn to burst open into bloom. Those 3 little dots in the top corner are the 3 colors of paint that I used.

I may add more journaling to this, I’m not sure. Part of me wants to fill up the empty space, but really it says everything I needed it to already.

The Three Muses have asked for something blue this week so I made a page in my journal. I found an interesting prompt and tutorial at Green Isle Crafts on tearing a random shape from a folded book page and seeing what you could make with it. Mine looked like a dog to me, among other things, so I made him a window to look out of. Maybe he’s watching a bird fly by. This journal is bigger than my scanner, so it’s a bit cropped but the important bits are there. This was a fun prompt and I’ll be trying it again.

The Creative Tuesday theme this week is Trees. I’m not good at trees but I gave it a shot. At The Broken Egg, where we occasionally eat, there are some outdoor tables and near those there is a tree with a face on it.  While thinking of ideas for trees I thought of that funny tree and it inspired this little conversation between a raccoon and a wise old tree. At least I didn’t have to draw leaves, LOL.

This week’s Take a Word theme is Zetti. I love Zetti! I decorated an envelope Zetti style.

Bubble Bot is sneaking a quick puff in the break room. This is the newest page in my Fictional Encyclopedia of Mechanical Contrivances (Robots) sketchbook for Sketchbook project 2012. Yeah, I think I need an acronym for that. I’m showing it for this week’s  Sunday Sketches over at Blue Chair Diary.

Paint Party Friday snuck up on me this week. Thursday night and no painting to share. What to paint, what to paint? Something SMALL, LOL. Donna Downey painted some pretty poppies in her journal earlier this week and I loved the colors, so this is my version, inspired by her. The colors are a little off in this scan, on my screen anyway.