I have been carless for the past 6 months -- and it really bit LOL
I was waiting for my income tax so I get a better used car ... and guess what? I found one!
I found a little mom-and-pop kind of car lot where this guy fixes up cars that have been in minor collisions and resells them. I picked out a car last week. The advantage is the car had not been started yet and I got to see what it looked like before he fixed it up -- and it truly was minor damage on this car. I saw the engine and everything firsthand. My brother and I felt very good about this car.
They are done fixing it up for me and it is so perty!! He replaced a few dinged up panels on the car and the tires are almost brand new. The body is pristine -- except for one minor scratch.
Oh yeah -- this is a 2001 Saturn SC-2 with 77,000 miles. My last car had 83,000 when I got it.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all my local gals who carted me and all my junk to local art meetings!
This is only my 2nd car -- and I am excited at how spiffy and sporty it looks!
This car has a feature called a suicide door. That sounds creepy, but it's really cool, because I can get art stuff in the back seat real easy LOL I got some weird lighting effects when I took the photo of the inside, so the seats look all speckly and funky ... but the interior is just as pristine as the outside. And this car has all the fun extras :)
The only defect I found is the seat won't move forward. He told me to bring it on Saturday. He will fix that for me and also detail the inside for me.
I am so thrilled --- this makes the 6-month hardship worth it!
I did this page in early April -- when Colorado typically gets slammed with a winter storm. We did get lucky this year though LOL I was feeling nostalgic for spring -- we've moved straight into summer now though LOL
I didn't have any great dreams for this page. I just made a neat background and wanted to play around with black and white images -- negative and positive and see what happened.
You can't really tell now ... but the bottom layer was a plastic shopping bag I melted to the page and then painted.
And you just know I couldn't make it a month without doing at least one heart page LOL
I totally lost my momentum with getting my jourmnal pages posted ... but here is a page I did in the April calendar ...
This is an art journal page I did in response to a challenge on Created By Hand. I glued some striped scrim over a painted decorative paper. I just thought it was the coolest thing ever (and cheap) and wanted to use it LOL The name homespun just popped into my head :)
Which is more fun ... to hula hoop or do homework? LOL I'm working on a research paper, so you know what my answer will be LOL
This art journal page was inspired by a fall on my face LOL I haven't banged up my knees like this since I was a kid -- guess I was overdue. I fell on the street and banged the dickens out of my knees ... not to mention a horridly large bruise on my chin and a sprained wrist and hand.
This is my final page for March. I've been wanting to use that crumpled up blotter paper for a while and I stuck to the original pinks and blues in the paper and went from there.
I don't like this painting as well as the ones I did in DJ's class. I struggle with shading and what-not. It is going to take me a lot more practice. She turned out more cartoony than I would have liked. I decided her name should be Sally -- but it later occurred to me that maybe her name should be Paris, because she is painted on those plaster of Paris gauze strips. The cheesecloth texture was hard to paint on, but it was a very neat effect.
This page is what happens when you use Dr Seuss as your reading material before bed LOL
Here is an altered artwork by Frida Kahlo I did in the calendar journal RR. I am not very familiar with her work and no really good ideas popped, so I more or less added a border.
