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How Bazaar!

A CRAFT BAZAAR THAT IS!!!!

 

A peek at my test table setup.

I am doing a table at our Softball Booster Club Holiday Bazaar tomorrow! I have been busy all week trying to get ready for it. I have lots of fun stocking stuffer gifts that are all under $10 all in Junque Art style. I will also have some vintage goodies for sale too that make great art supplies.

Here's some of the vintage wallpaper magnet sets I will have for sale. They turned out so cute!

If you are in the DFW area please try to come!!! Please stop by and say hi!

Also if you mention you are one of my blog readers I will give you 10% off any purchase!

Here are the particulars:

Place: McKinney High School Cafeteria, 1400 Wilson Creek Pkwy., McKinney, Texas

Date: Saturday, December 3rd (that's tomorrow!)

Time: 9am-4pm

There will be over 50 vendors set up for a lot of great Holiday shopping. There will also be free photos with Santa for the kids, baked goods, and more!

 

The Healing Power of Art

Art can be powerful! Art can be healing!

Art is something I turn to when I need to turn off my brain from life's stressful moments. I have also been missing from my blog for awhile due to some stressful things. Art has not even helped. And because I have not been very creative lately I have not shared anything on my blog because I felt I had nothing to share. I didn't want to share depressing things. Who wants to hear that?

I try to be creative and I just get stuck time and time again...until last night.

I went through a very stressful event day before yesterday and was just beside myself. I cried and cried some more and just felt helpless, hopeless, and like things were just not going to get any better. My sweet hubby called to check on me yesterday and I started crying again. He tried to make me feel better and told me to try to do something to take my mind of off things. I told him I would try.

I had signed up for Christy Tomlinson's She Art 2 class awhile back because I LOVE her classes. It stared this week so I sat down yesterday and started the class to take my mind off of things. I just watched her videos and did not start any art. I was still just sad and helpless feeling. So I started doing some chores around the house. Then last night for some reason my studio was calling me. At first I resisted then I walked in and grabbed a canvas and just started glueing and painting.

Most of the time my art does not just happen. There's planning and more planning. There's starting and stopping. There's criticizing myself and redoing. There's quitting all together. But for some reason last night the art just flowed! I did not plan anything. What's up with that? I just started playing. I did not refer to any other inspiration except for what was lingering in my head from watching Christy's videos. I used kinda whatever supplies were readily reachable and just made art. I didn't hesitate, I didn't stop, I just kept playing. I finished this little piece in less than 2 hours and some of that was stopping to listen to the TV. I NEVER create that fast.

After I finished I realized she looked a lot like me minus some gray hair and wrinkles and she's A LOT cuter...LOL. My husband even said she looked like me. When I was creating her I didn't intend or plan for her to look like me she just happened. The message just happened too and I really think it was a message from above that spoke to me through my art! I also felt so much better after finishing her. It's realy hard to explain, but I didn't feel as hopeless and I felt like things will get better and I just have to remember how blessed I am. I have to keep things in perspective and not let some things get to me so bad. So I really do believe art can be very powerful! That's pretty darn cool for a 6x6 canvas don't you think?

Thanks for listening to my little art healing story and thanks for sticking with me on my blog when I've been missing in action. I am trying hard to find a balance between life and my blog and hope to be posting more often.

Hugs to you all and I hope you are finding comfort in your art!

Cindy

(P.S. If you haven't taken one of Christy's classes I highly recomment them! They are WELL worth the money and some of the best online classes I have taken! Thank you Christy for sharing your talent and inspiring me to create.

Spending Time Today With My Art Journal

Today is a cloudy, cool, rainy day here in Texas! Yeah...we so need the rain! So we are all just hanging out inside doing some things together and doing our own thing. It's a quiet kinda day and I love that! So I'm doing some laundry to get ready for the week and spending some time creating in my art journal.

 
I have been "collecting" copic markers for probably about a year. I have played with them some but not enough. So when I saw Teresa McFayden was doing an online class (Color As a Verb) combining copic markers and art journaling I decided to sign up. I needed a push to learn more about the markers and actually use them! We created a cute handmade journal and now are doing pages. So today I'm spending some quiet time working in the journal and just playing. The photo above is my start at the first page. I'm adding more doodles around the quote and just having fun!

What are you doing today? I hope spending time doing what you like to do!

Happy Sunday,

Cindy

Guess HOOO has a new Halloween Kit Available?

ME! I know you think I have fallen off the edge of blog world. But I really have been busy creating as of late. What you say? Yep I say!

My new Halloween Wreath kit is one of the things I have been busy working on. Had this idea over the summer. Love all the book wreaths I've seen so I thought I would try my own version.  I like the way it turned out and I hope you do too. I have included most everything you need to complete this cute wreath. You can read about all the details in my Junque Art Etsy shop.

It is also very affordable...$10 buckaboos! Yep that's all for all the supplies, online step by step downloadable instructions, and downloadable extra printables for you to use on other wreaths.

This wreath looks super cute hanging anywhere in the house. And if your porch is protected it's great on a front or back door.

Quantities are limited so don't miss out!!! I will start shipping any purchases on Tuesday. This is plenty of time for you to create your cute wreath! If you have any questions about the kit don't hesitate to ask.

I have also been busy updating my antique booth, adding new pendant necklaces to my Junque Art Studio Etsy shop, and decorating around the house. Also on the agenda has been spending time with family, "bus driver", football games, softball games, and helping with homework.

Happy Creating and be back soon,

Cindy

Art Journal Fun!

And I mean fun! I had such a great time this past weekend at a Paper Cowgirl event. It was a Art Journaling class taught by the very talented and sweet Shelly Massey! So much fun spending an entire 2 days creating, laughing, and sharing stories. You can see more pics on the Paper Cowgirl Blog of all the wonderful messy fun we had with our journal pages. There are some amazing pages and a group photo of everyone. Thank you to my favorite head cowgirl, Cindy M., for organizing this event!

Here's a few of mine.

We started by creating backgrounds with paint. The background on these two pages turned out very dark and I wasn't liking them. But Shelly encouraged me to keep playing and turn them into something I did like. I am so glad she pushed me. You can see some of the original background in the middle of the flowers above, in the heart below, and peeking through in the background below. I took one of the backgrounds and cut it up to make the flowers and the heart. You can see how dark the flowers are but I like the contrast with the lighter background. Then for the one dark backgound below (which was same color as middle of flowers and heart) I just kept layering to lighten it up. Shelly was great at getting me to push through my layering "issues". LOL Thanks Shells! So I encourage you not to give up on something you think you might hate. I really love the way the end pages turned out even though I started with backgrounds that I hated!

The two pages below also started with backgrounds that I did not care for. Again I pushed myself to keep working with them until I got something I liked. The original background was dark and had a magazine picture of some flowers. You can barely see them peeking out from around the house on the left. So even though I covered up most of the original background it still adds to the depth of the page with the layers.

I really love the colors on these pages. Very happy with how they turned out.

You can see purple peeking out around the edges of this one which is the color of the original background. Did not like all the purple but love the little bit peeking out.

The weekend defintely helped me get out of my creative rut! I have tons of ideas swirling in my head now. Thanks fellow cowgirls for a wonderful weeeknd! Be sure and subscribe to the Paper Cowgirl blog because I know there are more fun classes coming up!

Oh and I will be opening my Etsy Shop back up in the next week or so. Kids are back in school so I have some time to tend shop! Yeah!

Until Later,

Cindy

 

An Art Journaling Weekend!

I am so excited! I am heading to Paper Cowgirl land to take a 2 day art journaling class from Shelly Massey! I really need this because...

1. I really need this...

2. I need a creativity boost...an entire weekend just to create

3. I was supposed to go the Shelly's class this summer at Paper Cowgirl but I had family duties that over ruled me getting to go play at the summer Paper Cowgirl event...and

4. I really need this... (oh I said that already)

 

(page from my journal)

So I am looking forwad to spending the weekend with other creative friends and journaling away. Shelly will be teaching us her cool techniques and I can't wait to see how she goes through the process of creating her fun journal pages!

I have told the kids I am off duty this weekend. Don't call me to ask if you can go somewhere, you have a Dad. Don't call me to ask if you can drink a soda, you have a Dad. Don't call me to see if you can have more time on the computer, ask your DAD he's in the HOUSE! (Do your kids do that?)

I almost did not sign up but I decided I REALLY needed my own break before school starts on Monday. It seems I have been going and going and going this summer and I need a time out. Just a breather. A little time to get ready for the hectic school year and sports activities. Time to find my creative soul again. I know she's in there, she's been peeking her head out the last few weeks, but it's time she came out to play full time!

(page from one of my journals)

Here's to a weekend of art journaling! Woo Hoo! I'll try to remember to take some pics through the weekend and I'll definitely share what I create when I get back.

Happy Weekend!

Cindy