Sketch 4

Night 4 of my week sketches, I can't wait for you to see night 5!

Art Journal Page 6

this is one of my favorite pages

my youngest daughter had a butterfly stain glass thingie from school last year that inspired this page

we used watercolor, which I don't use alot

but we had alot of fun with this one

this picture just doesn't do it justice

here's some tips, I found

art-journaling-101

I hope everyone has a blessed weekend!

In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. Matthew 5:16

Sketch 3

This was my night 3 of my week sketches, I wanted someone with curly hair...

Art Journal Page 5

Memorial Day weekend while spending time with some friends

they taught us the game of Peanuts-a card game!

Blown away at first due to the spend of the game and how

well they played, when they left we mastered the game.

So for lots of summer fun we spent lots of our time playing Peanuts...

Below are the rules for playing Peanuts, I found on ehow.com!

Rules of the Peanuts Card Game

Peanuts is a card game that relies on a combination of speed and patience. (It also has other names, such as Pounce, Nerts and Squeal). It involves players using their own personal deck of cards to create different piles of cards while trying to get rid of all cards in one specific pile. It can be played by any number of multiple players but is best with two to four.

1. Cards and the First Piles

   • Each player uses his own personal card deck, and each deck must differentiate from the others (they must have different backs). Players deal 13 cards from their deck in front of them, with the top card face up; this is the peanuts pile. They then deal four cards side by side next to the peanuts pile to form the work piles. The remaining deck is the stock; it can be placed face down on the table or held in one hand.

   Playing Cards

   • All players play their cards at the same time, with the intent of removing all cards from the peanuts pile. Any face-up Ace on their side of the table is placed in the middle of the table to start a foundation. Players build foundations by playing the next highest card of the same suit---a Two of Clubs goes on top of an Ace of Clubs---until the king of that suit ends the foundation. They can also play any of their face-up cards onto one of their work piles. but the work piles are built in descending value and alternating colors (a Seven of Hearts goes on an Eight of Spades). When a peanuts card is played, the top card of that pile is flipped face-up. When one work pile's cards are all played, the top card from the peanuts pile forms a new work pile.

   Waste Piles

   • When players cannot play any cards, they draw three cards from their stock and lay them face up on their end of the table. This is called the waste pile, and its top card can be played just like all the other piles. Any time players can't play a card, they draw three from the stock and add them to the waste pile. When the stock runs out, a player picks up the waste pile and turns it face down to reform the stock.

   Scoring

   • Play ends when one player runs out of peanuts cards and calls out "Peanuts," and then points are tallied. Players get a point for every card from their deck within the foundations (this is why you need different-looking decks). They then lose two points for every card still within their peanuts piles. They then reclaim all their cards and shuffle the decks, and play begins again. This continues until at least one player reaches a pre-determined score (usually 100 points), and then the one with the most points wins.

Art Journal Page 4

the word for page 4 was DREAMY

i wasn't real sure where i was going with it

i just started doodling

my kids loved it, they still say it's one of their favs

it's actually my least fav

hmmm to create what i like or what other's like !?!?

I have heard from a few who have started an art journal.

Have you, if so I would love to hear from you,

email me at ashleysartcloset@yahoo.com

here's a video I found the other day about art jounaling

click here for art journal page one
click here  for art journal page two
click here for art journal page three

Pieces

For those of you who have read Daddy's Briefcase

may remember Banee. Banee, who was 13 at the time was my back seat DJ

back in the day -highschool- when my car only had am radio.

Banee recently requested a painting, "animal print" she said!

Hmmm, animal print "can you show me" something

to go by, an idea!? She mailed me this print out:

Awesome, awesome big bold leopard print, to work

I went. I shaped, I molded each piece...days would come

days would go. I told her it was summer, that it might take

longer. She waited patiently. The further I got with all the shaping

and molding, I begin to think about my life. Each day has been shaped

and molded, so that in the end I can say I did my very best. I have

to remind myself, I didn't just wake up this way!

i attached this on the back of the painting

starting process

see the texture-i heart texture

each textured piece was hand molded

if i was gonna do it, it was gonna be done right-my style

i have to say this is one picture that took me the longest time out of anything else i have painted

my hardest part when i paint a picture is being able to turn loose of it

i so usually can see all my work in my home some where

i usually run from room to room placing it in different places

i wrote this special little letter on the back of the pieces card

attached on the back

A few days after she recieved the painting, I recieved the

sweetest text message. Having the leopard paint in her living area

allows her to have a piece of me in her home. That's sweet stuff there!

Banee will always be my back seat DJ!