Moore ABC Memory Scripture Giveaway

This would be a fun book to win for my grandsons.  I really want to pass down the heritage of giving them the scriptures.  If I win it, I will probably send it to them so their mommy can use it with them.  I would go through it first though and learn how to use it so that I could do it with them possibly on Skype or buy myself one also.  I don't get to see them often though, but my little Justice is wanting to pray and he talks about Jesus' and that is the age his daddy received the Lord.  I am so blessed.
I pray daily that my children will walk with the Lord and try not to give up hope.  They have heard the word since they were in my womb and now they are all young adults or in their 20's and I can believe that the Lord has a plan for their lives!

Trials and Tribulations-"Storms of Life"

Trying to get through the storms of life?  Me too!
Met a lady yesterday in the Salvation Army.  It was an enjoyable conversation.  She is also going through trials in her life; doubting her christianity thinking she is not a christian.  Her daughter has severe lymes disease and is hospitalized for it.

We all go through many many things in a life-time.  I am only half way there I hope, midlife and many crisis' after crisis, but you know what, I stay focused on thinking what God has told me in his word about life eternal and I do the "next thing".  As a wife, mother, grandmother and christian, I am an artist, writer, photographer, gardener, and junk collector.  Those things keep me busy and joyful because God has given the people in my life to me and the hobbies, gifts and desires I have are from him.

This is a photo I took of the roaring Atlantic Ocean.  It is such a symbol to me of what life can try to do to  you, but if your house is built on a rock, you will stand!

Planning, Scheduling and Just Getting it DONE

Don't procrastinate!  There is a lady I have read some of her books named Elizabeth and she said "Just do the next thing!"

I have eaten apricots, nuts and have drank water.
Checked my emails and pinterested some recipes for the up and coming days
Cleaned out four drawers in my husbands desk
Cleaned and sorted my acrylic paints
Cleaned the toilet and sink from upstairs bathroom
Blogged of course:)
Went through my planner to check appointments
Let the dogs out to the bathroom 3 times already
Read the word of God

Have to:  stop at the grocery store,
               go meet a lady to look at a piece of exercise equipment
               go pick up my meds 40 minutes away
               and do a mystery shop
               take my son to the bank

Come home and make supper:  home-made hamburgers on bagels!

Sorting and Cleaning

Sorting and cleaning my art room again.  After a few to a couple art projects, my room needs to be cleaned up:  waste basket cleaned out;  I put a plastic bag inside my basket, so when I want to clean it, I just grab the bag and out to the garbage it goes.  I reo-sort my charcoal, black markers, white pens, clean my paintbrushes in the sink (usually I let them sit in water in a cup which I know is not good for the bristles and wood handles, but that is all I can manage at the time), put supplies back in baskets and on shelves so that I can start over again.  Her I am sorting through paints, deciding if I have too many, which are really really my favorite colors, throwing away the dried out bottles, giving away any if need to. 

GIVEAWAY:  That is another thing I want to talk about.  I am doing a new thing.  I am trying to use all that I have which I consider alot.  If and when I am using an item, and I don't care for it personally myself, I put it in a bag.  Recently, I had tons of stuff and I offered it on Freecycle.  A gal who is an artist and just moved back to the area needed "stuff" so she came and took all the stuff I had which was alot; she and her boyfriend hauled off about 6 armloads of bags and miscellaneous items.  So GIVEAWAY stuff that you know you will not use.  That way, if I am using say a dauber of a colored paint that I don't like, I put it in the bag.  Now I do realize that maybe a month later I will have wished I kept it, but you know, you can do that with everything.  I am coming down to what my favorite stuff is:

1.   Gesso-white and clear
2.   Gel medium-matte-heavy and soft by Golden
3.  water soluble oil pastels
4.   charcoal
5.   white markers and black markers different sizes
6.   certain colors of acrylics
7.   watercolor paper, canvas, canvas board
8.   Prisma colored pencils
9.   watercolors
10.  antique papers and french books
11.  certain stamps especially alphabet stamps
12.  my new print out word labels
13.  breyer
14.  drawing pencils
15.  glitter
16.  small ephemera
17.  small antiques to do collage on
18.  Black ink pad, and staining inks

But then there are some of the ink colors I don't like, dauber paints I don't care for..

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Post Road Vintage

Check out this site for a giveaway!  an antique bottle, soap and home-made tiles that look vintage.  This creative lady also does a magazine called Homebound that is really really really pretty.!

Old Blog Crystals Creations

Go check out my old blog http://www.crystalscreations-stillwatersgallery.blogspot.com

When I have a gallery, I would like to call it Stillwaters.
There is just something so calming and refreshing to me about that word.

When life is so hectic, crazy, and there are many questions I have that feel unanswered and just swarm around my brain like bumble bees, the sounds of the buzzing, the aggravation of them hitting your face and flying into your ears, the sting of their wings on your skin, the craziness of their patterns around your head, this is when you need that living water of the word of God and His still voice like smooth peaceful rushing waters.

How to Make Cloth Paper

Easy!

Lay out a huge scrap piece of paper under your art work.  You can use poster board, papertowel, fabric like muslin, watercolor paper...

When you are doing your paintings, wipe your brush off on the poster board, papertowel, fabric, watercolor paper...splatter your filled paintbrush over the poster board...flicker the brush or the ink pen, dab your marker, make a doodle, write an idea, practice lettering, take some gold, and swipe your brush, keep going, but keep wiping that brush or pen on a different spot...see what different colors look like next to each other or on top of each other...stamp, use those stamps that are sitting in a box or in a drawer tucked away and repeat the pattern of the stamp over and over again, add a piece of paper towel on top with some modge podge or matte medium onto the poster board and let it dry, rip up collages that you don't like and paste them on, you may even end up with a special piece of artwork this way!  OR you can rip it up and use it on another piece of poster board.  This is a piece that was in transit of change.  I have recently cut it up to make butterflies for a mystery muse swap at Artellaland.