current visual journal pages...

I am finally catching up with my visual journal, i did just a little over the summer and now i had the inspiration to finish all of the random pages and pull it all together and get caught up, so thats what i've been doing this week...

Some things i've been doing lately...

I bought a butterfly embroidery pattern from pam garrison, so that's fun and relaxing to do a few stitches at a time, i am such a fan of her doodles...

and then i've been adding some new flower drawings and alphabets to a little sketchbook...

trying to keep up with my project life album, adding photos and journal cards and other little bits from my days to my small album. and having an iced coffee with it makes it even more enjoyable...

and i also planted some pansies for the fall, a happy mix of colors, i love pansies so much.

new paintings that i have for sale

I've been inspired lately to do some whimsical paintings on wood and i am selling them on my articents website if any one is interested. They were a lot of fun and relaxing to create something that i feel in need right now to just brush paint around and add doodles and flowers and little etching doodles and more layers of paint...

 this first one is 10x14 and its called butterflies dancing and its 48.00 here

this second one is 10x10 and its called in the rose garden and it's 35.00 here

this third one is a small one its 5 1/2x8 its called the daisy field and its 18.00 here

and the final one is larger 14x10 and its 48.00 here

A journal page about my ancestry dna

This is a journal page that i created after doing an ancestry DNA test. I thought my whole life that i was mostly German with the last name Bomgardner and my mom's mom is German but i only had 6 % of that and i have 55 % Great Britain which came as such a wonderful surprise because now it makes sense my love of England and Scotland and everything British. That comes from my dads side and he just never really knew much about his ancestors or where he came from but my mom has done a lot of searching for us and found many interesting things. Its been a lot of fun and i wanted to do a journal page and share it here on my blog. I do believe it can be an important thing to know where we come from. A lot of families talk about it but some don't anymore, so its nice through technology to be able to find out.