guess where I was Friday night.....

so awesome!
if you are in the area I recommend attending if you can.
it's a experience like only Cirque du Soleil can create and you will never forget it!

more journal pages

I have been so inspired to draw ever since my class at JournalFest (Oct 2011) with the wonderfully fabulous Lisa Cheney-Jorgenson. I have always loved drawing but that class really changed things for me -Thank you Lisa!

This drawing I just jumped in and did....

This drawing I remembered to apply what I had learned in Lisa's class

here's the drawing with all the painting finished

some quick sketches while watching March of the Penguins for the first time. I found the penguins' story to be so inspiring and beautiful...

namaste,

Dawn

new journal

this is my new "everyday" journal....I do my regular journaling in here, draw, paint and just "noodle" around as Judy Wise would say. :)

I made this by using the Faux Leather journal technique in the November-December 2010 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors, but I altered the technique a bit. I followed the directions when I made my first one - my Holidays 2010 journal - but wanted to have fabric on both sides of this one. So, I fused fabric to both sides of the brown paper bag paper (without crinkling it up as directed). The inside is this nice aqua corduroy fabric I used for a zipper pouch for my niece ( a Christmas gift that she loved :D); I actually used the lovely blue rose fabric on the outside for that zipper pouch too -this is when I fell in love with that fabric combination.

Then I just did the math: need a journal + love those fabrics together x faux leather technique = lovely new fabricy journal.

See, math can be fun

I also used some signatures I had leftover from our wedding reception. I had made a bunch up and put them on the tables for people to write notes to us and draw pictures and stuff. I made a lot of them and had many left and knew I wanted to make a journal out of them - this was the perfect opportunity.

I sewed them in with my machine which became challenging after the first 3 - then I figured out that I should try and use my zipper foot on my machine and viola...now there are 7 signatures in there - nice and thick.

Here is a close-up of one of the blue roses that I just had to glitter - and now I'm planning to do a few more :) I know, what a surprise!

Still trying to figure the best closure for this so it's still "in work" a bit - but I'm already using it (of course).

what do you think?

thanks for stopping by

Namaste,

Dawn

journal pages

happy new year!

I wish for you a joyful and prosperous 2012 !

-Dawn

lunar eclipse

Photo by Frank Blau www.frankblauphotography.com

Did you see it?

I was up early Saturday and drove up to the Highlands Park and Ride, which happens to have one of the best views in Issaquah, and watched it out in the cold. It was beautiful, stunning, ....leaves you speechless to know that this is something I did with a lot of the rest of the world....

yes, it teared me up with it's silent, humongous beauty....