art journal

{The Art Journal}

I was scouring Pinterest and Etsy for Thanksgiving craft ideas when this one hit me. See, my family has this notebook that we pull out every Thanksgiving called the Thankful Journal, but its just a boring old black and white speckled notebook that looks similar to this:

Whoever was spending the holiday with us that year would take time to write a little about what they were thankful for. I thought it would be nice to share this tradition with other families, in a more artistic way. I found a few ideas on how to make my own little journals, instead of buying one. 

These pins helped inspire me:

 Left: As seen on Maggie Holmes Design       Right: As seen on Wit & Whistle

Luckily I had a few things just laying around out house that I could put together. I used regular white and colored paper for the inside, a card-stock style paper for the outside, pen, sharpie, colored pencils, needle, think white thread, hemp, glue gun, and buttons. There are so many other designs that can be created. I think thats what made it so much fun.

Supplies:

 Each book is about 5.5x4.5"  

and has 16 pages

 

We'll have a few available to buy in our Etsy store soon, so don't forget to check back.  

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"People are friends.....best friends....not food."

Drawing by Brad B, avid shark activist. Promoting shark and human harmony across the globe.

all the rowboats

I just ran across this today while watching this other video (which is art in itself... kinda).

Love Regina Spektor

Love street art

Love this

Artist, Garry Donnellan, spent 12 hours drawing this portrait of Regina to celebrate the release of her album "What We Saw From the Cheap Seats." What a creative way to promote and market her music.  

halloween town

My family decided to decorate for halloween with a twist this year. 

Painting pumpkins is a quicker and much less messy way to enjoy the Halloween season. 

 Grey Roof & Purple with Moon: Shaunessy (little sister) 
Blue House: McKae (me) 
Purple & Green Houses: Jaki (my mom) 

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"Mike Wazowski" (Said in Boo's voice) by Shaunessy Joyner

I recruited my little sister, Shaunessy, and her friends to help out a bit with the blog. Here is the first of many daily doodles from these aspiring artists. So stay tuned for more. 

This particular piece was expertly done with a broken wrist. Now that's talent. 

kape't gatas mona lisa

I'm not quite sure where this is or who created it but it's the Mona Lisa made out of cups of coffee and milk, or as it's called in the Philippines, "kape't gatas" (I thought that was appropriate to include seeing as RJ sent me this picture). 

Anyways this is legit and I feel it deserves recognition.

So kudos to you, coffee-mona-lisa-maker. 

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Turphin

Turtle + shark fin = Turphin