LSNED Day 4

Day 4 and we were supposed to be thinking about whether our lesson today needed to be a general comment or very specific. I spent most of the day baking cupcakes to take to school (for the staff) and also dictating recipes to Jess as she typed them up for her Uni Cookbook! I learnt that when I cook I tend to treat it as an art rather than an exact science. I add a "bit" rather than a tablespoon; I cook until it looks right, rather than for 20 mins. This is fine when I cook but less helpful when I am trying to impart my cooking knowledge! I felt this phrase just about summed it up!

LSNED Day 3

I'm still keeping up, even though it was my birthday yesterday! Our prompt was to think about what you have learnt from your feet! Sound a bit random you may think but actually my feet tell me a lot. My page is about how I have put off exercise for years saying I was too busy to go to the gym, didn't have time to go swimming. In July I started running and miracle of miracles, I still am! I run every other day for about half an hour and although I haven't lost any weight I do feel better. I can't say that I actually enjoy it but my i-pod does make it easier. For my birthday my husband bought me a groovy little pedometer which calculates allsorts including how far you have run and how many calories you have burnt. I haven't set it up yet but I know that it will help me to keep at it once I realise how far I now can run! But fundamentally, the bottom line, all you really need is decent trainers!

LSNED Day 2

Lesson 2 was "a lesson learnt from inside or around your home". Well I went back to work, but I did decide what I had learnt. I had to take the photo today though and it is of the beautiful blue sky through some late roses in my garden. I once again did my "pick the first 2 scraps that go" technique but today I added the dimension of grabbing one of my boxes of extra bits (flowers, but some butterflies had snuck in there somehow) too.

LSNED Day 1

First day completed! This year I have decided to think of the words, choose a page and then some co-ordinating scraps from my "bits" box and then stick 'em down. Boom, no messin'! Maybe I will get it finished this year. I might add "stuff" later when I have more time. Today I learnt that I should check just which magazine (of several I read) has the pattern in I want rather than spending an hour and a half huffing and puffing and internet searching to try and find it!

Learn Something New Every Day

Do you remember this Shimelle class? I have done it for the last two years but I didn't finish last year. I thought that I might try again to keep up with the daily prompts and see if I still learn anything! So in preparation I today made the pages for this year's book.

I gathered an assortment of old exercise book pages, some lined and a few squared, and stitched them to the front and back of different coloured cardstock.

I think I shall just pick a page colour that suits my mood each day and then use the lines and squares to journal on. Let's see how we go this time!

Some more coasters

Do you remember the citrus coasters I made http://chickenlickenscreations.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-07-01T19%3A04%3A00%2B01%3A00&max-results=7 ? Well Purl Bee have got a pattern for these scrumptious apple coasters now! Nice and autumnal I thought....

Art Journal Week 34

Still keeping up with this! This week was "Dreams; do you have them? Do you dream in colour? Can you remember them? Do have recurring dreams? Include some clouds on your page." I DO dream, quite a lot but I only ever remember the horrible ones! There are 3 main ones I remember; one when I was a teenager I was walking through London and it was deserted. There had been some sort of incident and there were no people about just lots of smoke and black sacks. The second one I have quite often and my teeth crumble whilst I am lying in bed and as I try to spit the bits out they just keep on crumbling; the third one I am walking into my shower and a man steps out and attacks me......I wonder what a dream analyst would make of that little lot?