Some...

randomography for you.

Random + Photography = Randomography

And I Quote:

Rushing wind, blow through this temple,

Blowing out the dust within;

Come and breathe your breath upon me:

I've been born again.

Holy Spirit, I surrender; take me where you want to go.

Plant me by your living water,

Plant me deep so I can grow.

Separate me from this world, Lord;

Sanctify my life for you.

Daily change me to your image,

Help me bear good fruit.

Every day you're drawing closer;

Trials come to test my faith.

But when all is said and done, Lord,

You know it's been worth the wait.

Rushing wind, blow through this temple,

Blowing out the dust within;

Come and breathe your breath upon me,

For I've been born again.

- Keith Green

Seeing Purple

Purple mushroom

It makes me want to buy some clay and make some more of these,

even though I don't know what exactly I'll do with them.

Purple Pig

Adorable!

I also want to make some pigs like this out of clay.

I think it would be a fun project to try with Gemma.

Purple Puff Balls

I have know idea what kind of flowers they are,

but I want to grow some.

Purple Bougainvillea

I hate bougainvillea, they have big thorns.

We had them in the back yard growing up and I always seemed to get caught up in them.

The ones we had were red, but since these are purple, I guess they're okay.

You Capture: Purple

Thrifty L♥ve

I love thrifting, it's like a treasure hunt. You never know what you'll find! I have a running list of things in my head that I'm always looking for, but the best finds are usually the unexpected, like this one:

I found this chair for ten dollars and snatched it up! It had an ugly, stained gold velvet cushion on it, but other than that, it was awesome. I had some fabric in my stash at home, so Matt and I quickly rigged up a new cover. The fabric looks like it was made for the chair, it matched so perfectly!

I really loved the color of the chair and the red rose. Teal is one of my favorite colors and the rose is one of my favorite flowers. I put the chair at my desk in the kitchen. I sit there every morning while I read my Bible and every day I smile as I pull out my chair. It makes me happy.

Somethings I am always on the look out for at thrift stores are books. Pretty vintage books, and classics for me, and children's chapter books for Gemma. She's such a voracious reader, it's the best way to buy books for her. She was loving this children's adapation of Oliver Twist. Dickens is one of my favorite authors and she really wants to read him too, but they're still a bit hard for her. Maybe in a year or two she will be ready for the real deal, but for now she was thrilled with this one. She said, "Mom, Oliver Twist is such a page turner!"

Other things I am always on the look out for are vintage sheets and pillow cases so use in sewing projects, kitschy decor, embroidery hoops, and vintage suitcases. The embroidery hoops are going to be used to display some of fabric.

I use suitcases to store fabric, paint, and other art supplies, they look so much nicer than plastic boxes. The brown one has the most awesome tag and buckle on it!

The blue one is in practically perfect condition and even has the keys to lock it. That's a rarity! I may actually use that one for travel.

When I picked up this little elephant, Gemma asked me why I wanted it. She thought it was weird for me to get it. Maybe it was, but there's just something about it that's so cute! I just found it really appealing and now it lives happily on a shelf in my art room.

Has anyone else found any thrifted awesomeness recently?

Challenged

I've been doing a thirty day art journal challenge for the the month of June. Originally I planned to share my pages weekly on my blog, but life has just gotten in the way, so here are days one through seventeen. I have been art journaling daily and haven't missed a day yet! Eventually I'll post more pages.

The challenge has been a lot of fun so far, and good for me to create every day and take a step away from mixed media collage, which is the medium I'm most comfortable with. I've been drawing in pen, and using my Sakura pens (I love those things so much) with the occasional Prisma pencils thrown in. Some of my journal pages may make their way to canvases, specifically days two, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen. It's been so inspiring!

Runs With Scissors

And I Quote...

I am full of earth, You are heaven’s worth

I am stained with dirt, prone to depravity

You are everything that is bright and clean

The antonym of me, You are divinity.

But a certain sign of grace is this

From the broken earth, flowers come up

Pushing through the dirt…

-David Crowder Band

Sprucing Up the Joint

I thought it was about time to spruce up the old blog.

If you're in a reader and care to see, click on over!

Confessions and Quirks: Part Six, Alternately Titled: I Hate Lizards

1. I am ridiculously afraid of lizards.

2. I especially hate when lizards sneak in my house.

3. This has happened many times before.

4. Once, I called my husband home from work because there was a lizard in my house. He actually left work early to catch it.

5. Yesterday, there was a lizard in my house, but I didn't call my husband. Between my cat, Gemma, and myself, we managed to get rid of it.

6. It involved much screaming. I won't tell you who screamed the most, but it wasn't the cat.

7. Also, the lizard left his tail on my living room floor, wiggling around without a body. I just about gagged when my cat tried to eat said tail.

8. Once, a lizard ran up my leg. I had slipped my bare feet into a pair of garden shoes I liked to leave outside to keep mud out of the house. The lizard was taking a siesta in one of the shoes.

9. I don't keep my gardening shoes outside anymore.

10. Have I mentioned that I hate lizards?

And I Quote...

Paul Tripp:

"We are not just people in need of wisdom; we are also people in need of rescue—and the thing that we need to be rescued from is us. Our fundamental problem is not ignorance of what is right. Our problem is selfishness of heart that causes us to care more about what we want than about what we know is right. The laws, principles, and perspectives of Scripture provide the best standard ever towards which our relationships should strive. They can reveal our wrongs and failures, but they have no capacity whatsoever to deliver us from them. For that we need the daily grace that only Jesus can give us. So, we must not simply hold one another to the high relational standards of God’s Word, but we must also daily offer the same grace that we have been given to one another so that we may be tools of grace in the lives of one another."

Floral

There's

nothing

 I like to

 photograph

 better than

 flowers.

It's kind of my thing.

You Capture: Flowers