Sept 1? where has the summer gone?

Well.. it sure has been awhile since I've been on here... there's been alot of reasons.. internet booting out when I thought I would do a post.. too much to say.. then feeling like I had nothing to say...lol... piddling around on Fb when I should be doing other things.. working alot, Chaya being here for a few days..trying to get things painted for the fall, did some canning/pickling... hmmmm just been busy I guess...I did a couple of shows.. the one in Hecla and then a family festival in Lockport.. which was fun.. I have a couple of things for the Hecla one I'd like to show you but probably later when I have more time... Thought I should at least post something to try and get back into the groove.. and stop avoiding it..So here is a pic of my tent at Lockport.. I love my tent.. this is the first time I've used it.. and it went up so easy.. it was a beautiful sunny weekend.. that is my friend Heather in the pic.. she helps me at so many shows.. don't know what I'd do without her.. she is awesome..

Now just to show you a process....

Alot of sprayed lightbulbs hey? then

ok so they don't have their toques yet.. but that is coming soon.... was going to load a pic of a finished one.. but internet is not co-operating at all..
Time to get ready for work.. nice to be back.. hope you all are having a wonderful day..
Kath
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Summer of Color Wrap up

Good morning... another bright sunny and hot day coming up.. gotta love summer... This is the last post for the Summer of Color until next year..Yes that's right.. we will be doing it again yay!! Thank you Kristin for organizing this.. it was so much fun and the very first blog challenge I have ever completed..lol...Oh the art I have seen..it will be available for awhile which is great because I didn't get to everyone's over the past few weeks... so  I hope you had a chance to check some of the blogs out... totally amazing...So here are all my pieces together...they aren't in order of the weeks.. not sure how to move them around on here .. but all in all very happy with what I accomplished over the challenge....
Blue week.

I was looking at Sadie Inspired 's Orange page and saw that she had a link on it to Christy Thomlinson's blog and Alisa Burke's blog.. loved their work.. and watched the great video on Christy's blog.. and while I watched .. here's what I came up with.. it's not as light and airy looking as hers but I had no idea you could spritz the wax pastels or crayons.. looking for a spritzy bottle now...and would love to try more of these on canvas.. my art journal was too small...

Anyways.. should get busy and do something useful..internet was playing up again today so even though I started this hours ago.. finally can post it...
Hope everyone is having a wonderful day...Thanks for stopping by..
Kath
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Summer of Color... Orange

Well it's been a crazy couple of weeks.. but so much fun...great show, lots of family, visiting, Chaya time, sun and a beautiful wedding... my son was out and tweaked up this computer so perfectly.. think I can find everything now.. he rocks! lol have alot of pics to sort thru before I can post them.. but wanted to get my last
Summer of Color up.. will do a review for the last week in the next couple of days.. it's been soooo much fun.. loved it.. sad to see it end.

It's back to work today...and hopefully will get caught up on what everyone has been up to this past couple of weeks.. hope you are all fine and have a lovely day!!
Kath
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Sisterhood Journal page and Color of Summer is Purple!

Well I am very slowly getting there I think... finally can load my camera and my printer now works.. I really hate figuring out this techie stuff but it's been harder not being home much either...all of these things take time...lol sheesh ... go figure! When I downloaded and installed Firefox it said it successfully got all my bookmarks from IE.. but so not sure where they went.. or any kind of tool bar either..lol...
I did finish up my Summer of color Purple page though.. you can't see in the pic but it has a top layer of clear sparkle paint on it..

I am so sorry that I have missed everyone's red pages and probably will miss most of the purple too.. there isn't a day that I will be home or have family here over the next 10 days.. I am hoping I can catch up and see everyone's arty pieces once the wedding etc is over....
I finally finished Eva's June book pages and got it sent off to Lori on Friday for the Sisterhood of the Traveling Sketchbook.. so here it is.. I hope she likes it...it's a combo of acrylics, wax pastels and paper...

I was so lucky.. I was a little ticked when I went to Michael's after my computer died because I hadn't had a chance to print off the coupons.. first person I saw when I walked in was a friend.. laughing I said you didn't happen to print off extras did you? well..... she had printed off them all.. so she gave me some artsy ones she said she wouldn't use.. and I got a set of wax pastels and AND.... the Inktense watercolor pencils I have been wanting forever for 40% off.. whoo hooo!!!!
Anyways the sale is tomorrow.. will have some gorgeous pics of Lake Winnipeg to show you I hope.. car is packed and I am soooooo ready for bed... it was a very long day at work today.. craziness abounds.. school supplies coming in like crazy.. and need to be put out asap...
Sweet Dreams.. have a great night.. talk to you all again soon... I hope...lol
Kath
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Yay! I'm back....

Quick post.... remember that storm that was coming?? well lightning hit so close that it fried the mother board on my computer and the radio that I get my internet with...I went and got a new computer on friday.. they were supposed to transfer all my data... guess what wasn't on it when I got home???? and I live too far away for them to come out and fix their mistakes but was kinda a moot point seeing as I got it all hooked up and didn't have internet either...lol.. Good thing I had Chaya all weekend to keep me busy...lol..finally got internet last night.. so am trying to figure this thing out..it has Internet Explorer on it.. haven't used that for years.. finding it very confusing.. so am thinking I should be downloading Firefox and getting on with it..but I work the next 4 days and have a show next sunday.Icelandic Festival on monday... you get it right? lol so will be slow catching up... this new key board is so small compared to my old one, making alot of typing errors here right now.. haven't figured out pics as yet.. this one has a card thingie..
I will catch up.. almost finished my purple entry for this week...hope everyone has a loverly day...thanks for stopping by...
Kath
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Hot! Hot! Hot! and RED!!!!

Good morning... have survived the 5 days of work.. not sure which was harder though the work or the temps... it's going to be another hot one today .. I love the heat.. it's the humidity that is a killer.. with the humidex it was 106 yesterday.. the sky is very black and ugly this morning but these just keep going by..It's been too hot to stay in this room for very long at a time.. and the internet was wonky again over the weekend.. go figure hey? lol at least when I was home probably worked just fine all the time I was at work.. am getting very frustrated with it all...
With all this heat my little garden looks sad.. it doesn't matter how much you water them  they want rainwater more than well water and all the little spaghetti squashes start to grow and then seem to rot.. so maybe that will be the only one.. sigh... and really?? what zucchini plant ever just has one zucchini?? lol but guess what's for supper tonight?

It took me days to finish my red journal entry for the Summer of Color.. tried a couple of new things.. not so sure I am happy with it.. realized I should have put the word heat in there too....lol it looks redder than it shows up here though.. and I did give the girl wings .. which was the second part of the challenge...

Anyways.. have to go.. shut this down .. it's actually thundering and lightning.. and raining!!!! Yay!! am thinking I will just go stand outside for awhile...lol
Did you notice my very cool button??? Taylor over at Perfectly Sensible Nonsense made it for me.. just love it.. feel free to grab it if you'd like...
k really have to go.. have a great day!! and thanks for stopping by....
Kath
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Monster squash update... and Summer of Color...

Good morning.. wow the days are sure flying... been busy at work.. summer holidays so us poor part timers get to pick up all the slack...lol next couple of weeks are crazy...am off today then work for the next 5 days straight..
I know you've all been waiting for this...lol TA DA!! my first squash.... there are more.. and I promise I won't post pics of each and every one.. lol

I did manage to get my Summer of Color journal pages done on the weekend... love browns and I use them alot so this wasn't hard.. and time seems to be on my mind alot lately..The red was an accident.. not sure if it counts as a bold splash of color... but found out that the colorbox cranberry ink I used didn't dry very quickly on the gel medium and tissue... but did give me a clear place to stamp.. "where does the time go?"

Now Carol over at Firecracker Kid Primitives is having a 15% off Christmas in July sale.. good till the end of the month.. she has some gorgeous pieces ..
Natalie over at Tins and Treasures is having her 3rd Anniversary sale for her Etsy store.. not sure how long it lasts so you should check it out today...
Cathy over at Tolentreasures is having her 500th post giveaway.. wow.. that is alot of posts.. check it out though.. you will love her painting..
You still have a couple of days to get over to Dezinaworld's great giveaway if you haven't already...closes on the 15th.
Remember that cool slideshow for the Fun Fall Celebration? well it turns out that my items don't show up when you search FFOFG.. they are tagged properly and I redid them all hoping it would work but they don't.. I emailed Etsy a week ago about it and still haven't heard anything back from them..grrrrrr
I did finish a couple of doors .. hard to just do one color or coat and end up not getting back to it till the next day.. or longer..lol

Well I know there was a couple of other things I had to say but I really should get busy.. I have to run into town after lunch and do some errands.. so much for staying home for a whole day...lol....I hope everyone has a loverly day.. and hopefully I will have time to catch up on what you all have been up to for the last week... Thanks for stopping by...
Kath
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