NaylorMade

I recently signed up for an Artist workshop at the urging of my best friend.  I had thought about taking the workshop but not fully committed to the thought until her encouraging and enthusiastic words motivated me into actually hitting the "pay now" button. The workshop is called Your Living Canvas .  It is a six week course filled to the brim with project videos, techniques and journal exercises all of which are done by Christy Tomlinson .  I shared the info for this class on a previous post, I know, but it was brief and an attempt at winning some much needed supplies.  I didn't win btw...booooo!!!  Better luck next time (story of my life) I guess...no, no I'm not bitter at all! Last week was the first week of this workshop and as usual, I showed up completely unprepared.  I have this tendency to procrastinate when I feel that I "have" to do something.  I've been that way my whole life. I think by now I would've grown out of that phase.  Nope.

And I think you should too!  It's going to be a fun, art filled journey about the story I'm telling and the story you tell and what stories we have yet to create.  I'm embracing this workshop with eyes wide open and a heart full of possibilities learning and creating My Living Canvas!  Check out Christy's blog here and all info on the class: http://christytomlinson.typepad.com/christytomlinson/my-living-canvas-workshop.html Here is a peek at what the class is all about: It starts next week!  I can't wait to post about the new things I create.

A couple months ago I signed up for an amazing online class by the one and only, Tim Holtz!  It was called Creative Chemistry 101.  It basically went over all the different products he has, what they do and how to use them.  After completing the class, I felt like I knew more about his products than most of the people selling them online and in my local scrapbook store.  Of course, that could be my over inflated ego talking or the fact that knowledge is power baby!  The thing you should know first though, is that I'm so full of crap when I say I have an over inflated ego.  And after that, pretty much everything I'm telling you is fact. There was only one product I couldn't seem to get my hands on throughout the entire class and it was some Distress Markers .  At the time, I guess they were brand new and the manufacturer hadn't anticipated such a high demand for the product and didn't make enough, yada, yada, yada...If you ask me, someone was asleep at the wheel

It's Monday already?  How did that happen?  (okay, that's called a rhetorical question, please keep reading)  I swear lately, the weeks go by so fast I'm forgetting what day it was yesterday after realizing what day it is today. I just got back from a fantastic weekend spent with family and I'm slowly coming down from the happiness high that lingers when you surround yourself with the comfort of familiarity and the people you love unconditionally.  It really is the best to be with those you love the most. I think out of everything that goes with seeing those you care so much about, it's the catching up that catches me off guard.  Outside of my home I don't work.  I don't have that nine to five I can articulate into a scheduled conversation.  It's a difficult dynamic for me.  I don't know about you but when someone asks me what I do and I tell them "I make stuff"  their first response is usually "well, you must have too much time o