Decorated Diary - 28th June 2012

My youngest daughter put together these awesome flowers on this page

 

My Journal side on - packed full of decorations, photos, journaling etc....

Finally Time To Craft

It has been a over a month since I was last able to sit down, craft and then blog, the good news though is that our move is over and done with (it went successfully I'm pleased to say) and I now have the Easter holidays to catch up with my family, housework & crafts.

The above picture is from April 6th 2012 in my dairy and is a collage on top of a colouring page from  www.self-help-healing-arts-journal.com (Color-in-Flowers: Volume 1).

Decorated Dairy 2nd & 3rd March 2012

Decorated Dairy - 25th & 26th February 2012

Decorated Dairy - 23rd & 24th February 2012

Decorated Dairy - 21st & 22nd February 2012

Decorated Dairy - 19th & 20th February 2012

Decorated Dairy - 15th & 16th February 2012

You may notice that February the 15th has 3 words that may be easier to decipher if they have a context. In NZ we have a qualification called NCEA which is graded by either Not Achieved, Achieved, Merit or Excellence. Feb 15th is the day that we attend our daughters school assembly to celebrate her awesome achievements (earning mostly Excellence & Merit grades in NCEA for 2011).

Decorated Dairy - 13th & 14th February 2012

Decorated Diary - 11th -12th February 2012

I love the caravan on the 12th February - it isn't quite a yurt but it would do in a pinch :) 

Decorated Dairy - 9th & 10th of February 2012

Decorated Dairy - 7th & 8th February 2012

February 7th & 8th is every so slightly dotty...

Decorated Dairy - 5th & 6th February 2012

Decorated Dairy - 3rd & 4th February 2012

February the 3rd looks similar to February the 2nd, February the 4th is above.

Decorated Dairy - 1st & 2nd February 2012

February is shaping up to be slightly black and white decoration wise.  

Decorated Dairy - 24th & 25th January 2012

24th January - subliminal message perhaps?

25th January - Blue paint chip mosaic on blue organza ribbon.

Had fun putting both of these pages together.

Decorated Dairy - 22nd & 23rd January 2012

Decorated Dairy - 20th & 21st January 2012

Two more pages in my 2012 Dairy, this time I have crafted ice creams, with the idea of celebrating Summer which has arrived!

The orange, white and green cone is cut out from cardboard that I put aside from a tissue box, the green & black cone was packaging from magnetic bookmarks I brought earlier this month (the bookmarks also take pride of place in my dairy). The ice creams on top are cut outs from the inside of envelopes (orange and black are two of the hardest to source I've found).  I took the ingredients for these two pages (cut outs, glue and scissors) to work with me this morning and spent my lunch time happily gluing them in and journaling.

Decorated Dairy - 14th & 15th January 2012

At the beginning of this year I decided that I want to 'Live A Life Full of Art' this year, so I have been  making the effort to do something artistic each day, below are the pages I decorated for the 14th & 15th of January 2012.

The hearts came from scrapbookscrapbook.com, I took the photo of the water lilly earlier this week and paint sample cards were cut out and the remnants glued around the outside of the page on the 15th. I have left a reasonable amount of room for journalling which I do try to do on a daily basis. I've also been playing with mosaic using paint sample cards on a black wine bottle shape to see how it would look.