Imagine my delight when I found this in the mailbox! No envelope....just like this! All the way from France! Thank you, Tova! This was the best one yet! (I am amazed it went through the mail...I bet all the carriers along the way had a smile on their face! Yeah!!)
Imaginez mon plaisir quand j'ai trouvé ceci dans la boîte aux lettres ! Aucun.just d'enveloppe... comme ceci ! Tout le chemin de France ! Merci, Tova ! C'était le meilleur encore ! (je lui suis stupéfié suis passé par le courrier... que je parie que tous les porteurs le long de la manière ont eu un sourire sur leur visage ! Ouais ! !)
I have limited "art time" this week so I have been walking around with my Prismacolor pencils and blank images. This is another card I colored "on the go". These are brand new justjohanna images! Do you love them? I made this card to cheer up one of my friends.
More new images tomorrow! See you then!
More brand new justjohanna images! Colored with Prismacolor pencils, pencil, black pen. It's been so long since I've done anything with a bright white background..I am not really sure what to do with myself!
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Brand spankin' new justjohanna images are on the way! Here is a little card I made using the new images! The top example is how the card started out....bottom is what happened after it was "Juliefied". Hope you like these new images as much as I do!
See you tomorrow with one more sneak peek!
Last weekend at Michael deMeng’s class, I started a second shoe shrine…I was able to work on it today and made some progress. I am still on the hunt for some religious medals I have stashed around here somewhere..those will get added one day. This shrine features a curled toe- perfect for Artword’s theme this week, “Curl”. Unlike my other shoe shrine, this shrine comes out from the wall.
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polymer clay buttons- justjohannaI made these buttons for a justjohanna project yesterday. I am enjoying taking it easy and working on various projects these days. After these buttons hardened, I painted them with a color I mixed using Golden fluid acrylic paints. To add some pizzazz, I topped them off with some interference gold paint.
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I am taking a great class on Saturday! I finally forked out the money to give it a whirl... I am taking an all day class with Michael deMenge! I can't wait!!
Happy Birthday, Jakob!
This has got to be the furthest possible project from my usual "style"...stop laughing...I do have style... Tami posts weekly color challenges on her blog. You can imagine my shock and horror when she challenged her readers not to use any color this week.
What actually turned out to be a cool concept, this card photographed horribly. It is a card made out of acatete with a vellum insert. There are justjohanna images stamped in white pigment ink, heat embossed clear; white machine stitching.
I guess I am happy to learn that feeding acetate through my sewing machine doesn't result in a disaster... Thanks, Tami!
(In retrospect, I think white is actually a color...I should have post a totally clear project..lol)
the Carry-OnDo your part to ensure a healthy planet by incorporating these ten simple actions into your everyday life.
1) Replace your incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). Look closely at labels when buying light bulbs. Those marked as CFLs last 10 times longer and use 66 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs while delivering the same light levels. As a result, CFLs accrue net savings between $30 and $45 over their lifetimes, depending on your cost of electricity, the wattage size of the CFL, and the lamp's lifespan (manufacturers make CFLs that last 6,000, 8,000, or 10,000 hours). The return on investment is 15 times higher than leaving your money in a bank account or the average return on Dows-Jones stock investments. CFLs also reduce the release of greenhouse gas emissions and are safer because they burn at a lower temperature (160° F or less) than incandescent and halogen lights, which can burn at temperatures up to 500° F.
2) Turn down the thermostat just three degrees in the winter and up three degrees in the summer. You can prevent the emission of nearly 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide annually.
3) Inflate your car tires. When walking or biking isn't feasible, you can do something to better protect the Earth while driving. Take a step in the right direction by inflating your car tires. Pumping them up can improve your gas mileage by about 3.3 percent -- a savings of about 7 cents per gallon. It's the right thing to do for your wallet and the right thing to do for the Earth.
4) Turn down the hot water heater. Set your water heater to 130° F. While you're at it, turn down your house thermostat during the winter to 55° F when you go to bed or leave home. These simple actions can have enormous positive consequences, preventing the emission of more than 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide over the course of the year, while cutting your energy bill by more than 10 percent. And that's just from you! Get your friends on board, and the benefits will multiply.
5) Choose your seafood wisely. We can't afford to wait until 2008. The world's seafood will be entirely depleted by 2048, according to an early November report in the journal Science. That means the moment to shape up is now. By buying and eating certain types of seafood, you can discourage harmful fishing practices and avoid the more depleted or threatened species. Take a look at Seafood Choices Alliance or Seafood Watch to make smart choices.
6) Purchase EnergyStar-labeled appliances. EnergyStar products are among the top 25 percent most efficient and can provide a 30 percent return or better through lower utility bills.
7) Wash and rinse in cold water. If everyone in the United States alone switched to cold water with their washing machines, we could save about 30 million tons of carbon dioxide each year -- and more than $3 billion in energy costs, collectively. And what's more? Cold water cleans your laundry just as well as hot water.
8) Buy locally produced meats and produce. Sounds like a good idea, but you don't know where to start? Just type in your zip code on Local Harvest's website to see a list of farms and farmers' markets close to home, as well as nearby restaurants committed to supporting their neighbors. Buying locally produced food cuts out the middlemen and the vast amounts of energy required to get your products onto store shelves. Most produce in U.S. supermarkets travels an average 1,500 miles before it is sold!
9) Drink more water from reusable glassware. It's great for your bank account, your health, and your planet. The average American consumed more than 400 beverage bottles and cans in 2006, leaving behind wasted glass, plastic, steel, and aluminum. That adds up to excessive amounts of fossil fuels and hydropower for mining, processing, refining, shaping, shipping, storing, refrigerating, and disposing of those materials. Of course, changing your drinking habits both at home and at work is applicable to just about every other habit, as well. You've heard it before and you'll hear it again: Reduce, reuse, and recycle.
10) Walk, bike, and carpool. In the United States, the car represents one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. However, you don't have to give up your car for a healthier planet, just expand your transportation options. You can significantly reduce your emissions by commuting to work. Try combining trips to minimize emissions, which are greatest at the beginning of a journey before the engine has reached optimum temperature and efficiency. When purchasing your next car, make it a fuel-efficient one. Hybrid cars can get twice the fuel efficiency of the average new car, cut greenhouse gas emissions by half or more, and reduce urban air pollutants. Carpooling saves energy, cuts on additional pollution, and allows you to take a turn as a passenger instead of driving everyday. Car-sharing (not pooling) is available in numerous U.S. cities. Car-sharing enables you to rent a car just when you need it. Each car-share vehicle displaces four to eight privately held cars, requiring less parking area and creating less road congestion. If you live within an hour's bicycle ride to the office (~10 miles), consider biking to work one or more days a week.
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I know I post some of these fireworks pictures in the small collage below, but I wanted to show them larger because, well, frankly, I am proud of myself. Since the photography forum I post them in continually fails to recognize my existence, you get them here.
I spent probably about an hour yesterday reading tips on how to photograph fireworks. I stressed over it and miraculously, my camera proved very easy to operate – even in the dark, packed in wall to wall people and after I had been drinking booze.
I also wanted to show the difference between the first and third picture in comparison to the middle shot. The first and third pictures were taken using full manual controls and a tri-pod. After I had some acceptable shots, I turned the camera on the Carry-On and took a few of her watching the fireworks. After that, I pointed the camera back to the fireworks and took the remaining shots on full-auto. Yuck. Aren’t numbers 1 & 3 much better?
If you are considering purchasing a digital SLR camera, I recommend it. The picture quality and fun you can have with it is well worth the cost.
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Thank you so much for including my design in your weekly sampler!
HOW TO START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK
1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it " George W. Bush "
3. Send it to the trash.
4. Empty the trash.
5. Your PC will ask you, "Do you really want to get rid of " George W. Bush?"
6. Firmly Click "Yes."
7. Feel better.
PS: tomorrow we'll do Dick Cheney...
