Yep, I took some time off. For six weeks, I rested, had the floors redone in my house (which means we moved out and then moved back in two weeks…
Weekly Recap: February 19-26, 2017
Tag Making Video
For the Get Messy Season of Art 101, I decided to make a tag book. I’m creating individual tags and then adding them to a ring book. I decided to…
Not Your Babe Magazine
We Get Messy Gals are at it again! We like to make things AND we like to donate money to charity. So when a theme emerges someone (in this case…
Take January
You may remember in November that we had a hot water tank leak here at the Granade Casa. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas we went back and forth with our insurance…
Weekly Recap: December 25-31, 2016
Sunday, December 25, 2016, 358/366 Christmas day with a manger scene in my Season of Gifts book. Monday, December 26, 2016, 359/366 Reminder to pay attention to the basics….
2016 Goal Recap
It’s that time of year when I revisit what I’ve accomplished in the past 365 days. Goal setting is something I started four years ago when I began my “Make Something…
Weekly Recap: December 18-24, 2016
Sunday, December 18, 2016, 351/366 Thinking about Aleppo and justice. Monday, December 19, 2016, 352/366 Christmas present work. Tueesday, December 20, 2016, 353/366 Emergency Christmas gift. Wednesday,…
Weekly Recap: December 11-17, 2016
Sunday, December 11, 2016, 344/366 Working in my Season of Gifts journal. Here’s the gift of time. Monday, December 12, 2016, 345/366 This is the North American Traveling Art…
Weekly Recap: December 4-10, 2016
Sunday, December 4, 2016, 337/366 I’ve got a pretty big backlog of college/mixed media pieces going on now. I like batch gluing like this and then I can pull from…
Weekly Recap: November 27-December 3, 2017
Sunday, November 27, 2016, 330/366 Busy day settling back into our routine after a week away. My greatest creative endeavor was soup. Monday, November 28, 2016, 331/366 It is a…
In Process
How’s your December to-do list? If it’s like mine it is bonkers straight on down to ridiculous. In addition to all of the usual holiday shenanigans, we also had a…
Weekly Recap: November 20-26, 2016
Thanksgiving week always takes my family to the beach. We meet up with my husband’s family and it is a time of rest and fellowship. I work with a limited…
Get Messy Creative Team 2017
Remember last week when I talked about disappointment? So what I couldn’t tell you was that I had good news to share as well. It’s official as of Monday, I…
Weekly Recap: November 13-19, 2016
Sunday, November 13, 2016, 316/366 Working on this shawl again. I think I can finish it in another couple of sittings. Monday, November 14, 2016, 317/366 Started a new commissioned…
Dealing with Disappointment
Back in the summer a friend of mine pointed out a grant she was thinking of applying for with the Sustainable Arts Foundation. I had just finished the block of…