I've Got the Mid-Week Blahs

And I've had them since Tuesday!

I'd been going on enjoying some creativity this week, but work has brought me to a full stop.
:( It's sad when that happens. I've got a few photos to share of what I've been up to since my last post.

I finally did my spread in Kathleen's Little Black Dress deco in which we were to use one word to describe the dress. I chose the quintessential little black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in the classic Breakfast at Tiffany's. I love this movie and never thought that Holly was a call girl. I still don't. She's sad enough without that too. And I never could really like Patricia Neal after seeing how bitchy her character was to poor Holly.

Then we have a couple of vintage pets decos. I love these. You know how much I love dogs, so it's a pleasure for me to find images to use in these. The collie is named Timmy after a dog our neighbors had when I was a kid. We had a collie named Laddie (yes, so original!) when I was little and they had Timmy. He spent a lot of time at our house and people always referred to it as the house with the two collies. When they moved, they didn't take Timmy with them and just had someone feed him. It was so sad. He was a beautiful dog and all he wanted was to be with someone. After our Laddie was shot by a hunter (in Timmy's yard, too), Timmy was all alone. :( I was the only friend he had left and he used to sleep in the bushes under my bedroom window. So this is in memory of Timmy.

The other book features a cropped postcard of a Saint Bernard. You can see that he's an older dog. I wanted to think that he was cherished by someone. There's something about his expression that makes me want to hug him. Of course, I want to hug all dogs, especially the two Golden Retrievers who want me to get up and come over there to give them another treat!

I was really excited to receive Kathleen's Interactive Deco (on the right) and had planned to do something circus themed, but just couldn't get it done, despite my enthusiasm. So when I finally printed out my carefully chosen circus prints, that isn't what happened. Instead, I chose this pre-made page, took it apart, painted the spinner, stamped numbers to show through the window and Roman numerals on the top, then put some pointers and tabs on, covered the not truly round hole with a smaller circle with a true hole punched in the center so it would work right, added a few paper "washers" to cut down on the friction, covered the background to look like a clipboard,and sat back to look at it. What was this thing? Simple. It's the Popeil Pocket Dial-a-Number!

And finally, with the Fairy Princess Diary deadline looming over me, I decided on my background. I'd wanted a garden and a visible house, but wasn't quite sure how I wanted it to look. I found an original work online by someone and decided to draw a version of it for my own use. After carefully making an outline of the size I needed, I got out the box of Lyra watercolor crayons and here's the finished background. I think I'll scan it because I love it as is. But I want to see what it looks like once I add a bit of water to it. Maybe I'll just draw another on watercolor paper since this one is in my sketchbook, which wasn't intended for wet media.

I'll leave you with the driver's seat view of my work table, my lovelies. It's a mess. Projects in process everywhere. I can clean it off (again) but I'm always most creative when I have to sit my glue catalog on top of three WIPs! It's something about the muse. She has a mess fetish or something. She doesn't work in clean rooms!