Tattoos

I just wanted to pop in for a moment to let you know I'm alive. These past few weeks have been some crazy times. It's hard to believe that in just three short weeks this semester will be over. I have some more work to share with you shortly, but for today I thought I'd share tattoos.

This was the next day.  By day three my arm swelled up so big! I was freaking out, the swelling carried all the way down into my forearm. I don't have a picture, because I was so freaked out. A friend recommended benadryl and that helped significantly. But it also knocked me on my ass.

Well, I hope to be back shortly for my Project Monday post. I haven't been able to keep up these past two weeks, but I aim to pick back up again where I left off. But it's time to go help the little bug with her homework!

Project Monday- Use your word in a sentence....

Instead of making resolutions or goals, some prefer a word. A simple word to live by for an entire year. My word is truly a part of me. My word is tattooed on the inside of my left wrist. Inspire. I love to be the inspiration, and I love to be inspired. It is a word truly at the core of my life, it is a word that represents who I am. This world is so beautiful, so inspiring, there is so much out there and everyday it breathes a new life of creativity into me. Everyday I am inspired to carry forward with my hopes and my dreams. Every setback inspires me to push harder, encourages me to explore the options, think in new ways.

have a wonderful evening! - XO. K.

Learning Impulse & Art of Thrift

I am not really an impulsive person by nature. I am a planner, a long time thinker, a gatherer of opinion. I usually mull over whatever my decision is for a while, then I start talking to friends and family about it, then I might make a decision after that.
So I did something totally impulsive on Friday, and got some new tattoos. I was inspired (of course) by someone else's tattoos of words with personal meaning, and that night I went home and thought about what words have personal meaning in my life? For me, right now, those words are "inspire beauty".
As an artist, you want to be an inspiration to the world around you, you want to bring some of you own personal beauty into it. I am finished with all my core curriculum at school, and it is art from here on out, but I find my creativity stifled. I wanted something to remind me everyday to look at the world with a creative eye, and to never forget what my passion is no matter how hard things get.

So while we are on the subject of being impulsive, I also did a sort of "impulsive" scrapbook page yesterday. I just printed a recent picture I took and just put it together with the first things I grabbed (instead of laying it all out, moving it to different positions, switching out patterns, etc.) It took me about twenty minutes, and I am pleased with the result. Hey, if I could be this quick every time I scrap, maybe I might actually get some more pages done.

Supplies Used: Paper-Cosmo Cricket, Stickers- Sassafrass, October Afternoon (labels) and KI Memories (lovely), Rubons- K & Co., Plastic Flowers- Heidi Grace, Letters- Sandy Lion, Other- Simplicity Sewing pattern, Catalog page, Doily, Receipt, Staples

Guess my next impulse move should be to clean my house....-XO K.

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