Time keeps flying by… We are half way thru the year and I’ve kept up with the Art Calendar Challenge.
First we have the completed June page…
And a carnival inspired July ready to be filled with lots of fun stuff.
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It’s time to play a little catch up again with the calendars. I honestly was on time with these…I just had too many other things I wanted to blog about and this one got pushed to the back burner.
I added some little clouds to the sky part way through the month but other than that I just kept track of my days.
I’m not sure that I have any room to add anything to June. I got a little carried away but I like it!!
I knew it would happen at some point. That I’d fall behind with this project. I am catching up though. 
I completed my April calendar in a timely manner…really, I did.
May I had completely forgotten about until yesterday…so I got it done. It’s now ready to get filled in with all the fun things that I’ve been doing so far this month.
I’m keeping up!! I’m so excited that I dove in and took this art calendar challenge hosted by Kate over at thekathrynwheel.blogspot.com.
First I’ll show my completed March calendar. See… something every day. 
And I’m on time with my April calendar too! 
Really pastel and spring like. You can’t see it but the page is very rough from a new gesso brand I bought so we’ll see how that works out for writing on all month.
I’m a few days late but I made it with the first week of March so I’m calling that just fine after the past couple weeks of craziness our house has endured. I’m pretty sure our challenge hostess, Kate, won’t rap me on the fingers with her ruler.
Here we have my February calendar all filled out and very simply decorated.
For March I was thinking Shamrocks and Leprechauns even though I don’t have an ounce of Irish in me. Although given I’m 100% Norwegian with strawberry blonde hair and green eyes…they was likely a bit mixing of the blood way back in the Viking times. 
I wanted to use alcohol ink for this one. I thought sure it would stay on top of the glossy paper and give a much different effect. I was wrong. It bled into the paper. I then hit it with some straight up alcohol trying to thin things out since the color was so dark. It certainly helped but I did not achieve the desired look. Oh well…live and learn. I have exactly 12 of these pages so I’m determined to use them and not scrap it if it turns out odd.
My paint was pooling up so nicely in spots that I thought it could use a wee bit o’gold…ok now I’m trying to hard. Anyway…the paint got a sprinkle of gold which really added a nice touch of bling.
Here we are with the first check in and I’m 2 days late. Nice. Oh well…I made it and that’s all that matters.
I managed to get something in each day. Just a brief note about my day…or a picture…or whatever came to mind. I noticed that Sunday I don’t really have much to talk about.
My February calendar is ready to go… I’ll likely add more embellishment along the way but for now I’m thinking that I’m going to leave my calendar pages somewhat unadorned then if/when the mood strikes during the month I can add whatever I want.
I like that I only have an inch and a half to fill…well likely more like 1.25 inches. Short and sweet, no pressure journalling. Just my speed. I’ve got to get dinner going but I’ll be back later to check out the linky gadget over at thekathrynwheel.
I’ve debated a couple years now on joining this challenge.
I admire those who document their life in some way.
Yes, I blog. Yes, I keep a calendar both on paper and computer. But that’s not exactly what I had in mind.
I’ve thought about so many options such as Project Life, December Daily, daily journal or even a pocket calendar such as my mom uses to write a snippet of her day. Then my mind went back to the art calendar challenge put forth by Kathryn Wheel. I’ve been following several blog friends through there journeys over the past year. I decided this was the time.
Besides…it’s way too cold to do anything in the basement where my art space resides. Now that I have the background done for this project, I can do the rest where its warmer.
I plan to bind each page separately into the book covers using a technique I saw years ago in a library book. Hopefully, I can pull it off when the time comes.
Remember I said it was cold….
This is my front door…
Governor Dayton called off school for today last Friday knowing the Arctic blast we’d be experiencing today. The kids are hoping for yet another day off tomorrow. I’d say that’s pretty doubtful but they can dream.
Stay warm and safe everyone!!