Altered drawer...

Good morning!

Hope all is well with everyone!

Today I want to share a drawer that I found at an antique mall & altered.

I'm not much in a crafty mood these days

(depression & health issues can be such a pain in the rump)

 so I am trying to focus on cleaning, organizing and decorations for my home.

When I bought this drawer I didn't really have a plan, 

other than that I wanted to alter it in some way.

I bought it home and set it on the very messy floor in my office.

During one of my cruddy moods recently I decided that I was going to keep busy and the first place I headed for was that messy office floor!

(maybe I should do a post about that as well...we'll see)

In the midst of that cleaning spree I had my ah ha moment,

I was going to get rid of an unorganized mess on my desk and replace it with this drawer!

 

Woohoo,

Lookie, lookie....I took a before picture!

If you know me then you know I never remember to take a before picture of these things!

I used a Graphic 45 paper,

a Tim Holtz grunge board flourish, 

a piece of ribbon,

metal filigree flower, 

some mulberry flowers,

a yarn flower (made by me),

and some pearl trim bits.

After painting the drawer with cream (inside)

and black (outside)

I sanded here and there.

I finished off with a bit of vintage photo distress ink all over the paper.

Below you can see that I also sanded my flourish after painting it. 

Thank you for stopping by!

Wishing you all a warm, wonderful spring!

Stay dry!

DLP #3

Hey there friends!

#3 Documented Life Project at Art to the 5th Academy 

 is from January 17th

The Art Challenge is The Color Wheel

The Journal Prompt is "I found I could say things with color & shapes that I couldn't say any other way! (by Georgia O'Keeffe)

This was some more finger painting fun.
I stared at the challenge for a while and it finally hit me...
color "wheels"
LOL
So a few color circle that I added spokes to, to give me my wheels.
I added a few more circles in different sizes and outlined a bunch with a black pen then added some text around the "wheels".

Art to the 5th Academy 

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DLP #2

Good morning!

If you saw my last post then you know I'm playing catch up 

with the Documented Life Project over at

Art to the 5th Academy.

This is from January 10th

The Art Challenge - Gesso

The Journal Prompt - The beginning is always today

(by Mary Shelley)

I had no plan with this one, 

I just went a little finger painting happy.....

This was sooo much fun! 

Felt good to let go and see what happens!

It may not have been my favorite work of art when I finished

 but it is definitely growing on me and I'm so glad I was able to let go and do it!

Art to the 5th Academy 

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