Art journaling with a touch of scrapbooking By Maryann 4rm Zero !

Sooo much goin' on , but Im lovin' it ! : P

Greetings & Salutations my friends ! How are all of you ? Well I am very overwhelmed with exciting things heading my way and I can't wait to show you the journey ! First off I am going to my yearly Coachella Music Festival , so I can't wait to show you that lovely journey and my remodeling of my home is back on so its suppositely gonna be done in 3 months so thats exciting so cross your fingers all goes well with that ! In the crafty department , I am making clothes for the music festival Im going to so I will also show you how those garments turn out & Im free motion quilting my travels to Europe about 5yrs ago . So all these things I got cooking plus found my focus on what I will be selling on my etsy that I have been yapping about but haven't put up because I was loosing focus on what to make and what to sell . I wanted to make sure it was a , " Me Thing " and that I wasn't trying to be someone else . I know that Im not Suzi Blu , or Tam /Willowing , Im not just a mixed media artist , and my medium is sewing /designing so I wanted to make sure that whatever I was going to make that it was truly me , not just another teacher in mixed media cuz lord knows there are plenty of mixed media teachers to choose from . I have always made clothes , and anything cloth and I just wanted to stick to my roots a little . So! I have finally found my place ! Very excited about finding myself through it all .

I still love my other crafts as well . Besides the mixed media arts , I still do my music with the hubby & we're finishing our music studio & after that we will be doing our next album , but whats more sweet about that is , its not just digital , its old school tape baby! Yes thats right ! ANALOG TAPE!! Like the good ol' days. Its gonna be sweet sounding tape squished through digital , its gonna be really warm sounding , can't wait ! My films that I do . I love still doing them . Every year I do a film on Coachella . I did a 3 part series last year . This year Im going to make it a little more documentary like . Im hoping I will be able to submit it into a couple of film festivals , which Im really excited about .

All in all life is one crazy journey , and Im determined to enjoy it! This last weekend was my birthday . I turned 42 . When this happened my daughter asked me "How do you feel being 42 mom ? I thought about it & said , " Not bad actually ! I don't feel mid-life crisis-ie , like alot of women I see around my neighborhood here in the desert LOL!" , we had a good laugh then my daughter & her dad ( my hubby) said lets take you on a good hike , like we use to do back in the day . I said sure I miss those hikes! Boy! Was I in for it ! I went on that hike that took 2 hours and I am recovering from the aches from it . My legs feel like their gonna fall off LOL! It was fun and I told them , Im glad I did it , & that I still got it at 42 !

So...thats whats been going on my bloggin' friends , I do have a art journal video in waiting that I need to edit and all that jazz , hopefully I can have that out before Coachella . Please ! make the best of life no matter what . Your not gonna get rid of your problems or troubles over nite , so grab a hold of them and remember to remind yourself that everything is going to be ok , somehow , someway . I do alot of worrying about family,friends,my stuff and you just have to ride it out . Thats all I can tell ya , because when I put all of that aside , life in the center , is really sweet!

I love my hubby , my daughter , my grandbaby very much , their love keeps me going , they made this birthday a really good one I tell ya. : P

Thanks for listening & stopping by it truly means so much to me ! : p

Love,

Maryann K.

Wishcast Wednsday : What do you wish for the world...

Hello ! Greetings & Salutations friends ! Again not been hangin' with my wishcast sistas , so sorry , I have missed you much , I really have . This mornin' I woke up and said to myself , " Its wednsday ! make sure you stop by Jamie Ridler's Wishcast Wednsday ! " , and here I am ! How have you all been ? Anyways today Jamie tandlizes our minds with the question , what do you wish for the world ? Well , Peace and Serenity NOW!!! The planet feels us destroying her and all for greed , we humans chop up the rainforest to use the land , for more shopping malls and track homes , when these investors are told what they are doing , they don't care its money they want , not saving the planet . How about whats going on with Africa with building a freeway to get to a metal that a company needs for cellphones , they don't even care what this will do to all the animals in the safari; that I wish to see someday, but yet that might not happen, because it will kill off the animals and they will become extinct. Lets not forget the natural disasters like hurricanes , tornatoes , and just recently the earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan . Or leaks such as the oil spills in the gulf of mexico , the possible nuclear meltdown. This all effects our precious mother earth , that we owe our exsistence to .

So to answer the question I did an art journal page on it . What I wish for is Serenity for the earth and her people ( US! )

Sorry if I got all righteous , but all this stuff just makes me feel so hopeless at times , because those of us who try by recycling , conserving water , it really isn't enough when you have corporations destroying the world with tons of money behind them , and how do we stop them , when all they have to do is buy people to walk away .

Until next time Wishcasters I love you as always and thanks for listening and stopping by!

Luv & Muah!

Maryannk

Well... Im getting back into the swing of art ,jus tryin' to stay there..

Hello everyone! So I hope all of you are having a wonderful 3 day weekend . Mine has been taking care of managing family properties , and boy let me tell ya! It ain't no picnic LOL!

But you know how it goes... ya just trudge along , and you get rewarded , like getting to just dive into your art . I find that its really hard to dive back in after dealing with so much crapola LOL! I hope to organize my time and my mind so that this won't be a continous issue for me . Neways!! so this picture above is a altered kiddies board book I was working on in Tams Art & Healing freebie class she has . This was about our childhood , and what we wanted for ourselves . It was a bit tuff , being my parents split up when I was so young and I never really knew my father or his family but! this was really healthy for me to do . When I got started today , this is where I was at , ready to begin this next assignment .

TaDa!!! Here is the finished page . I really need a braer , when I see Tam using hers , and talkin' it up on how much she loves her braer , and I see what it can do , I start salvating cuz I can tell that is the magic on top of it all . Got to seriously pick one of those up! So I did the whole credit card smudging process.. wah! wah! but it got the job done , and it doesn't look that bad right? I was very impressed with the transfer picture technique , it was a little intimidating but I got it! This was a picture of me when I was about 3 years old . I didn't realize how much my grandbaby looks like me . : )

So my final mission for tonite is to work on this other project Im working on . I have decided that the only way Im gonna be able to put out my art on my etsy to sell to all you fine people is to make 3 at a time of things that pop up in my head . So now I have limited myself to three different arts and make 3 of them each . I think I can do that...I do. So until next blog I hope to have the reveal of the creatations !

Thanks for listening as always!

Muah! XOXO

Maryannk

Art Journaling " The Oasis In My MInd " By MaryAnn 4rm Zero!

Finally settled back in to my home in the desert...

Hello friends! I have missed coming by & just talkin' to yaz , my life got really crazy where Art got stopped . I must say its the worst feeling . Since the kids went out on their own , I finally get to a point in my life where I feel free & finally dive into my art , without that much fear (LOL!) and just start doing it , then obligation kicks me in the ass! Not fair I tell ya! Why! is all I could say . So off Dave & I went to deal with things that my inlaws can't do anymore . I realized that I have to seriously organize my time . Write down list for my day and finish as much as I can . I have so many ideas , yet I haven't even got their with one of them ,not one! I wanted so badly to put my etsy up and just never did . I really feel like a failure , but I know that I just have to push harder. I know I will get there . I am an artist of all things and that is just what I will sell . I may not sell mass quanitities because I don't have the time to do that , with my music starting to take off ,so Im not home as much these days , but I do come home and when I am home thats the time to make stuff and get it out there . If I could only show you now! I have so many cool ideas! well..

in due time .

My to do list today :

1. tiddy up a bit so I can think .

2. clean up my email.

3. go through my mail pile & clean that up.

4. MAKE SOME ART!

Thank you all for stopping by , it means a bunches!

MUAHZEZ!

MaryAnnK.

Back into my Art Journal Life! Its about time!

Hello friends ! I have missed talkin' to yaz! I in the last 3 weeks I have been in Palm Springs . Unfortunately not for fun but to be a watch guard for the remodeliing of the families vacation rental . Let me tell ya it was not fun , all I could think of was making art and hiking in the Palm Canyon . I got to finally only because I wouldn't be useful to the guys so I was able to sneak away for a couple of hours . This was for the art journal video Im making . I do miss making my artsy fartsy art journal videos , their one of my favorite crafts to do .I really wanted Dave to come along , but he said there was no way he could go , so I went by myself . The Palms are amazing I tell ya! The photo above is the art journal page I was doing for the video.

This place was just breathe taking! I just feel like Im meditating while Im walking.Its a beautiful place to be in your mind , it rejuvenates it .

Hearing the creek flow in its beauty was just so calming....

There wasn't a picture you could take that wasn't a good one this place was too beautiful not to catch a great photo . The Palm trees just kept smiling at me as the breeze swung them back and forth , side to side...they danced for me! : P

You felt & saw the past everywhere you went . You could feel the indian spirts guiding you through their trails as you walked them . These wigwahms really took me into the past and a very serene place my soul was...

I will be putting up a video hopefully tomorrow . I came back home on Thursday nite and I have been in a coma from friday to saturday . Today I actually was off my bed doing things around the house . I felt normal again! It was great to feel that feelin' again . I hate not having any energy .

This was the art journal page I did today while watching the Superbowl today .

As always , thanks for coming by here and hearing what I have to say . It truly means alot .

Until next time I luvs ya! Muahez!

MaryAnn K.