Summer of Color-Downtown Brown

Brown brown the color brown...You would think it is an easy color, there is Brown in trees, brown on some floors, Brown in many recycled things, this weeks Summer of Color-Was BROWN, There are a few songs about BROWN but not a lot.

Songs About The Color Brown

Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown
Mint Condition - Breakin' My Heart Pretty Brown Eyes
D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
The Coasters - Charlie Brown
Crystal Gayle - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue (1977)
Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter

Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

This is the song I have always  liked, but then again I am a Brown Eyed Girl so why wouldn't I? But also because it takes me back to night dancing on Catalina Island around a fire pit and someone playing the guitar and laughing and having a good time. Then I thought of how everyone out on Catalina recycled everything. It cost so much for trash pick up because it was an island and most of the kids were homeschooled so these recycled things made great projects. 


I did my usual wear some brown but I forgot to take any pictures of me this week so I am adding an old picture with the outfit I wore this week for my inspiration. I love this little Brown Summer outfit. It gave me great inspiration this week.

This got me to thinking about the color Brown and recycled things and I decided to make a mini journal this week. Not to FILL the journal but to MAKE one that someone else could fill in.

 I started with an old cracker box and cut off the sides. I wanted to use another color to ff set all the brown so I painted the front and back Green for my Bold Shot of Color challenge!

 Then I gathered my Brown pieces together, Brown Paper, Brown Paint, add on pieces that had brown in them and other small items. I found some cute Brown mini card stock and glued it down to the box.

 Then I cut out the center where the leaf was and added some stickers.

I added some stickers to the back too!

I added some smaller pieces on the inside

Filled it with other journal pages

and added some cute embellishments

The final project! TADA!

Are you ready for the surprise, out of the middle of nowhere ending to this blog that you didn't see coming??? Well, are ya? I thought so!


As a thank you for all the wonderful ideas, prompts, and hard work...I am GIVING THIS TO KRISTIN at TwinkleTwinkleLikeaStar!! Yay Kristin!!! Woot woot! I tried to get your addy from Michelle secretively to send it to you, but as a good friend she did not give out your address without your permission. (Which btw makes it very hard to send a secret gift when you have to ask the person) :)


So I did the next best thing that came to mind....Secret Surprise!


Thank you so SOOOOOOOOOOOO much for all the fun ideas and challenges. Not only these prompts but seeing others work has really challenged me creatively and really helped my work improve! My goal to be more Creative is a success and I want to thank you from the bottom of my Mod Podge, Collaging, Creative heart! LOL! :)

Summer of Color-Yellow Me Baby!

This last week we were to work on our Yellow. As hard as I tried I just couldn't Yellow it up. I started out feeling Yellow and Happy but I ended up desiring to wear RED most of the week. I decided to do something simple but still fun for my Yellow Project. AS always here are a few images to Yellow It Up and my Project is at the end...

Yellow Inspiration Card I made a long time ago!

Bees picture I won from Cottage Grove Blog

Yellow Papya Lotion to keep me smelly Yellow Pretty

My other Yellow Inspirational items

Wore my Yellow Dress on Monday...

My Bag and Stich Glue!

Liquid Stitch Glue

Yellow Candy to keep me sweet :)

I folded over the edges and added the glue

I also folded over the other sides inside out to make my bag and glued it...

Fed the ribbon through  by attaching a safety pin to the ribbon then pulling it through

Laid it out to dry a few hours

TADA! My Cute Little Yellow bag!

In the Sun Week 4

16 - Summer Rain
17 - Summertime in Flight
18 - Summer Trends
19 - Road Trip Playlist

Summer Rain-What I like to do on Rainy Summer Days is mostly read, play video games, or cuddle

17 - Summertime in Flight
The bugs that fly in our are of Iowa that are common and the ones I don't mind too much are below:)

I like doing two page spreads I think :)

Butterflies

Cicadas, Dragonflies, Bees and Ladybugs

 18 - Summer Trends

The Summer Trend I seem to be joining in on is the Sundresses or Sundresses and Boots look. I wore a cute sundress to a concert we had this year called 80/35 and I threw my boots on for good looks. I sure got some heads turning and a lot of "Great Look" comments from the passers by!!

I chose to do a  simple page for the Summer Trends. Mostly because I spent so much time on the Road Trip page because I am doing something for SR2 that has a Road Trip theme so it kept me busy! I am looking for a big boot sticker and I might cut out some sundresses later, but for right now this is ok.

19 - Road Trip Playlist

And...to add to the page jsut like Natalie did (because I too love Playlist.com) I added my Playlist below. Go to Playlist.com and make your own for your Vacation, for Summer or for any reason at all!


http://www.playlist.com/playlist/22186778891/standalone

  

Fun "In the Sun"-Week 3

11 - Take A Vacation!
12 - Stay Cool
13 - Summer Wishlist
14 - Triple Dog Dare (Not done yet because she said I must have pictures)
15 - I just HAVE to...




These are the ones for week three and I must say I had to really think hard about some of these...

Just Have To and Stay Cool

Just Have To

 Just Have to have ice cream, eat watermelon, eat sweet treats like cakes, etc, go on a Weekend Getaway, lather in the sun and get sun kissed

Stay Cool

 I also Just Have to Stay Cool and have a BBQ, make smores, and splish ans splash in a body of water somewhere!

Now for the Vacation piece I must share the song that I kept thinking about... Vacation by the Go Go's. It wouldn't let me embed it but you can click on the link Click Here

Vacation

Vacation

Vacation

 For my Vacation's I love to go to a Beach or be by a body of water that even has a Fake Beach. I am originally from California and I love the Beach and living in Iowa right now suck in the summer because we don't have a REAL beach but at least there are a few lakes with some Fake Beaches!


I also really love to go on a Road Trip which is funny cuz Natalie just gave that to us as a Prompt but I already used this sticker and put it in this one so I guess I will just have to be creative for the Road Trip one...oh darn :)

Summer Wish List

 I was inspired by TWO blogs to do a Summer Wish List and I decided to do that this way instead of in my Art Journal book for In the Sun. If you want to read more about this and the blog Pink and Green Mama Blog go here to check it out Click Here

As I said above I don't have my Triple Dog Dare yet and will have to add that later. It will be a surprise because it is something I always wanted to do but haven't yet and I am going to take a class for it but they can't get me in yet. Once I do then I will snap up some shots of me and make my page!

Thanks so much for this class. It is so much fun and I am really enjoying myself! :)

My Summer Wish...Inspired by a New Mama and Papa :)

You learn somewhere along the way that in the course of your life as a blogger writer and a blogger write that you are going to stumble upon some not so good blogs, some good blogs, some blogs that are great and then the ones that TRULY inspire you. The Pink and Green Mama Blog is just that. Of course as you all know I have a few others I like but this is my most recent find and immediately I fell in love.

I saw a bunch of cute ideas and things to inspire my soul and I just had to jump right in. Most of the classes and ideas are for home schoolers but as I wrote on the Facebook Page that the kid in me had to join and they wholeheartedly agreed.

I had seen that one of the ideas they did was to write down all the things they wanted to do for summer and I knew right away I had to make my own version of that too! I had the Perfect Paper Stock and the PErfect Stickers and the Perfect Markers

.What's ON my list?

• Blow Bubbles
• Do Nothing
• Write Letters
• Make Paper Airplanes or Cranes
• Read under a shade tree
• BBQ
• Do some Volunteeering
• Eat Watermelon
• Make Popsicles
• Have a Water Balloon toss
• Run through the sprinklers
• Chase down an Ice Cream Truck
• Sleep late on a Sunday
• Make a Summer Mix CD
• Swing
• Catch a Firefly
• Create Art
• Light a Sparkler
• Go CAmping
• Take online Classes
• Have an outdoor picnic
• Dance in the rain
• Go for a Hike or on a trail
• Take some amazing Photos-then make a summer video out of it
• Mini Golf
• Bird Watch
• Plant a Garden
• Roast Marshmallows
• Fly a Kite
• Bike Ride
• Slip n Slide
• Wash Car for Fun
• Go to a Ballgame
• Learn a new skill
• Relax

So why don't you be creative and get your resources together either for yourself or with your kids and find a creative way to make your summer wish list. Check out the The Pink and Green Mama Blog for ideas on how to do it and other great summer ideas for you OR your kids OR the KID INSIDE YOU!!