After watching a lot of SHE Art Videos

I had to try these techniques myself! 

So I bought three canvas artpanels (half A4)

 Boy ... did I have fun! 

I loved working with the 3d modelling paste (top left corner ) 

and I think on this I used all my stuffs! :) 

Two of them went to a couple of my best dutch friends 

for their Birthdays  last weekend.

The blue one I made just for ME !

By the way - You can ORDER one if you like !

Mail me for more info please ! 

On Facebook , 
I overheard some people talking about 

"What is your Animal totem"...

I looked it up on Google and found some crappy 
Quizes about the theme. 

Everytime I took one I had a different totem....GAH! 

That didn't work obviously.

Then I started thinking... 
what Animal has been and is sort of always around me... 

As I child I was always on the look out for Ladybugs.
I even held them in jars! But never too long..

They tend to land on me a lot, 
and I always make sure they are okay 
and fly away again safe.

When we moved back to our house with our Office,

we cleaned and I found a Ladybug 
(mind you: this was in january!)

Later on that day, sitting outside having a beer in the springsun,

 one landed on my chair!       So ..... LADYBUG it is! 

  

left page

Love all the things that belong with the Ladybug totem, 

they really resonate !

 

right page

Funny thing is, my soul-mate and me are totally in love 

with Holy Mary Statues. We have at least 10 of them

standing around in our living room!

And guess what: The Ladybug used to be called  

"Beetle of our Lady"

Gotta love it!:D

This was the first SOULISTRY spread I made in the first week of april 

and I have to admit... I really LOVE IT.

Working on this was so wonderful!

The week was already very special, spiritually wise. 

One evening I had picked a great Goddess Oracle card (by Doreen Virtue)

The Goddess was Ixchel ...

 31 march 2012

This spread took loooooong, I just couldn't get the background 

and layering the way I wanted it..

The angel is dressed in antique French lace :)

4th april 2012 

I am really happy with this one, but the face wouldn't have worked

 without the guidance of Effy Wild  

 (Being a Fairytale Lover, I picked a quote 

from Hans Christian Andersen)

 This has become my spread for the entire Month of March

Here are the Close ups

The pages speak for themselves I think :)

March was just so good for me!

 The Spring weather, my work and my relationships,

even online in the Book of Days Sisterhood  

... my dear sisters in Art.

Lots of Mind-fullness going on :))

I am totally in balance with myself

and so GRATEFUL for everything!

THE EARTH LOVES IN FLOWERS

These pages I made over last week.

Inspired by Effy Wild's video of monday and
Milliandes Seed journal

First I did the backgrounds. Gesso and lots and lots of layers...

 Mind you, after the first layers I actually got up from my chair, 

and stood painting like a real artist *lol*

I even started to fingerpaint out of the bleu.
And my new BFF the Brayer did its job!

(The red heart was send to me by Pattie B. !)

 

The poppy's and poppyseeds are my '3 am people' and all the new
ones that have come into my life through Book of Days

I was really going out of my comfort-zone artwise here!

I am always terribly neat and very organized.

It almost felt like I ran a fever, I have never been so dirty after arting!

It was so not me, so new and so out of the box

it felt GREAT!

BOD Volume #2

My Book of Days volume 2 is ready to go! :)

I think this one will be a crossover between  
Art journal and Junque Book of Days

I am happy with the cover and the back, the colors are warm
and the layering is deepand I feel totally in Balance with it.
Worked on it for more than 5 hours!

Of course my word of the Year : CHERISH 

will be remained, it feels just what it should be for 2012!