Art Journal Pt. 2

I finished some more art journal pages that I like better than I thought I would! Here they are:

Some sleepy tulips

Robots! Their heads are scans of watch faces.

Woven

My friend and I did these- add on pictures

Scorpio constellation

Hagrid!

This looks crappy because of the glare on the tape- it's the phases of the moon. I taped it so the pennies wouldn't leave marks on the other pages.

A bit sideways, but this is a graphic of my favorite poem "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Elliot

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Decoratin'

I love to decorate. It's so much fun and inexplicably really relaxing. Here are some pics from my recent room re-decorations!

My bedside table- complete with an opal, a coral, crow feather, and some succulents.

The top part of my bookshelf. I got that large edition of all of Poe's works for only $7 on Amazon!!!

Cute lil' zen table with my bowl of fossils.

This is the wall over my bed. It always makes me super happy to look at. Found those butterflies at a thrift shop!!!


Also, I should note that most of the graphics I have hanging on that wall are found at the lovely Graphics Fairy website. Their stuff is amazing! Go check em out!

Artings

A few months ago I ran to the thrift store and picked up a 50 cent journal that I could paste little artsy odds and ends in whenever the mood struck.
The cover was beautiful, and when I returned home I found a lot of creepy articles from the 70's with titles like "Escape From the Living Tomb" and two copies of "Migrane: The Driven Person's Pain" that had been cut out and carefully preserved between the pages.
So... The journal is probably possessed. If I start writing "enemies of the heir beware" on the walls in blood please just let it happen because that would probably be the coolest thing that's happened to me in my entire life.

Anywhee, here are some of the recent pages from my journal. I really need to get a nicer camera.

Who even knows what's going on here.

Love them owls.

BUGSSSS

Alice in Wonderland characters- created with coffee splashes

A sailor frog, of course.

Pugs on wheels.

Nothing is complete without depressing existentialist poetry written on old receipts. Obviously poetry is also not a major strong point of mine.

A Billy Collins copycat poem and my name written in ancient runes. I do need to fix the poem so that there aren't two "cry's" in it.

Sewings

I've been looking at a lot of refashion blogs on the internet this week and really admired these peoples' ability to take something they found at a thrift shop and turn it into an absolute treasure. I spend so much time at our local thrift shop that I practically live there as the thrift shop troll so I thought I'd give it a try! If you can save all that money by just finding something cheap and ugly and turning it awesome, why not?
First thing I realized is that I am 100% NOT the sewing prodigy I thought I would be. I definitely cannot sew a straight line to save my life. But hey! This one actually turned out relatively well when you keep all that in mind. I've got two more dresses that I'm working on so posts about them will probably come later.

So here was the lovely dress beforehand.

It was long, too big, and riddled with all sorts of holes but I loooved the color and the patterns.
SO...
I removed the GIANT shoulder pads, brought in the waist, and shortened the sleeves and the hemline, and added in a zipper so that I could actually get the thing on which resulted in:

This is a lovely work selfie I took while balancing my phone awkwardly on a large stack of papers. HIGH CLASS! Also I'm standing in front of a garbage can. DOUBLE HIGH CLASS!

Anyway, I'm pretty happy with it. Here's the pattern on the chest that made me fall in love:

Good times, good times. It turned out far better than I thought it would! Tallyho!