HELLO NOVEMBER
hello to our first Thankful leaves today....
hello to finding the small joys each day....
hello to Sam's birthday in 9 days....
hello to THANKSGIVING.....
hello to maybe some snow (if Sams wish comes true)....
hello to smelling Thanksgiving cooking all morning....
hello to ordering the SEAFOAM 2012 Project Life Kit.....
hello to finishing up my homemade Christmas cards....
hello to cozy evenings with a blanket and book....
hello to pumpkin pie and whip cream....
hello to BASKETBALL starting....
hello to turkey leftovers....
hello to planning what kind of December Daily to make next month
hello to getting the kids new wintergear to wear outside in the snow....
hello to maybe Black Friday Shopping....????
hello to making Christmas gifts again this year.....
hello to a month long of being Thankful....
hello to cranberry sauce and stuffing....
hello to early morning light but not to earlier sunsets...
hello to Thanksgiving parades....
hello to my FAVORITE month....
So what makes this month so special...THANKSGIVING!!! It is my favorite holiday along with my hubby's. He does most of the cooking that day. We can't wait for it too come, HAPPY DANCE!! I'm excited to do this first HELLO post today. I've always been inspired by my dear friend Tracey's each month and had to do it for my favorite time of year. Thanks Tracey for the inspiration. These are the first Thankful leaves from today, click on image to see better. Sam didn't want to do his yet but the rest of us got ours in and even did more then one. I will be adding a poem in the middle of this later on. Please feel free to do a thankful project and share it here with me, would love to have others.
I am way past due to show some art and so I have some pieces to share. This one and the next few are inspired from my creative and sweet friend Shahrul. She did a rainbow page with masking tape on it and then ripped off some of the tape. I LOVE THIS IDEA!! I knew right away that FALL would be my word to outline with masking tape. I then painted over it with fall colors and a quick doodle around the edges. Then I pulled off the tape and this is how it looked. I then did more pages.
On this page it's about WORDS TO LIVE BY for me. I left some of the tape on the shapes after paitning them. Just did some doodling around each one, nice and simple the way I like it. This was fun for me too and I like all the colors and doodles. Will do this one again with different theme.
went with the fall theme again. leaves one the left and tree on the right. I thought about filling in the leaves but I am always wanting "WHITE" space on most of my art and scrapping so I left it and want to do more. I have done a tree like this before, I forgot all about it. I LOVE seeing these fall colors in the background, must do more of these and then winter ones too. Thanks Shahrul for inspiring me. Sorry it took me so long to post these.
Happy November everybody, I"M THAKFUL FOR ALL OF YOU!!!!
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Oh yes!!. So GLAD you did this :). You're so clever with making the masking tape tree & the leaves. I never thought of creating a word out of masking tapes alone!. FALL is looking great. I LOVE how you paint & doodle around the masking tapes, I feel like doing that again :). Oh, Thanksgiving month is coming up so fast I could smell pecan & pumpkin pies already!!. TFS girl :).
ReplyDeleteThank you Shahrul, so glad you liked them all. I was inspired so much by your page. Would love to see you do this again and I plan on doing more too. Love that your excited about Thanksgiving and yummy pies too. My hubby and I are counting down. HUGS!!
DeleteI love your thanksgiving art journal pages! I think the tree is my fave, but they are all awesome! It's so inspiring that you do the leaf gratitude project each year! Can't wait to see the door fill up with leaves!
ReplyDeleteHello Dear Friend,
ReplyDeleteI loved this post and loved your Hello post. I now have another thing to add to my America list - thanksgiving and black friday shopping. AT this rate I will have to stay for months LOL.
Love the masking tape tree, seriously love it.
Love me :-)
Hi dawn, i do like you tree its best out of all... i wish i had $$ and day off for black friday shopping... yep trees are getting bare.. and i made it back after train delay!!! Lol ohh turkey, stuffing, mash potatoes, pumpkin pie cant wait!!!!!
ReplyDeletelooks fab!
ReplyDeleteHello friend!
ReplyDeleteLoved this post, so fun!!! Your "hello" posts made me giddy and excited for the holidays..I just love this time of year, isn't it magical? Beautiful art as always..
Great post. I want to remember something to be grateful for for each day of this new month.
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