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BELIEVE… My First Mixed Media Piece

So I decided to do a piece revolving around my word for 2011. The one criteria I had was it had to be a mixed media piece. I wanted to challenge myself because I don’t do mixed media (I’m a one media at a time type of gal – lol). So I played with new … Continue reading →

It is Finish It Friday but Nothing is Finished–lol!

I have about eight projects going on at the same time but not one is finished. The main reason why I postponed a blog post today was to see if I could actually get something finished. Not so much. Today I worked on finding a screen video capture program so we can record the Creative … Continue reading →

NOON TODAY! Creative EdVentures Presents The Paint Box

“Have you ever walked with ten cats on your head?” (Dr. Suess – One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish) I have no idea why but I felt compelled to start a blog post about my web TV show with that line but maybe that will compel everyone to turn in (Disclaimer – There … Continue reading →

Watercolor Basics: Picking the Perfect Color Palette

One of the questions I get asked the most is about what colors do I buy? Of course you can always buy a kit and 95% of the time these colors will be in that kit. If you are feeling adventurous you can go through and buy the following colors which will give you a … Continue reading →

How to Remove the Side Bars from Your Pages

If you notice on my pages I have eliminated the side bars on several of my pages. This was extremely easy, I promise (Jude easy!). In Blogger go into Posting –>Edit Page –> Edit HTML –> Place the following code in the box:<b:if cond=”data:blog.pageType == "static_page"”><style>.blog-pager, .footer, .post-footer, .feed-links, .sidebar { display:none !important;}#main-wrapper {width: 95%; … Continue reading →

Wordless Wednesday (sort of)

I have been working really hard on my stuff for my web show tomorrow (The Paint Box – NOON EST on Creative EdVentures Web TV) I think I have everything planned out perfectly, time, what I’m going to say (here’s hoping). That being said I treated myself to a Mothership Wit – Organic Wheat Beer … Continue reading →

Intense Debate is GONE!

I have stopped using Intense Debate – one problem I have to manually go back and enable the comments on all the posts. Hopefully that will be done some time in the next week (I have over 100 posts to do). I am sorry for the inconvenience and I am a little peeved that I … Continue reading →

Things I am working on… (and a Show Plug!)

This has been a pretty busy week and it is only Tuesday (yes a double post today!) I have decided that I wanted to do something different with my art work this year (aka: exploring a new media) so I decided to try my hand at mixed media. I have a work in progress that … Continue reading →

Split Pea Soup–Tasty Tuesdays!

I love pea soup and the only time I ever make it is after Christmas with the leftover ham. This past weekend was Split Pea Soup time! My recipe is extremely easy and really good! 8 Cups of Water 1lb Bag of Dried Split Peas 1/2 Onion Diced 3 Medium Carrots Sliced into Circles 3 … Continue reading →

Intense Debate–SIGH (UGH)!

I have been thinking about this for a while removing Intense Debate for my comments. I like it because I don’t get the SPAM I use to but I hate it because none of the comments are posting on the blog. Maybe the people who comment decide to only send the stuff straight to me … Continue reading →