House painting

Painting my double shot-gun style house

Look at how pretty she is. 

I use trace paper for most drawings when I need to be accurate.
 I laid down my computer screen and found a nice photo of my place on google maps.
The canvases were purchased at Dollar Tree *which is where most of my small project canvases are bought from - most of the time they have a nice selection*
I used two 6x8 inch canvases. 

                                                                   First in pencil

                     Initially I painted a day time background but then decided for a darker blue 

                           background with one of the best night time features: the MOON. 

All finished. For the smaller details on the black iron fence and screen door I used a 

black fine tip permanent marker. 

Did you notice my signature stamp and the year in the bottom right corner...yup I painted this in 2018 but finally posted it in 2020. Shocked? I wouldn't be. Ha.

On display and off center. 

DIY: A Question & Answer Journal for 3 years

 I recently discovered a book where you fill out a question a day for 5 years or shorter/longer depending on the type of book.

I liked the idea, was about to purchase it for $10.99 and then said NOPE, I can make that. 

I found cheap journals at Walmart in September 2019 (after back to school season).

The original price was $6.99 and I bought 2 for $1.50 each.

Each journal has 192 pages. 

At first I though they meant 192 pages of paper and I figured that meant 384 total pages of paper (front & back).

I was wrong.

So initially I was going to make this a five year journal but with the pages being shortened I fit 2 questions per page and made this a 3 year journal. 

Lesson: map out (sticky note) your pages before you start your project!

Materials:

• Journal
• Scissors or paper cutter guillotine 
• Glue stick or adhesive spray
• Markers
• Handy-dandy print out pages of questions or make your own!

Here are my questions. I will also attach a Google document so it will be easier to change up the questions to your personality.

Legend: because my questions are tailored to my personality you might want to change it

• Yellow highlight: personal questions tailored to me
• Green highlight: these questions are for holidays/events & you might want to keep them in place so they line up correctly. 
• Purple highlight: my birthday question, you might want to move this to your b-day. 
• Blue highlight: also questions that should stay at that number since it is referenced in the first cover page.
• Extra question ideas at the bottom to replace my personal ones.