Random Free Fonts

I recently took a doodling class online. A reasonable price it was but I have been looking for something that will help me with various styles. Well, today, while looking at my google front page, and noticing I have random free fonts that show up everyday on my front page, why don't I grab marker and paper, and practice the ones that show up every day. There are about five or six of them. Can you imagine how many fonts I can learn how to do, and find which ones I love the most to incorporate into my journaling or art work. Try it...random free fonts on google.

Creative Entrepreneurs and Right Brain Business Plan

Do you feel a bit dry? A bit incomplete with what you are doing? Need a bit of refreshing up and a different outlook on things. Creative Entrepreneurs and Right Brain Business Plan are two books out there on the market that can help with that.
I bought one in the bookstore and another on Amazon.
These two authors, ladies after my own heart-creative...they have gone out before me to learn and write about how I can be helped with my creative brain and integrate business and your creative self by asking many questions of yourself and journaling them along with your own creative prompts and drawings.
So, to you out there that need a lift, and you are a creative person, look up these books and read away. They are fun books also because they include your journaling and art techniques all into one.

Educating for Success and Contest

I have had so much fun lately, working on my life plan. I took all kinds of notes about myself and bought a poster board that I am going to enlarge the drawing and plan. Smack dab in the middle of the plan is my major life plan and goal for the future and that is to have an art gallery.

So, I wrote my business plan and typed it out, did a two part video with my son and sent it off today for the contest Rhea Perry designed. My video is on youtube.

Now I just have to wait patiently for over a week to find out who wins. There are three prizes: a $10,000.00, $1,000.00 and the third prize is a Kindle.

Maybe I can win. We will see and the best man, woman or family win!

Cheap Gardening and spring

My site is called crystalscreations not just for art, but for household ideas, gardening ideas and so much more.

I have done gardening in the past and have spent way too much money and have not even received produce from plants because of the draught or over raining.

So, this year, seed planting in all types of containers, not anything fancy. In fact, you can take an egg, crack it, remove the top part, wash out the shell, fill it almost to the top with soil and plant a few seeds; put the seeds on the top of the soil and push down. You can add a pinch of soil on the top. Do this with an many seeds as you wish and as many eggs that you can afford. Put the eggs into
a container or zip lock bag and freeze if you don't need to use them right away.

Spray the top of the soil and put the eggs into the carton and place in a secure location, free of pets. Watch daily for sprouting.

Egg Carton Gardening and Basil Seeds

Using egg cartons with peat moss or soil is a great way to start your seeds.
Here, I poked holes into the bottom of the 12 egg openings and added the peat.
I added basil seeds to each section, sprayed the peat with a small water sprayer, printed B A S I L on the flap to the carton, covered it with seran wrap and put it on top of the frig where it is warm and the seeds with stay damp.

I just have to remember to check on them daily, not to overspray so it becomes moldy, and not to let it dry out so the seeds will not sprout.

Seeds and Gardening and SPRING

This is peat moss when water is added to it. I didn't want it to topple over in the dish.



It's growing

This is the "peat" or soil and the beginnings of it's growth with water added. Watch and see what happens.


Got a head start with seeds this week to prepare for spring gardening.
The Dollar Store had seeds already with a pot and "peat" moss which they call soil.
Here are some pictures with steps of getting ready for the next couple of months.
I figure, even if this is all I get done, I may have some tomatoes, peppers and basil.
Great for pesto!

HowTo's Making Candle Craft

Supplies:

1. candles-preferably white but I used pink and light yellow
2. music
3. cardboard
4. burlap
5. buttons
6. glue

Cut a strip of cardboard and wrap around candle and glue.
Cut a less wide strip of music and wrap around the cardboard.
Glue your buttons on top of the music.

You can cut music, cardboard, and burlap and make your layers different:
Wrap with burlap then music then buttons...
Wrap music, then a strip of burlap then buttons
Wrap cardboard, then burlap then buttons...

I even wrapped old keys with twin around cardboard on candles.
Why...I just love the look and so do other shabby chic decorators.