Arty Bluejay

I remember when I was in elementary, we have a project to buy postcards that feature famous World wonders in Philippines. One of them is the Banaue Rice Terraces or in tagalog "Hagdan-hagdang palayan nang Banaue". It's a man made terraces of rice plantation. The indigenous people called Ifugao made it with their hands and man sweat hard work. I haven't seen this spot for real and hoping to see it someday when I visit back to Philippines. Thanks Mommy Chris of Mommy Journey, I received my...

The feeling of Fall season will start any time soon, so my husband I are planning to do more art stuff indoors. We are productive in this hobby during cold seasons. We enjoy more family bonding outside during Spring and Summer. So yeah, it has been a long time we haven't got back writing in this blog. My husband is busy adding more graphic art to his zazzle store lately. He was so happy to receive his first $50 check 4 months ago so he got inspired in doing online stuff because of that. You can check out his store here: The Thundering legion: Home: Zazzle store.As for me, I am into postcard hobby ...

I just completed a drawing I was making as a logo for my Zazzle Store. I had been experimenting with the Wacom Bamboo Fun Tablet that I bought when I sold my old (trustworthy and tireless, *sigh*) Toyota Corolla. I was interested in using The GIMP for drawing, but the mouse is not a good drawing tool. The drawing tablet, on the other hand, gives you the same precision and control that you have with a pencil, although you have to look at the screen rather than your hand to see what marks are...

I need more votes! If you happen to read this post today May 8th 2011, Happy Mothers day! Also, could you help me by voting in these following contest I joined lately? Please vote for me before this contest ends in 24 hours, May 9@6am Eastern time & May 9@6pm Philippines time. HOW TO VOTE: Go to: http://www.my-blogbook.com/2011/05/voting-for-mothers-day-contest-is-now.html Inside comment box, type these sentence only “I WANT TO VOTE MOMMY #16.” In the Comment option, click small arrow down and click Name/URL. Put your short name and your Facebook profile or blog url there.Another

I have been slow in my art stuff lately. I have been busy offline and online doing and accomplish tasks. Boy, I want to stay focus in this precious hobby of mine. Anyhow, I was able to finish the dyeing of colors in this one goose egg. I like the starburst design. These two different pictures is of the design of one egg. The front and back. I started designing into the white color base of the egg, then I dipped it to the yellow egg dye which you saw in the post before this one, then I...

Hi guys! It has been a long time I have not updated this blog. It is because I have no art projects a few months ago and now, I am starting to make a batch of Ukrainian Easter eggs. I love making them. Last year, I was using chicken eggs, but this year, I am going to create them using goose eggs. Yep, they sure are big eggs! This is exciting, I hope you will be patient with me in showing to you my art projects. Here is a sample goose egg that I'm working on lately.

I have uploaded my pregnancy time line so that you can add it to your web pages. I am still struggling to make Javascript work inside of Blogspot, so I can't show a working version here, but you can download the Sample page here. When you save it to your disk and open it up, you will see the hands moving. Each hand in the clock is represented by an image that has the hand rotated in 60 positions. The Javascript chooses which position is appropriate at any given time, and displays that part of...

Art can make the events of life more meaningful. As an example, here's a drawing I did to celebrate the coming of my second child. This unique image will make our pregnancy announcements more meaningful. (The due date is visible in the picture, so it is unique to that little special someone).Merry Christmas to everyone!EWC

I have had this project for a while and tried to sell it in Etsy but it did not last long time there for I was not able to popularize this project in my blogs before. I was just in the mood of making jewelry projects out from precious pieces. I used sterling silver findings on this set. The heart filigree are a nice touch and the red swarovski crystals and black onyx are making it charming too. I suppose I could try to sell it in Etsy again but I still have to wait for my eggs displays there...

What I have here is a one cent Franklin stamp dated in 1908-09, Scott # 331. It is in used condition. It can be sold as $0.25. But if you are lucky to have a mint condition, the price ranges from $12-45.00 each. Well, I just kept mine as one of my collection rather selling it each. How about you guys? Do you keep old and new stamps with you? Even now, I am keeping mint condition of the newly released stamps because you will never know that their value is so much more when it gets older and...

Thanksgiving is really about giving thanks to God for the blessings He has given us, so it seems fitting to write about the ultimate hymn of thanksgiving.Te Deum, also called the Ambrosian Hymn, is the Catholic Church's hymn of thanksgiving and praise to God. St. Ambrose, the fourth-century bishop of Milan and a significant figure in the history of church music, authored the text for the baptism of St. Augustine, one of the greatest figures of that age or any other.It remains one of the most set texts in music history. Most of the great composers have set this text to music, including George

One of my favorite art crafts during our MOPS meeting, a decoupage box. It is so easy to make guys. Just recycle some boxes at home and glue the sides together into a box with lid. Get your scrap booking papers together, mix and match paste. Glue them together using a decoupage glue. This glue is different from the ordinary glue. It does not smell bad as a glue either. And what is nice about it too is that it gives off that shiny effect like was after it dries up. Here are my picture of the...

I just want to share an interesting rummage sale find I got, this oil painting. Another junk piece that I could not resist to buy. For only $0.50, I was fascinated by its subject. A Spring season themed painting. At first, I thought its medium being used is an Acrylic paint, but when I saw the prints in its back, its made of Oil. Not pastel but oil painting. Well, I admire artists who use oil painting. One of the arts that I wanted to learn. Enjoy this folks!

I have been busy attending my blogs at Love Home Grow Garden and Hearts content of a mama lately guys. So I hope you are still with us. A week ago, we got busy attending a 6 days class on Right side brain drawing 1 and 2. It was so fun. My husband wrote a post about it before here. And I felt amazed of what our right side brain can do. These picture are my drawing progress from 1st day to third day of the Part 1 class. Instructor Ed in Jamestown Community College said that my first drawing is...

The sky in our area has been beautiful lately, after the dark rainy days last week. Here's my sky photos to share with Skywatch Friday.