Documented Life Project

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July 25
Art Challenge: Real Life

Journal Prompt:  At this Moment

I didn't quite get the prompts for this one. I'm not sure why they just didn't make sense to me but that's the way my brain works sometimes.

I started out painting my page and the look I was going for turned out totally awful. I happened to have some tissue paper that has typed words on it. I glued a piece to the page and the ugliness underneath it showed through just enough to give it a really amazing look. At least I thought so.


I didn't do a whole lot more to this once I glued the tissue paper on. I used a sharpie to outline certain phrases on the tissue that I wanted highlighted.  I smudges a little off white paint in a few spots to help emphasize the wrinkles in the tissue. Then I wrote out the words Real Life and Right Now on a piece of paper. I colored them then cut around them and glued them on to the page.

I love the look of the wrinkles on the page. They add some really nice texture.

I took an embossing tool and went around the letters to give it a bit of a raised feel.

And then I called it done.

Project 365 week of 7/27

7/27 Sunset at the end of the day. The colors in the sky were much more amazing than the picture shows

7/27 Gibbs and I were out for a walk. He jumped up on this wall for a raised flower bed in front of the funeral home

7/29 Watching me watching you. Or also known as had no motivation for taking a picture and this is all I did

7/30 ready to go and waiting for the time clock to click on 2:30

7/31 Just another losing lottery ticket

8/1 The car is all packed and ready for the morning. My tote bag and my cooler are all I have to remember when I head out the door.

8/2 another look at that cute westie I spotted at the craft show

What I won

Or maybe I should say Gibbs won this. Any way, I feel bad that it has taken me this long to tell you all about it but it took Wade this long to actually put this up.

So here goes. I won a giveaway over at Bichonpawz. Jean had this incredible giveaway for a PetSafe sliding glass pet door. I can not believe I actually won this. I was thrilled.
Here's the link to the PetSafe door if you want to check it out there http://store.petsafe.net/sliding-glass-patio-door

The package arrived here and then it sat right inside the door for what felt like forever.

I considered trying to put it in myself but it came with screws and pieces parts and an instruction book that looked like a foreign language to me. I'm not saying that it had confusing directions I'm just saying that my brain couldn't handle the overload. So I waited for Wade to get around to doing it.

Yesterday he was off and when I got home from work he had it in. Now he didn't install it exactly the way they say to but he said he liked it this way better and it will work just as well. He also said he could not get Gibbs to go through it.

I have better powers of persuasion and Gibbs did go through it. Of course I had to keep making him go through it before he figured out what exactly it was that he was doing.

The nice thing about this door is that it isn't permanent. It can be removed. I'm hoping that Gibbs will enjoy his new found freedom of being able to go out on the deck all by himself. As for the door itself I can say that PetSafe has a quality product here.

A big thank you to Jean for hosting this awesome giveaway.

Not much of a swimmer

Wade had been hoping that Gibbs would follow in Duke's footsteps and be his pool partner. He kept threatening to throw him in and the only thing that saved Gibbs from that fate is that I wouldn't let him do it. He did carry him in though and Gibbs will swim but he's not in to it like Duke was.

He's a bit skeptical of the rafts too.