A Beautiful Weekend and New Art Supplies!

Hello, my little chocolate kisses! I hope that you have had a relaxing weekend, or if it was busy that you at least have a few minutes of quiet to relax and recharge. I used to hate Sunday nights because I knew it meant the weekend was almost over. Now that I am in graduate school and only work about one day a week subbing (but 24/7 Mama) I don't mind them. I know eventually I will have to enter back into the weekly rat-race and so for now I am truly grateful for the time I have at home with Tucker and enough money to pay our bills. We have been truly blessed.

We have been at my parents' house this weekend and the forecast originally called for rain all day Saturday, which isn't anything new at the coast, but it only rained in the morning and turned out to be a beautiful, sunny weekend. Tucker had a lot of fun yesterday when his grandpa and I took him down to the boardwalk to look at the boats and to run around. Today my dad took him to this park down the street that has a huge pond with ducks and geese and swans. There is also a fun playground and a walkway goes around the whole pond. I love seeing my dad and Tucker together, they have such fun together and are like two peas in a pod.

Painters pens and Pen-touch pen

Using Painter pens

While I am here I always make a stop by the JoAnn's. We have one in my town, but it is so small that I hardly ever go there. It is really only fabrics with limited arts supplies. I have been watching a lot of YouTube videos about art journaling just to see the techniques that others use and on one of them the woman was using a paint pen that looked great for sketching backgrounds and highlighting. I asked her what they were and she replied thankfully! They are Painters and can be found at JoAnns and come in different colors and different point sizes. There are fine, medium, and chiseled. They are a bit like having spray paint in a pen! I have found that they are especially helpful when doing hand lettering on a piece of art I am working on for my apartment. So much easier than doing it with a paintbrush! The pen in the bottom of the picture is a black Pen-Touch which is similar to the Painters. It is an extremely fine point pen but again, uses paint instead of ink. Each of these pens were about $3-4 each.

I will leave you with these art pages I have completed over the weekend. Have a great Monday and make time for art!

XO, Alicia