We Love a Good Quote

We Love a A Good Quote

We Love a Good Quote and Instagram

Here are some recent instagram favs:

Washi tape is perfect to combine with brown kraft paper to wrap art that's getting mailed!

posted on Sept 11.

A special order Laura did for a teacher friend to hang in her classroom!

ok, this isn't from Instagram, NOR is it a quote.  But it IS major cuteness. Mabel, after a bath.)

Love this quote.

We Love a Good Quote, Mabel, School, and an Upcoming Art Festival!

Hello Beautiful People!

Here's a recent "We Love a Good Quote" for you:

This idea has been showing up in a lot of my artwork lately(as you can tell!)  

Did you enjoy your Labor Day?  The boys worked and played in the yard,  I painted, we opened our windows (gorgeous weather!) made pizzas to eat out on the deck and got the kids ready for another week of school.  Very relaxing!  What did you do?

Yes, school is back in full swing!  My youngest started kindergarten!  Which means it's now very quiet around here during the day,  just me and Mabel!

My kids were (mostly) excited to go back to school - by the end of summer they're bored and ready!

We LOVED hearing that a special young lady we know brought along this little piece of reassurance (made by Mama Winger) in her pocket for the first day of school:

Last week we had early 1pm dismissals EVERY single day, due to the heat.  It was brutal. Yesterday and today we're enjoying more fall like temps with highs in the 70's ---- it's absolutely GORGEOUS! Yay!  But I guess it's supposed to get hot again. Booo!   We're hoping for fall whether on Saturday because we'll be doing this festival outdoors, in downtown Cedar Falls:

Click here for more info!

*FYI, we are NOT going to be at Riverssance this year in Davenport, so this is our one and only fall show!

Remember the welcome sign we made for my kids' school?  The other day when I was in the school office, I snapped a few more photos of what it looks like now that it's hung up!

Mama Winger has been hard at work on a huge school project too!  Remember this teaser that she gave us on facebook?

She made a very looooong sign for our church preschool's new outdoor music area.  Now the kids can bang on the pots and pans with different spoons and whisks to discover the different sounds they can make!  It's like they've got their own mini Stomp!

Custom School Sign and Art/App Mash-Ups

I've been working on a welcome sign that will go in my kids' school office!  It will be one of the first things that visitors, parents and students see so we wanted it to fill up the space and have a big impact.  It is 3 ft x 8ft and certainly big!  It could barely be contained within the walls of my studio and required an "extension" to my already huge table!

My husband dropped it off up at the school this morning. This was such a fun project, but I'm glad to get it out of my art room!  I'll show you another picture sometime, once it's hung up in the office!

finished!

Here are a few photos of our artwork that I recently enhanced using the Rhonna Designs iPhone app and instagram.  (Follow us on Instagram for even more app/art mashups and lots of puppy pictures!)

We already shared these on facebook,  but thought you might like to see them here too:

And, just because she's irresistible, here are a few recent pics of Mabel for your viewing pleasure!

We Love a Good Quote

Made this quote using the Rhonna Designs iphone app and Instagram.  The background is a photo I took of a recent art project. The swatch of paint was still drying and the brushstrokes really stood out because it was in that in-between stage and it  just looked so rich, so I snapped a photo!  Now with the instagram editing, it kind of looks like one of those popular chalkboard backgrounds!   I'm sure I'll be using this background again!

You can follow us on instagram here if you're interested!   If you're a puppy lover, you'll get a kick out of all the pics of our new, 7 week old mini goldendoodle, Mabel!  We're all in love with her and she's a good little girl!

We Love a Good Quote

It's not that anything particularly "trying" is happening around here - but I ran across this quote the other day and loved the wording, so I wrote it down in my quote journal.  

It's fun to fiddle around with the all of the fun photo editing apps for iPhone.  It's like a little creative exercise you can do anywhere! I made myself  a variety of "backgrounds" by snapping pics of different scrapbook paper patterns.  This quote was made by using the new app by Rhonna Designs and Instagram.

Here's what I came up with---

If you love this quote, pin it!

What Is It You Want To Do "Someday?!"

We are obsessed with words and quotes - you've probably already figured that out about us.

Here's a great message I just came across and spent a little time making it into a graphic by using the A Beautiful Mess app on my iphone.  So fun to play around with!

I thought I'd start sharing quotes more often with ya'll so today I took some 'background' photos of patterned paper and solid swatches of paint that would make good backgrounds to add layers of words and doodles on top.

Here's my first attempt:

Let me know if you're interested in more details on how I made this on my phone.
For now, enjoy the message!  ....or resent the message if you're a procrastinator like me.

What is it you say you'll do "someday?"

Feel free to pin it!