i would love to say that this weeks inspiration wednesday came from some deep emotional place, but the truth is i just started playing with the items on my table and this happened.

i happened to have eckhart tolle's "the power of now" out on my table, randomly opened it and tore out 3 pages. the quote text is simple cut from the lines that spoke to me.

the best part is that while i was creating this, my girls came in and wanted to do an inspiration wednesday page. i will post theirs later today, but payton was sitting next to me and plainly sais, " and she grew up to be an artist". now that was deep!

so that had to be part of the page.

here's the how to in my inspiration journal this week.

• painted the page green with a wash of white acrylic paint
• "dressed" the dressform in lace, flowers and ribbon and inked the base brown.
• adhered book text strips
• stamped
• added rub on frame
• wrote paytons quote and inked the edges

and speaking of inspiration, look what bill and i did

what did you create this week?
what do we need to see...leave a post and share your inspirations!

Comments

[Angela W]

Looks awesome and great tats!

[Mandy Dake]

Okay.. I am dying to know what 13.1 stands for?? Hugs, M

[Nancie]

Love this Donna! It is so beautiful that I want to frame it and hang it in my house!

[Fletch]

Congrats...what an accomplishment! The dressform is precious. No other word comes to mind than that. Love the quote too. Creative Wednesday did not disappoint.

[Dorrie]

13.1 is a half marathon...13.1 miles...

congrats donna... love the inspiration...you always know exactly how to get the mojo flowing!

[Christina Manning]

A very awesome Inspiration Wednesday.. I adore the dressform.

[igeltiger]

How could you tore out three pages out of this wonderful book? I never could do that... even if the words would speak better on a artwork.

[Beth Perry]

love it!! such beautiful work! and awesome tat!

[Sheila Higdon]

Beautiful...as always!

[Vel]

OMG you got the ink! And it's so awesome...good for you!

And I love the project...so inspiring! My newest stuff's on my blog. :)

[A Balanced Lifestyle]

I love anything with a dressform on it! Wonderful piece.

[Meghan E]

Great art piece and great tattoos!

[Colleen]

That's great! And as I mentioned to you a few nights before you ran it, I can see in the near future you having an "X" tattooed over this one and changing it to 26.2! Congrats!

[Grace]

Love this!!!

[Apple]

Awesome tattoos!!!

[Melissa]

Love this page and love even more the message. Trent just walked in and said "Hey scrapbooking on the body? Cool!!!" :>)) Congrats on the cool tats and all that they
represent. Hugs!

[barb in gilbertsville]

10 years married
3 children
1 happy family

[michelle]

wow .... love the page and the encouragement/inspiration. I so needed this ... this very day! thank you for living OUT loud!!! congrats on the marathon and the tats!!

[Arcalee]

Love the page! Awesome accomplishement on the marathon and what a great way to show it. I guess the next tatoo will say 26.2!

[Dawn Morgan]

Great tattoo Donna. What an accomplishment!

The new fabric scrapbooking embellies are so adorable.

[Amanda Berens]

Congrats, but what if you run a full marathon next?

Here's what I made this week:

http://techniquespeak.blogspot.com/2009/09/painting-halloween.html

[Lisa Maxwell]

You Rock! The Inspiration project is too cute & LOVE your & Bill's tats!

[prazdance]

Just like you, I got inspired by cleaning up my scrapspace. Gonna do some creating on my 26th Wedding Anniversary tomorrow! LOL! Great Tats you two!

[Karen Greenfield]

I know that one reply here is totally shocked that you tore pages out of Tolle's book----but I think that is a fab idea: to extract the bits that meant the most!! I don't know what you do with these collages you make but if it goes on your wall for a bit, that's so much better than leaving those ideas 'locked up' in a book you may not re-read.

[Nadia]

okay, love the page! tattoo! OMG! hello!? michael, myself and dan all got family tattoos this month. where? same place as yours! of course ours doesn't say 13.1! just saying! I will have to show ya next time I see ya. ciao!

[Debbie McIntyre]

Drinking tequilla while the kids are in school may result in tattoos.....

[Anat Dvir]

I love this page, it has such a girly, romantic feel to it with a presence. The wording is awesome, great idea to add payton's sentance!
This week I wrote a post in my blog titled "a leader through the eyes of a highschool student". My son in majoring in art in highschool and a few weeks ago
he was cleaning up and wanted to throw away old notebooks. Luckily I managed to save them and scanned the first page of each.
The titles are in Hebrew but I'm sure you'll be able to recognize History, Math and English, the rest are Literature, Art, traffic (we have those...) and the last one is his civics notebook and that gave me the title for the whole post.
It's not something I created, highschool kids did, they inspire me so I wanted to share it with you to.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=1546351

Have a great week!

p.s: Love your tattoo!

[Ramona from England]

Hi Donna, great reminder of your achievement! Very mind empowering - your page !(again). Hope you like what I've created (posted on my blog). Thank you for being a constant inspiration!

[Maureen F]

How cute are the flowers on the dress form !!! Congrats on your tatoos - what a great way to document that awesome accomplishment

[Leni]

cute tattoos!