I'm back!

After 2 weeks in Europe, a month of working myself ragged, and successfully pulling off my first Girl Scout Overnight at job #1, I am finally relaxed enough to blog again. Don't get me wrong, I've still been making stuff, I've just been falling into the old habit of half-documenting what I do. Meaning, I'll take pictures of a process, and completely forget to photograph the end results. Genius, I know.

Some of the half-documented things I found while uploading pictures were hand-made chocolate cups, filled with edible Easter grass and egg-shaped M&M's, made to look sort of like nests. I spent hours on those, and forgot to take pictures of anything but the chocolate bowls. Sheesh! I also made a custom baby book for a friend's future sister-in-law. I did it scrap book style, but re-covered the book with the fabric of her choice, and pre-layed out 25 pages so the new momma only has to worry about filling in the info about her babe.

Yesterday I really wanted to make something. I didn't know what, though. For some reason, every time I'm stumped, I pick up a paintbrush. I'm not a painter by any means, but that always seems to get my mind going. So, this is what I ended up doing:

and this morning, I did this:

Painting on books is way more satisfying than I expected it to be. Now I just need to decide if I want to turn these into journals, or leave them as decorative books. I keep leaning toward journals, but then I stand them up and am pretty happy with how they look as is. What do you think?