workshop today!

Thanks to Jami, Skie, Marion, Shelby, Nicole, and Rachel for a great workshop! You were all natural journalers from the beginning! Amazing to see all your pages. Keep up the journaling!

Life overcrowded?

This is part of my "balance" journal. Although the pages are a bit more "planned" than I usually do, I wanted to high-light this quote. So the pages were inspired by the quote to not do "too much" on these pages. There are lots of layers of thin paper you may not see, but I love the texture and color combinations. I also know that I won't lose this quote - because here it is, in my journal! I felt compelled to use the bee - BE yourself, B for Betsy, busy as a BEE. Still striving to bring a new look and feel to my journaling. In progress...

Hope Yellow Roses

Jay got me these roses over a week ago and they keep getting more and more beautiful!

Easter Eggs

It's that time of year! Yeah! I get to dye eggs!! This year I used beets, spinach, oranges and red onion skins to create my own non-toxic, organic egg dyes. You'll see them pictured here. The spinach and orange eggs didn't look colorful enough for me so I cheated and put them in some Paas blue egg dye (oh, well!). The spinach ones turned a wonderful spotted color after I put them in the blue dye! Don't you just love it? Happy Easter!

Round Robin Aqua book completed

I wanted to share my completed Aqua book- 10 fabulous artists each contributed a page to the book, while I completed a page for each of their books. You'll see the artist's name credited under the page she created. Click on the flickr boxes (Below right) to see the pages I created for them.

Cover by Betsy

Tags from the Artists(L); "Home page" (R)

My page (L); Linda Manning Findley (R)

Linda Manning Findley (L); Linda Kunsman (R)

Linda Kunsman (L); Karen Ouellette (R)

Karen Ouellette (L); CindyMcMath (R)

Cindy McMath (L); Debby Harriettha (R)


Debby Harriettha (L); Christine Shebroe (R)

Christine Shebroe (L); Caryl Hoobler (R)

Caryl Hoobler (L); Pam Barnes (R)

Pam Barnes (L); Sanna Burgess (R)

Sanna Burgess (L); Artists Tags (R)

Yoga Page

My next journal is based on a "Balance" theme, something that I am working on in my life. I thought I'd share a page completed. These are larger pages, so it takes a bit more time and thought, but it is a nice balance of thinking and non-thinking. Very relaxing and rewarding. Enjoy!

Spring wreath

Today was the day to clean up old leaves and dead branches in the yard - and bring out my Spring wreath. I pulled the wreath from its box, only to remember that all the decorations had fallen apart, been picked off by our neighborhood bird (that nests in our tree every Spring), or knocked off by people going in and out. Off to Michaels to shop for new decorations! Yeah - I love shopping in craft stores! I bought a handful of picks, foam eggs, birds nests, and a cute bird - and hot glued everything in place. Looks great and spring-y on my red door, don't you think?