'Office / Studio Tour: Bullet Journal Supplies and my Work Desk'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome!

On this stormy and steamy Sunday morning in Chicago, I'd like you to have a peek at my upstairs office.  This is where I do bullet journaling, bible journaling, and online tasks.

Desk - Long shot (left, center, right)

Desk view - lower Left

Desk view - upper Right

Desk view - upper Left 

Desk view - Center

My BUJO must have supplies are (in alphabetical order):

• ·         Cling stamps and stamp pads
• ·         Erasers
•    o   Eraser – artist gum
•    o   Eraser – Frixion
• ·         Gesso – white
• ·         Glue stick – Elmer’s All Purpose
• ·         Highlighters
•    o   Highlighter- Permanent – Sharpie (all colors)
•    o   Highlighters - Erasable Highlighters - Frixion highlighters (all colors)
• ·         Journals  - hardcover, pockets, elastic (dot or ruled) not  LT1917
• ·         Markers
•    o   Marker – Brush – Wink of Stella (clear)
•    o   Marker – Pilot Precise V5 Rolling Ball – Extra Fine (black)
•    o   Markers – Brush – zig Clean Color Real Brush (set)
•    o   Markers - Crayola Pip Squeaks (set)
•    o   Markers – Fineline Pen 0.38mm (set)
•    o   Markers – Mildliners dual tip (all color sets)
•    o   Markers – Sakura Pigma Micron  01 (brown)
•    o   Markers – Stabilo OHPen Universal F (set) - waterproof
•    o   Markers – Tombow Twintone - dual tip (set)
• ·         Pens
•    o   Pen - Erasable Pens - Frixion pens (all colors) + refills
•    o   Pen - Fountain pens (various brands, inks, and nib sizes)
•    o   Pen – Gel – PaperMate Ink Joy 1.0mm (set)
•    o   Pen – Gel- PaperMate Gel 0.7
•    o   Pen – Sakura Gel Glaze (black)
•    o   Pen - Ballpoint pens – Staples (black, red, blue)
• ·         Pencils
•    o   Pencil – colored pencils (various brands)
•    o   Pencil – No. 2 with eraser
• ·         Post Its – 3 sizes and colors (blank and ruled)
• ·         Ribbons - 3/8”W ribbons cut to 8”L (as bookmarks)
• ·         Ruler – 6”
• ·         Stickers (Faith, Wonder Woman, Star Wars, Minions)
• ·         Tabs – DIY or Staples
• ·         Tapes
•    o   Tape - Correction tape ‘ Mr. Pen’ (set)
•    o   Tape - Skinny washi tapes
•    o   Tape – Removable tapes (one-sided & double-sided)
•    o   Tape – Permanent tapes (Scotch Magic & double-sided)
• ·         Templates - Plastic shape templates (flowchart and circles)
• ·         Boards – Dash & Writing (DIY from Dollar Tree cutting mat)

Do you BuJo? What are your must have supplies? 
I'd love for you to comment!

Thanks for visiting!

Peace,
LuLu

"How to Travel Light with Wet Art Supplies - or What's In My Art Kit and Travel Bag?"

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome,


How to Travel Light with Wet Art Supplies!

I'm a Mad Scientist At Work!

This travel bag  is another experiment to try to travel light with a small amount of wet supplies in my art kit for Art Journaling on the go. I'm using small travel-size bottles - store bought, old film canister and empty vials from complimentary hotel toiletries.

 

SUPPLIES - WET ART KIT

1. Clinique clear makeup pouch (I found a 'lot' of used makeup pouches at a cheap price on eBay)
2. snack baggie - vertical/portrait
3. snack baggie - horizontal/landscape
4. water brush - fine tip
5. water brush - broad tip
6. wet glue pen - 2 way (perm and repo)
7. medium - matte medium 'Liquitex'
8. medium- gloss medium 'Claudine Hellmuth 'Studio'
9. h2o
10. acrylic paint  - gold 'Lumiere' fabric paint - opaque
11. acrylic paint - glitter - gold
12. gesso - white  'Claudine Hellmuth 'Studio'
13. gesso - clear
14. gesso - black  'Claudine Hellmuth 'Studio'
15. homemade acrylic glaze - warm color
16. homemade acrylic glaze-  cool color
17. glitter glue - silver 'Stickles'
18. hand sanitizer gel
19. clip - 'bulldog' binder clip

Note: The book with embossed map cover is from sale at Michaels craft store. It's my travel diary, not an AJ. It's to prop up the supplies. I bought several because I really like the map cover.

YOUR TURN!

Do you separate your WET supplies from DRY?  Do you travel light with your art journal supplies? Or lug 'the kitchen sink'? Do you like to use the new water brushes by Tim Holtz, etc.? Have you tried filling them with colorant instead of water? India inks? acrylic inks?

I would love to see what's in YOUR art kits/travel bags! Reply to this post with a link to your blog post.

Thanks for stopping by - and stay tuned. Fun posts are coming soon!!! Please become a Follower if you're not already.

Peace,
LuLu

'WOYWW - LuLu's Mini-studio Makeover and Tour - 11 Sep 2013!"

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome,

This weeks WOYWW is a mini-studio tour of my recent Makeover!

Workstation table was just not working well enough for the art I need to produce. Also, I'm desperate for more counter space. Decided that WOYWW was impetus to re-organize.

This is a mini-studio tour and mini-studio makeover - 'mini' because I still need to move my scrapbooking rolling totes out of this studio. Thanks to Hubby who is cleaning up basement so I can store scrapbooking supplies downstairs!

BEFORE -

Tuesday P M

 

IN PROGRESS -

Tuesday Evening

 

 

IN PROGRESS -

WEDNESDAY A M

 

 

 

AFTER -

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

 

 

 

Look at all the clear space - just begging for the next project - yippee!

 

No longer used glass vessels on top of kitchen cart that I'd originally commandeered from the jewelry studio. I'll be using the middle shelf of this rolling cart for my most used tools. The glass vessels will be returned to a vintage hutch my jewelry studio.

Top shelf of cart will add much needed counter space! Yay!

 

 

YOUR TURN

Are you happy with the configuration/layout of your studio? If so, what are your 3 fave things you like the most? If not, what are the 3 most annoying/aggravating things you like least or want to change/fix ASAP?

Thanks for stopping by - would love for you to comment on this post - or any of my other posts.

For more studio spaces, click here to visit WOYWW!

BEFORE
Mini-Studio makeover
Tue, 10 Sep  2013

AFTER

Mini-Studio Makeover

Wed, 11 Sep 2013

P.S. My Blogoversary GIVEAWAY is coming soon! Stay tuned...

Libra Birthday Girls - shh-hhh-hhh-hhh-hhh!
P.P.S. This is my birthday month - so if you are a Libra celebrating your birthday on Sep 27th or celebrating your birthday on Sting's birthday Oct 2nd, indicate that in your comment. I'll put together some HAPPY MAIL for one lucky Libra birthday girl! Any lady worldwide with Sep 27th or Oct 2nd birthday is eligible! (I'll announce winner later this month and respond to your comment to get your snail mail address).

Peace,
LuLu

'My Top Ten Pix of Twenty Twelve! Art Journals, Tips and More!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome,

Happy New Year!

Here's a peek at my fave pix of the past year, plus a few tips - enjoy!

 'Top Twelve + 1 and

Timely Tips of Twenty Twelve Review!'

Full Frontal Fan

Interesting composition I created for this background spread -

light, glowing middle within dark borders around the edge.

 

I practiced doodle 'stacking' on left page

using a gray pigment chisel tip marker

(writes over everything  just like a Copic alcohol marker,

but no stinky fumes)

 

Just love the color gradation (spray ink), stencil,
 and gold (my acrylic paint concoction) that I painted on the back
cover of  father's day brag book / altered book / art journal!

P.S. Spray ink and paint are VERY messy.
I use a store bought spray box to protect my studio somewhat -
but it splatters everywhere if I'm not careful...

Reminder to myself!
This image is also layered behind the lovely lass
on my blog banner above.

 

Top view Fan

 

 Printed pattern tissue paper!

 

Makes a great blotter on the art table.

This is Tim Holtz - comes on a roll like wax paper - various patterns.

Clean your bushes and test paints, medium, tapes etc.

When it's filled up and all grungy, tear it up and use in collage,

 backgrounds, art journal pages, altered books.

Makes a geat layer because it's translucent when glued down

with wet ashesive. Also use it with dry adhesive 

(run it through my 5" Xyron to take in travel supplies).

Easy peasy!



First prize I won in 2012 -
1st Place in a scrapbook LO contest!

Backgound page laying on a grid blotter.

This huge grid desk blotter was a gift last year.
That's more grid blotter in photo below.
When I used up all the blotter pages I switched to the
Tim Holtz tissue paper now on my table.

 

  Cheap 'watercolor' brushes.

 

The best travel tool for details with watercolor paint I found

are  kids watercolor brushes by Crayola.

They are refillable with your own watercolor paint recipes,

diluted arylics, paint glazes, India ink - or even diluted medium!

I found a cheap set of these brushes at Michaels.

Cheap plastic 'putty knife' from the hardware store!

Best tool for applying Yes! Paste -
I slightly trimmed the right and left sides of the putty knife
with Tim Holtz Tonic scissors so that the
 putty knife would fit down into the paste jar.
Putty knife is also great for spreading gesso and other texture medium.
Same concept as the plastic hotel key / old credit card - but
 I wanted a tool with a handle....

P.S. I use Yes!Paste mostly for laminating/gluing 2 facing book pages together -
Yes!Paste is acid-free/archival and makes the paper very stiff and
no wrinkling of paper. Buy Yes!Paste at Michaels.

 

 Lots of layers.

 

Tim Hotltz tissue paper, deli paper,

metal tape (from hardware store) that I embosed a painted with acrylics -

 over lined pages of a small, store bought diary/journal.

 

Great dimension - wow!

My first assemblage for a journal cover.
Collections of game tokens, dice, watch parts, 
foreign and vintage coins, keys,
calculator guts - all adhered with
soft gel medium - gloss (by Golden).

Outstanding tool! Papermate EAGLE ballpoint pen.
Great for writing over gook on art journal pages.
When ink is gone, this makes a great stylus for
scratching textures into wet gesso, too!

What are your fave pix on your blog? 

I would love to see your faves! Please leave a comment including a link back to your blog.

And if you're a mixed-media artist or art journaler, check out my Giveaway in sidebar!

Thanks for visiting - please come back soon!

Have a great art-filled New Year!

Peace,

LuLu

'So Much For Travellin' Light!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome,

Just returned from a 3-day weekend crop at the Archivers store in Orland Park, IL - about 25 miles from home. Loads of fun. Was not as productive as I usually am at 3-day crops - probably because this case of bronchitis I've been fighting for 2 months has whipped my butt....

My fellow member of Scrap-A-Holics, Becky, joined us on Saturday - and I met some new friends over the weekend.

Becky(left)  and Me(right)

(We're longtime members of the Midwest Scrap-A-Holics of Chicagoland - est. 2001)

These are bags and totes of supplies for just 2 scrappers!

 No one can accuse us of travellin' light!

 New scrappin' friends.

Becky (right) and new scrappin' friends.

Awsra  (2nd from left) really liked my art journals and scrapbook layouts.

Do you ever attend scrapbooking weekend crops or retreats? How many bags of supplies do you take? Do you travel light? Or do you take evertything plus the kitchen sink?

Thanks for stopping by - would love for you to comment on this post - or any of my other posts. Please come back to visit soon!

Peace,
LuLu

'WOYWW - 03/09/11 - Organizing after unpacking art journal supplies!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and welcome,

While I was organizing pens, pencils and markers after unpacking supplies from art journaling I did at the 2 day scrapbooking crop over the weekend, I realized that it's Wednesday! Time for WOYWW - What's on your workstation Wednesday...

Resists to be organized and consolidated:

Faber Castell Gel stix, watercolor crayons

(in an antique red tobacco tin I inherited - perfect size),

crayons, and colored pencils

I usually write illegible script, calligraphy or print quotes illegibly when I first start working on blank pages. Love the texture of handwriting, printing and calligraphy. Also I sometimes write and print after I lay down a layer or 2 of acrylic galzes on the page.

I prep journals all in a batch, usually. To me it makes sense to do all the resists while I have the resist supplies out. When I put the resist supplies away, and then  take out the messy glazing supplies and do messing glazing. I like to use old hotel or credit cards - per Dawn Sokol's Pages in Stages dvd.

Visit here for more desk look-sees!

Would love for you to comment on this post - or any of my other posts.
Thanks for stopping by and -
stay tuned for info about my 100th post giveaway - coming soon!

Peace,
LuLu

'Itsy Bitsy, Teeny Tiny Crash!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and welcome,

Last week when I was doing a massive rubber stamping session, there was a wee little bit of a crash when I was pounding the stamps. Oops!

That black thing on it's side is a spinner/carousel from the office supply store (Staples). Of sourse, all the paper clips and other supplies were scatterd across my workstation. But it only took me about 20 minutes to recover, regroup and re-organize. Hallelujah!

Here is my workstation al nice and tidy again - at least, TIDY for me!

What about you? Have you had a little - or big - accident in your studio? Your comments and new followers are always encouraged.

Thanks for stopping by - and please come back again.

Peace,
LuLu

Virtual Summer Studio Tour Completion - Autumn Arrives!

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and welcome!

Here are the 'After' pics of my virtual summer studio tour  - with all of the wet supplies and my most used supplies removed.

Summer Studio - Empty north view plus
west and east walls

 

summer studio - empty northwest view - closeup

summer studio - empty back wall  with
under-table rolling carts removed

Wish there were some way that I could use all this space during the cold of fall/winter/spring - other than for dead storage. But I suspect that putting a heater out on this porch would be way too expensive!



How do you think I should use this space during cold months of fall/winter/spring? Is 'dead' storage my only choice? Your comments and ideas are welcome.

Meanwhile, hubby and I just returned from vacation in NY state. Loved watching  all the home improvement shows on HGTV and working on my art journals. Twisted my right ankle again while visiting relatives out there. Now that we're home, I'm laid up here for a while until my ankle heals, which means no driving anywhere - rats! phooey! darn it!

Thanks for stopping by - and don't forget to check out my give-a-way post below!

Peace,
LuLu
Celebrating my 1st year Blogoversary with a give-a-way!
http://lulu-too-beaucoup.blogspot.com/2010/10/giveaway-giveaway-lulus-1st.htm