It’s Wednesday again and time for Woogie Wednesday. This is where we make one of my found object (Junk A Doodles) pieces.

Here’s what we started off with:

I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
“How ’bout a DUCK!”

OK. I guess we both have birds on the mind today.

She starts picking out which parts will be what and paints the head, beak and paper punches random bits, while I paint the background. She them turns her attention to doing one all by herself and confiscates 2 of the pieces. She made a mouse and thought it was hilarious that I took a picture of it:

And here’s how it turned out:

And then here’s out finished product. more of a chick than a duck. It would make a cute Valentine’s Day card I think.

I’m launching a Woogie Wednesday site next week and we’ll be selling prints of our pieces, so stay tuned!

I took advantage of the Woog going back to Mother’s Day Out today and spent my time writing out my goals for the year and started on my goals book. I was all excited about today so I picked what I thought would be the perfect, quite place to think, but it ended up to be the place where homeschoolers are in study groups and retires are eating their lunches. I’m going to try and set aside planning time like this every month so I guess I need to find another “perfect” place! I was productive and filled up an entire 9×12 sketchbook page about what I want to do this year and how I’m going to do it. Everything is attainable, I just have a lot of work to do!

I know I’ve posted this before, but it really is one of my favorite pieces and thought it would be appropriate for this week’s Illustration Friday’s 100%.

This piece is made out of 100% junk – that’s just what I do! I ended up using it for a promo card too.

I found this on flickr yesterday and thought it was pretty cool. Kind of crazy but pretty cool. You can read it better here. The comments on it are pretty funny, too.

If you have a chance, purchase Walt Disney’s biography. I loved it! I bought it as an audio book but eventually want to get the printed version. I’m sure there are some great pictures in there!

I’ve decided this year that I’m going to be more grateful and appreciate others. I started to really focus on this last year but want to be even more aware of it this year. One thing I thought off in the fall was a way to give back to those who have linked to me. I started off with this post and never got around to getting the domain and making a site for it until the end of the year. Nothing like last minute write-offs to get you moving on something! Anyway, check out the site and see if you want to join the campaign. Here’s some of my link back love for today:

Creative Mom Podcast | Artsy Teapot | Red Dog and Jude | Tam Ainslie | Mamas Doodles | Hanna’s Life is Cool | Demarco Designs

Thanks so much to everyone linking to me. It’s a great encouragement to know that what I do is appreciated so much that you want to share it with others

Getting all my New Year’s goals mapped out and all my ideas for 2008 started up. Glad this is up and off my plate. Now back to actual work.

Oh, and my blog was 3 years old on the 1st. How ’bout that!

I know I’ve said it before, but I love type! One of my goals this year is to go on specific “type photo safaris.” This print can be purchased in my etsy shop in b&w and color.

Oh, and I have some new ideas/endeavors that will be coming this year so stay tuned for those…