Hey, HELMAR peeps! Jess here tonight and I'm SO EXCITED!
Ahhhh...it's the HOLIDAYS, yes? I do it EVERY year. Every year I say I'm not going to go all crazy and get all stressed and hmmm..somehow that chaos creeps up on me :)
This year we have a pretty solid game plan but you know...I never say never. Actually, I don't mind chaos. I pretty much live in it...4 kids, 3 dogs, several activities, lots of laughs, noise, comings and goings. I do appreciate a good wave of "calm"..but not for long, LOL! It's kind of foreign to me.
Anyway, one of the best ways to manage chaos and actually, embrace it even- is to NOT sweat the small stuff along w/ a few other things. Here are my own personal keys to calming the chaos when needed:
1.) Take TIME to be you.
2.) A good cuppa never hurt anyone- love my coffee and hot, soothing tea!
3.) Think PINK.
4.) Don't sweat the SMALL stuff (and you know what? yeah, you do- a LOT of it is 'small stuff'" ;)
SO here I am and you're going "why is she listing off these things?" Well, I art journaled about it. About Chaos and my method of managing it ;) And funny - the page itself is chaotic. So you might not be able to read it all, ha! I SO SO enjoyed using these awesome chipboard Diecuts from FABSCRAPS in addition to the adorable "High Tea" diecuts.
I began by finding the word "Chaos" in the dictionary and painting everything but the word to add a nice dramatic theme.
I then took the awesome tag die cut from the "High Tea" collection (FabScraps) and used ACID FREE GLUE from HELMAR to stick it down and adhere the 2 pieces of chipboard after I stained them a bit w/ some paint/ink.
I LOVE the vintage charms that FABSCRAPS offers! They are so pretty! I was so excited that I had a key to use and that is how my theme was born! I used Helmar 450 QUICK-DRY to glue that to the chair.
After that I distressed all of it a bit and wrote down my "keys" to calming that chaos ;)
Here is the finished page:
For more info on my art journal that I began/created during a Helmar inspiration challenge last year you can read about that HERE.
I'm so excited about our FABSCRAPS blog swap going on all this week and I can't wait to see what the rest of the week brings!
Thanks for letting me create w/ you tonight! xoxo,
Jess
