Artistic Mother: week 1 backgrounds & art action plan

Blog posts on Artfully Carin may contain affiliate links to products or services I think are awesome. For more information, see my disclosures page..Blog posts on Artfully Carin may contain affiliate links to products or services I think are awesome. For more information, see my disclosures page..  I loved making these backgrounds for week 1 […]

Making space for art

Ever since we moved into this house 5 1/2 years ago I’ve kept my art supplies in the office, which is in a room off the garage on the other side of the garden. This, you see, is where I envisaged making art when we first looked around the house. It seemed the ideal studio space. […]

Artistic Mother: My Vision Statement.

I have an admission to make. Usually when I read a book like this and it asks for a vision statement, I skip over it. I really did enjoy making this though. I have decided to share it here to hold myself accountable (especially since the last paragraph of the statement focuses on sharing with others). […]

The Artistic Mother Group

  Image from Shona Cole’s blog  I’m pleased as punch right now! I received my copy of the book The Artistic Mother by Shona Cole yesterday morning, and devoured it while Aoife happily played in the sand pit on her own. I had heard great reviews of the book on other blogs, seen some wonderful projects made […]

Art journal: process, progress and where to go from here

 I’ve been looking over all my pages recently and am truly amazed how far I’ve come in just a little over a month (I made my first pages on the last day of February). I seem to create my pages in two ways: 1. I do the journalling first, then add paint and images based on what […]

Art journal: Two Lives & Shine!

Ever see a journal page with a mind of it’s own? Two Lives Well, now you have!  Honestly, this was the most stubborn journal entry I’ve ever worked with! It had no intentions of ever doing what I wanted it to do. In the end, I just had to accept that it wanted to be […]

Side by side

I hear some mothers complain their children come back from preschool covered in paint. It makes me laugh. In our case, Aoife often goes to preschool covered in paint! Before leaving the house now we have to look each other over; clean clothes- check, clean hair & face- check, clean hands & nails- near enough, […]

Welcome Spring

  Spring is by far my favourite season. I adore it. I love the mild, fresh air against my face as I slowly start to strip off each weighty layer of winter clothing. I become happier and more energised with each layer dropped. I love the bright, gorgeous colours of spring. They’re so clean, fresh and […]

Just Say Yes!

Out of all the ones I’ve made so far, this is my favourite. I had so much fun making it. As you can see, I’m definitely ready to say yes to myself again! Have a great weekend everyone! I’m off to the Stitch & Craft show in London at the weekend and can’t wait to […]

Bloom where you are planted

  Bloom where you are planted I started working on this at the weekend and kind of surprised myself. I had planned on making the leaves out of newspaper cuttings, adding yet another layer, but realised a little too late the local freebie rag had been thrown in the recycling. Oh well. As for the message- the lovely, bright […]