decorating journals

I'm starting a new hobby! I've started decorating plain journals with fun and colorful designs! It's a great gift idea and more special than just buying some one a journal from the store. This way you can personalize it. Here is one of my favorite ones. This hobby is great for people who like to draw simple doodles but like making useful things.

Local Artist of New Bern, Hannah Mathiot

Hannah Mathiot is the co-owner of local business in New Bern called bear hands art factory. She's always been artistically inclined, I know this because shes my sister. She teaches kids art classes now at her art store and spends any extra time she has writing amazing comics or doing commissions. She has recently taken up the art of zen tangle and sometimes bombs the town with colorful rainbows of yarn. Here is some of her work. To get more information on Hannah and her business, go here http://www.bearhandsart.com/

cute little clay houses

zen tangle wave

baby bear!

clay typewriter 

tree sweater 

portrait of my mother

more zen tangle

Childhood Memory Contest Winner

Childhood Memory 

Little Bird

by Criminal Beauty 

I dreamt I was a little bird

Who flew without a care

My whims and wants were boundless

As I soared upon the air

When suddenly a cloud approached

My will it turned to dust

The gloomy, glaring uncertainty

Reduced my may to must

Yet still I flew on higher

Ever searching for the top

My mind kept racing faster

How could I ever stop?

Finally perched upon the precipice

I paused to wonder, why?

And in that very moment

I lost my will to try.

My mental cage enveloped me

I was trapped forevermore

For who could love a little bird

Who could no longer soar?

Through days and nights my wings grew limp

'Till I could barely think

My skin grew thick and tough

Yet in my armor there was one chink

Without warning the sun grew brighter

My desire had returned

The flight I'd feared I'd lost forever

Was now something for which I yearned.

But by then my wings were weighted

Though I tried with all of me

To be that little bird once more

And to finally be free.

Holiday Nails for my lady readers...

i didnt do this art, but i can tell you how to do it. :3

deep blue with snowflakes. you can get this look by using either a detail brush, or a toothpick.

light blue with snowflakes and a fading look.

you can get this look by first painting your nails light blue then, using a sponge, apply white and blend out,

then use a detail brush or stickers for the snowflakes.

first apply white to your nails, then apply a dark blue and use a sponge to fade it into the white, use a toothpick to apply snowflakes and then coat it with glittering lacquer 

apply white to your nails, when they dry, use a detail brush to apply the other colors, the place a tiny drop of silver in the middle.

paint nails light blue, then use q tips the paint the body of the now men. use detail brushes for the snowballs and the body parts of the snow man, and toothpicks for the rest.

Merry Christmas

happy christmas readers! because its christmas and im the writer and you're the readers, im going to tell you what my family and i do for the holidays. and then you can tell ME what YOU do either int he comments or the google plus forum OR the new forum page im working on. which i will explain later.

my family throws a huge christmas eve bash on, when else but, christmas eve. we all dress up, take pictures, invite the whole church over, and get happy on spiked eggnog.we sing christmas hyms, eat cookies, hold grumpy babies, and make sure the giant poodle of ours doest jump up on the table and drink all our eggnog. we dont put anything past him. we always open one present on the eve and then we go to bed while mom stays up to stuff the stockings, but we dont really go to sleep. doesnt matter how old we are, we always look forward to christmas mornings. its pretty rare that the whole family spends an entire day together.

let me know what you do with your family!

looking for author

i need someone willing to add interesting content and to be willing to work on networking to grow this community. if you are interested, contact me by email, google plus, or here.

My Coffee

coffee, a wonderful substance that brings unnatural joy to me in the morning. very unnatural. but finding a good cup of coffee here in new bern north carolina, is like finding a homestucker in the sticks. uncultured swine. the best cup of coffee can be found at my house where we own a keurig. but we dont by the keurig cups, we buy from a family owned, freshly ground coffee company. when i remember the name i'll tell you. we get a box delivered automatically to us every month. the only problem with only getting coffee at home, is that sometimes we are out of cream. this is an unspeakable sin to me. it is a sad, sad morning in the mathiot home when there's no cream for carlys coffee.  

Bear Hands Art Factory

Bear hands Art Factory is a local, family owned business in New Bern North Carolina that provides kids pottery and painting classes, kids summer art camps, adult painting and wine parties, pottery lessons and membership and much more. It is the only pottery studio in New Bern  and is located on 1208 pollock street. They provide the best recreational activities in town. When I turn 21 i intend on having my own painting and wine party. you check out their website and schedule a party now! http://www.bearhandsart.com/ 

paint this picture at bear hands art factory

the family of artists 

owl hat! thought you guys might like this. my sister made it for me

 

new contest: childhood memory

because no one entered their poems of Halloween, I'm making ANOTHER contest for creative writing. the winner and honorable mentions will be featured in a blog post and be shared to my personal Facebook, and Google plus for this page. tell me of a childhood memory in an artistic way, either a poem or just creative writing. please leave preferred pen name, or I'll just use your Google user name. please no language. just comment below with your poem or message me personally if you wish (with pen name info and any other info you wish me to provide the readers) at obscurereadsblog@gmail.com contest ends on Christmas eve...

can wait to see the entries.
good luck
carls