from morning til night

there is so much beauty in nature.

if we take the sun, the moon and the stars alone artists could have enough material for the rest of time.

i have said it here before but i was a biology major in college for the sole reason that i think nature is beyond fascinating. no human will ever know everything there is to know. astronomy is a realm of that that sort of scares me because of how big it is, but it sure is beautiful.

if i ever have a little boy, i can certainly imagine one or two of these hanging in his room:

(i don't have good sources for all of these unfortunately, because alot of them i've saved over the years from flickr)

nasa*

archiewahwah tumblr

flickr

nasa*

double merrick

flickr

ffffound

map of the northern constellations

vintage printables

kone10

here

nasa*

amazon

and this one is by far and away my favorite.

i want it bad.

part nature. part rock n roll. equal parts awesome. 

this will hang on a wall in my house.

found it on we heart it.

and unfortunately i cannot find it anymore.

but i'm not done searching.

*some of these are from one of the cooler sites on the web.

nasa has a site that displays a picture a day, astronomy related, and then explains it a little. they've been doing it since 1995 and i think that's pretty rad.

love you guys to the moon and back.

JILL

stick em up.

so ever since i read my recent elle decor and saw this little lady:

i've been obsessed. obsessed with her art and her creativity.

i have to admit... i admired her work so much, i tried to mimic her. it's not even 1/10th as cool as hers but i tried. and i very much like the way it came out!!

her name is payton turner and she's only 25. her wallpaper is gorgeous, no?

as you can see.... it's not printed wallpaper....

it's stickers!!

 did you all see her in elle decor? i couldn't stop staring. genius genius genius.

so. much. fun.

it would kill it on the walls of a child's room. jenny at little green notebook, said yesterday she is going to try this out in her daughters' room and i can't wait to see her results!

i didn't have the amount of stickers necessary, the patience, or the willingness to stick all these to our walls... so i made a much smaller piece, like payton did here:

i had a billion stickers from when i was a kid (so glad i hoard random art supplies!), and just went to hobby lobby to beef up my collection. the quirkier and the more odd your stickers are, the better in my opinion... and my opinion came straight from payton's example.

i got frogs, snowmen, bananas, trees, spiderwebs, dogs, candy, fish, balloons, prescription bottles, horses, birthday cakes, etc. and just started sticking.

i took horrible phone photos as i worked last night:

and for a little of my own spin, i placed our last name and my husband and i's first names hidden in there, too.

finished!!

up close shots of the final:

it really didn't take as long as i thought it would. and i totally winged it in terms of straight lines and being in the center of the page, etc. about an hour and a half later, she was framed and ready to hang in one of my vintage brass frames!

last night around 11. 

loving it more in the better light this morning :)

so there you have it. my august art!!

read more about my monthly thing here. and see january, february, march, april, may, june, and july.

i'm actually going to hang it in the bathroom we're remodeling, behind the commode.

don't you think it's kinda cheeky? pun not intended.

plus its a little something extra for the boys to look at while taking care of business :)

JILL