Lala Land via…
24 Aug 2011 1 Comment
Hey I’m here where ever here is!! I’m feeling a tad homeless at the moment, it’s all good I’m living in a lovely new home but I’m kind of like in Limbonland if you know what I mean.
We sold our home, all is good the new owners are in but we are still in that waiting process for settlement to go through on our new property so in the interim we’re staying with my aunty and uncle, which I’m totally cool with we’ve been having huge big cookups to feed us all and they’ve got a tiny little Daushound (sausage dog) puppy which I’ve been baby sitting everyday while they’re at work so now they don’t have to drop her off to me cause I’m here 
I just really suck cause being a kind of (totally) grounded taurus bull I like to be in my own paddock. I’m so bad at not being in my own space, just like I love holidays but LOVE going back home to my own home. We rented for a few months last years and it so totally did my head in, it was super convenient to our lives and school but I kind of felt like a caged animal being in someone elses space, I could never rent like all the time, I wonder if I am the only person in the world like this or if it is a common thing???
Anyway to compensate I have been in creation mode. I’m just so in love with the digital images available from itkipulli that I’ve gone a tad crazy and done a tonne of new digital collages with meaningful and funny verses.
So after doing up these and several several more I finally decided I should just get myself a website to load them up onto and that’s just what I did. www.julieturnerart.com let me know what you think it’s still very basic, I didn’t want to go chewing up all my aunt and uncles internet quota which I’m totally gonna pay for anyway because I’m a really lovely niece 
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I’m also coming out of the photo phobia closet after like my entire life of NEVER smiling in any photos (and now totally regretting it)and am slowly starting to put my own face in a couple of my creations which is big for me. I can totally do stuff for other people but have only ever put my own face in one (no two my little toddler photo with the butterfly wings which only my relatives would know is me) cause heaven forbid people might actually look at me and I would be all totally shamed out.
I even posed for some photos taken by a larger than life faerie recently, very massive big step for me but I must admit I did have fun. This is my fave photo from the collection.
One must get back to creating, have a fun day.
Jul xo
Brain OVERLOAD!!!
02 Aug 2011 2 Comments
OMG My wee little head is spinning in overload biggest time eva!!! By some kind of freaky chance I finally met and enjoyed the morning with the beautiful talented artist that is Goddess Leonie and her sweetest cutey pie daughter Ostara, the rockin lubly lady behind Goddess Guidebook, what a fun happy happy morning we had.
On our little journey we went via the Akiah Elan spiritual shop to see the gorgeous dear sweet lady of soo much knowledge Miss Amanda where I took the biggest major step EVA in my little creative life and signed up for a stall with my artwork at the Spiritual Festival that she is hosting in Proserpine in September.
Holy flyin moo cows, mammoth step for ME!!!! So sitting here at this moment all I can say is thankyou to all the artists who put soo much love into the creations they bring to life and share with everyone which has inspired me big biccies ova the years.
I’ve spoken about her dreamy work before but it was Kelly Rae Roberts that first got me thinking about art again after such a massive art drought!!
It wasn’t long after that I found myself drawn to the eccentric unique artwork by Violette, I still haven’t yet tried all the techniques in her book but just kind of love being mesmerised by the bold creativeness that brings her work to life.
I totally love love love Vanessa Valencia’s whole take on life and her artwork wow wow wow!! If you want to slip through a keyhole into a magical gypsy world this is the place to be!!
There are so many amazing gifted creative souls cruising around our gorgeous planet at the moment I encourage you to go on a Google image journey and feast your eyes on some seriously talented people.
BIG bright blessings and thanks to you all for sharing your diverse talents with me. I am truly grateful.
Jul xo
World of Whimsy
26 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
Ok so at this moment in time I’m spose to be sitting here drawing our new house plans up and as I frequently do, I have accidentally become a tad side tracked!! Ooppsy!!
I have my floor plan all done, not quite sure on the orientation on the block of land yet, need to be visiting back there again with a compass to ensure a lovely cooling breeze in the heat of our steamy tropical summers, so that is ok I know what I have to do there but I just can’t work out a style to go with???
Anyone who knows me well knows I’m a little different from the average everyday person.I love odd quirky, whimsical, gypsy, rustic homes bits and pieces that kind of make peoples eyeballs almost pop out of their heads. I love to walk into a room and feel so comfortable that I never want to leave, as much as I love the neat tidy minimalistic look of all things modern it is just so NOT me!!
I want the walls to hug you as you walk in, I want the seating to be so squishy you never want to get up again, I want your eyeballs to send you sleepy because you just don’t know where to look.
So whilst checking out different styles on google I came across the most gorgeous pieces of furniture by artist Richard Dunbrack, it is soo Dr Seuss meets steampunk whimsy I just want to go and sit in one just for fun!! This man is a true legend!!
each piece has the most awesome names which his children help him do. The one above is “Lance Romance”.
and my fave is this one below, “Reckless Driving Down Dirty Back Roads,” named by his daughter Sydney.
I also found the yummiest collection of images on the blog Too Cute Things http://toocutethings.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-post_19.html I’m thinking my husband would really feel quite unmanly in this room but how girly cool is it?
Fun Hey!! I guess I am defiantly a more eclectic decorator then I realise. I’ve always designed and decorated our homes around one particular style, I guess I did it so I would shock people more with a normal style rather than what they would expect from me but I’m starting to feel a bit like a caged in bird and as I write this am thinking it is time for me to be FREE.
I had best be getting back to work so please enjoy your happy bright life just the way you WANT to. Jul xo
Back into it and crazy as eva!!
15 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
hmmmm having trouble starting this one off must of been the holiday away visiting my family with my daughter while dear sweet daddy stayed home and went to work.
We’re a close little family so lucky it’s only a plane flight away to visit with nanny, poppy, my one and only sista who although is three years younger then me feels like my seperated siamise twin and of course her hubby. We’re very blessed girls to have dear sweet husbands who are also a tad on the crazy side to put up with us and all the jibberish the comes out of our mouths!!
Nanny, my sissy, my daughter, me and poppy.
It was a great little holiday and much needed as we’re currently in the midst of selling our home, we live in a sleepy little rural village where most houses are holidays homes, so the majority of the time the population isn’t many at all, our only shop is also a country pub and post office. We’re about 40 minutes drive from the busy tourist town of Airlie Beach which is pretty much the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands on the east coast of Australia. It is beautiful and secluded here and a walk on the beach which is across from our home is almost a sacred happening with your footsteps commonly the only ones on the beautiful beach.Great for reading, meditating, letting your child get rid of hypo energy and afternoon drinks and nibbles with guests.
Our gorgeous beach with only my footsteps in sight. Ahh the bliss.
It will be sad to go as this was my parents beach house for 10 years before we bought it off them, there are many great memories here but we feel its time to move on, start a new chapter, get back onto a bit more land ( we’re so not suburban people we need space and lots of it) and get a bit closer to civilisation.
Friday afternoon is here so it’s time to get choppin (food that is) we kind of have a friday afternoon ritual of nibbles and drinks to celebrate the coming weekend and it’s a full moon tonight so even prettier and dreamier.
Blessings and love Jules xo
Rekindling a lost love…
30 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
Oh dear ART, how I missed you.
I remember way back when I was in grade 7 and I not only won a poster designing competition through school (and won the grand prize of I think it may have been a $20 gift voucher at the local newsagent woohoo!!) but was also later in the year featured in the local paper with some of my other drawings, I was so sure I’d be an artist when I grew up.
Then high school took over, I fell into the typical girly slot of lustfully living for girly magazines, boys, clothes and makeup (because that’s what my friends were doing and heaven forbid I danced to the beat of my own drum) and so life took over school was finished, I was working full time, fell in love, bought a house, got married, had a child and only a couple of times over those 20 odd years did I even pick up a paint brush (except of course for my crazy house renovating obsession). It was truly a love lost.
Then about 18 months ago I came across some gorgeous whimsical artwork by Kelly Rae Roberts and I just had to buy her book which I looked through over and over but never actually did anything until last year when I did my first collage since high school! Then started my small addiction with collages, but being the painful perfectionist I know I can sometimes be I couldn’t just place things anywhere, everything had to sit perfectly and make sense!
This was my first one, even ripping and placing the paper on the background it had to sit perfectly in place. To the extreme I know. I’m working on being messier, I really am.
I did a few for friends featuring their children and I also made up fairy tales to go with them. You can check out the fairytales on my old blogger site for a couple of these.
It was then after entering this magical land of make believe that I went exploring the many seas on S.S. Google to see if there were any people out there who also liked to drift away to a land of imagination. I remember peeping through a secret keyhole and I came across another gorgeous creature who slaps the life right back into your imagination like you would never believe. Vanessa Valencia I seriously would like to take this moment to give thanks to her parents for bringing her into this world.
But alas I had just got myself settled in this enchanted world when I landed myself what I thought was my dream job of being a graphic designer so it was back in the real world and my colourful little creative world got packed up because life took over again. Well as life has turned out the magazine I was working for is unfortunately no longer around so I’m proud to say I’m now again unemployed and back to being a stay at home mum again and I vow I will never take the freedom of it for granted again!! So hence why this blog is so young and why I have no idea even what email I used for my old blogger account to get back into it. But it has been the best and most expensive lesson for me, I paid in full for a graphic design course which I now realise is just way too structured for me so yeh hope they enjoy that donation. I’m just so blissfully happy floating along doing my own style of art whatever form that may be on the day. So here’s cheers to a fresh new start AGAIN!!
Jul xo
Celebrate your Uniqueness!!
29 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
Uniqueness that’s my new word I’m loving it.
It’s a yukky windy rainy day here today in our beautiful tropical paradise, I know it’s the middle of winter (well it is spose to be) and in other parts of the world and even other parts of Australia, people usually rug up all warm and toasty, but seriously wear anything warmer in winter than jeans and a shirt around here and people really think you are a tad strange. I’ve noticed to live in a rural country area, one must at all times appear so tuff that the temperature is not affecting them at all.
So to celebrate the uniqueness of ACTING tuff (or do I mean very silly) I thought I’d warm up by playing with some more delightful images which are hot hot hot from the delightfully talented Kirsi Itkupilli. I don’t think I can explain in words how much I totally LOVE having crazy fun with her images. She is one seriously talented lady, do yourself a favour and check out her own digital artworks, very cool!!
Hope this warms up your day and helps you in celebrating your beautiful unique self!! Enjoy. Jul xo
Collage ObSeSSion june 27th
27 Jun 2011 6 Comments
As I have quite an addiction to mixed media and digital collages at the moment I purchased some gorgeous images last week through Itkupilli on Etsy, Kirsi is a Finnish artist living in Los Angeles, her images are soo creatively yummy and just take me away to another land and time. Each week her and a few other artists host a challenge. This week Rick St. Dennis has decided to start covering the seven deadly sins starting with LUST, Rick has suggested to go a bit on the dark side where I don’t normally tend to tread but seemed fun, so I have used the very unsettling man as posted by Rick in quite a lustful manner.
I’m not sure if the dear sweet girl in the window is taken up with the same lust of the disturbing creeping man hiding in the bushes outside her bedroom as she dresses. Kind of gives me shivers just looking at him!!
Am off now to have a tea party with some dolls and toys, (my daughter in on school holidays for the next 2 weeks) then a bit more play time with my new images.
Enjoy your day. Jul xx
savvyjul
