Jeudi Journal - Coffee!

 Tim's Snarky Comment for today is "Coffee keeps me going until it's acceptable to drink wine"and for this page I decided to try to recreate a wooden background - but it didn't work out so all kinds of Distress Inks, in various light brown shades, went on and in the end I used an Aall & Create Stencil with a darker brown to create my background.

I knew I wanted a 'reclining' figure so I chose one dressed for the cooler weather and coloured her in bright (Chameleon) colours.  Yes, I used something other than my Promarkers today and I love how easily they went on and to say I have had them since they first came out at CHA shows how good they are as they are so juicy.  Now to the story to explain the page for Valerie's theme at Art Journal Journey, "Anything Goes".

"It was another of those dark dismal days in early March when you just want to curl up with a good book and not venture out.  Diana and her younger sister, Dee, were staying in having decided that the weather was so foul that there really was little point to going into town, besides which, Diana had got the new book by Adam Croft and she really wanted to read it.  It promised to be an exceptionally good thriller and she had most of his books so expectations were high.

"Fancy making me a coffee?" asked Diana, as she settled comfortably on the floor of their bedroom.

"OK" said Dee, and she got up and went down the stairs and into the kitchen.  Diana turned the page of her new book on her Kindle and began reading.

"Mum says" shouted Dee from downstairs, "that you drink too much coffee and it's not good for you to drink it in such large amounts."

"Is she there?" asked Diana.

"Yes, I am" came the reply, from mum.  "Why you cannot drink tea or even better, water, I do not know.  It is bad for you to drink nothing but coffee and in the copious amounts you do."

Diana's feathers were ruffled, all she wanted was another cup of coffee and to be able to get her head in her book.  Was it to much to ask?

"Coffee keeps me going until it's acceptable to drink wine" was Diana's reply, knowing full well that this would irritate mum as it was not her eighteenth birthday until another month.

"Get down here, young lady" shouted mum, "I think we need words about your attitude".    And with that mum walked calmly into the kitchen to await her eldest daughter.  Even when she was eighteen there would still be rules in the house and going out drinking wine to excess was not to be tolerated whilst she lived under the same roof as the family."

It is the funeral of my BF today so I might not get around to commenting on your blog until late tonight or even tomorrow.  I m sure you will understand but I will catch up on commenting.,.