A New Journal Page

  Good Morning and Happy Thursday,

Yesterday was my all day out with a friend to the "big" city of Springfield Missouri to visit our accountant for taxes and then go out for lunch and visit craft stores.

I was good and did not pick up too many items. I didn't need fabric, couldn't find stencils I liked, but did pick up a couple new stamps.
   I printed off  40% off coupons for the both of us for three different stores and we went to two of the stores. I have been wanting a Paris stamp and found a few and chose this one.

I created another journal page in my recycled spiral cookbook-now mixed media journal. I will share it at AJJ for Hearts  theme and on Try it on Tuesday  for recycled or green. (green leaves in the paper, green heart, green ink for Paris stamp, green color pencil for table and chairs, recycled magazine pages for hearts)

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I am pleased with the results-I don't plan out any of my pages I just create what ever happens. I grabbed a couple stamps and went through my stash of papers. Now that I view my page in a photo-I should have overlapped the thin heart over on top of the chair.

I chose to use a sheet of paper with leaves and dried plants inside of it, that was in my gift box from Mia last year.  I glued that down to my journal page-then I had two strips of scraps so I stamped the Paris stamp in green and also black and decided to use the green. They both looked nice on the page. I also used one of the scraps to write Loving on to.
    I used scraps of recycled magazine pages to cut out the hearts. I then took some color pencils and added some greens to the table and chair  (That bit of purple in the upper corner of the Paris stamp is not yet dry glue that will dry clear.)

T Stands for Tuesday & Another Heart Journal Page

  It is time for T again, the days seem to be flying by still  and way too fast.
You are most welcome to join us with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth, to link up only requirement is to share your drink related photo.

   Like allot of you the weather here has been so up and down-down to 1 degree and up to 50 degrees f the next day. No wonder my asthma, and allergy systems are all over the place this season-worse than I have been in a long time. Nothing seems to help-my ears are constantly draining, and making me light headed-not fun.

  Since Friday I have been binge watching the Outlander series on Starz. The first episode started at 11:30 am my time and I  stayed up til 3:30 am. Went to sleep but woke up in four hours-so I turned Outlander on again and pretty much watched all day again til around 2am. No wonder I am tired lol I had not seen this show before except for some last year.
    Some of the episodes on Sunday I had seen before but watched again after about 10 am. Only show I missed that I really wanted to see was Jamie seeing his daughter Brianna for the first time.

  This year's episodes are based on the book I haven't read yet The Fiery Cross during the time leading up to our revolution-perhaps including the war. I will start reading this one tonight.
   There are of course some changes in the series from the books but not too bad. I really loved the photography and all of the actors and actresses.

  I did get some spinning done-I am pleased with the results. This has been easier for me to spin than some wools I have spun before. This is polwarth wool with silk.

  This afternoon I made another journal page for Elizabeth's Heart theme over on AJJ

  This one I took a page out of a mixed media notebook to work on-and then glued in my journal.
   I wanted to play with stamps, pens, and try to draw something. I drew the umbrella and the puddle of water that the one heart fell into. I hope it looks like a puddle of water.

This week I am still drinking my lemon-ginger water, decaf teas and coffee and Sunday evening I decided to open up a bottle of wine-some of you will remember this one. It came from Aldi and I really like this one.
   I took this photo on the kitchen table so you can see my coffee cup to the right-and ignore the background clutter.

  This "glass" I bought from one of our favorite potterers back in the '80s or so. This was one of his first attempts with porcelain  I have two and use them for small size beverages.

  Originally I was scheduled to go to Springfield, Mo with a friend to get our taxes done and to visit craft stores. However, early this morning I got a call that our appointment got changed to next week Wednesday morning--so that means I will be able to visit everyone.

  Happy T wishes to all of you

One More Heart Journal Page for AJJ

   I was wanting to shovel some snow this morning but there was too much ice out there soooo I decided to make another heart page for Elizabeth's theme over at  AJJ

  I played around allot with the layout and I think I like the way it turned out. If you have any suggestions I am alway welcome to them as I am learning composition with the mixed media.

   I glued down two layers of the background tissue paper. The first layer was really showing the words on the page as I didn't think I would mind a few showing through but there were too many-so I glued on top another piece of this swirl design tissue paper.
   I stamped onto dried baby wipes-I bought a container of this as our Elizabeth is always using them-and I have discovered they work really well to clean up my stamps after use-easier then the bottles of cleaner I have been using and that cloth on top always tears off before I finish the bottle.

  I cut out the heart sentiment from a magazine and saved the cut offs and used them for design elements.

  Let me know what you think of this page It could have used another corner piece in the left hand corner but I did not have another one.

The journal I am using is a wide spiral with herb recipes

Maybe I should stamp another small heart and put it in that left bottom corner?

Hearts Journal Page for AJJ & Update on the Groundhog Movie I shared

  Today while watching the parade in Kansas City for the Chiefs (I discovered I had the NFL channel in my sports package so could watch this) and also listening off and on to the impeachment trial I worked on a journal page for AJJ with Bleubeard and Elizabeth's them: Hearts.

  I brought out different papers, and looked through my folder of magazine pages and with trial and error-made this double page.

  I found the rose paper so glued that down on my page-then played around with a magazine page that celebrated love and Valentine's with cast iron mini heart cakes and roses. I wanted to use the cast iron image so decided to make a second page. The roses and quote were all on the cast iron magazine page.
   I stamped down two different hearts and added the dark chocolate quote from the cellophane  paper that was inside a chocolate candy box.
  I also glued down a page under the cast iron hearts.

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  I am really happy with this journal spread and was fun to put together.

We also have a wintry day-a coating of ice then about 4 inches of snow and will continue to snow off and on through the night.  The weather people had changed the total to up to 8 inches of snow so we'll see. I was going to shovel off the driveway late this afternoon but the temperature dropped and was very windy-don't need to get sick out there.

Stay warm and safe everyone-this storm is headed east

Oh and I have not seen this commercial on tv yet but just found it on facebook-my sister in law shared it. This is based on the Groundhog movie I shared over the weekend-love this-so fun.