Paint Party Friday--Art Journal Journey and many others

After many mornings of thick dense fog that chills to the bones we finally had a sunrise...of sorts and then the rains came. And so is the weather of fall. 

 This weeks art is a combination of many challenges that I have fallen way behind in and will never catch up on. 

It started with left over paints smudged and swirled on blank pages..

As I was filling in some of the white spaces with tea and coffee for the 

Falling in love with Journaling Fall challenge # 9 . I realized I had the colors of fall for the Art Journal Journey challenge for November. 

I also have dreams and emotions for documented life that came to life with the doodling ....

 the monster of anger and jealousy on the left with the magical forest on the right. It was a fun spread to doodle as I watched a couple of TV shows. 

 The garden is almost all covered up with cardboard and black plastic ....hoping to get rid of a invasive ground cover that is trying to take it over. 

 Even though the mornings have been wet and chilly the afternoons have been warm and a couple of the day lilies have given a last effort of bloom. :) 

Som

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T Stands for Tuesday

AH...It's Tuesday again and time to visit Elizabeth and Bleubeard :) 

It's another super foggy day here... the same fog that prevented us from really seeing the Northern Lights last night. :( We did get a hint of them as the fog took on the pinks and greens but that was it. 

I was very disappointed  over that... I had literally been dreaming of the Northern lights for about 2 weeks . Before I had heard of the rare sighting that happened last night. My husband leaves his radio on low at night on a talk radio show and they probably mentioned them and I heard it in my sleep and wove them into my dreams. 

Our weather has been warm again and we've gotten some much needed rain. So I bought myself a discounted rose bush and planted it. 

It's a tiny little thing and only cost me four bucks so if it doesn't make it no big lost. This was the day I planted it and with the rains we've had it has already perked up and looks much better. Once the leaves all fall of with the cold I'll mulch it very heavy with shredded leaves . I'll place a wire cage around it to hold the leaves in place. So hopefully it will survive and I'll have roses again. I lost all of my roses to the drought and severe heat we had 2 summers in a row. 

Now I'm busy covering the veggie garden in cardboard and black plastic but I don't have any pictures of that yet. I'll wait until I'm done which will be a while yet because my energy doesn't last long these days. 

I did finish the "Wild Things" journal page I was working on. No words yet but they will come to me someday ...

This week I am working in a different journal and trying to catch up with some challenges that I missed. So I'm combining several challenges into one spread. I have fall colors, coffee and tea, and I've got to add dreams and emotions  to it but I think I know where that is going. I used coffee to stain the the background and then started adding the fall colors .. I have a teabag I'm going to add to the page. 

There's my morning coffee cup too. Since having the bad UTI  I'm restricted to having one cup a day . I use my giant cups but I don't fill them up. It just gives me the illusion of having a big cup of coffee every day. 

I do miss those later in the day  cups of coffee :( 

Today's Random Thoughts

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T Stands for Tuesday

Hello again my Tuesday 

FRIENDS !

It's misty rain and foggy here today.. a good day for staying inside. 

No pretty sunrise photos today... but there have been some during the past week.

I've finally finished processing the last of the garden harvest :( I never like to see it come to an end. 

The last of the Pablaneo peppers are blanched  and frozen and the carrots all chopped up and frozen too. 

I had another lone Dahlia plant give it's first bloom of the season... I can't believe it survived the frost form last week .

It seems I only have the purple ones left. So next year I'll have to buy more colors. 

I'm still working on several different journals. 

For the Recipe journal that I covered with gelli prints I decided I needed a decorative tape to neat up the inside where the prints wrapped around the edge of the cover. Of course nothing I had it stock matched. So I got out the gelli plate again and made my own. 

I used white artist masking tape and covered a sheet of freezer paper with it (forgot to take that photo) then used my gelli plate to cover the whole sheet. I got a bit heavy with the paint so it took forever to dry.. I could have blotted some off but I really liked the patterns I had going so I left it as is. 

Here's the journal after using the tape.

I'm also working in my "WildThings" journal again and here is the WIP...along with my cup of coffee. 

It has a lot of work to be done yet. 

Today's Random Thoughts

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Paint Party Friday

It' Friday again 

and time to celebrate 

PAINT PARTY FRIDAY!

THANKS AGAIN TO 

EVA & KRISTIN!

It seems like it's been forever since I've shown up for the party. This , that and the other has prevented me from being around much anywhere lately. 

Not even very much art done recently but several WIP'S are going on :) 

I have started working on 2 new journals that will be gift this Christmas. 

Here are their covers ...so far..

...they are subject to complete change in the future. Both will be cookbooks combined with art and little memories . 

I've also started my first larger journal. A 9 inch X 12 inch . It didn't start out as a theme journal but I think it has morphed onto one after finishing the first lay out. 

I shared it earlier this week with my "T" friends but it's changed a bit since then and will change again I'm sure.

I'm thinking it will a "Wild Things" journal...we'll see :)

I've already been playing with some images for the layout...again nothing firm yet.

My energy levels have been real hit and miss lately so combine that with my A.D.D. that has gone ballistic again everything is in a state of  incompleteness . 

The garden season is over and most things have gone dormant , died or in the process of getting there.  A few stragglers that refuse to give up...

The Hubs likes everything neat and tidy..inside and out. I'm just not wired that way. Inside we work things out but side is a constant discussion with passion :) As soon as it dyes off he wants it cut back ..I like to leave the seed heads and brush for the birds and cut back in early Spring. So usually in front of the house get cu back but in the rest of the flower garden I get my way. 

Then I can look out the windows and see this...

 ...although squirrels are not my friend after staling all of my apples this year :( 

The veggie garden is done. Most of the plants are pulled out and the garlic is planted for next year. I still need to get some mulching done and some areas covered with black plastic to kill off the grass and weeds that took over when I got down. That should all happen this week. 

The leaves are falling everywhere. Hubs raked up the first big batch and mulched them and moved them to the leave compost bin. Most of this batch will get used to mulch the garden with but there will be many more batches before they all stop falling.

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T Stands for Tuesday

I can't believe it's Tuesday already! 

I think I spend the entire week in bed or at least 80 % of it. 

The sinus infection spiraled out of control again and then I ended up with a bad UTI on top of it :( I haven't been that sick for a very long time. Another trip to Urgent Care and more of the DREADED ANTIBIOTICS and I think I might actually be getting better. Not  positive yet .  

So not much art this week at all :( 

A doodle...

The background was already done ... the doodles were made with a white gel pen as I laid in bed watching TV and drinking my required liquids.  Just what I wanted to be doing since I was already running to the bathroom way too much already :( But I do understand the need for it...just don't like it :/ 

Another thing I have a tendency to do when I'm sick is look through old cookbooks.  Weird I know as food wasn't appealing to me at all and I was barely eating. Maybe I was looking for something to jump/start my appetite?

 This is a book I've had for 20 plus years now and made several delicious meals out of. It came from my husband's grandmother who was from Poland.

 On the back pages of the book she had written the page numbers of some of her favorite recipes  and others I have made are ones my husband remembered and I looked them up in the index. 

There were all so lots of loose pages she had hand written recipes on and stuck them in the book. :) 

What I never realized before was this was more than a recipe book...

... it was also a book about everyday life in Poland before and during  the turn of the century. The book was published in 1948.

Special Holidays are included...

So I will be reading more of this great book this fall and winter and trying out many more of the recipes. Some recipes I just won't be making!

 Like Duck Soup ...which sounded like it might be good...until I got to the part about using the ducks blood ( or pigs blood if you didn't have ducks blood) to make the sauce. Nope! Not making that one! 

For my required drink here it is.... can you find it among the clutter that has become my desk top this month?

The sacred coffee cup that had to be refilled 2 times just to have the energy to clear off the half of my desk with the computer on it. So I could write this post with out something sliding off onto the floor or my lap :( 

Hopefully I'll get the other half cleaned off tomorrow or the next day.

Today's random thoughts...

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