Saturday This and That

Hi everyone. Happy weekend. Today I have some art and some photos of my little spot on the planet to share.

Yesterday we got our driveway fixed. (If you remember the photos of the wash out we had last weekend, you'll know we had very deep water carved ruts down both sides and at the base of the hill.)  Hurrah! Hurrah!  The rocks on the side are for drainage during big storms. Even the hubby was happy. He is very critical since his specialty is designing airport runways so he knows how the site needs to be prepared before paving. That means the guy did a good job. (Which I would have said from looking at it but what do I know about site work. I will stick with biology and what I know of art and take his word for it.)

And I had a self-seeded  tomato plant growing on my steps. I left it there to see what it did and look, it now has some tomatoes forming.  Not sure what kind since it self seeded from last year. My guess is some kind of cherry tomato?

And here's my flowers this week after some rain.

 The last of my lilies, I think.

And I looked for any monarch butterfly chrysalises but didn't see any on my milkweed.

But now there's lots of milkweed tussock moth caterpillars also on them. 

With school back in session my gardens start to go downhill as my garden maintenance time is more limited.

And I do have a journal page today for both Moo Mania. and Art Journal Journey.

The latest theme at Moo Mania is numbers/letters.  I used this cool paper I tore out an old Somerset Studio magazine when I was cleaning a pile  this summer  that I used as my background, and then took this leftover bit from an alphabet/number die cut. It was in white, and I used matte medium to attach it to my paper. Then I rubbed 2 shades of blue ink over it. I also used the dark blue ink to enhance the top and bottom of the page.

I added some blue gemstone style dots along the bottom. I stopped at Hobby Lobby the other day to return a can of spray paint that wouldn't spray, and then made the mistake of walking back to see if there was anything good on the clearance racks. I managed to find about 10 packets of alphabet stickers as well as some of these gemstone dots all substantially marked down. That explains why I used so many on the page.

And then I added the mermaid, dolphins and the quote. These are all from a set by Visible Image that I picked up this summer. The mermaid and dolphins are fussy cut after being stamped on white paper, except for her trident which I stamped directly on the page and then colored it with a gold metallic marker.

As the mermaid has eyes and the quote mentions eyes, I think this works perfect for Gill's challenge at  Art Journal Journey

That's all for me today. It's beautiful weather, slightly feeling like fall, which is quite exciting after all the humidity we had earlier this week.

Thanks so much for visiting.