Last Week of January

 Hi everyone. 

 It is hard for me to believe we are starting the last week of January. It seems I was just picking up my holiday decorations and wondering how I would  occupy myself during the month with winter howling around me. Thanks to a spell of not so bad winter weather, I've made it this far, and I am shocked that we only have a week left to go until February.  

We are in the deep freeze with winds this weekend however, which has meant lots of indoor time with the wood stove going. Looks the like the nights in this upcoming week are going to get pretty cold also, down near into the teen degrees F (or about -10 to 12 degrees C). And chillier days too. I think the mild winter weather has headed for a vacation south. I wish I was too. Smile.

My page for Art Journal Journey today was made with one of my favorite techniques.

The background is watered down blue, brown and grey acrylic paint. I also stamped some paint circles using an old empty tape roll.

I used my favorite technique to make the tree. 

I started by stamping a tree image I really like. I stamped it twice just slightly overlapping because I wanted to the make the tree wider and larger. This became my base image which I could then paint over. You could say I used the stamp in place of pencil sketching. 

I added a little white snow under the tree and stamped the birds. 

I finally added the TH sticker words and also some white ghostly looking leaves that are clear stickers. To me they are dreams of the spring and summer. Or at least dreams of some milder weather than this weekend.

That's all for me. I hope your weekend is going well.