Longer and Warmer Days

Hi everyone. I hope your weekend is going well so far. 

Here in the US we changed the clocks last night, so although it was dark this morning, it will be light longer tonight. It's always exciting to have longer days, and maybe I can sleep a bit later for a few weeks as I seem to be waking up with the sun in the morning. 

We have been having some early spring weather.  Early spring in New Hampshire means warm days and then cold days.  The snow does some melting, but then it doesn't melt. We have mud. We've also had wind as well as rain. And we even got more snow too.  Today it's cold again. And yesterday was just nasty.  This is all in 1 week. I know writing about the weather isn't very exciting, but with the day to day changes lately, you just never know what to expect.

I'm getting antsy for the days to warm up a bit and the mud to dry out so I can get back to walking on my road (it's gravel), and so I can get into the gardens too. To make up for that, I've been hit with the spring cleaning bug, and I've been doing a few small cleaning chores inside.  That, of course, is not a bad thing, but not exactly exciting either.

My spread today is for Valerie's spring challenge at Art Journal Journey. This month the challenge is spring. I haven't seen too many birds who have migrated back yet, but the local avians have been singing a lot during the warm days. It's nice to hear their songs rather than the quiet of winter.

The background is watercolored with the addition of a few scraps of paper. Then I pulled out my musical note stencil and did a bunch of stenciling with a Sharpie as well as a white pen. 

I added a couple of old playing cards with bird images, as well as a couple of fussy cut images off an old collage sheet.

I stamped the "birds of a feather" quote a few times, and then I used a Sharpie and a white pen to write in my quote.

 That's about all there is for me. We ran into a snag on the bedroom project; last weekend my husband couldn't find enough decedent wood for the ceiling so things fell a bit behind.  This weekend things have picked back up; some of the new ceiling is going up. Hurrah. But I have no photos to share yet. 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and have a great start to the new week.