Spring Showers

Hi everyone.  

I hope you are having a nice weekend with  spring like weather.

I can't say our weather is really spring like here in New Hampshire. It has been cold like January, although we should see some warm up this new week if the weather folks are right. My weekend has been busy. My daughter's been home, and there's also been work in the spare bedroom.

And thanks to all of you for the birthday wishes also. I had a low key day because it was very cold out, but I made some art, and we had some Mexican food take out for dinner. Plus my daughter came home so I can't complain.

I did want to post another journal spread for Valerie's spring challenge at Art Journal Journey.  You probably have heard the quote "April Showers Bring May Flowers". I know it isn't April, but spring is known for rain and mud, so I decided to do a page with a little twist.

One of the small paper pads I am trying to use up is a cat and dog vintage one from Graphic 45.  I used 2 pieces of paper for this spread, the turquoise  umbrellas with the turquoise gingham on the back, and then another page of the same designs in black.

I used 2 different raindrop stamps to fill in the white space.

Then I used more scrap paper from this pad for my quote, "raining cats and dogs". I also added some images I cut out of a 4th piece of paper.

Finally, I used the 2021 Doggie Daycare calendar and cut out photos with Maddie to give my spread a little more interest.  Smile. I'd include Pete, but he got too nervous at Doggie Daycare so he doesn't go any longer.  Maddie is 8, and so in most of her photos she is relaxing. Her major play, play, and play days are over, but she does still get frisky for a short burst here and there.

As I have one square photo on this page (plus LOTS of rectangles which are kind of like squares), I am also linking up to River of Creativity, challenge #11 for March. The theme is still anything goes, with optional squares.

 And let me update you on my spare bedroom/studio project. (I'm sure you've been impatiently waiting all week for this-ha ha ha!)

Last week we got the old ceiling ripped down in the closet area. Because we don't have room to move everything out of the space, the plan is to put up a new ceiling here and then move my workbench into this area, and redo the ceiling on the other side of the room. (The other side of the ceiling is smaller because there's a skylight there. And half the room has a wood ceiling part of our post and beam construction already which will not be touched.)

Here's a look before the ceiling came down. You can just see the wood ceiling on the right that is not coming down. You can also see the skylight area which instead of a swirl ceiling has a popcorn ceiling.

And here is the ceiling all pulled down. There's one bit of electrical box moving that needs to done from the closet light., but the hubby will do that before the ceiling is installed.

The hubby told me he didn't need my help this weekend.  He went out Saturday and got the tongue and groove wood for the new ceiling, and he worked patching up the strip where the closet wall had been attached to the room back wall. Today (Sunday) the ceiling gets started. Meanwhile my daughter and I went out browsing yesterday, and I had fun  spending some time with her. And I am sure my husband was actually happy to have some work time on his own.

I'm hoping today, after this post goes up, he will get the ceiling up so I can urethane it this up upcoming week. And also then I can prime the walls in this are also. I'll have to let you know in the next update.

Wishing you a nice start to the new week.