Fur or Feathers

 Hi everyone. Happy Thursday.

I'm sending thoughts to everyone in the hurricane zones, those of you who might be in Florida as well as those of you in Atlantic Canada who were hit by a rare hurricane too. And I forgot to mention those you in hit in the Caribbean also last week.

Today I want to share another page for Neet's Fur and/or Feather challenge at Art Journal Journey. The challenge ends tomorrow since it is almost October. (Dare I ask where September went?)

I used to be a huge scrapbooker before I got into art journaling and other mixed media forms of art, so I have a lot of 12x12 printed and plain paper that is left over from that time.  I now use it in collages, to make prints on, and occasionally, a piece works for a background. That's what I have today on my ocean inspired piece.  This cloud paper worked perfectly as the sky for this feathered page.

I had made another page with many of these images, which I ended up not liking at all. I couldn't stop working with the sky on that page, and in the end, the sky (or my continuous dabbling) ruined it. Instead of tossing it out, I cut out the images and went for a second try with them on this printed paper.

The sand is made of a piece of burlap. The sea gulls and posts are stamped, colored and fussy cut. I die cut the curly q's as they reminded me of waves, and after I glued them down I added some glitter glue because I wanted to create a bit of spray.  The lighthouse (minus the seagull on it) is an Art by Marlene punch out, which I over-colored to match my page. I then created some "light" coming from the lighthouse using a few colors of glitter glue.  

Finally I stamped the quote.

This week Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date is all about hair, and that connection is in my quote. 

I guess I don't find hair very exciting as a topic.  I do have a photo of the Swedish Ivy plant I planted last spring in a pot on my deck. The way it grew I think it looks like flowing long hair.

Especially when we look down on it. 

I keep debating whether to bring this pot inside for the winter. I really don't have a great place for potted plants (maybe because I already have too many-smile). But I really like this plant.

Hope your week is going well. Mine was until last night.

Mr. Pete had his second run in with a skunk when out for his bedtime yard visit. (He was also sprayed when we were away.)  I gave him a wash in the basement, which helped, but that odor still gets into places and just doesn't go away. Today's project is to go find good air purifiers for both the house and the basement. Poor Pete spent the night in the basement, and he cried and barked all night. That meant we didn't sleep very well either. This morning I took him outside, and he got another bath-not his favorite thing, and he smells better. I have the windows in the house open to give it an airing, and it is chilly this morning, but better chilly than stinky. If you've ever smelt a skunk, then you know how awful that odor is.

Have a good Thursday; and I hope there are no stinky skunks are in your life.