Maps (So You Don't Get Lost)

 Hi everyone. Happy Thursday to you. 

I'm here today to share another page (actually several) for Elle's challenge at Art Journal Journey. This month the theme is Fairytales, Folktales and Fables: Tell Me a Story. 

In some fairy tales or fantasy style stories there are maps which lead to  treasure or to adventure. A more modern fairytale where a map plays a role in the JRR Tolkien's the Hobbit.

I am not even going to try to imitate something from a Tolkien book, but I do have some map pages I made for my  travel journal.  I am including those today for Elle's challenge at AJJ.

I'm also going to link up to Rain's Art and Dinner Date.  Rain's theme this week is LOST. When you are lost, one thing that might help is a map of some kind. 

My first map is a part of the road map we grabbed when we picked up our rental car in Salt Lake City. I outlined the different states, colored them in,and  outlined our journey. I also added the speed limit sign that  was from a sheet of  ephemera. I do wish I had an old sign image that had a higher speed limit than 45, as on some of the roads outside of the parks you could drive much faster. No road here in New England is very straight or treeless for long, but out in parts of our trip you could see for miles in the open land.

I finished my map page by using some washi tape along the outer map borders.

I have a couple of other maps in my journal so far (as I have completed).

First here's a map of the park and general area for several miles around the park. I added a few words and stickers and colored in places we went in yellow.

And  next here's a map of the tiny tiny town right next to the park (with a few of my notes on it.)

And finally a map of the ranch where we stayed. I also added a pocket for a few items from the park and ranch that I wanted to keep.

I'm still loving the cooler weather and how it  makes me want to do more in my kitchen. This past week I  made raisin  walnut bread. 

The recipe called for a raisin and walnut swirl, but I think next time I make this bread I will just mix the raisins and walnuts in with the dough. And since this bread tastes great, I will make it again sometime or another.

I have a 1990's version of the Fannie Farmer Cookbook by Marion Cunningham, and that's where this recipe was found. This bread used both white and whole wheat flour as well as milk and butter.

It also uses quite a bit of yeast, which not only makes it rise faster, but kept it very light. I added a little cinnamon sugar to the raisin swirl, and also put some on top of my bread. My loaves look a bit wonky as for some reason they settled in the middle, but it didn't affect the taste or lightness at all.

This bread is excellent toasted for breakfast, and afternoon tea or coffee break snack, and for me, my lunch.

OK, enough said. Thanks so much for getting through my post. Have a wonderful day and rest of your week.