Friday Face Off

Hi everyone. Happy Friday. Thursday's snowfall amount was lower than predicted (hurrah- we only got 4-5 inches/ 10-12 cm when we were predicted to get twice that), but today we have some more winter cold. It's been such a weird winter with  many mild days interspersed with a few actual winter days.

Today I have a faced filled journal page to share. Welcome to the circus.

I was going through my bin of assorted art ephemera, and  I came across this circus peanut bag I've had way too long. It has lots of red on it so I decided I should make a journal page about the circus. I haven't made a circus page in a very long time, and it was a fun change of pace.

 I am linking this up to my Seeing Red challenge at Art Journal Journey.

I inked my journal page with some blue ink to match the blue on the bag.  I think it ended up being a little too dark for my taste, but by the time I realized that, the page was done. 

Then I took out this big circus tent stamp I have and stamped it on some red inked paper. I added it to my page and then stamped this fair border image across the bottom. Once that inked border dried I used paint pens to boost the color of my tent. That little bit of orange and blue made a huge difference when it came to brightening my page.

 I added the red heart and also a small confetti red and white swirl to the top tent post. I stamped, colored and fussy cut the clown. He came out as freaky as I find clowns to be. Then I used several TH children layered to show the crowd  watching the clown. 

I added a bit of washi tape, some stamped words and also made some stamped ticket tags to put in the circus peanut bag pocket.

There are lots of faces for Nicole's  Friday Face Off this week.  I am also linking up to Gillena's Friday Lunch Break.

And I thought I would share a few flowers today, because as far as I am concerned, flowers always make the day better.

These were taken at the Sunken Garden in St. Petersburg,Florida.

That's all for me today. I hope everyone has a great end of the work week and start to the weekend. 

ps: Since a couple of you asked, here's the recipe for the muffins I posted yesterday. Sorry it's from an old cookbook and the measurements are just in English measures/ cups.

Date, Peanut Butter and Banana Muffins (with optional chocolate chips)

1) Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F or 175 degrees C. Grease or line your standard sized muffin tins.

2) Mash 4 bananas in a  bowl and add 1/2 cup of cooking oil, 1 tsp. of vanilla, 1/2 cup of any style peanut butter and 1 egg. Mix.

3) In a second bowl, combine 2 2/ 3 cups flour, 2/3 cup brown sugar, 1 tsp baking powder and 1 tsp. baking soda. Add chopped dates (around 1 1/2 cups) and chocolate chips (to your liking) and mix them in the flour mixture.

4) Add flour mixture to the banana mixture and stir with a spoon until just combined.

5) Spoon this thick batter into your prepared muffin tin and bake for 20 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.