Not Alice’s Red Queen

 Hi everyone. Happy weekend to you. I hope your  Saturday and Sunday are/will be / have been good days. And if you are an American  football watcher in places where it is shown, do you have any plans for the Superbowl tonight? Will you watch it? The hubby and I will be watching it, but we're not doing anything special other than watching.

As it's also getting close to Valentine's Day I thought I would use some hearts on a journal page. These hearts  are all die cut from some red cardstock and then embellished with a white paint pen and a black watercolor crayon.

The "Queen" has a secret admirer who sent her a single red rose. And he sent her some words of love also. The queen is cut out from an old collage sheet and her secret admirer is a die cut. I thought using the black printed paper was what I wanted, but the black was too definite for someone who is so mysterious.  I used a white paint pen to tone him down a bit and to make him more a mystery. 

 

During my latest reorganization I found where I put my ancient Technique Tuesday word stamps. I actually knew where I had put the notebook  I stored them in ( as the sheets come 3 hole punched), but they weren't easy to get to.  Now that I can grab them easily I might as well use them. That's where the red word came from. (Although as I continued working on my page, I'm not sure the red work was necessary.)

I also needed something to border my page with, and there was enough red on my page already, so I added some of this colorful yellow ric rac. It has just a bit of red in it to connect it to my page.

And let me finish today's post with a few more photos from Canaveral National Seashore in Florida. This stretch of national park is actually a barrier island with the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Indian River on the other side. It is part of the Inter-Coastal Waterway which you find along the southeastern part of the US where there are many other barrier islands.

In this first photo the Indian River is on your left and the Atlantic is on your right. You can clearly make out where the national park begins also. Just look for where the development stops.

And besides walking along the beach, we had a few nice other walks also. Luckily even though this part of the Indian River forms Mosquito Bay, there were not a lot of mosquitoes.

A little bit further down the bay, while still in the park, we saw lots of people kitesurfing. It's fun to watch them especially when they get some air. None of my photos are very close up though as these folks were too far out for  my zoom lens to get them really close.

And if you went across the road and parking lot and down onto the beach (which is on the Atlantic side), you might come across some sunbathers who go au natural. There is a stretch of the beach where nude sunbathing is allowed.

And here's a few palmetto and palm fronds for you to end my post.

Happy rest of your weekend.