Weekend Art

 Hi everyone. Happy weekend to you. It's already the last weekend of February.   I am ready for March to begin however. I definitely want spring, even if I am half expecting  winter to come back with a vengeance next month. We've had too much nice weather in February. I could just be superstitious, but it always seems like when the winter is fairly mild, as this one has generally been, March is a lion. A lion roaring lots of winter weather our way here in New Hampshire. grin or maybe I should say frown

 With a little luck this year spring will be early. One can always hope.

My first piece of art is a journal page that tells the story of a family. It also has red in it for my Art Journal Journey's Seeing Red challenge.  This challenge runs through the end of the month, which is this upcoming Tuesday to be exact.

For my page today I made a layered collage in a journal with some tissue paper, stamping, collage sheet art and ephemera from my stash.  As you might notice on the punched out postmark, my page is set in 1946.

Can you see Dad? He's the small photo next to the daughter. Papa is a  French baker, and now that the war is over he, his wife and his daughter are thinking of coming to the United States or Canada with  dreams to open their own patisserie. Post war life is still hard in France, and he and his wife are looking for a better future for their daughter. Still,  the idea of leaving extended family, Mama's garden and  the life they have known is very hard. 

I also have a tag for Michele's Fairy challenge at Tag Tuesday.

Meet my butterfly fairy.

I thought this woman looked like the body of a butterfly, except I forgot to add 2 antennae (and to be technically correct an extra pair of legs). I stamped and colored her wings, stamped and lightly inked the tag background, as well as adding the black scrap paper off my work table and also some purple painted little foam dots.

And to finish off my post, how about a few more garden views from the Sunken Gardens in St. Petersburg Florida?

Not much else is new with me. Thanks for visiting, and have a great weekend.