Faces-The Bees

Hi everyone.  Happy Friday. 

I actually see some blue sky this morning-hurrah! 😀

And thank you to everyone who wished my husband well. It will still be a bit before we hear about his mole removal, but our trip into Boston yesterday went very well. He needed to have his annual visit to the transplant center to see if if his new kidney is still working as it should, and it was.  Of course it's not really new as he had the transplant 6 years ago now. I told him of course it was working well since he got such an excellent little kidney-smile. For those of you who weren't stopping by back in 2017, I was a match for him and I donated him one of my kidneys. 

This week my first order of bees shipped. I ordered 2 boxes this year for 2 hives from 2 different places. And I've ordered 2 different varieties too. My second box had a shipping delay and won't ship until the end of next week.

These bees arrived Wednesday, but it's been raining and too cold to install them. It should be in the 50 degree range (at least 10 degrees C) but it's only been in the low 40's (about 6 degrees) for the last couple of days.  I gave them some food yesterday, and they definitely perked up, and today they'll leave the shipping crate and go into their new home. 

You might remember one day last week I showed you the journal I made for keeping this year's bee information and also making a few bee arty pages in between. Here's the journal before I went and worked on the cover.

I've put some designs on the cover, although I'm not sure it is done yet. It might need some words.

The big image with the bee on it in the middle is a rubber stamp I had. I actually stamped it twice so I could attach the whole image to start with and then so I could cut out the bee from the second image and then attach him over the first image. That makes him pop up a little bit. I used paint and some glitter glue to make him look a bit fuzzy. I also gave the bee some better eyes and added some bits of ephemera from my stash. 

I've had the metal flowers for a very long time, and I'm glad I was finally  able to use them. I added a random button to one and to the other one I added a little painted metal B sticker that I found in my lawn. My guess is that this sticker was on something my husband had in his truck, and it fell out onto the driveway at some point. I'm glad I discovered it while raking because I think it works perfectly for the cover of my bee journal.

I like the little scrap of measuring tape cloth trim that I had. I was happy it had a 23 on  it since it helps mark this year.

I'm linking up this page to Nicole's  FRiday Face Off , Gillena's  Friday Lunch Break  and also, because it has those metal flowers on it, to Aimeslee's Flower challenge at Art Journal Journey.

As I mentioned, my first batch of  honey bees arrived the other day. They were shipped through the US Postal Service. I let them know at the PO that they had shipped, and I received a phone call a couple of days later that they were arriving.  I drove up to the PO and met the mail delivery truck. 

Last year one of the boxes of bees (because I ordered 2) ripped open in transit and  when it arrived in my town there were bees flying out of it. The postmaster was  very relieved that this year the box was tightly sealed. He and I had a good laugh about last year when I showed up in my bee suit and with my smoker going trying to get the packing case closed. 

Here's the box in the back of my car. I lost a few bees that you can see on the bottom,  but considering there are around 12,000 bees in the box, it isn't anything to worry over.

Thanks for visiting my blog, and I'm wishing everyone a very happy weekend.