The Movies

 Hi everyone.

I'm still on my Iceland vacation excursion.    This is a scheduled post that I wrote before we left. Hopefully it's not too cold or too wet, and hopefully the hubby and I  are having a great time on our trip. (But I’m sure  that we are.) Smile. 

Let me interrupt my scheduled post-Smile. I’ll add from my phone  that we are having beautiful weather and enjoying Iceland a lot! Let me also share a few photos taken with my phone of one morning’s adventure.

Besides driving the Ring Road and seeing some amazing a scenery, we decided to take a zodiac boat tour out to the head of a glacier.  It was pretty cool! 

I’ll share more when I get home since most of my photos are on my camera not my phone. 

I did want to share another page for Matilde's Numbers challenge at Art Journal Journey so that's the focus of my post today.

I have this page that is inspired by watching old movies or TV shows. Some of you might remember when films or shows started with numbers counting down at the beginning. The numbers that flashed on the screen looked similar to these:

The numbers would count down until the film/show began. 

This is my take on this inspiration. I had this old photo of the woman and the movie camera that was in my stash. 

I painted my background with watercolors and then I used a stencil and some acrylic paint to add the numbers. My numbers should have gone with 7 on the left and 1 on the right, but none of my stencils did that, so instead I am counting up. I also wanted to add some circles to represent the circles on the original film countdown. And since I had scoffed up and brought home a couple of  old filmstrips that were getting tossed out back during my teaching days, I added a small section of that. 

And after stamping the 2 small quotes and adding a couple of film images, I was finished.  😀

Before we left on our trip I also did a bee check. I was worried about my second box of bees who arrived  mostly dead. So far, the small group that was living is hanging on. Hurrah. They hadn’t  cleaned out many of the dead ones yet, but I don't think that was high on their hive set up priority list

I'm keeping my fingers crossed they start to reproduce soon.

My other box of bees is busy doing their bee things as you can see in this next photo.

There's been lots of babies starting too by the look of the comb you can see on the top of this frame.

Since I'm away and enjoying the VERY long days of the far north, I'm visiting only blogs if time and internet connection allows. If you haven't heard from me, that is why. Please don't think I am ignoring you. 😁I'm gone for most of this week, but I do have a couple of other scheduled posts at the end of the week. 

 I hope you have a great start to this new week. And thanks for visiting.