Butterflies and Icelandic Picnic Food.

Hi everyone. I hope you're having a lovely week so far.

I'm going to start my post with a journal page for Alison's Come Fly with Me challenge at Art Journal Journey.

You can see the 2 butterflies that I cut out of a sheet of paper that apply to Alison's theme.

My background is made with some bright yellow watercolor paints and a stencil, as well as the same stencil and some gesso.  I also used a brown ink pad on the background.

The very first thing I did on my page was to stamp the Lynne Perrella image in blue ink, and then I worked the background around it.

I still had some left over bits and pieces on my desk from June's AJJ Numbers challenge, so I added those to my page. I also drew in the hanging chains and added some metallic paper hearts. The woman in the stamp is holding part of the sun, which I replaced with a complete gold paper sun. I also added some blue foam stars, silver metallic paper pen nib, as well as my sticker quotes. 

This week Rain's  Art and Dinner Date has a theme of picnic, so I decided I would show a couple of our to go lunches when we were driving the loop around Iceland.

These sandwiches could be picked up at most grocery and quick stop stores. They weren't bad. Besides this lamb and bean salad one I also had a memorable shrimp salad sandwich. They worked because there were days we drove for hours without passing any place to get food. And don't forget to fill your tank in the town you were sleeping in because there might not be any gas stops for a long way also.

And junk food is always a fun staple on any roadtrip, so to go with our sandwiches we bought a bag of Doritos. I haven't had a Dorito in a very very long time.

The only place we saw and stopped at a food truck was when we were at the iceberg lagoon. ( See this post if you're curious about the iceberg lagoon.) I was torn between having an Icelandic lobster roll and a hotdog.

And you might be surprised I  decided on the hot dog-Icelandic style. (This past Monday's post talked about Icelandic hot dogs.) First of all it was much cheaper. You could buy 4 hot dogs for the price of a lobster roll. Secondly, the lobster (langostinos) were small deep fried pieces. I was curious, and probably should have gotten one since I never saw them on the menu anywhere else. I did have lobster stew later on during the trip though, and although it was quite tasty, I am pretty biased about our local Maine lobster as you might know if you've seen my lobster rolls posts in the past. I can say the langostino lobster was good but  because  that type of lobster is much smaller than what we have here in New England, you don't get as much lobster taste in a bite.

And I know hot dogs aren't a popular food with many of you, but to me, these were definitely worth a second taste.

And with my hotdog  I had an orange soda, which like the Doritos, is something I haven't had in a very long time. It tasted good, and I had a couple more of these during the trip.

And lastly, I wanted to try one of these packaged donuts.

Donuts are one of my weaknesses, and I rarely buy them because it's hard to eat just one. This one was a filled donut, and it was pretty tasty junk food.  I must admit one of the best things about a roadtrip is that it's a good excuse to eat junk food (which I don't often do otherwise).

That's all for me today.  Have a great end of your week and weekend.