A Well Rounded Life

Hi everyone. It's the start of the weekend, unless of course  you read this at a later date. We're having some nice much warmer weather today (in fact we've had a couple of beautiful days), so I'm hoping to get some more end of the season gardening finished up before the cool down tomorrow. 

 I'll be posting today and tomorrow with my last 2 pages for Neet's In Gear challenge at Art Journal Journey. I know tomorrow is not quite the end of the month, but with T day on Monday night and the new Try It on Tuesday challenge on Tuesday, I want to get these 2 pages up before it's November. Today's page is one of my favorites, and it was pretty simple to make.

I am also going to link this page up to Creative Artiste Mixed Media, challenge #98.

This page began with some clock paper as a background. I also outlined the whole page with a black Sharpie.

Then I added a leftover "frame" that was laying on my worktable. I had die cut an oval for a different project. and after trimming the scraps so there was less paper around the oval shaped hole, I added that to my page. I used some thin washi tape around its border, and then I created  a frame around the oval shaped hole using a white paint pen and a black Sharpie. 

 I added a train tag that I cut out of  a sheet of printed  paper; I also die cut the clock and fussy cut the gear man from a sheet of paper. After glueing down the train, I added the clock and the man. I also added the TH dog because I think this man needs a companion to ride the rails with.

The violin and the piece in the upper left hand corner are both colored chipboard. They were colored with  ink pads, paint pens and markers. I also added a couple of old buttons around the man for a bit more dimension. I also put a little plastic "dot" on the center of the clock's hands. Finally I added the sticker quote.

Perhaps this gentleman is a musician heading out for a concert, or perhaps he just loves to listen to music. Either way, hopefully he catches his train on time and lives a well rounded life.

Let me finish off this post with a few flower photos, starting with these zinnias which have definitely gone past but are still really interesting to photograph.

This next one looks a bit like a pine cone.

And surprisingly I still have dahlias blooming.

Or forming buds.

And although most of the roses have passed, there's still a few of those in bloom too.

We're back to cooler temperatures tomorrow (or so the weather people are saying), but this little break of early fall weather has been quite nice.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!