It's Wednesday Again

Hi everyone. Happy middle of the week to you. 

This week, although it really isn't shorter than other weeks, always feels like it is shorter than other weeks since the long Thanksgiving weekend starts tomorrow. I should  also clarify it's a long weekend for my husband.  I know some of you who live in other countries where they don't  celebrate Thanksgiving (or don't celebrate it now) and others of you here in the US might still have to work. I'll just explain that when my husband has a long weekend, my usual weekly routine switches up and I get a  long weekend too. 😏

My journal page today is made from some salvaged items that I pulled out of some bins. You might remember me recently mentioning that I had 4 bins of craft supplies that I packed up a couple of years earlier. I finally got around to going through them. Since I didn't miss anything in the bins, I'm not keeping most of the items. But, I did find a few things that I gave a second look and decided to hang onto.

The salvaged items that I used on this journal page include the background paper, a giant sticker and also a flourish die.

One of the bins had some older pads of paper in them, including  a 12x12 inch pad of autumn paper. Not that I need anymore paper, but since it was autumn themed paper ( and had great designs too) and it is autumn,  this pad was speaking to me. I used a part of a sheet for my background on this page.

One of the bins had a lot of stickers in it. Most of the stickers went into a postal box that I'll try selling them online. If any of you know someone who could use a lot of random assorted stickers (both new and partially full sheets), let me know as I wouldn't  mind just charging for shipping if I can find the stickers a new home. 

 I did pull out a few sheets of stickers out of the pile that I thought would actually get used. One of those saved stickers is on this page. It's a big sticker on the right side that looks like ripped paper with leaves on it. 

And finally, I had some dies that I found in a bin. I went through them and put a couple away in my die drawer. One of these salvaged dies was an oldie with a big flourish on it.  I used it to cut some orange paper. You can see it on top of the big sticker on the right hand side of my page. The sun is on part of it.

I finished off my page with some stamping and adding some metal paper elements as well as a few little crafting gemstones. 

My journal is very full at this point, so please excuse the slight dip to the right in my photo. I can't get the pages on the left side to lay flat anymore, but other than for photos, it isn't an issue as it says my journal is used and loved. 👍

And I am linking this page up to Jo's Nature challenge at Art Journal Journey

And speaking of autumn and nature, it's been very chilly at my house, especially in the mornings. Yesterday it was 18 degrees F/ around -8 degrees C. The frost fairies have definitely been busy.

And in this one hydrangea bloom, there is still just a touch of blue.

It's  been cold enough that last night we had our third little winter tease. ❄😞

I have lots to do today, so that's all for me. Thanks for visiting. It is always appreciated.