The Animal Fair Poem

Hi everyone. I hope you are having (or had) a nice weekend.

     Today I have another page for Valerie's and my challenge at Art Journal Journey. As I've said before, the theme is Poems. I made my page around a poem from a children's poetry book that I thought was silly and fun.

     I am also linking up to GIllena's  Sunday Smiles  also.

    I love the background I made, and I thought it would be fun for the poem. However, I think it's a little too busy unless you look close up. Of course, by the time I realized that my page was well on the way to being finished, so I decided just to keep it. The great thing about art journaling  is you're allowed to make mistakes because journaling is all about the learning, planning and practicing process. ❤

     The elephant is a Pink Ink stamp that I stamped, colored and fussy cut.  And I forgot I had this silly monkey die. (Is this what happens when you have too much stuff? 😏) I had been doing some supply reorganized again a few weeks back, still trying to get things to their optimal places, and I found this die. It was perfect for the poem and for the elephant because I could even get the monkeys to be hanging off the tusk and trunk. I just love their his silly expression and the banana too.

I'm not sure who wrote this poem, or even if it is just part of a longer poem, but I copied it out of my childhood poetry book as is. When I went to look it up I found many things by that title, and one thing I did find was that there is an old children's song by that title, but the words didn't quite match up.

And speaking of animals, look what I saw sitting on a telephone wire while driving home late one morning last week.

It's a Barred Owl. The owls are really active right now in my area. They are nesting and  calling out all hours of the day. I love owls,and I love living where they are plentiful. The one looked like he/she was considering whether a squirrel would be a good dinner, and they weren't too happy when I pulled the car over. I'm still trying to figure out how they would actually eat the squirrel unless they pulled off bits like hawks do.  But he/she sat long enough for me to snap a photo before they flew off. 

If you're in the US I hope you enjoy the long weekend, and for everyone, thanks for visiting and enjoy this day (or what is left to your day).