Weekend Chatter

 Hi everyone. Happy second half of the weekend to you. 

     Let me start today's post with a journal page for Wendy's On, In or By the Sea challenge at Art Journal Journey.

     I started my page with a stencil and some white paint. Once the paint dried I rubbed 2 shades of blue ink over the stenciled image. Then I did some layering. I save a lot of packaging, and I had a piece that had some seashells around the edge. I glued  that piece down on my stenciled page. However, there was some writing  in the middle of that recycled seashell page that I didn't want. To cover that up I used the same stencil, white paint and a cut to size piece of blue paper. Once that dried I added that to my page to cover up the unwanted area.

     I now had too much dark blue for the seashell recycled piece to stand out, so on my painted and inked parts I rubbed a light coat of gesso over them using a scrunched up paper towel. 

     Once that dried, I outlined the sheets of paper. I added a blank postcard and stamped a couple of quotes on that postcard using an old set of Technique Tuesday clear stamps. On some green paper I drew and fussy cut some seaweed. Then I added an assortment of pre-printed punch out images as well as adding an old postage stamp from my stash.

     I also have some photos starting with my pretty decent brussel sprout crop that I harvested last week. This first photo is the top of the plant which is just a giant blossomed sprout.

      You might have seen the photos I posted a couple of Fridays ago of a huge flock of turkeys in my yard. They've been back again several times last week. And this time my windows don't have doggy nose slime all over them because on the day I took these photos, the dogs were in afternoon nap mode. 😏

     My project last week (that I'm finally doing even though I bought the paint months ago) is painting some shelves in my bathroom that needed a little freshening up.

       I also took a road trip one day out to King Arthur flour's home in Norwich, Vermont. At their baker's store I picked up a few items for some holiday baking and was very excited when I got to the cash register and the cashier told me they were having 15% off your total order. ❤

     And finally I had a load of stone delivered for an on-going outdoor project which I'll share another time.  Bet you can guess what I've been doing this weekend (at least for a little bit).

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and start to the new week.