Going Buggy

      Hi everyone. Happy Thursday to you. I hope your week is going well. Like the temperatures for so many of you it's been a cold week at my house.  Yesterday morning it was -10 degrees F (-23 degrees C) without a windchill. And since this is our second very cold spell, I am ready for a bit of a warm up. I'm guessing many of you are too. 😏

     Today I have another Dots page for Mia's challenge at Art Journal Journey. If the weather isn't making you go buggy, my page certainly would. 

      I used a ladybug (ladybird beetle) set from Hero Arts. I started by stamping those beetles  all over my page Then I used watercolor paints to make them colorful. I know you probably haven't seen a green, blue or purple ladybug, but that's the beauty about creating and being able to make them whatever color feels right.

      On all the white space I hand wrote lines (over and over) from this old Mother Goose Rhyme:

Ladybird, ladybird,

Fly away home,

Your house is on fire

And your children all gone;

All except one

And that's little Ann,

And she has hid under

The baking pan.

      In the middle of my page I placed a sticker quote (Art by Marlene) as well as a white frame around it. Then I sprayed my age with a bit of magenta paint. To finish, I stamped another  ladybug on some white paper. After coloring, I cut her out and glued her down. Then I added a couple of googly eyes to her.

And yesterday afternoon, at one point when I looked out the window, I saw this.

    Poor little bird. But it was cool to see this hawk. The hawk wasn't a very big bird so I think it was a sharp shinned (sharpie). I guess they have to eat also. 

    Have a great rest of your day.