Creepy Crawly and Then Some

    Hi everyone. Happy Friday. I hope your week is going well. This post has several link ups in it, mainly because there are Friday challenges I like to join and also the month is winding down so I have some art challenges to join too. 

    Let me start with another  art journal page since these 2 challenges are ending soon. Today's piece is for Mia's Background challenge at Art Journal Journey. I am also linking up to this month Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge # 119. There challenge there is always Anything Goes, but you must use at least 3 types of media on your page.

      

   I started my page by inking a TH insect stamp with black ink and then stamping it several times all over my page. I then used a brown watercolor crayon and colored in some spots. After that I used a wet paintbrush to smush the color around the background. Some of the black ink wasn't quite 100% dry so it smushed that black with it. 

   I then used a small stamp and some red ink as well as adding  a scrap of red mesh I found in my stash. I then added some plastic rings (also from my stash) to create a design on the red mesh. Finally I used some red stickers to create my phrase.

  You might have noticed I hadn't been posting for a bit. My husband, myself and our 2 dogs took a trip to Maine where we then caught a ferry and headed over to Nova Scotia, Canada for 10 days. I still haven't really been able to do much with my photos from my adventure to Maine and Nova Scotia, but I thought I'd share a few random photos again just to wrap up my post. 

    I'll start with this silly view of my and my husband's faces for Nicole's Friday Face Off  and also for Gillena's  Friday Lunch Break .

     The downside of traveling with dogs is having to keep a large supply of poop bags on hand.  The dogs were great overall. They'd sleep as late (or as early) as we did. They rarely barked, and they love snoozing in the car. It helps that they're 11 and 12 years old too, and the weather was cool enough we could leave them to relax in the car here and there.

    I didn't know Nova Scotia had its own tartan plaid. Of course Nova Scotia means New Scotland, so I'm not surprised.

    This is a sign of one of the driving loops we took while driving out on Cape Breton. Cape Breton is the far eastern island in Nova Scotia. It's connected to the mainland by a causeway. I'll have a couple of posts later about this area of the province.

     Here we are getting ready to line up for the ferry in Bar Harbor, Maine. That ferry  would take us to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in an approximate 3.5 hour trip. On the trip heading over the ferry wasn't very full, but on the trip back the ferry was at full capacity.

We stayed in a mix of hotels and Air B&B's.  One of the cabins we stayed in had this great deck with a gorgeous view (more about that some other time). Here's Miss Maddie relaxing in the late afternoon.

   It's not often I see yellow asters in bloom. I love autumn wildflowers, and we saw a lot of them.

   Our trip was a mix of nature, local history and local culture. Here's a view from a museum we visited about Alexander Graham Bell. Who knew he did so many interesting things? I thought he just invented the telephone. This is just a tease so I'll share more about that in a later also.

    And finally, some wildlife. We saw so many deer on our trip, as well as a few other animals.

    That's all for me. Have a wonderful end of your week and weekend ahead.