Frankie Is Thirsty

   Hi everyone. Happy Friday once again. Since we are getting close to Halloween , I have another journal page for Elle's Steampunk Halloween or Halloween Steampunk challenge at Art Journal Journey.  Since it is also Friday and time for Nicole's Friday Face Off, I have a lot of faces to share today. And last but never least, I will also be linking  up to Gillena's Friday Lunch Break.

      I found a package of inexpensive  but fun Halloween stickers at Target a few weeks back. They're meant for treat bags at a kid's event, but I  thought they'd be fun to use anyhow. That's where Frankie's face comes from. And for the background I used a stencil and a Sharpie to draw the lines, some black ink to added a bit of depth to the paper, and finally some bright green paint to make a border int he top and bottom of my page. 

    This year's Halloween mini-sized journal project is all about a spooky Halloween party, so I ended up giving Frankie a glass of champagne. Doesn't he look like he's reaching out for it? I used some watered down cream colored paint in the glass, then added a few little confetti bubbles, and finally put clear glue over it all. I wanted you to be able to see through the glass, but still get the effect you would get if you looked through a real glass. OK, I was only partially successful but I'm happy with it.  

    I chose this quote because if you've read Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, you know the monster wanders the mountains. I figured he might be thirsty after all that foot travel. 😏

    I've mentioned before how a couple of weeks ago I visited my local botanical garden. At one time there was a small flock of guinea hens there, but on this day I only saw 1. He/she latched onto my friend and I and followed us around for a short walk, mostly when we were by a couple of places to get a drink.

  Guinea hens are interesting looking birds, and in some ways they look like they are pieced together, just like Frankenstein. But I'd much rather meet a guinea hen than a real Frankenstein.  😏

   And since I'm sharing a bit of bird/wildlife faces, can you see the snout of this visitor that was on my deck first thing the other morning?

    Although I don't want him making a home in my house, opossums are actually good to have around because they eat lots of ticks. Perhaps that's why the only tick I've had to take care of all summer was crawling on me.   I never found one on either dog.  I don't like ticks and the diseases they can carry aren't anything I want anyone to catch either.

     And finally for today, the wild turkeys were back in the yard earlier this week. I counted 11 of them. 

    What I found interesting is that my husband walked up from the driveway into the backyard while they were there, and they ignored him and continued to eat. When I opened the back door to step out onto the deck for a photo, they formed this perfect line and headed off into the woods. I wonder why they didn't feel threatened by him but they did by me. Hmmm. I'm the one who threw some millet seed out in the lawn, not that they knew that. And actually I threw out the seed for the mourning doves, but we're all willing to share.

    That's all for me. Have a super Friday and weekend ahead.