Happy Weekend

     Hi everyone. Happy Sunday. I'm having a much quieter weekend than last weekend (my post about it here T Stands for A Busy Weekend), however it is just as exciting since my husband finally got his new truck. You may have read about the accident we had in his old one back in September when an out of control motorcycle slammed into the front of that truck. Who would think that a motorcycle could total a pick up truck? Well it did, and finally he's got a new one. He's a happy guy now, except  I know it won't take him long to start complaining about car payments. 😏  That's especially true since his old truck had low mileage, was fully paid for and was still running great. He  hadn't even been thinking about a new truck until he accident happened. 

    Life does throw curve balls at you, doesn't it?

   Today I have a journal page for Wendy's A Moment in Time challenge at Art Journal Journey. I am also linking  up to Gillena's Sunday Smiles.

    There is something about morning that I love, even when it takes me a bit to get moving like these cold days.  My page celebrates those moments when I wake up,  look out the window and the sun is out. 

     I used my ledger journal, and this time I covered the page with a Gelli printed piece of deli paper. I then added the fussy cut window. The shutters/flower box were already blue, but I darkened them with a marker,  as well as making the curtains darker and adding the yellow watercolored background to show the rising sun in the window opening. 

    I hand drew, colored and fussy cut the clouds,  and I used acrylic paint for the area around the sun sticker. Below the window I also added a die cut key and the quote, which was my inspiration for the page in general. It's an old Stamper's Anonymous quote from well before the days when they only made stamps from the Ranger designers.

   And how about a few sunny morning (but not early morning) photos from the walk I took the other day. I was chilly, but I hadn't gone for a walk for a few days so I enjoyed it.

You can see I had my most reliable walking buddies with me for it too. 😏

  I was especially happy with Pete who I left unleashed. A doe/female deer ran right out of the woods in front of us. I told Pete to stay with me, and he did. It's never a good time to let your dog run deer, but right now it is hunting season, and I wouldn't want him to be shot.  I'm sure that's one reason why the deer was up near the homes along the lake and not in the woods. They definitely know where the hunters are and where they aren't. 

    That's all for me. Have a super rest of your weekend and also  start to the new week ahead.