Sunday In the Art Room

   Hi everyone. I hope you are having a lovely weekend. It's gotten bitterly cold again in my area. I think even colder with wind chills than the cold weather we already had. 😨 So much for February being a bit warmer- ha ha. But I will say it was up around the freezing point last week which almost felt like a heat wave. 

  Today I am joining Nicole for her Sunday in the Art Room  and also Gillena for her Sunday Smiles . Plus since I have some art journal pages to share, I'll be linking a up to Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's Anywhere,  Any Place, Any Time with Anyone challenge at Art Journal Journey.

   When I go away on a trip, I like to collect bits and pieces of things like brochures, napkins, postcards, feathers, postage stamps, stickers...you can get the gist I'm sure.  When I come home I love reliving the trip and making a travel journal. I not only get to use those bits I picked up but lots of other supplies I already have. 

   My last trip was this past September when I visited Nova Scotia for the first time with my husband and our 2 dogs. This past week I finished my travel journal from that trip. Hurrah! I had 90% of it done before the holidays, but it was time to complete it. I thought today I would share a few spreads from it as it's the art I've been working  on for the last couple of weeks.  

   Sometimes I make my own journals and bind them together, but this time I went for a 3 ring binder. And I finally discovered some printed paper that was the perfect cut size, heavy enough to actually work on and that wouldn't leak through. It's taken forever to find this. (FYI-it's the 6x8 sized paper from 49 and Market.)

   The left side of the above spread is a postcard that I cut the edges off of. The right side of this spread above didn't use any trip pickups but instead used some paper scraps, a sticker, and old mesh scrap I found in my stash, as well as some other items I had on hand.

   And Ha Ha. Did you notice the poop bag box side on the left.? It's another one of those bits from the trip. 😏

   The leaves on the left are stamped and fussy cut, and the old postmaster sticker was in my stash. I did buy the Cat ferry sticker. I added a bit to the actual ferry ticket folder on the right side of my spread, and I mounted the dashboard car notice (the yellow pets on board) for the ferry ride on the red paper before adding it to my journal.

  Finally for today, my left side background is made with part of a bag from when  I bought some stickers at the gift shop in Acadia National Park. And I used one of those stickers on the page also. The right side is made with  some items from my stash. It is about my first trip back to Bar Harbor, Maine after 15 years (and so many changes).

   Before I end this post I have to ask if anyone is going to watch the Superbowl? I know some of you are probably not interested in football at all, and some of you probably aren't happy your team didn't make it, and if you live outside of the US, perhaps you have never even seen or know anything about American football.   I am excited to watch the game tonight because after a  bad start to the football season, The New England Patriots shocked us all by making it to the big championship game. I think most of us feel that even if they lose, we didn't expect them to get this far this year, so just making the Superbowl is fantastic. (But I wouldn't put it past Drake Maye.) 

   The weird thing is the last time the Pats played the Sea Hawks in the Superbowl was 2015. Strangely enough that year  my husband was in the hospital with both kidneys having failed (and this year it's his back). Plus that year we had a brutal winter just like this year. I know that because since the hubby was in the hospital I was home stuck shoveling out the snow... 😬 That year the Pats won in the last few moments of the game. I hope there's more than just coincidence, and that win happens again tonight. Go Pats!

    Whether you are watching tonight or not, and whether you like the Patriots or not, I hope you have a great rest of your weekend and start to the new week.