Happy Sunday

    Hi everyone. Happy weekend to you. It's the first day of summer for many of us and the first day of winter for others. I personally am enjoying these longer days, except I must admit that when the sun is coming up before 5 AM I tend to wake up on the early side too. Sometimes it is just a little too early. Ha ha!

     It's father's day here in the US and a few other places like Canada too. Happy Father's Day to all of you who are dads of any kind. Here's my Dad, long before he was my Dad. Imagine a day when kids wore a tie for school photos. 😏 As someone who taught school for 36 years, the only time I saw ties was when the boys had to wear ties  for sport competitions, and even that disappeared over time.

     

    Today I am joining Nicole for Sunday in the Art Room (SITAR)  and also Gillena for Sunday Smiles.       I'm also linking this page up to Matilde's  Houses and Buildings at Art Journal Journey.

   I've been working on an America 250 art journal to celebrate this milestone. Here's one page I made for it, which is why you see a lot of red, white and blue on my page.

    I covered my base pages with this red and white paper. Then I used some black ink around the area where I was placing the house just to help the house pop off the page a bit more. The house itself is from a TH set. 

    Beneath the house I added a strip of red metallic star border (sometimes called German scrap). Then I also used some 49 and Market punch out leaves.And finally I stamped  the quote.

   And speaking of summer and the color red, it's strawberry season in my area right now. This past Friday was a gorgeous morning (and as I heard someone at the strawberry field say, it's not 80 and we're not melting while we pick). My husband and I went to a pick-your-own farm in the town next to ours. The picking was excellent!

   

    While there, I saw a couple of barns and I thought of Tom and his Barn Collective that he posts on Sundays. Neither of these are as pretty as the barns he shows, but the second one was the cider and bakery barn so it definitely smelled wonderful.

   And besides eating lots of fresh picked strawberries right out of the box, I also did a bit of strawberry baking when I got home. Strawberry pie, plain and simple.

    Sadly I was a little bit off of the center for my big steam hole, but Oh well! It was tasty. ❤

    Have a  great rest of your weekend and start to the new week.