Background Loving

I know...I know...You're not suppose to fall in love with your backgrounds.

But I love all the colors and patterns in backgrounds.

I am a background lover!

Hope you are all have a warm and arty weekend!

Owl Be Seeing You Soon

So I leave you with this little beauty of a journal page today. Today it is all about just plain crafty art. LOVE this owl from Stencil Girl products. Its my new stencil! I think they're stencils are kind of pricey but I LOVE owls and this stencil was must have. (I got lucky and my favorite craft store got them in and I snagged the last one off the hook. My friend from North Carolina was with me and just rolled her eyes at me. Of course I was only there because it was too rough to take her out in our boat and she was game for a jaunt down...I'll stop this story right here...)

So today we are off on our summer family vacation. I am so glad my daughter was able to take the time off from her internship to join us- and I may regret saying that since it is hard in some ways to travel with a 22 year old. But not knowing what her job situation will be next summer-and hopefully she'll have a real 40 hour a week engineering job- I am excited to have some quality time with her the way it was before she went off to school, graduated and then moved out to live with her long time boyfriend.

Whoopie Day for me!

So we are first off here:

Seattle

And then road tripping to several places including here:

Mt. St. Helen's

I love this stock footage from NBC news. If you can't remember or never heard of the eruption this is a cool archive site.

And also:

Columbia River Gorge

Hope it is as pretty as this photo shows.

I know  there will be several other adventures along the way, and I have packed my computer so hopefully I'll have a post or 2 with some photos from my explorations. If not I'll be back in 10 days and will have oodles of new photos to share.

See you soon.

Art Journal Every Day

Friday the 13th. Oh my. 

 I'm in a  holly jolly mood lately and have been making more holiday themed journal pages.

The color of my photo is kind of icky...its those dark New England days- by the time I get home from work its already very dark. Using non-natural light doesn't make my page colors very true to life.

Doesn't show the sparkles on my ornaments very well either.

But this page makes me laugh, and it was a lot of fun to make.

The ornaments, candy canes, star, moose and deer are all images from Paper Smooches, as are the words I repeatedly stamped. The holly is from Dylusions.

The color on this page is pretty poor too. You can barely see the stenciled trees- stencils from Stencil Girl.

Same page, I enhanced the colors on Photoshop so this is a bit more purple than the real page but closer in color than the view above,, but you can see the sparkling lights (image from October Afternoon) and the trees a little better.  Plus I had stamped some white snowflakes, and you can see those here too.

So the college girl moved home for the mid-semester break tomorrow! 

I am excited and not. Yes, it is true, you can have an emotion and opposite of it at the very same time. She's gonna need a few days to readjust.

Me too.

And then come January when it is time for her to go I will be SOOOO sad.

They're saying we might/will get some SNOW this weekend.

Not the little dustings we've had, but real snow.

Got to watch the forecast because you just can't trust those weather people until we get right there.

Maybe though we'll end up with a white Christmas.

Maybe?

Plus its suppose to come tomorrow night right when one of my co-worker's is having a holiday party which I am looking forward too-and he lives over an hour away from me.

So I'm off for another day of work.

Meeting some friends for an early dinner which I am looking forward to too.

Hope you get to do something fun today-

whatever it is that tickles your fancy.