More Sunshine Please

Hello everyone. We changed the clocks by moving them an hour ahead this past weekend,  and as much as I love the longer evenings, I find the mornings pretty tough.  I will adjust, as always happens, and this time change is just a rite of spring.

So here's my page today for Jo's Spring challenge at Art Journal Journey. I welcome longer evenings and having more sunshine when I get home from work.

I most love my sun on this page. I painted with yellow paint and then sprinkled some yellow glitter on it while it was wet.  Once dry, I made the sunglasses and smile on some watercolor paper with a Sharpie and added them. The clocks are stamped on acetate and glued down as well as the Time images. And then I stamped some other quotes, and did a bit of my messy writing. 

And there you go. 

It's Wednesday already. I can't believe it.

Thanks for visiting me.

Bringing the Outside In

Happy T day everyone. I can't believe it is already Tuesday again and also the last day of January.

First of all I want to say a huge THANK YOU to all of you who participated over at Art Journal Journey this month.  I read lots of fascinating stories and the art was outstanding. I really enjoyed hosting this month and hope all of you enjoyed participating too.

I also managed to meet one of my own personal goals this month. I wanted to post a new journal page every day, and I did! 31 journal pages! Don't mind me but I am giving myself a little pat on the back.

So my  Art Journal Journey  page today is inspired by a comment Susi left on one of my posts. I was complaining about the outdoor winter weather, and she said ( I am paraphrasing here) the best cure is to bring the outdoors inside. Thanks Susi for not only a great comment but also an idea for another page. So I thought about how one would do that in January, and my first thought was a bouquet of flowers. Put those right on the table with my breakfast tea and a slice of toast. but then I thought even more and decided I might as well bring in a summery butterfly and one of those cute little birds who feed at my bird feeders. Not that my bird really looks anything like the real birds at my feeders.
My background was made from a European travel booklet brochure I received in the mail . I collaged images and words from it and then used some gesso to cover them.

And it is Tuesday, so it is also T day. A big hello to the T Gang ladies. Thank you Elizabeth for hosting every week also.
So besides the tea mug in the journal page above, here's a little late day snack for me.
Sunday morning I made a batch of these date nut squares. I first make a date and orange juice jam to fill the middle of the bars. It doesn't take any time to do that at all-in fact it takes more time to cool the jam than it is to make it.

With out new school semester my prep block is at the end of the day, so I teach all my classes and then during the last class I finally get to sit down. Whew. A little snack and a cup of tea is just what I want at that point. So here's my travel drink mug with some plum/cinnamon tea as well as a date nut bar I brought in with my lunch.

Hope its a great last day of the month.

Dreaming

It might still be January, and spring may be a long way off,  but that doesn't stop me from dreaming about it.

So today that's my story for Art Journal Journey.

Spring flowers, bugs, and even this fat little bunny that looks more like a guinea pig with long ears. I can't wait to  wake up to chirping birds and hearing the spring peepers in the  night.

The woman who runs the doggie day care that our dogs go to a few days a week keeps a sign on her counter counting down the days until spring. Right now the number of days is still way too high for me but at least I do notice the change in daylight. The days are definitively getting longer.

This has been such a cloudy month though. Yesterday I woke up to the sun and had some ambition, but it didn't take long for the sun to disappear. As did my ambition.  I was going to make some art play time and also clean some of the inside of my car, but instead I read and watched some TV.  I guess I needed it, but it does seem in some ways that I wasted some of my weekend. I think that's my inner New England Puritan speaking out.

And now a new week is here. 

There may only be a little time left, but you can still post your journal pages over at Art Journal Journey. This month's theme is Every Journal Page Tells a Story.

Thanks for visiting.

Working Together

A big thank you to all of you who sent good wishes for my husband's surgery yesterday. Unfortunately he developed some type of rash and the doctor decided it was better to wait than do the surgery, so after arriving at the hospital at 5:30 AM, we were on our way home at 8. Maybe next week. 

Last night I was emotionally wiped out from all the pre-surgery stress. Aaargh! I hate to think of going through all that again soon. :(

Here's another page for Art Journal Journey. There's just a couple more days left to the back to School theme hosted by Elizabeth, so if you haven't joined in, you should.

My page started with this school workbook page that I found in my stash.  I decided it needed a more modern theme than it was meant to have when it was drawn back in the day, so it became my "modern" multicolored page. 

Not much else new here. Its back to work for me, so hope everyone has a wonderful day.