T Stand for the Wright Museum, Part 1

Happy Tuesday and T Day everyone. Time to share our drink related photos once again, and the last time for September too. Next Tuesday will be October 1, and I'll be at the halfway point of the first quarter at school. Boy this month is going a lot faster than usual for me. Maybe it is flying for you also.

Stop by    Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog  to join the T Day fun!

So last Saturday was Smithsonian Free Museum Day in the US. I want to thank Elizabeth for introducing this to me because it has gotten my husband and I out to visit some of our local museums in the past couple of years. 

This year's choice was my husband's pick, and I must admit  I wasn't very excited about it.

  The Wright Museum is in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, which is town next to where we live. It was convenient because my mother-in-law lives in that town, so the plan was that we would drop the dogs off with her while we visited the museum, and then go back to enjoy what would most likely be the last summery weekend weather  of the year.  She lives on a small lake, so after looking at the tanks and the jeeps, we could go take a quick dip in the lake to cool off  and have some dock time to relax and just enjoy being outside.

I thought any museum with a tank coming out of its building and called the World War II museum has to be a military museum right? 

Wrong.

I should have looked it up on the internet instead of making an assumption because although the museum does have an exhibit about military items, it is mostly about life in the US during the years of 1939-1945.

And it has lots of cool things.

Here's a few.

You'll have to excuse the lighting issues. Below is looking into the Time Tunnel, which brought you through each of the years with exhibits.

I took lots more photos, even of the military items. I enjoyed seeing things my parents had spoken of,  as my mom was a young teenager during those years, and my Dad (as well as 2 uncles) served during the war. My Dad and one uncle especially loved to tell us their war stories, and now as an adult I can understand the adventures they had as well as how frightening it must have actually been. (My Dad worked with Army intelligence in Asia and my Uncle flew bombing raids over Germany from England with the RAF. ) 

Anyhow, enough of me babbling. I have more photos to share another day but first I need my drink photo for T Day, so here some from the museum.

Thanks so much for joining me on my museum visit this week. 

Have a good day!

A Little Collage on a Patterned Background

Something  fun today. A stenciled pattern background as well as the heart patterned washi tape stripe.

I am sure everyone has been both the babbler and the poor person stuck listening to the babbler at some point in their lives.

Here's my latest inspiration for Art Journal Journey and the Polka-Dot, Stripes, Plaid and Pattern challenge.

Hope to see you there!

A Buggy Pattern

It's the weekend, and we are having some gorgeous last days of summer weather here in New Hampshire. 

And today I have a summery page that may not appeal to everyone, but I had fun stamping and coloring these six legged creatures.

I like this insect pattern as it is, and decided not to add anything else to it, other than a bit of background spray ink. At least for now.

I am linking up to Art Journal Journey and the polka-dot, stripes, plaid and pattern  challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and

have a great weekend!

The Stars

Happy almost weekend everyone. (Or maybe actual weekend for you b the time you read this). 

Every now and again I find something to inspire me to make a page in my night sky journal. It might be taking me quite awhile to finish it up, but I think it is one of favorite ever journals, so better to take it slow and be inspired than to rush and not like the finish.

This page started with some polka-dot and star patterned paper, a bit of stenciling over that, and then a lot of collaging. The sky chart cam out of an old atlas, and the words were cut from some junk mail I got. (but they are awfully good words I think).

And of course the polka-dots make this page the perfect link up to Art Journal Journey where this month's challenge is Polka-dots, stripes, plaids or patterns. There's still a little over a week to the month so I hope to see some more fantastic entries. And of course, big thanks to all the fantastic art already shared. And big thanks to Susi and Elizabeth for getting the webpage working so we can post!

I decided to take the day off from work today. It is a gorgeous day, that and I am fighting the head cold going around work. Too gorgeous to be inside doing some silly teacher workday activities. The kids have a long weekend (so I am not missing class time), and our district administration planned all these warm fuzzy activities that to me is no more than busy work since they couldn't find anything of value for us to do. (But they can't let us do the work we should and could be doing.) OK, enough said, you can guess how I am feeling about all that, but I did manage to get out for a walk this morning. Hurrah for that! There are certainly some signs of fall.

 And there are so many caterpillars this year. Here's a few.

This one below looks like a crawling stick.

Thanks so much for visiting and hope you are having a great day also!

Apples, Flowers, and a Few Other Things

Hi everyone.  It is a very cool Thursday morning here in New Hampshire. There is frost in some parts of the state, but luckily not where I am. And we're supposed to warm up tomorrow and get back to summer. Mother Nature just can't decide what season it wants to be.

So I have a tag for the Apples and Pears challenge at Tag Tuesday. I used this ancient Judikins cube stamp that has apples of all kinds on an ink colored tag. I cut the edge off of a paper doily to make the bottom lace and stamped the sayings.

And also how about another page for Art Journal Journey? There's a new link in for your posts since the other one isn't working right now, so you can still play along.

I stamped some polka dots  and painted some patterns, as well as some flowers. I stamped the Japanese lady on acetate and added her to the page also.

This of course is for the polka-dots, stripes, plaid and pattern challenge. HUGE thanks to all of you who have joined in with some fabulous art.

And finally, some garden photos. Please don't look too close, you can see all the weeds. That's what happens once I am back to school.

Enjoy the end of your week.

And thanks so much for visiting.

Hot, Hot, Hot

Hello. Tuesday is here and it is already time for a new challenge at Try It On Tuesday

There were some fantastic entries to the Boys and Girls/All Things Children  challenge.
Thank you to those of you who  participated.

And for this newest challenge think HOT! 

Hot colors!

Hot places!

Hot drinks!

Hot anything!

We call this challenge: Hot, Hot Hot!

I made my journal page by first stamping this flower several time to make a pattern of them. I painted and colored them with hot colors, as well as adding bits of black and white to each flower. Then I collaged some white printed tissue around them, which I painted with a light yellow. Finally I stamped my words, which might be falling downhill a bit too much.

I am also linking this page up to Art Journal Journey and this month's polka-dots,lines, plaids and patterns challenge. (And you only have to use one  of those within your piece.)

T Stands for Book Club

Hello ladies (and any gentlemen also). Time for T again. Time to share our drink related posts over at

Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog.

Last Thursday was book club night for me. We had 2 meetings scheduled over the summer but somehow they never worked our and we ended up cancelling until this past week. It was a very wet morning but luckily it cleared out by after school.

We decided to meet at a restaurant this time, which we don't usually do. Since we are all teachers, we could meet  after school  and enjoy what turned out to be a beautiful evening.

This is the view from the restaurant.

And here's the restaurant. It wasn't very crowded because when the rain cleared out, the temperatures dropped off. But it wasn't windy and the sun actually felt pretty warm.

I had some water to start, and here's where we met. Kittery is the southernmost town in the state of Maine, and right over the river from where we all teach.

I also had a beer with my meal. I just love the design on this can.

I had a  fish sandwich, fries and coleslaw.   And since I had brought yogurt for lunch, but didn't eat it as it just didn't appeal to me during the rainy part of the day, I managed to eat almost all the food on this plate.

Nope. There was no room for dessert.
Hope everyone has a fantastic Tuesday.