My week of art

This is another journal I made for Mixed Media Monday's chalenge, Romance. It has an Edwardian look in oldfashioned lavender and lace. I had an ombre scarf in silk in shades of lilac and peach which went together with the sparkles on the trim.

I also made some more pages for my art journal. It was hard to come up with ideas that left places for journalling but I did get to try out some really nice products like the Glimmer Mists over a Tim Holtz grunge flourish, and pasting pieces of serviettes over a colour box background. Just some of the better ideas I came up with.

Bert went for the results of his scan yesterday and unfortunately his cancer has spread to his liver and lungs, and I think it is just a matter of time. We'll have to make some nice memories together.

Apart from that nothing has really happened this week;  it has been quiet so I tracked down my friend Sue at the market today and spent some time with her.

A quiet week

There has not been much going on this week and I've been quite lazy. I had Thursday at the market, and boy, was it cold! even with my little heater my nose, fingers and toes did not feel as if they belonged to me and I felt that frostbite was a real danger. The number of traders was so small that only half of the market was open and I had to move to the top end which I don't like. I never sell anything at that end and people who were calling for orders had a job to find me. Again this was true and I came away early with no orders, just some interest.  On Friday I had a dental appointment, which meant a sleepless night because I have trouble with them. They seem to think I am being paranoid about injections but as I'm allergic to adrenalin I think I have a right to be. Six months ago I was told that my usual dentist had left and I was now with another so I agreed to try her and see if I liked her; however, she put me through some awful stress and start my panic disorder up and I was so glad to get out of there. This time I insisted on another dentist and was transferred to a very nice Romanian person who took time to talk through my fears and, after an examination, said there was nothing wrong with my teeth...whew!!!

These two stressful days as meant it took another couple of days to find my feet again and, yes, made me lazy and not wanting to do the housework, I wonder why?

Still I did get my latest copy of my stamping magazine with the second part of the art journal workshop - painting the pages.  I've had a great time with this, and thanks to Natalea Kanderfer's article in the latest Art Journaling (stampington company) I made some very nice pages. I have only managed to do one page each day and had no idea it would take so long, but it is the drying of the paint etc. that takes the time up, and coming up with ideas and colour schemes for each page. I had decided on birds as the theme but it is amazing that in all the craft shops I went to there was nothing in them bird related. I have had to go online and source places like ebay and out of the way mail order sites.

I seem to have found my feet, so to speak, in that I started out making journals in various forms and sizes but only adding plain sketching paper to them. But this article on making the whole thing has really got me hooked and involved in making the whole book into something really creative but functional too.

P.S. I'm still making my 52Q cards each week and some of the questions are really thought provoking.