The penguins story

I have made another page in my journal using a tissue napkin. with these lovely penguins on it.

I will be linking with Art Journal Journey

and Erika's theme of Tell me a Story......

The background was a mop up page  with some smeared about thick acrylic white paint. fingers and an old plastic card worked a treat.

 It took quite a while to dry. It was finished off using my computer program.

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There has been so much on our TV's and in the Press about Global Warming, it does make me think about how we can protect our wild animals for future generations as well as ourselves 

Then, I did ponder on  what the animals would say to us, if they could only talk.

Maybe they wonder how they can reclaim their own territory

 and still  be able to feel  safe there at the same time.

Not all stories have happy endings  and I think we may never hear the end of this one in a way that will be acceptable to all living creatures 

Anyway, my penguins are happy . 

They have just returned home after a holiday in Africa and have some photos for the family album.

They  agreed it was good to get back to the cooler climate, away from the heat they had on holiday.

Thank you for calling in to see me today.

You are very welcome here

How times change

Hello  to everyone who has called in to see me today from

 Bleubeard and Elizabeths

 to  share a cuppa on T Day.

 Putting the world to rights, as I  shared a cuppa,  with a close friend
  on our weekly  get together day,

we talked  about how times change over the years,

 especially what Santa delivered to our children when they were young  on Christmas morning.

Having Boys it was always cars and lego,  we remembered another friends daughter one year asking  for an Action Man toy, then had a good laugh the year she got a dolls pram.
 Her brother and our  sons, fought over the right to push it up and down the garden.

She played with the trucks.

Happy Days and fond memories.

This past Christmas , showing  how times change, my two  sons wanted a New Microwave/ combination  oven and a Coffee machine for their homes .  Cash exchanged hands  and they sourced what they wanted themselves. Much easier for us. I did search the net for the images I used on the digital page, not what they actually got, but similar.
We have visited  with the one who got the coffee machine, it  serves real  good coffee
 [I do drink it occasionally].
My other son says that his  new oven is good as well. So Santa's job was done for another year.

I created a tea related digital  page .

The   friend I mentioned  earlier and  myself  have shared many cups of tea and coffee, support,  companionship, laughs , sadness and tears  over the many years  of our friendship, we met when our children were babies.
So we go back a long way.

However,  I equally value the friendships I have made here in Blogland, you all deserve a mention here.








As there is a story to this post and a journal page I will pop over and link with
Art Journal Journey
and Erika's theme of Every Page Tells a Story

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I  am also adding a thank you to  Pam from
My Creative Side who sent me this
beautiful piece. It arrived on Saturday, a total surprise and I was thrilled to receive it.
As you can see it is free standing,  she describes  what she uses to make them  here.




Thank you for taking time to call in and share a cuppa with me today.  You are all very welcome.

Morf and Idris for AJJ

Erika's theme for this month over at

Art Journal Journey

is..... Every Journal page a tells a Story.

This tale came to me after finding a file of old photos,
 including this  Bookmark that I have made in the past.
 So I have altered it into this hybrid/digital page.

Here we have 'Idris,' the friendly dragon,
 getting quite a surprise when he sees  'Morf'' giving him
 a  big cheesy grin.
He wondered WHY?  Morf .......usually ran away when saw him.
He smiled back and gave him a wave and they got chatting.
Morf said,  that his big brother  had told him there were no such things as dragons and that they were monsters he should be scared of.....  why was he making up stories  about seeing  dragons.
Idris sighed and told Morf, that many folk were frightened and  didn't believe he was real.
Maybe,  Morf would go and tell evetyone,  that all Idris wanted,
 was to be friends. He couldn't help how he looked, inside he was just him, a big friendly dragon.

Mind you I think I may have got a scare seeing the grin
 on Morf''s face and ran off in the other direction.. if I'd been Idris.


Thank you for calling in today, you are most welcome
 and I appreciate the comments you leave for me.

Me -- for AJJ

I don't make New Year resolutions because no one I know has ever been able

 to keep the ones they made.  Last year however, when,  I decided to keep going 

with creating digital pages.

I found something out about myself .

. Crafting -the hands on way- some days is painful, as I have already mentioned in previous posts.

 I always start off  a craft session, in  my craft room and see how the land lies with my grip.

If its okay, off I go getting messy, inky and generally having a good time.

Sometimes, when things end up on the floor too many times for my liking and paints etc have been spilled  across the desk. [mopped up on journal pages, no waste].. 

 I now, don't get upset,.

 Take a few photos of what could be used in my digital pages

and turn on the computer.

  Digital opened a whole new outlook on crafting and has enabled me to continue
 with a creative hobby that I love.

So that is my story today to go with this journal page for

Art Journal Journey

where Erika has set the theme ....

Tell me a story.

Thank you for calling in to see me today, you are very welcome here.

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My new header was made using  a journal  page you can see   here

Digital additions today
mainly from A Young
kits  at Oscraps.

A Tissue for TioT's

Our first challenge of the year over at Try it on Tuesdays is......

A Tissue

We want you to use tissue on your projects, stamped tissue  , crumpled for texture.
 patterned napkins etc etc. 

Please pop over to see all the fantastic  ideas and projects  the team  have made for this theme.

I had this lovely packet of paper napkins to use with our Christmas meal, but when I opened them out I realised  that a few of them would never reach the table.

I used an 8 inch canvas as my base,

Covered with a layer of scrunched up plain tissue and lightly shaded with some Vintage Photo distress ink.

I think you will be able to see the texture better on this photo. I had light problems over the days I was making this. Mainly dull, with the occasional glimpse of the noonday sun.

I used acrylic  Bindex to  secure the tissue.

Next came the added textures through stencils and when they dried  I smeared with a little gilding wax.

Each napkin had 4 prints of the deer,  so I did make a few cards at the same time
and also started a journal page

If you want to see what happened to the journal page, please scroll down to my earlier post
where T stands for Tuesday.

I think that this is quite an economical way to make cards, if you have pretty tissue napkins in your cupboards.

Thank you for calling in to see me today, you are most welcome and
your comments are always appreciated.

Notes and reflections on Tea day

[This is how the  journal page , you can see  in my TioT's  post later today  was finished.]

But I will start by saying Hello to all the folk from....

T  stands for Tuesdays

................and friends who call in to share a cuppa today.

Happy New Year wishes to you all,

I was using Napkins for my DT project and as there were  4 lovely deer images to each napkin ,

I decided to use one to make a page in the journal.

For sure there was cuppa, close to hand as I got started with the stencils and the vintage Photo distress ink .

At this stage I wasn't too sure  about how I wanted it to look, so after the photo was taken I went off to the computer for a bit of digital inspiration, also to add a few word..

Yes, by now the tea was stone cold, but habit  had me take to cup with me.

A year ago if anyone asked me about digital crafting,

 I think I would have said,  I wasn't  happy with how it worked for me.

But,  months later, I have to tell you that.  I did try,

 I  got out of my comfort zone and now,   thoroughly enjoy creating digital pieces.

 On the days when my hands  declare they won't grip stuff.

I can count on a couple of the fingers still willing to press the keyboard
 and move the mouse on the computer.

So, note to self,  I will  remember,  it will  never work, if you don't keep trying..

Happy Tea Day.

For digital information

see note in my sidebar.

Tell me a story for AJJ

The new theme for January over at

Art Journal Journey

has been set by Erika.... 

........Tell me a story.
I have always loved to weave a story around a picture,
 often unrelated to what is seen , but very vivid in my own mind.
So for this digital page  I am my hero of the story ,
 I sure want to get off that page
 and  get on with life.
What ever life throws at us, it should be lived to the full.
We can make it happen.

Thank you for stopping by, you are most welcome .
I hope you all have a good New Year.

Digital credits 

see sidebar.