Counting down the days.

I am on my countdown , hoping for a bit more freedom in two days time.

[ writing this post Monday evening].

With a bit of a struggle I managed to get a photo of  my new found craft item..........a large red poly bag, wrapped around my left arm.  

 An aid for me  to get a little bit messy  on a couple of occasions recently, its also a good paper weight as well, although it tends to slide around the desk a bit.

This page is simply stuck down book papers. Paint swiped over the top using a wipe, then a spray of ink [an own blend colour]

I had found some skeleton leaves to use and some stickers. The words are a stencil..

I am just in time to join the folk over at 

Art Journal Journey for Chris's theme  

Art for Arts Sake,
  a new theme will be announced for August.

I am also adding a reminder for the current Try it on Tuesdays

theme..... Use Bookpaper

Now, I am  off to visit friends at

 Bleubeard and Elizabeths

where we are always made very welcome with a drinks related post.

There has been a lot of plain iced water  to drink  during the very hot days we had in the UK.
I never thought I would say this but we had storms at the weekend and they were very welcome.

 After a visit to the Opticians last week we decided to have an Italian meal on the way home. Pasta for me and Lasagna for the OH.

Usually we have had to ask for a jug of water,  on this particular day it was offered. 

I will close by sharing 

 more photos of our walk in the grounds  of Wallington Hall,

 T day friends will have seen my first batch last week.

They were having a red squirrel watch, but we didn't see any.

But the ducks  were enjoying the sun by the edge of the pond.

We loved these little doors at the base of the trees,

 a great way to get children interested  and involved.

We left the glass houses  via one of the walled garden doors.

 The one on the right had us passing by.......

this environmentally friendly, waterless toilet,

 close to information on the new Biomass heating system  installed  also to benefit our environment.

This metal sculptured arch glinted in the sunshine, 

there was another identical one at the end of this long straight path.

Wallington has a lovely  display of snowdrops in the springtime.
This was a wonderful organic sculpture  to come across in  an open area of woodland.
I do hope ,as the polite notice asks, that it will be looked after for many years.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you all have a good day.

Diary Day ...Rose.... week 30

Week 30 and I allowed myself a bit of a play with paint.

My left arm wrapped in the poly bag, I squirted some acrylic paints onto the diary page , then dabbed and blended them with a 

nearly dried out baby wipe. 

I used the stencil, but realised it was a waste of time over the painted side of the spread. I also tried a bit of random stamping and it was luck where the stamp fell on the page.

The pretty rose card  came from Chris, a piece of beauty amongst my  painty mess... Its not neat or tidy but I did enjoy myself.

I will join the folk at 

Art Journal Journey

 and Chris's theme for the month

Art for Art's  Sake .


Thank you for calling in, I hope you have a good weekend.

Create Art

I am having inky withdrawl symptoms so  decided to look through my journals

 to see if I had any background pages that I could use.

I got quite excited when I found  a  page which,was inked, probably mop ups to start with and a bit of random stamping.

My next problem was to find  stamps I could handle  hey presto....feathers,  a bit forgiving when smudged and easy to touch up with black pen.

The jar.... phew... I got the stamp block turned over and onto the page without dropping it.

The words are a stencil

At this stage I decided to add the stitches and black flowers in the digital program I use, just in case my luck ran out. 

I am counting down the days now....7 to go until I hopefully can use both hands.

I will join the folk over at Art Journal Journey

and Chris's theme

Art for Arts Sake

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

Book Paper...... for TioT's

The new challenge theme over at

 Try it on Tuesday

wants us to use Book Paper .

Please pop over to see how the D.T.  interpreted the theme and we hope you will join us there.

This is the last of the projects I had started making  in advance before we went away .

I made a mixed media piece with some digital additions.

Beginning with card and some torn book paper.

Antique linen distress ink for shading.

It takes no guessing for those that know me well, the stencils were  used next.

On the left are a couple of  photos showing the stages I completed in the conventional crafting way.

I had to finish  my card  using digital additions.

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

Digital information can be

found in my sidebar.

T. day and a trip out

Its  Tuesday and its T day

so I am off to visit with friends at

Bleubeard and Elizabeths

where we are always very welcome with a drinks related post.

 First of all thank you Chris

This fantastic  ATC dropped through my letterbox on Saturday,  from Chris my swap partner. I love it. although I think I am a bit clumsy at the moment to think about using such delicate china.

I am hoping Chris received mine, posted on Friday morning, but our post  can take days and I think it could be quicker if a snail delivered it.

So what have I been up to this past few days......

Last week on a slightly cooler day we visited the Walled Garden at Wallington Hall

The plants on the table were in a  humble tin and looked to me just as good as the large ornate ones.

This is the large glass house in the walled garden,

It was too hot to stay inside it for long , but these are a few of the indoor plants.

This is quite a photo heavy post from me today,  time for a break

I haven't forgotten its T day , so before we  had a walk in the grounds we stopped off for a welcome cuppa. I can drink tea even on the hottest of days, we had cheeses scones . OH was enjoying soup with his.

I will share more photos later in the week.

thank you for calling in to see me, you are all very welcome here.

Diary day ... week 29

I used another pre coloured page as my starter for this weeks diary,

1st....cover splinted arm with a poly bag,

 I gave myself an ink warning today as I was going to try to paint

 a couple of bases for journal pages as well.[ I'll let you know how I got on in another post.]

Add a few stencils to  bring both sides of the diary together.

Then I searched the  bits boxes  to see what I could find.........

animals from an old calendar

scraps of muslin

a few small shapes and TH phrases.

Ask OH to get the lid off the glue for me

  as I got into all sorts of difficulties with double sided tape.

Job done.

I will add this to Chris's theme of
Art for Art's Sake over at
  Art Journal Journey
Now this  may not be a new technique or new stash,
 but for me it is learning to  create art while learning how to cope with using only one hand.

Thank you for calling in today, you are all very welcome here

Celebrate

Happy 5th T.  Day  Anniversary  wishes to
Bleubeard and Elizabeth
where each Tuesday we are all,  always made very welcome with a drinks related post.

Elizabeth is also inviting us to join an ATC swap this week.

It is a while since I made any ATC's, these ones have a simple stamped background
 and are coloured with distress inks.

 I got this far before I went away, having all sorts of ideas to finish them of when I got home.
 Fate had a say in this, but, I was able to add  die cuts. so I am happy that I will be able to use one to join in the ATC swap this time.

I  have set out a bottle of wine and a couple of glasses to join in today's T day celebrations,
but I will be saving my glass until I am having my evening meal.


Thank you for calling in to see me today.
Happy T day everyone.