A Mermaid, green leaves and a cheeky jay

Hi Everybody!

Wish you all a good weekend!

For Art Journal Journey, the sea, I have made a page with a mermaid.  The background was gessoed and then painted with my bristly brush, splodged and glittered, and then stamped with a crackle stamp for more texture. The head of the mermaid was made using the moon face stencil from Dina Wakley. Her body was made with some glittery ribbon left over from a Christmas present. I outlined her and doodled the bubbles with my wonderful white pen. I doodled the fishes, too. Her hair was made with some fibres, and I found 2 real starfish and a silver fish charm as embellishments. I am also linking to Art Journal Every Day

After a chilly night we had a wonderful sunrise:

I love being out just now, it is so good to see green everywhere:

I love these almost hidden gateways:

My cheeky jay was back every few minutes to get food, I think he s feeding the kids just now!

I always love walking along the old 'Bastions', the fortification walls:

And there is a wonderful view to the buttercup meadow where the moat used to be:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

The sea, the sun, the moon and the river

Hi Everybody!

It's Friday already, where did the week go?

For Art Journal Journey, the sea, and Paint Party Friday I have another journal page to share. The background was painted with blue, green and a remnant of gold left in the ink bottle. I drew 'my'head with my white pen. The ship (LaBlanche) was stamped with embossing ink and white embossed, the gulls were collaged and the smaller birds drawn.  The fish was also collaged. The poem is from Thomas Love Peacock.
Also linking to Kim Dellow's Friday show your face.

I woke up about 4 AM this morning, and sat on the balcony wrapped in a blanket, and watched the dawn and the sunrise. The waning moon crescent was also hanging in the sky, seen from my perspective it looked like it was hanging in the tree.

The weather was quite chilly, but sunny, so enjoyable for walking.

Have a great day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Recycled roses

Hi Everybody!

Hope your day is going well!

Today I have a mixed media recycling project to show you. I used one of my round Camembert boxes, I hate having to throw them away. A friend is celebrating her birthday next month, so this will be just right for putting a voucher in. I painted the box with off-white acrylic and used a diamond stencil to make a pattern over part of the top and sides with structure paste. When it was all dry, I gave it another coat of paint and sprinkled it with Frantage shabby white while wet and embossed it. I glued some hand crocheted lace around the part of the rim that was not stenciled. I added grass, some of my dried roses, some flowers, leaves and a little angel - finished. I am linking to Moo Mania and More, flowers; anything but cute, vintage garden and The mixed Media Monthly challenge, May flowers.

We had a wonderful sunrise today. I suppose one of the perks of not being able to sleep is getting to see lots of sunrises!

Some pics from today's walk:

Have a great day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!