A JOURNALING Day for SURE!!!

Today is Monday... a lot of fun things happen around here on a Monday...  today in the way we farm, it is a good day to ferment veggies... so I made 10 Liters of Kraut, 10 Liters of Kim Chi and 10 Liters of GARLIC DILL PICKLES... YUmmmmm I took a class a few years ago with Sandor Katz (the king of fermentation)  and he makes it all so simple... so I love to do these things... and we feel so very much better when we eat fermented veggies...  anyway... that has really taken most of my day... but in between I have been playing... not a whole lot... but bits and pieces...  and this is what happened...

 

As I go along with these pictures you will see how the whole picture came together...  bits and pieces... 

I wanted to do the challenge A  Vintage Journey... so

JUST STAIN IT

was the theme... and so I thought and thought... had a few ideas.. and then the journal came into my mind.. .I have to admit... I have not been journaling for about a year now... just too busy etc. etc...

anyway... I wanted to get back into that... so I am going to do it with this JUST STAIN IT...  yes sir!!!!  

Well because my stains are on my worktable always handy it was just what colors to use... so I used a variety of them... as I wasn't really sure exactly where I was going...  just to have fun.. main goal... 

I think I used about 8 different colors... it is a hard decision .. there are too many that I love...  so I just turned the lazy Susan and where it stopped... I used that one...  just that simple... 

 

I would make it all go together anyway... so not a big deal... and they are all yummy so again... not a big deal... 

The sayings are the hardest to pick...

This one is special...

LIFE IS THE SUM OF ALL

YOUR

CHOICES. 

How very true...  sometimes we don't want to admit that... but it is 100% true... 

 

okay... moving on..

 

Simon Monday is all ABOUT J's... so I thought on that for a minute too... and JOURNAL.. Journey, Jams...  oh my goodness get out of the kitchen now... you are playing in the studio... 

Well a Butterfly jam???  meaning a lot of them in one place... ???  Okay... stretching it  a little bit too much... we will go with JOURNAL... 

 

Of course being Monday.. it is Zen Tangle Day...  OMG... no meditation today... up too early getting things ready for the fermentations... and also bean processing... and then Glenn picked a couple more gallons of Blue Berries... too much going on... no meditation.. .but I want to tangle... so I did... on my journal page...

The challenge today was to use your initials and pick out two tangles to represent you...  so I did that too..  Me2 and one that begins with a B that has flowers... LOL.. you know me... it has to have flowers... 

 

Just wanted to show you how my page is coming along...  so far...  that is ..

 

 

I love maple seeds.. and my husband will always collect some for me to use in my art... so I have used some... but always reserve some too...

 

 

Well... I love butterflies... and love them flying and everything that a butterflies does is fine with me...  so I wanted to show as many ways as possible with a butterfly on these pages.. so I thought about embossing them too... Well low and behold... two challenges ask for EMBOSSING... of any kind... this is the dry embossing, but the dragonfly is WET... with my new Texture Paste... love that stuff... I have almost used half a jar... need to get more NOW... don't like withdrawel...  of any kind... 

 

So this is for Simon Wednesday blog  (Emboss it! ) and also for Craft Hoarders (Who's the Boss!)   

 

A better view of my tangle for today... 

 

After taking pictures of my journal page... I didnt' like the way it looked... so I went back and mixed up some Textured paste with some Distress dyes and added these little hexagons all over the place... I made this stencil from Tim's Template... love to do that... and they are so fun and easy...

 

Closeups of those areas.. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This word is very meaning ful to me... I had a speech teacher in college that use to stand up in front of the class and lecture for hours... with her eyes closed and half of us would sneak out...  anyway... her favorite thing to lecture about was OBSERVING... how very important it is all the time...  have you ever observed something you use all the time... would you be able to tell me what a pencil really looks like.. you know the yellow one, with 8 sides... and the little gold band... and the band generally also has another color on it too.. etc etc...  what words are on the pencil... OBSERVE... 

So it was a reminder for me...

 

Journaling is a diary for the artist to explore the inner and outer happenings in their life.. so this is mine for today...

I did forget to put some kraut on there... but it will not be ready for a few days... so sorry about that... LOL..

 

Thanks for taking a look and stopping by for a visit...  also I love all the comments you leave and read each and everyone... as I cherish them... thanks again to all of you. 

 

hope you have a wonderful evening and also day...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie