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We have new visitors to our yard. They sure eat a lot of the bird seed, but it’s fun to watch them waddle around the yard. The female eats the most and waddles all around checking things out and the male follows along behind her. Toby loves to watch them even if he’s not quite sure what to make of them, then when he’s had enough he tries to catch them even though they are as big as he is. LOL
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We have been having the craziest weather. It can’t decide if it’s summer or late winter, one day it is in the mid 90’s and then like today it is the low 60’s. Not good for my Fibromyalgia but I’m armed with pain med patches, there are days that I look like I’m trying to quit an extremely serious smoking habit. 🙂
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This year I had a really nice Mother’s Day. Kerry came down and we went to lunch and then shopping. She bought me a bunch of toys art supplies, and Steven & Jessica sent me White Earl Grey tea in a beautiful tin covered with a gold foil japanese print paper. So now I’m all set to play in my art journals while drinking tea.
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I like my Strathmore Visual Journal with the watercolor paper, but I don’t care for the ring binding in the center. So I decided to make a journal that would lay flat and not have any interuption in the center of the two pages. Making my own book was so much fun that I can see me making more of them in the future. I used 9×12 mixed media paper folded in half, 5 pages per signature and there are 6 signatures in the journal. It was so easy sewing the signatures together. I think it took as long if not longer to fold all the papers. In the photos the journal doesn’t have a cover yet. I have since covered it and worked on the first page, but since it has been so overcast lately I don’t have any pictures of that yet.Â
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As always click on the photos to enlarge.
I’ve been trying to improve my sketching/drawing skills. I found a book that is supposed to really help and I’ve been slowly working my way through it, there will be more about that in the next post.
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Glad to hear you’re feeling better, Carol. We’ve had a very strange spring here as well; the temps haven’t yet reached seventy! Good to see you posting again.
We are supposed to be in the 60’s and low 70’s all week. Not your typical May weather in Oklahoma.