Springtime in Honeysuckle Breeze

Yes, it must be spring because I changed the color background of my blog. It is early and I have a busy day ahead of me. Love my Sunday's! Last night I worked on a brand new journal/notebook. Walls Notebook is so cool it will make you drool. It has all these blank walls just ripe for your graffiti. I found it over on Michelle Ward's blog and it is worth a trip over to see what she was playing with on those blank walls. I ordered my copy from Amazon on Tuesday and it arrived on Friday and that was with free shipping. I ordered over $25 to get the free ship which usually takes 5-9 days... and here it is in two days. Amazon has the best price.

It is a fun book and I rounded up all of my New York stuff from my trip there in 2006. I love New York and I believe it is getting time for a trip back up there. Gotta see Wicked. The hotel we stayed out was just down the street from the theatre where Wicked was playing. Good place to stay and will definitely plan to stay there the next time I go there. Here is my beginning attempt on this notebook. I started out my using a 7 Gypsies rubbings and one of my favorite quotes they use:

On the page below I found some cork board and stamped one of Michelle Ward's stamps called "Composition Book." I really use this set of stamps quite a lot. I liked the "Caution: Under Construction" on the cork board. As you can see I also pulled out my New York stamps starting with the her ladyship the Statue!

The sewing on the page below was a little tricky and you can see on the above page I had to use some masking tape because the thread ripped the page a little. What the hell it sorta adds some reality to the page.

The last page I worked on was the Havre - New York Cruise Ship. The feather off to the side is a true New York Birdie feather that I brought all the way back. Knew I would have a reason to use it. Took three years but here it is.

I really did paint these pages - hard to tell from the photos. Here is one with gesso prior to my working on it:

The next two pages are going to be really fun I might even try drawing on them and break loose. OH boy.....

I am off to a play with Loren today and will give you a review when I get back. By the way, last week I got my nerve and courage up to go get my tennis rating from a pro with the Reston Tennis Team. I managed to squeak out a 3.0 rating. Yea. I feel really good about that. OK, no Venus Williams yet - I think she is probably a 7.0 or higher! See ya later.