I haven’t posted in a while and I’ve been up to quite a bit lately.  I’d like to share several things with you.

I discovered journals with sewn paper and fabric.  I fell in love with the way they look, so I tried my hand at them.  I am not much of a seamstress so I was surprised at how much I enjoyed sewing.

This is the cover.  I don’t like it very much.  And, I’ll warn you that I didn’t cut all the threads before I took the pictures, so it looks pretty scraggly.  The cover was difficult because I wasn’t sewing the fabric on to a back. Just trying to form the rectangle shape of the cover by sewing pieces together.

Here are a few of the pages.  I planned them with lots of paper on each page because I write a LOT in my journals.

A while back I showed you a chair and a stool that I got from our neighbor who is moving and getting rid of stuff. Wellllll, the other day they were loading the moving truck and I guess they didn’t have enough room because they put an antique desk out in the alley!!!!  I nabbed it so fast it would make your head spin.  It’s so unique.

(It is sitting in our laundry room, where I sometimes do art, so excuse the mess in the pictures.)

When you first see it, it looks like a hall table.

But when you pull up the knobs, it reveals a little desk!  The board you can see with the indentions, actually slides out to create a larger work space.  See the little cubby holes?  Isn’t it great?

Today Mister and I went fishing.  It was wonderful to be in the sunshine.  And I saw some nice nature.  These are some pictures I took.

This is the shore near where we were fishing.

The colors of the sunset were reflected on the ripples in the water.  And there’s a Big Bird cloud, too!

And another shot of the shoreline and the sky.

This was so cool!!  I saw this cloud that looked like a fish.

I looked at the water to see what the reflection of this fish looked like.  How cool is this?

So, that’s what I’ve been up to lately.  Oh!  Except for a secret.      Kristina and I are creating a website that you are going to LOVE, if you are involved in the online art community.  It’s really awesome.  We’re hoping to launch it in a week or so, so stay tuned for that.