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Saturday, September 1, 2018

Camping in May...

Hi everyone. I am playing catch up here over the next couple of weeks. The summer was fast and furious and even though I am starting to feel much better,a busy life took it's toll on me at times. So now that summer is coming to a close,I might need a vacation! lol

Back in May we went for a two week trip to our favorite camping grounds here in New York. It was gorgeous weather-one day of a light sprinkle was all. Otherwise -Perfect! This was our site,first time we were able to get this one in 8 years of trying!
The site was right on the water and it was beautiful!

Chum had to be leashed as there were too many chipmunks around that he would like to chase!
Below is the beautiful view I had each morning while making my coffee

Chum and Dad out on the water and Chum beats Dad to the shore every time!

Look at that smile! He sure LOVES Swimming!

While they were out and about,my body movements were still pretty limited at this point,I stayed back and did some journaling. Laying down thoughts,sentiments and color.The thoughts were reread and then covered up with beautiful stencils and graphics which made this mindful and peace felt spread.

Here I used one of my newer stencils from StencilGirl called "Sacred Feminine" by Carol Wiebe.
I absolutely love this stencil,it truly speaks to me

This prayer below is from a card I received after visiting a museum in California.

I will always continue to Contribute.

Early morning fog over the island and a couple of deer eating breakfast.

Riley is a catch and release kinda guy.Look two on one line!
So,while honey was doing this...

I was relaxing here...

enjoying this! nothing like a campfire!
I always get lost in the dancing flames,seeing figures and shapes. It really is magical and soothing.

So from Riley's fishing I saw,came this silly journal spread!

It was a beautiful vacation,nice time away from it all and we enjoyed ourselves immensely!

and then on our drive home, out the truck window we see this!!

Special delivery of a Hummer by a transport Chinook . It was really cool to see this!Actually had to look twice before grabbing my camera!
In the bottom photo they are getting closer to landing.

Home again and several packages had arrived in the post!
Dear friends had sent get well wishes and beautiful hand created treasures for me.

These wonderful treasures from the shore came from my friend and fellow blogger Kimberly Laws.

Kimberly has a beautiful way with laces and ribbons and putting colors together.
I just love her stitching and can not wait to write in my journal she created! thank you my friend!

Next is this beautiful and very cool paper doll who watches over me at my studio desk. She was made and was sent by Linda Edkins Wyatt,my friend and Tribe Sister.

Those boots are just the best- and don't you just love the dial Linda used in the center? And look at the yummy embossing she did! Glorious colors-don't you think?

Here she is posing with with her butterfly wings-thank you my Tribe sister and dear friend!

and who is this posing with her?
Two sweet little kitten paperdolls named Peace & Love. These special little dolls were created by Darlene Campbell, my all time bestest Ohio friend ever! Thank you so much,my forever friend! I love them,Peace & Love.

And finally,a rather large package came with these lovely treasure in it!

These came from my sweet friend and another fellow blogger, Kim Collister.
Such wonderful goodies! Whenever I sip my tea from this beautiful cup,I think of Kim and her kindness.
And this beautiful doll sits at my studio desk alongside Linda and Darlene's dolls. Reminders of the great friendships I have made through this internet. Reminders of the loving and caring people who are out there,that I have never met in person,but feel I have known for years!

Many of you have asked in private emails,and on comments about my healing. Thank you so much!
To let you know,I have regained most my strength in my left arm and hand and am no longer freaking myself out, by thinking something in me is going to break if I move the wrong way! I have been off of the pain relievers for quite awhile now and am doing well without. From time to time I take the nerve pills as my left fingers are not there yet. They still tingle and hurt sometimes(a signal to let me know I over did it) and there is still no feeling in them. Funny thing how they can be numb and still have the pain/tingly sensation. The Dr. says this is normal and may take up to a year to heal,then again it may never heal. I am okay with this because I am ever so grateful to not be in the horrific, debilitating pain I was in. So life is good,no,life is great!

Thank you for coming by today and leaving your lovely comments, I do cherish each and every one of them.

Peace & Love my friends

Jackie ")

Friday, August 24, 2018

the Sari journal journey continues...

Back again with another Sari Journal spread using the irresistible materials and products form Gwen's Lafleur's online store

True to my form as of late,no in process photos,but let me walk you through what I did.

I started with scraping Impasto paints onto my plain pages with a credit card.

After this,I applied with matte gel a piece of Gwen's Florentine paper across both pages in the center. Next I mixed modeling paste with red paint and scraped this through Gwen's ArtDeco Medallion and Boho Circle Stencils.

After this had all dried,I made a wash of water and yellow ochre, which was blended across both pages.

Then after distressing the edges of the elephant and woman with peacock cutouts, I glued each one to its page and again used some of the yellow ochre to blend these into the backgrounds.

From here I went on to adding blue paint to the outside of the pages and some burgundy around the cut out pieces.

Then came the gorgeous Northern Lights embossing powder by Emerald Creek,my photos are not doing the colors justice!

Then I had this great idea!(in my humble opinion) to add feathers to the peacock cutout.

These were arranged and glued into place with matte gel.

Using a piece of navy mulberry paper from one of Gwen's prepackaged stashes, again I mixed modeling paste,this time with a coordinating blue paint and stenciled various feathers from the Peacock Feather stencil onto the mulberry paper. When this was dry, I fussy cut out the feathers and added more colors,shades of violet,teal and interference purple.

After the feathers were all colored and placed a Vintage Kuchi patch was glued on top with heavy body matte gel

Well,then the elephant on the opposite page needed some bling as well.This is where the beautiful Irresistible India red&gold trim came in to border the base of the cutout and some "diamond" bling for the top.