This Week's Mishmash

 

 Hi lovelies! First I wish to thank everyone for the well wishes regarding my terrible fall the other week. Thankfully I can now say I have very minimal pain only on occasion so I'll be quite ready and healed for -ACH- our son's wedding this Friday!!! Hard to believe it's here and will be over in the blink of an eye. I'll share about it next week. So I thought I'd begin this post about love starting with this journal page which I will share with Art Journal Journey for the theme of "Hold The Line":

 

 The background was a mop up page from a stencil and Aloe Gloss Spray. I then spattered it with Ocean and Tangerine paint and also ran a "splotch" of watered down Ocean paint to anchor the Collage Collective images. The sentiment is from the Be Willing stamp set by Dina Wakley. I'm going to use the stitching I did for the "hold the line" theme since I really just stitched across the lines that were already on the heart image😉

 Continuing with love I'll share this photo with T Stands For Tuesday:

 This was taken at Hemingways in Cape May the evening of our 37th anniversary. I mentioned there had been a special surprise awaiting us. It was the gift of a bottle of champagne given by two older gentlemen (we know the one was 80) we had met there for the first time a few nights before. We hit it off so well with them that they asked us to make sure to return for our anniversary which we did. I do have a photo of them which they agreed to only after I promised not to share it publicly. I get that. Of course we asked for two more glasses and asked them to toast with us. It was just the nicest gesture they made and it really touched us. We'll definitely be looking for them the next time we get to Cape May💓

 Next up is a tag I just made for Tag Tuesday (All Hallow's Eve); Try It On Tuesday (Halloween); and the new Simon Says Monday Blog Challenge (Movie Inspiration):

  My movie inspiration? Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven'! The painted tag was one gifted to me by Valerie with a lovely packet of goodies . I added some black ink with a sponge. The kitty, spider ribbon and black enamel dot are Recollections. The moon and sentiment is from ARTchix collage sheets. Poe is a found photocopy, and the raven is an old unknown stamp.

  And lastly this journal page was inspired by a Willowing Lifebook 2021 Taster Lesson by Alena Hennessy:

 I have been wanting to paint a lotus for a long time and am quite happy with how it turned out. She did NOT use a lotus image in her lesson but I wanted to. My affirmation came quite easily after the lotus. A few more pics:

 I added little touches of sparkle with a gold glitter gel pen. There were so many wonderful lessons but alas I only got to two of them - the two that resonated with me the most.

 Of course I will also join in at Paint Party Friday! I may be a bit late in visiting those of you there but I will get to you . Thanks as always for stopping by. XO

" If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."            Princess Diana