Art Journaling my life

This is the cover of my new journal.

I know I've been quiet lately.  Had a lot going on.  And a lot of changes taking place, both within and without.  Trying to deal with it all.  A few posts ago I showed you pics of my first Art Journal.  Here are some pics from my current one.  They pretty much say it all.

Inspired by the lovely Suzi Blu

Inspired by an article in Cloth Paper Scissors

A teeny little book I found lying around

Here is the book out of the pocket

Inspired by an article in Cloth Paper Scissors

A collage of papers I altered

Inspired by an article in Cloth Paper Scissors

 That about covers it.   Well half of it anyway.  I'll post some more another time. 

 Anyone know about ducks and their deal with 'hiding'their eggs?  They used to lay just wherever, even in the pool a few times.  Then I stopped finding eggs......  I knew there had to be some somewhere....  finally I found them.....

 tucked away in the bushes and stuff in the far reaches of our yard.  It took some looking to find it.

Honestly I was surprised that they didn't lay like this before.  This was what I kept expecting to find.   There were 10 eggs in this nest.  And we had to sneakily move them because the ducks kept staring at us.  Now we can't find any eggs from them again.  I have looked daily, my family has looked, they must have a nest somewhere.  Do they not want us to take them?  They are both female, so they are not fertilized.  It's a mystery I must find an answer to-- prefferably before a bunch of rotten duck eggs pile up.  

Updates aplenty.

These are all duck eggs.  The very large one had two yolks.
Those are my 9 year olds hands holding them for scale.

Seems like a long time since I've updated you all on a few things.  I'll give it a shot here and try to keep this not too long.  So the ducks and the chickens are all laying now.  We have fresh eggs everyday.  More than we can use, so we've been giving some away.  They are delicious and different from store bought because their shells are much thicker and they don't easily crack.  We even had a double yoked duck egg once.

The ducks hate the dog.  I took this video for you to show you how they act when she's around.  It's loud and annoying.  They yell at her the whole time she's out there. Of course they wouldn't cooperate so this video does not accurately depict their relationship.  You can however see the way she stares menacingly at the dog in the beginning.

he installed new tail lights

The Pearl is coming along nicely.   My dear husband has fixed the lights, put a new power cord connector thing in, ripped out some of the paneling and bought new insulation.  We also removed all of the drawers and cabinet doors for some good cleaning and re-structuring in some cases.  If you know me I like clean.  So they were cleaned with bleach first (I know, it's a no-no but I'm a germophobe), then cleaned again with a green cleaner I make with tea tree oil, lemon and some other good stuff.  Then finally de-greaser.  Now they are nice and clean and probably need some more oiling or shellac or something.  We'll eventually get to that.

new shelf paper in the cleaned and reconstructed drawers

removing all cabinet doors and
drawers for cleaning

disgustingly dirty before

Then there is the Princess Stove.  We took it out and have been cleaning it ever since.  This past weekend I talked him into taking the whole thing apart so I could soak all the parts in degreaser.  It worked like a charm and she's nice and clean now.  The only thing left there is new insulation for under her, he already put new wood to hold her up, and a thorough cleaning of the oven.  We had a 70 year birthday party to attend that day, so I didn't get to the oven yet.

completely taken apart

parts of the Princess

 I'm sure there's more we've done.  Oh he re did the bed frame.  I forgot to take a pic.  Check out his posts on repairing yesterdays trailers today.  There is even more exciting news to tell, but it'll have to wait til next time.

The bitties art

On the Art Journal front.  I have been keeping up with my art journal daily, but have not taken any pics yet.  I'll get to it.  I know at least two of you are Art Journaling along with me and I think that's great I am proud to be a part of that!  Remember when you were a kid and art was just fun?  You just drew and colored and painted for the love of it.  Here's a few pics to remind  you of that...

working in her art journal

Art journaling

the other bittie art journaling

And remember.....