WOYWW #694

 Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go to http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/p/what-is-woyww.html. Maybe you could join our little group!

Hello everyone! Hard to believe September is almost over, only one more week. After avoiding Covid for 3 years it has finally come to visit hubby, but I seem to be OK for now. I hope I don't catch it.

Here is my desk this morning, I'm just ending one phase of my Fodder School I and will probably start the next phase today. It looks like a lot of fun, lots of experimenting! But I will have to totally clean off my desk.

I've started working on another little book, which I will add to throughout the next phase of Fodder School.

Here are the stamps I carved in the last phase:

And what they look like stamped. Some of these you saw in my travel journal. The one in the middle is two sided.

Almost everyday I go for a walk, and halfway is Lake Ontario. I know I've shown you pictures before, but here are two more:

I hope everyone has a lovely week, "meows" from Inky and Mittsy!

WOYWW #693

 Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go to http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/p/what-is-woyww.html. Maybe you could join our little group!

First, I would like to extend my deepest condolences for the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. She was a well loved person here in Canada as well and will be missed.

Next, my desk today, pretty clean! Working with packing tape transfers today.

The rest of today's post is going to be a long one with lots of photos. My travel journal is now finished, so I can show it to you. I pre-prepared this journal before the trip, putting something on every page. I have found in the past that whatever I put on my pages tends to work out with whatever is happening on that page. I pre-prepared the page that says "secrets" with the tag underneath, not knowing what secret I might find! But there it was, on the right page...

The first few pics are a couple of the of the pre-prepared pages ready to go that I hadn't finished by the time I got home

And here is what I brought with me on my travels:

And here is what was inside:

This view shows the beaded bag full of pens, my mini-printer, and my large watercolour set, as well as my Fodder Keeper, scissors, brushes,  and jar for water

my mini-photo printer (sadly now obsolete as I used up all the film I had, and they don't make the film any more). I didn't use any of the Distress inks. Scissors and a jar for water.

My Fodder Keeper, which I did use, brushes and watercolours which I did use, but I didn't have time to use the watercolour paper. I brought 2 boxes of watercolours, this one and a larger one with more colours that I used a lot.

I used all of these except for the corner punch and the blue pen. I picked up the oyster shell in Lunenburg.

And here is the finished journal:

I got some added charms in Peggy's Cove

 I added the dates (in the circles) that I had pre-prepared, and the blue thistle flower from my Fodder Keeper. I also painted on the stripes for writing (on all the pages, as I went), an idea I got from Willa's blog https://www.willawanders.com/ (she did hers a little differently)

I added the umbrella man and the rainbow from my Fodder keeper,  both are tuck spots for my first photos (from my mini-printer). The angel at the bottom right was one of my favourite pieces from the Beaverbrooke Gallery.

I added the flower to the page on the left

I added the pink flower to this page along with the photos, and pieces cut from business cards from the restaurants we ate at

This was the middle of my book, so I added two little "booklets" for photos, which hold 4 photos each. They are folded and tucked under the string fastening the book together, and held there with Washi Tape. This was done at home.

I added the leaves and the blue daisy, and used Washi Tape to add the booklet from the funeral.

This is the page with the "Secret" on it...I did add the secret photo before we got home. I used a Tim Hotlz die to hold the photos at the bottom.

The "secret" that I knew nothing about beforehand!

The fairly uneventful trip home

I added the leaf stamp and rain/cloud/umbrella stamps after the trip - I carved them myself! Interestingly, the stencil I used on this page is reminiscent of the torrential rain we had just before we got home! The envelope was pre-prepared. Also note that we travelled 2,387.929 miles, or 3,843 kilometers on our trip!

This is what is in the envelope

Last two photos! This page noted all the cool things and things I was grateful for, and the route we took through Nova Scotia.

I love making travel journals, I have several now!

I hope you enjoyed my book, now back to real life!

Inky and Mittsy say "meow". and I say have a lovely week!

WOYWW #692

  Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go to http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/p/what-is-woyww.html. Maybe you could join our little group!

Happy September! It started to feel cooler exactly on September 1st. All the kids went back to school yesterday, including Jasper! She started the Montessori Toddler Program yesterday. She's growing up fast!

My desk this morning:

I told you I would show some pictures of our trip to Nova Scotia today, so here goes (hopefully I won't bore you with too many). It was a nostalgic trip as we were visiting family graves along the way, culminating at a funeral for hubby's older brother.

We opted for picnic lunches on the way there and managed to find beautiful parks like this on on the way to have them. Driving through Quebec and especially New Brunswick all you can see for miles and miles are trees, hills, mountains, and Beware of Moose signs!

This double rainbow was in Quebec, you can just barely see the second rainbow about an inch above the first. We had terrible rainstorms through Quebec.

Some New Brunswick scenery. 

We stopped in Fredricton NB to see my favourite painting that we visit every time we go east - Salvadore Dali's St James the Great. It is a giant painting, and absolutely breathtaking!

Here is another photo to show how big it is

We went through the longest covered bridge in the world in New Brunswick

When we got to Halifax we visited the Halifax gardens which is a beautiful, a huge park in the middle of Halifax. Hubby remembers running all over the gardens as a boy.

They don't focus on flowers like Kew Gardens does, but more on landscaping.

And we spent time at Purdy's Wharf (where I had my lobster dinner)

The next day we were off to Peggy's Cove

Rescue unlikely...

The peaceful part of Peggy's Cove!

Then to Lunenburg, a beautiful fishing town where the Bluenose Ship was built - this is a sister ship

Then off to Bridgetown which was the purpose of our visit, the funeral of Hubby's older brother. It was a sad family reunion. We stayed at an airB&B with a bit of a surprise in the backyard:

a very old cemetery called Clark Cemetery, a municipal cemetery very few know about. This is where we had the wake after the funeral. Kind of appropriate I guess.

The next day we were off home pretty much backtracking the way we got there, but not stopping here and there. Hours and hours of trees and more trees. We hit a big rainstorm on our second day, just before home. We were glad to get off the highway and home!

These clouds brought torrential rains, but luckily no hail.

So there it is in a nutshell, hope I didn't bore anyone too much! Next week I can share my Journal, I'm almost finished. Have a great week, Inky and Mittsy say "Meow!"