Journal Making

I have been participating in a online workshop Artist Journals and Sketchbooks. I completed the first assignment almost two weeks ago and was so inspired I made another journal:

All pages are made from Diet Pepsi boxes, gessoed, painted and altered, then sewn.





We had about 6.5 inches of rain in 24 hours on Tuesday. The worst October storm since 1962. I was getting a little bit of cabin fever from being indoors so DH challenged me to do practice my line drawing. Two minutes later:

DH was practicing his TV viewing.

Rain

Everyone in our little family unit has been happy the last two days. Friday it was nearly 100 - I don't do hot. Yesterday we had dry lightning. One of these storms we get in our little part of the world once or twice A DECADE. And today we had rain that little know phenomenon in our drought plagued state.

I know we are kind of wimps in the weather area, but there is only so much "nice" weather you can take.