Winter Outside but Spring in my Junk Journal

Oh dear, "the weather outside is frightful" but inside it is not the fire that is delightful but my journalling bits are and today I decided to make a Spring page for Art Journal Journey to cheer me up on a blustery March day and get some of those bits used.

I have been avoiding using the paper that is at the top right but plucking up my brave I tore it in half, sort of corner to corner, and made that my first 'stick down' bit.  Then I had some pink tissue on one of my birthday gifts so a tiny bit of that and some other pink paper saw the most of the page covered.  

One of my friends had bought me a little pin (a kind of Skull Russian Doll) and it was fixed to the little rectangle with the oval aperture that I have put the Tim Holtz Petite Doll on.   A little rose  patterned paper, a Wildflower (cut from another birthday present) and a postage stamp from Oz which was on my birthday card sent by my little sister.

So there we are, another entry for Spring at Art Journal Journey.  have you joined in yet?

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Back again for another round of the longest running blog hop I know of.  It's all down to our Julia and her merry band of followers.  Sounds a bit like Robin Hood and his Merry Men!  Well, we are a happy crew, why not join us and bare your desk.

Not been much on my desk of late and today isn't that much better but there are a couple of bits you might not have seen before.  I have been crafting but it is mainly crafting on a trolley from my comfortable chair whilst my back has been bad.

On the left are some bits of paper which I had been sifting through and then there is my Junk Journal which has kept me going through the last few weeks.  There are some Tim Holtz Wildflowers cut out on my glass mat - a birthday present from a friend, and below them is my little Moleskin Journal which I do from time to time with cute figures in.  Most of them are from PaperArtsy Zinnis or Stampotique figures with backgrounds similar to what I once did with Kate Crane.

Need some more of those backgrounds doing but I am worried it might set my back off again and at the moment I am feeling pretty good about it.

Was hoping to show you my lovely array of handmade birthday cards today but as I was out most of the day (CT scan) yesterday I didn't get around to it.  Next week be ready - they will be scanned and waiting.  See you then then.