Sapling

Yesterday I was awestruck by Mother Nature...and today she made me chuckle. I wintered over the button ferns I had on the back patio last summer. I tucked them up under my table in the studio in front of the big palladian window....I just don't have room for extra plants downstairs. I've been watering them...but not really paying attention to them. 

I took them outside to start hardening them off...and laughed when I saw a good sized oak sapling in one of them.  

   

And when I think about that saplings coming out of that acorn....

I'm also a little awestruck!

I finished one of Lynn's junk journals. It's filled with her own hand painted papers...artwork...and a few vintage papers. And all the page spreads have lots of potential for additional layering of paint and collage.  

Lynn had a whole notebook filled with highly textured painted cardstock weight papers that were the perfect weight for covers. I brought home several...and plan to make her several journals in different sizes and schemes. I enjoy curating the papers.

This particular page is a watercolor cutout and made for a fun page that turns on it's own....and look how well it coordinates with the cover. The next page is vintage music paper. My whole studio is art journal mania right now!