Week in and Week out.

I believe I have taken a long enough break from sharing my arty bits with my "Loyal 3" and will again be attempting a weekly posting. For today I will share the bounty that the winter gift giving season showered upon me. My Darling Hubby got me a lovely set of "disposable" fountain pens and a copy of Zentangle Basics as well as helping my Wonderful Mother to pick a couple of doozies as well. She got me the book I had been drooling on for a couple of years, Japanese Bookbinding by Ikegami. Love love love. The awesome did not stop there. I was also gifted with Making Handmade Books by Alisa Golden and to top the already frosted cake, The Sakura Koi pocket water-color set. I have been making miniature stab bound books and painting shipping labels to use as decoration but much of my crafting time lately has been going towards yarn. Hats had to be made for the winter season and the stash was overflowing its bounds again.
The other crafty endeavor that we made was for my Small Ones 11th birth anniversary. The pinata had to be custom made...

I was happily covered in papier-mache and spray paint but the Small one was utterly pleased so I deem this a win.
It was then hung and "EXTERMINATED" with a baseball bat by several Whovian creatures.

We also created a "Burn Pit" to help get rid of the invasive weeds that we can't compost. I took pictures of the process and if anyone would like a post dedicated to that please let me know. It was fun and marshmallows were roasted.
Love, Peace and Joy to you all
Stormy

Sunday weather

The weather today has not allowed for me to take any decent pictures of my recent artwork so you get this. The sky can be amazingly beautiful here but the storms can come up suddenly and strike with almost no warning.

I will try to make a midweek post but if that does not happen there will be one more Sunday post for this year. After that I will be concentrating on family things until mid January. I will be thinking fondly of my Loyal 3 and wishing nothing but the best for all of them during this the coldest and darkest part of the year.
Peace, Love and Joy to you all.
<3 Stormy

Sunday in the afternoon...

Not a great deal going on around the home-front unless you consider shuffling all the furniture multiple times exciting. I had some unexpected time off so we arranged the living-room in a new and different way, did the same to the master bedroom and my storage shed and are aiming to do the office and the Monkeys bedroom soon as well.
You may be wondering, or not, what happens when I get to a point of near 2/3 of a journal complete? The answer would be that of course I must get started making or procuring the next one to start in. This would be why I have a stack of journals all in various stages of completion... I will be making it a goal to finish one before I start the next one again this New Years and it did work, for a while...
On to the picture portion of the post.

The stack is actually missing a couple that were made for specific projects but since I have put those projects on hold I didn't consider them "current.

The next book to bind already has signatures and the cover paper selected. I need to get the cover boards measured and cut, paper them and stab little holes in everything to get it ready for binding. I have decided that the journals I make for myself either have to be a Coptic variant or composition style binding. I just don't work so well if I can't open it up to lay flat. Loving the old maps to make the covers with, this one will be a map of Africa dated 1965.

Just working through the wait

Sometimes it is all you can do.

In progress

In progress with color

Here's to another week of joy and art.
Peace, Love and warm socks to you, my Loyal Three.
Stormy