Tea on Tuesday

Well, it's good old Earl Grey along with some fried bread.  I was making some Parkerhouse rolls and just had to do it!  I love it fried, add butter and jam, yum!

The pot on the stove contains some beef barley soup and you just have to have buns to go with soup  :)

I'm keeping with the Smash book, hope no one minds that I took the words from EK, they are so perfect and afterall, it's just for me.  This book is for my everyday journal type thing.     

The little watering-can-turned-teapot (I just trimmed it up) is for todays entry  :)   

Inside back cover started.  I am glueing two pages together, throughout, just to tuck away little lists or private thoughts.   On the blog at EK, one person had made a list of things to help with journaling, you can find the EK address in my previous post.  

I finished a canvas tag yesterday.  The colour is washed out in the photo, but really it's quite pretty  :)   I  saw the canvas tag book and thought, I can make those.  So I went and bought a metre of canvas--next time I'll just go get the tag book, lol.  I put a piece of cardstock in between the layers just to give it some stability.  The tag is spritzed with Glimmer Mist and I added some do-dads, fibre, a piece of mica, a clip, etc. The leaf thing is off an old purse, it's pinned on with a TH clasp.  The pictures are from a box that my coasters came in and the word Journey is a CM sticker. 

**just a note to let you know (if you look close),

 that I turned the one little pic the right way up  :)  the one by the clip

Thank you for coming, I hope you enjoyed your tea time here :)

If you are new, grab another cup and join the rest of the group at Kimmies http://artinredwagons.blogspot.com/

Smash Book

Have you heard of the Smash Books?  They are basically a day-to-day journal of sorts, only a lot more fun than just writing.

This is my attempt, just a beginning really  :)  I've already added a couple of things to the front and back cover  you see here.

I just happened to have a couple of little notebooks sitting around, so I thought I'd give it a try.  If I really love it, I'll make my own book. 

I gathered a few odds and sods, glue pen, tape, modge podge, put it in the small basket you see.  As I doodle/write/glue things in this book, I'll just add whatever seems fun!

The front cover has a piece of fabric taped on, then the horses head from a napkin was podged onto the fabric. On the back I podged some pieces of a thesaurus--words for:  good, daily, life and stuff.

If you want to know more about Smash Books, check out this link http://www.eksuccessbrands.com/kandcompany/smash/


Thanks for coming to look  :)  hope you give the Smash Book a try.   I'd love to see some more ideas so leave a comment and I'll hop over to your blog for a look see  :)