A second look on the 2nd and a double take for AJJ!!

Oh! The day I've had!! All good - my son came first, just after breakfast with a lovely bouquet of flowers and a card(for Mother's Day as he is off to Rome then Budapest and they are flying first thing Sunday morning)
While he was still here the HKA came to do my ironing, so then it was coffee time! 
Yesterday I had started to prepare my room for a change of desk drawers - I now have a small filing cabinet - so things piled onto my desk all needed to go away! So since after lunch I have been trying to fit in things that came out of two small drawer sets into one filing cabinet - err…they won't go…yet..I have started to look at my stash and consider giving some away!
All this meant that getting my journals from underneath everything had to wait! 

I am joining Bluebeard and Elizabeth for a second look at something that has already been seen on my blog.

A second look on the 2nd

Way back in September 2012 I posted this(except when I came to post it the photo disappeared and I had to take another quick, very poorly lit one!!)

Final few pages

One of my journals is very nearly full - I can hardly believe its over two years since I started this particular journal at an Introduction to Art Journaling workshop with Lindsay Mason way back at the start of February 2011. We had some laughs that day!
The journal is a Rymans one that Lindsay provided for each of us and it has been a faithful friend for all that time. Around that time I had two other journals on the go - a small A6 one and another A5 one with watercolour paper but this has been the one I've turned to mostly - I love it so much there's already a replacement waiting to be started (although I now have a variety of journals of different sizes and with different papers)
Here is one of the latest pages 

This page came about simply because I was sorting through some old scraps(with the intention of throwing them away)They have been in a little pencil case for ages but when I found them I just couldn't do it! The white butterflies are from some cup cake holders(Sainsbury's I think)The tape and stamps are fairly new(TH). The stick on moth was also found during my sort out - tucked inside a folder - a whole book of crowded attic idea-olgy stickers with only a few used - how did that happen? I'm going to be using more of these now I've found them.

Now the funny thing is - when I saw the challenge at Our Creative Corner I scratched my head and decided this was one challenge I wouldn't be doing - I mean, I use all my stuff right? I don't forget what I have - I may mislay it but I know it's there - ahem! I'm saying no more till the craft police arrive!!!
So, yes, I am going to link to this challenge:-

Our Creative Corner - Forgotten Things

Thanks for looking, I'll be back with some more pages soon, Chris

Some of you may already know that I am hosting at Art Journal Journey this month with my theme of "If you go down to the woods..",

I was inspired to follow this template to make a new page.

I have used a Crafty Individuals photo of a bluebell wood, the tape is the same (except the red bird one)and the corrugated card is from the box our weekend croissants come in.

The birds are either stamped or from a napkin added with gel medium. The definition from an old dictionary.

I hope you will be tempted to come and join in at AJJ this month, I will enjoy seeing what you spy in the woods!

I'll be back with a scheduled post later in the week with a bit of woodland fun!!

Thanks for looking, Chris