A first, a second and a fantasy!

I am having to limit my crafting time and computer time at the moment! I have a trapped nerve in my shoulder/neck (Doc couldn't tell where!) and some days are better than others! I'll keep on with the exercises the Doc gave me and hopefully normal service will be resumed....soon!!

First I have my Calendar Journal pages.
As you can see I have filled in the first day!

 I took an easy route to make it.

I added Distress Oxides ink to an acrylic block, spritzed it and kept adding more ink and spritzing to cover both pages. I then added some ink through a very large stencil.
The ferns were on my desk ready for another project that never got made.
The circles were punched from a piece of under paper that I had stencilled and stamped on - I added a seed head once they were cut.
The month was from an old calendar 

Here is August filled in! Feel free to enlarge!

As today is the 2nd of the month I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for a Second Look On The 2nd with something from September 2015 when we had our first trip by train through part of France(Troyes, Orleans, Tours and Poitiers, and I think we also had a couple of days in Paris too!)
As you can see it is a T Day post and if you come here on Tuesday I will tell you where we plan to visit later this month 
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I really shouldn't be here ….I have no time to sip my coffee today it's quick glugs and back to the painting but can't resist joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for T Stands for Tuesday!

 I have some photos from our France trip - some of the more unusual views!

I very nearly bought one of these

Lovely reflections

Love this curtain fabric

There were other coloured trees in this square too

I loved this No Entry sign by the Kebab shop in Orleans!!

 Two exhibits from an exhibition of containers in Tours Cathedral

A bride on her way to her wedding

The above three were in shop windows

…and because we are here for T

Ladies Tea and Gentlemans coffee - in a shop window in Orleans.
The shop was shut and we never went that way again!I hope this will do in the absence of my own drink - back to the painting now!!

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I also have a page for Yvonne's theme at Art Journal Journey - 'A World Of Fantasy'

As you know I love Paris and have visited beautiful Palace of Versailles! I often wonder what it must have been like when Marie Antoinette was living there!
When I came across this stamp while I was having a tidy it seemed natural to indulge my fantasy!

The page was smooshed with Distress inks and I used the Prima image and lots of smaller stamps in different colours and framed it all with the stem from a Tracy Evans Heart balloon. Used DIs to colour the image too.

Hoping I can catch up but please allow me some time!!

I would also like to enter at Penny Black and More - September challenge - 'Make it Feminine'

Thanks for looking, Chris