Journal pages on the second!

Warning - I may ramble…..!

My calendar journal was ready yesterday but I wasn't! 

We went for a New years Day walk with son and grandchildren - although the walk didn't quite turn out how we intended! Watches were synchronised and we set off at the appointed time, heading up hill on quite bumpy roads towards Rivington Pike, info here, which I'm sure many of you know as being a fantastic viewpoint for looking out over the Manchester area! 
I do have some old photos but can't find them, these are from the internet

Unfortunately, son who is a regular visitor to the Pike, took the wrong turn and we sat getting colder by the minute waiting for him! By this time I needed a loo - a walk back in the opposite direction to the Pike, so while hubby walked back with me we told the others to go on ahead and we would meet up with them! Not easy as we thought and we didn't meet until we were all back at our cars!! 

It doesn't look it, but by this time it was getting dark - and very cold!

Then it was off to Franky and Benny's where hubby and I had refillable coffees and some bread and dips(too early for a full meal and my medication)and the others had some yummy food!

My journal pages

I would like to link to Art Journal Journey where Chrissie has chosen a brilliant theme - Winter Wonderland.
I used a bit of leftover waste as a stencil over the whole page and drew the trees using a water brush and my Inktense pencils. Drew on some 'snow' with a Signo white pen then spattered with gesso for a snowier effect. The journal squares are from another piece of Gelli print snowflakes.

Today of course, being the 2nd of the Month, is time to link to Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog(I haven't forgotten you Squiggles, I know you are there too!)

My second look on the 2nd comes from two years ago

The original is here and was posted on 6th January 2013
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Time to take down the decorations!

...well, as my background - I took down the decorations in the flat yesterday, not wanting to tempt fate by leaving them up beyond Twelfth Night!I hope you like the background which a piece of needle felting I did last year. 

I have been doing some journaling - mainly on my knee in front of the tv while we do some catching up on recorded Christmas tv!

This was started following a walk at Holker Hall before Christmas - I think you may get the picture(we turned back!!)

This background was re-hashed a couple of times before I was happy with it and I drew the face and added the clock and the title (a Sandy Denny classic!)this year!!!

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On Boxing Day 2015 hubby took this photo of the weir - if you can spot it

The island had disappeared 

By the 30th the geese were trying to get back onto the island

If you are still here I would like to wish you the best of everything this coming year!

Thanks for looking, Chris