ART JOURNAL PAGE #2 PARIS IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA (and my room)

My 2nd art journal page is called Paris is Always a Good Idea. I made it on 8-26-16 and I got the idea from YouTube:

 These are the supplies I used:

First I stuck down Tim Holtz tissue paper with gel medium. Next I painted the pages orange and I used a darker gelato called Iced Coffee around the edges of the page. Then I printed an Eiffel Tower and a passport, a ticket, and a Paris stamp off the computer. Then I used gel medium and stuck them on the page. Next I used Tim Holtz wildflower stencil and some black paint on the bottom of the pages. Then I used Whipped Spackle and Tim Holtz Bubble stencil here and there on the page. Then I stamped the quote ''Paris is Always a Good Idea''.  Last, on the top right page I wrote Travel, Capture, and Discover. 
Take a closer look (you can click the pictures to see the dimension better):

I really like Paris things.  My room is Paris themed.  My mom got a really nice Paris bedding set at Walmart.com that I love.  
This is what it looks like:

(the curtain is actually a fabric shower curtain)

I hope you like my art journal page......I have more to show you soon!

~ SHAWNEE

BOOK REVIEW #2 THE WILD ROBOT

The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown

My Rating: ★★★★★ 

I really liked this book. It's about a robot names Roz (her real name is Rozzum Unit 7134). She washed up an island and the animals don't like her. But after awhile they become friends with her. This took awhile......she observed them, learned their language, and tried to help them.

Roz adopts a gosling that she names Bright Bill. 

A beaver named Mr. Beaver builds Roz and Bright Bill a home they call The Nest. When winter comes, and Bright Bill heads south with the other geese, Roz turns herself off. When she wakes up it's the middle of winter and she sees that a lot of animals are struggling, so she builds lodges around the island and shows them how to make fire. 

Finally spring comes and if you want to know what happens next (there's a lot of things that happen), then I guess you'll have to read the book. I think boys and girls, maybe ages 8 - 13, will like this book.  THE END.

~ SHAWNEE

MY FAIRY I KNITTED

One day (after about 6 months of needle knitting) me and my mom went to a Knitting Extravaganza.  It was all day long and we had to listen to speakers talk about how wool is made and other stuff. But then we got to go shopping and the very first booth we went to we saw a knitted fairy sitting on the table. It was so cooool!! We picked it up and examined it carefully. We saw that there were only TWO books on how to make these knitted fairy's, and one lady already took one of the books but we got the last one!! It's called Knitted Fairies to Cherish and Charm by Fiona McDonald.  It has 10 knitted fairies in it.
(here it is):

When we got home I got started right away 
but it took me 3 tries because I didn't have the right size knitting needles.  I didn't think it mattered, but apparently it did because the first time it turned out too small and the second time it turned out too big. I was determined to not give up, and the third time it turned out perfect!! Once I finally got it right it took me two weeks to make the fairy.
Here is the first two tries and the finished fairy (this fairy is called The Rainbow Dream Fairy):

The hardest part was probably the needle sculpting of the face.  I think it turned out pretty good.  If you like knitting, I think you'll like this book.  It takes a lot of time to make, but it's so awesome when you're done.  I hope to make more of the fairies when I have time.  I liked the book so much that we got several other books by Fiona McDonald.  One of them is Babes in the Wool:

  Instead of fairies they are girls, and they are a lot bigger.  The body, without the legs, is almost the same height of the entire fairy.  I've started knitting the girl named Willow.  It's taking me A LOT of time.  I'll do another blog post about her once I'm finished.  

          ~SHAWNEE