ART JOURNAL PAGE #3 ...LET YOUR HEART SOAR...

Here's my third art journal page.  I get most of my art journal page ideas from youtube.

These are the supplies I used: 

First I stuck down some of Tim Holtz tissue paper using gel medium. Then I used blue and green metallic paint for the background. Next I put some dots here and there using Tim Holtz dot fade stencil and Whipped Spackle. After that I cut out some clouds and two birds and then I glued them to the page. Next I colored the birds and did some highlighting and shading. Then I stamped the quote "refuse to be average, let your heart soar as high as it will".

I have a lot of fun making my art journal pages.  Maybe you can try it too.  If you do, I hope you'll have fun!

                  ~ SHAWNEE

BOOK REVIEW #5 A SINGLE SHARD

A Single Shard

By Linda Sue Park

My Rating ★★★★★

I loved it. It's about a boy named Tree-ear who is an orphan. He lives under a bridge with his friend Crane-man, who has taken care of him his whole life. Then one day he gets a job working for a potter named Min. He mostly just chops wood or goes and gets clay, but he has a dream to make a pot. Then one day Tree-ear has to go to Songdo to show emissary Kim Min's work in hopes that he will give Min a royal commission. On his journey there something tragic happens to the pots so he only has a single shard to show emissary Kim.

If you want to know the rest than you'll have to read it.

~SHAWNEE  

COLOR CODED RECIPE # 1: BANANA BREAD

My mom took some easy recipes and made them color coded so its easier to understand so I can make these things by myself. This one is banana bread.  

In a small bowl you stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. set aside. 

Then in a mixing bowl you cream together the sugar, and butter with an electric mixer until blended.

Then add the eggs or egg replacer (which is what we use because I have a brother who is allergic to eggs) and the milk to the sugar and butter mixture. 

mix until smooth.

Then you need raisins:

and bananas:

Mash the bananas (riper/darker skinned bananas are better).

Alternately add the mashed bananas and the flour mixture into the sugar/butter/egg/milk mixture like this.

 Then you stir in the raisins with a spoon:

Pour batter into a lightly buttered loaf pan:

 Sometimes spills happen:

 Spread the batter and bake at 350 for the time it says on the recipe:

 The clean up isn't very fun:

 But it's worth it:

Here is the color coded recipe. Click on it to enlarge it.

~SHAWNEE