Every Inchie Monday -- Greece

On Every Inchie Monday we are off to the Mediterranean this week with Greece. Their National bird is the Phenix, but as that is a mythical bird the Little Owl is considered the National bird now.
In Greek mythology the owl was sacred to Athena, the goddess of wisdom. Therefore it was considered a protector of the Greek armies; if one flew over the army before battle, this was believed to be a sign of victory.
The owl was commonly used on ancient coins, and is on the one Euro coin now.

Thursday Journal with Neet

This week is Neet's choice of black and white and movies. I painted the page black and used a die cut for the film strip. The figure is a Dylusion one and the little monsters are Paperartsy. I am trying to get ahead of myself as I am off on a course next week for three days, and as I have only just come home after four days away I am chasing my tail.
I am now a month behind with my art courses as well, and have the three grandchildren here for the weekend. I will be fast asleep by five O'Clock on Sunday.

Art Journal Journey -- Recycle and Collage

Another page for Art Journal Journey and this time I have made a Spring green one. The picture in the middle has been on my desk for ages, and I have drawn some leaves and flowers to fill in some of the space.

Every Inchie Monday -- Kenya

We are off to Africa this week and Kenya always makes me think of wild animals. My first instinct was to sew a lion, but I did that last year, so I have sewn an orchid which is their unofficial National flower. They are the largest exporters of flowers in the world.
For my card one I have done shrink plastic giraffe against an African sunset.

Thursday Journal with Neet

All done in a hurry as I have had a busy week and today had to take the car in for a service and MOT, which took from 9 am to 5.30, now am now cooking tea and rushed down to put this on as I am very late. I had made the majority of the page yesterday, but had to wait overnight for the stickles to dry so I could put the words on when we got home.
This week it is blue and gold and the words are All thatis glitters. I have used Dylusions paint for the blue and a metallic one for the gold which I sprinkled with glitter while it was still wet. I drew some more diamonds with red and blue Ranger stickles. It's a shame that the glitter doesn't show up on the scan.

Tag Tuesday -- Black and white with a spot of colour

For my second tag on Valerie's theme on Tag Tuesday I have made another one with a Dylusion figure, this time adding a spot of pink.
I have also included some photos of the poppies at Hereford cathedral, near where I live.

This is Haze who came down to my studio to help move all the pencils about. She has a short attention span so ended up looking at the fish.
She follows me like a little dog, as she is a bit lost having lost a brother and sister who for some reason tried to cross the road and didn't make it.

Every Inchie Monday -- Egypt

This week we are off to Egypt, I have never been , and not likely to now.
My grandfather was there during the first World War, picture below, he's the one in the middle.

I have used shrink plastic for the card one and sewn The Eye of Horus for the other.