This is the journaling the corresponds to my Tobacco Brown Collage. It reads, "creating with this group of colors ranging form golden tans to reddish-browns to rich, darks are a perfect color choice for vintage photograph collages. Tobacco, like fine wine, provides an antique quality which assists to provide a sense of a memory lovingly remembered." Copyright 2005 Cathy Highland. 

My "Tobacco Brown" Collage was created today in the first Journal RR I'm participating in. I was inspired by recently purchased new stamps with the images of cigar labels and themes. 

My "Tobacco Brown Collage" was created today in the first of the Journals RR I'm participating in. I allowed some recently purchased stamps of Cigar themes and labels to inspire me. 

Flat Stanley arrived in my mailbox yesterday! Whoo-hoo! I made some journaling notes to include in the scrapbook I've yet to create to send back home with him. Don is off work today so I believe Flat Stanley will be taking a road trip with us. The weather here has been gorgeous... we hit the 60 degree mark yesterday and are supposed to be in the 70's today. Perfect for taking Stanley on an adventure!

I managed to get all my most recent purchases put away where they belonged in the studio the night before last. Made it through most of the pre-sorted piles and began sorting yet another box into pre-sorted piles to put away later. This seems to be working quite well and is definately making the large task of it more managable when broken down into smaller segments.

I haven't created any new artwork recently, well since Chris was over on Friday. My watercolored papers are dry now from my last adventure. I definately loved creating them and will probably make some more in the future to have on hand when I desire to use them. I am looking forward to one day of nice weather to create some large sheets of paste papers outdoors.

I am waiting on the arrival of one of the Journey Journals RR. It should come in the mail today. It will be a little late for the mailing deadline of April 2nd getting sent onto the next participant in its RR, although I am hopeful to work on it on Saturday. Hopefully, I can get inspired and maybe send it on quickly to get in the originally intented schedule. Of course this will also depend upon the next participant's schedule as well. I am excited to see what has been added to my journal; so far I know it has been received but no new pages have been uploaded to the group.

Well, I off of here to celebrate this wonderful Spring day! Hope everyone is having a good one, too.

I see more organizing on the horizon.....

Chris & I just returned home from our road trip to Hallo's. We had a great time, shopped til we were ready to drop, and spent more than either of us intended. What's new with that, LOL! I stocked up on chipboard, parchment paper, some cardstock, deckle-edged sheets, and envies.

We stopped in Lodi at Scrapbook Outlet, which I wasn't too impressed with. I expected some older product lines and lower prices...... not happenin' there. The stock was pretty current and the prices the same as most scrapbook stores.

We also made a quick run into Pat Catan's while there where I ran across a few bargains on rubber stamps. I picked up 6 nice designs for $1 each; normally 6.99-$9.99 each. Gotta love that! I'm all for finding a bargain. I decided that I really need to get the studio organization going... I'm making progress yet it still isn't up to what I expect it to be so I'll be spending some more time out there this week.

I talked with Don over the weekend re: picking up yet another spinner rack from my friend, Jill and getting it filled with some handmade journals and sets of notecards handstamped by me. I'm planning on putting it in his store and seeing if I can pick up some extra $$$ there to assist with the website and some advertising for my studio.

Well, suppose I should get the boxes of new supplies taken out to the studio and put away. Heaven knows I don't need to put it off to do later.....

How could I resist this? I love the contrast of the soft and hard lines. 

After organizing a little more, I couldn't resist the urge to get out my Twinklin' H2O's and simply play! I believe I've figured out an item to share in the Journey Journals RR. Love these backgrounds.....