My Last Post for at Least a Week, I Think

This is the other page I did that same weekend two weeks ago. It contains a little bit of everything.

Our friends will be arriving tomorrow for five days so I probably won't have too much free time to add to this blog.

Back to My Journal

We're in Florida at our retirement home. I decided to buy a week's worth of internet service for $15.

This is from two weekends ago when we were at camp just for two days.

The Rest

My husband and I will be on vacation for the next ten days. We're going to Florida to use the house we built a couple years ago for our retirement.

I'll be taking my laptop but don't know when I'll have internet.

Coincidentally, we ended up going to Florida to buy the house the year I was doing this Moon Journal. April vacation arrived before we had a chance to finish the month so we had to finish them during our break.







Looked and looked for the moon but couldn't find it at night even though the sky was clear.

















The only time I saw it the whole week we were there.


















Then I just kind of let it fizzle out and added these two pages to complete the journal. This is a poem by Shel Silverstein that I used to read to my kids when they were little.












These are poems I wrote about the moon so decided to include them. That glitter probably wasn't such a good idea because it makes it hard to read.

First Moon Journal--Almost Done

I had no idea that after the full moon, it wouldn't rise until after midnight. So I was out there every night looking for it but to no avail.

BTW, I never did get to see the full moon that month, darn it!













Still looking but no moon!

















Finally, there it was about 6 in the morning!

Full Moon?

I was so anxious to see the full moon but all I saw for the next week was clouds!

The kids and I were so disappointed and some of them kind of lost interest in the project. To tell the truth, I did, too, and had to force myself to continue.











You can tell how frustrated I was!











And more clouds!
















The sky was clear but there was no moon!









This is the above page flipped up.

First Moon Journal--Pages 15 & 16

I used felt to achieve the soft look to this.

It was exciting to watch the moon coming up to full.

When I was out for my walk, this Jewel song kept going through my mind.











The sky was amazing and I tried to imitate the colors. That bit of apricot was so pretty.

First Moon Journal--Pages 13 & 14

I remember driving from my mother-in-law's house checking out the sky where this moon was playing hide-and-seek with the clouds and wondering how I could ever duplicate it on paper.













I was doing the dishes looking out the window and saw the moon through a tree and couldn't believe how beautiful it looked.

Afer I finished the dishes, I went outside and picked some lilac branches to use as my "tree."