I hope you all had a great weekend! I was able to take some naps, finish some books (even though I didn’t participate in the Read-A-Thon!) and just enjoy some down time. Of course the weekend is never long enough right?

Anyway, I’ll tell you more about my books finished in another post, oh and I also have to tell you about some ARCs, but aside from buying a lot of books I also like to shop for craft supplies. So I thought I’d share with you some of my latest purchases.

These are supplies I use for my art journaling. I love to use stencils and these I use to build backgrounds and also to create designs when I use my gelli plate.

I also like to use rub-ons and pretty papers. If I’m bookbinding I will use large sheets of paper that I buy at places like Paper Source or I will use the 12 x 12 scrapbook papers you can find at local craft stores. But if I’m working in my art journal or some other mixed media project then I like to use these little 6 x 6 paper pads because they have so much variety and the smaller pages fit my projects just fine.

Some other items I like to use are Ranger Ink Pads, Faber Castell brush pens and a new favorite are these Stabilo graphite pencils.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed this. Oh I didn’t say where we were going on vacation in my last post did I? We are going to Vancouver! I’m so excited as I’ve never been to Canada. Still months away but given that the temperature reached 94 degrees this weekend, I’ll be ready for cooler weather. If you’ve been to Vancouver and surrounding areas and have some recommendations of not to be missed things please let me know.

So tell me how your weekend was and if you got a lot of reading done.

Hey Friends, I didn’t mean to be away from the blog for a week but it’s been busy around here. It all started off with us going to a concert last week – we got to see The Waterboys. That was so much fun. I didn’t really know their music so the whole experience was new to me but I really enjoyed it.

The weekend flew by as my husband and I finally did our vacation planning. I’m so excited about our trip later this year. Believe it or not, it’s not to Germany! I will miss going to Germany this summer but who knows, maybe we can squeeze in another trip later. Or we win the lottery and we go off traveling for good. I like that idea. Ha.

I also worked on some art journaling and caught up on my latest issue of Art Journaling magazine. I’m hoping to get inspired to finish a two page spread. I feel like it is missing something.

In other reading news I finished The Gone Dead Train by Lisa Turner. I met with my mystery book group last night and we discussed this read. It’s a 2015 Edgar nominee for Best Paperback Original. I liked some aspects of this but it didn’t wow me. I’ll try to write up more on this one soon.

What about you? What have you been up to?