It was a colorful Tuesday

My friend Sally was unable to go to lunch on Monday due to a doctor appointment, the day we have designated to go out and about. So we decided to go on Tuesday this week. It's a good thing, because our weather turned unseasonably hot yesterday and the trend is supposed to continue through the weekend. It's back to air conditioning for sure.


After some computer time, I realized I still had an hour to kill, so I decided to put my excess Halloween backgrounds away.


While doing that, I also decided to get some paper out and make some backgrounds. I was so inspired by all the hand painted background papers I saw when I blog hopped last week, I wanted to make a few myself.


I decided that paint didn't work with my collographic plate, so I grabbed what I thought was a black crayon, only to learn


it was purple. I knew I could work with that color, but my collographic plate was not made for using heavy scrapbook paper.


You can see the heavy paper left something to be desired: like a good image.


I grabbed some green and lavender acrylic paint and went to town painting over the images of the keys.


Next I grabbed my gold fluid acrylic paint and spread it over punchinella (sequin waste) and a piece of netting.


I tried to get a close-up, but this camera simply doesn't take close-ups well.


Next I grabbed my black fluid acrylic lid and added five black circles. By now, an hour had passed and it was time to go to lunch. So I set this page aside to work on later


and headed for another Mexican restaurant, this one called Reyes. Once again, Sally chose the restaurant. Like Chinese, I never tire of Mexican food. We were surprised to see this one had a buffet, something that pleased both of us.


While Sally was getting her plate, I took a few photos of the very colorful surroundings.


We had this very lovely table by the window. I was seated with horses.


This was Sally's side, the beautiful calla lilies.


The next booth over had parrots.


Even the chairs matched.


I wasn't especially crazy about the salad bar,


but the eggs, zucchini casserole, and rice were awesome. Love those eggs and zucchini, even though my plate looked more mess than color at this point. How colorful was your day?