Eyes (and my monthly calendar)

It's the first of the month and we have a new host at Art Journal Journey.  Please welcome Gill of Gibby Frogett Craftations.  Her theme this month is Anything With Eyes.  I thought I was so clever with my first entry until Gill also pointed out that potatoes have eyes!  Talk about feeling deflated!

I call this one Spud!

A bit of humor was in order.  In case you need a translation:

Dear Spud,

I have had my eye on you since you were
unearthed this summer. I want to be
your butterball and go for the gold. We
could do great things together.

Love,
Your little sweet potato

Some of the types of "spuds"

you can buy.

I believe these are Yukon Gold.  I love their nutty taste.  Did you know there were so many

different types of potatoes?

There are the common type, but there are also colorful ones I don't show here, like purple, blue, and red gold.  They sound like an artist's palette, don't they! 

I'm sure we've all seen red potatoes.

Russets are also very familiar to most of us.

In my opinion, they are the classic potato. They are ideal baking potatoes and are also good fried and mashed.  They are the ones I buy.

Many people like red potatoes for boiling and roasting.  Some people prefer them in potato salad, too.

And of course, there is the sweet potato. These are great baked or roasted.

Pick your favorite spud.  They are great in vegan and vegetarian diets.

For this page, I began by cutting out pictures of potatoes from a seed, plant, and gardening catalog.   If you've ever gotten one of these catalogs, you know how thin the paper is.  I decided the best way to adhere the various pictures was to sew them to the black construction paper substrate.  I created the letter to Spud because simply showing a bunch of potatoes on a page made no sense to me.  It also added the touch of whimsy I was going for.

Thanks beyond belief for joining Bleubeard and me today.  I hope you will join Gill, Susi, Bleubeard, and me this month at Art Journal Journey with your own art inspired by Anything With Eyes, too.  Please be aware, we want to see your altered book pages, journal pages, loose journal art, canvases, fabric pages, and digital art.  However, we cannot accept cards, ATCs, ATCoins, or tags, and will be forced to delete your entry.


I also have my monthly calendar filled in.  It's a rather boring calendar, but mostly, I didn't mention many of the things the children and I did while they were here.

To be honest, I have no idea why I decorated August with these flowers, other than the fact I found this stamp I had never used before.  One nice thing about this calendar is, I've had to learn to stamp.  I'm still not good at it, but, as they say, practice makes perfect (or in my case, a bit better)!

I'll thank you again for stopping by today and sharing part of your day with me.