If wishes were fishes

Today I'm once again joining Eileen aka The Artful Crafter our host this month at Art Journal Journey.   Her theme is Dreams and/or Wishes.

Don't ask how this saying entered my mind.  Apparently, I didn't even get it right.

"If wishes were fishes" we'd all swim in riches.  However, the real saying

is actually a variant of a nursery rhyme from Scotland:

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride,
If turnips were swords I’d have one by my side.
If ‘ifs’ and ‘ands’ were pots and pans
There would be no need for tinker’s hands!

After doing a little digging on the internet, apparently the phrase "if wishes were fishes" is used to express the impossibility to make a wish come true.

My carp (top) and perch (below) don't seem to know that, though.

They swim mindlessly happy  

without a care in the world.

For this page, I started with 110 lb card stock to which I added titan green and teal fluid acrylic paints.  Once dry, I stamped the two fish, both from River City Rubber (now a defunct red rubber stamp company that originated in Wichita, KS) and leaves from a Dollar store flower (all stamps are red rubber and wood mounted) that I thought looked like ocean flora.  Finally, I sewed the computer generated words to the page using variegated thread.

Thanks so much for joining Bleubeard and me today.  I hope you will also join us at Art Journal Journey with your own take on dreams and/or wishes.