Cool Down & Lots of Rain

 So thankful for the cool down-finally, and Lots and Lots of rain coming down since last night. My rain gauge showed 11 inches in a 24 hour period and it is still coming down around 5 pm now.

We really needed some rain, and I really needed the cool down too.  Of course my grass is so high already-oh well.  I am sure the Missouri rivers here will be flooded as some of the low spots and coves on Lake in the Ozarks. We are up high so we are safe from flooding. Although our basement will get some rain coming in when we get this much.

I found this photo online-looks like our lake right now-missing the lake houses.

        I wanted to do a re do of the Spring in Paris-into a Summer in Paris. I didn't get perfect stamping images and since this was the second try didn't want to use more watercolor paper on this.  I used my watercolor pencils instead of inks-which were fun to use too-and my dip pen and ink to make the cobbled street.  This was so so but I am working on doing something with paints every week-hopefully a couple days a week.. After I painted the big heart-not sure if I liked that or not-but the color does match with one of the flowers to the left so kinda brings it all together.

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   It has also been two years ago that I bought a few glass dip pens-I Love using them.  I had bought a hand blown glass pen first, however it is quite fragile looking so I mostly admire that one.  At the time I wanted to learn calligraphy but too  much has happened since then.

   The dip pen shown above was the second glass pen I bought, but it is a bit bulky for letter writing. I used it here for the cobblestones. I found it on Amazon and it came in a really nice wooden box, with a little glass piece to rest the pen on.  The crystal ink pot is vintage and Larry brought home two of these from a garage sale years ago. They came sitting on a little wooden piece that would sit on a desk. The top is silver-I love using these. I keep my own black walnut ink in one and the other black ink.

   I also found on Amazon back then, very nice glass dip pens that had a huge markdown-after I bought one to see what they were like-ended up being perfect for letter writing-so I bought a couple more. At the time I didn't know if these would break easy-so far none of them have..

   Another nice thing about this cool down-no super loud fan motor to listen to  since the a/c is not coming on. I need to call them Monday to find out if they got the new motor or not-I need to do some food shopping early this week too-am pretty much out of fresh veggies and fruits..

   Happy new week!!