Elixir of the Gods!

....or what we, in my household, otherwise call COFFEE :)
Who am I kidding?
I'm the only one who drinks the stuff....the one who panics when the cream gets low...the one who doesn't care how loud the whirring of the bean grinder is on the weekends.....the one who devotes an entire cabinet to the storage and display of coffee and tea, mugs, sugar, filters....everything I need in one spot perched above the coffeemaker....

I LOVE coffee!!!
It is the one ritual that defines my mornings...
....even when it's 100 degrees outside...
...even when camping (I make it in a French press)...
I have to, want to, look forward to having a cup...every morning!

So when my suggestion for a theme was chosen over at Butterfly Effect this week....
You guessed it!  Coffee or Tea.
I couldn't wait to create something...
Now, I've made art about my love of Joe before...

You can read that post here...

But that was before I learned all the nifty mixed media techniques I know now....so I wanted to make something specifically for it  ;0)

Betty over at Pinkglitterfae Art gave me the idea to alter a board book...

You see, Maggie's school has been saving their damaged books for me.  I witnessed them throwing them away once and just had to come to the rescue.

Humpty Dumpty, true to his story, couldn't be put back together again...

So I used his pages as my substrate....

First sanding....

Then gessoing....

Does anyone else uses this gesso?  It is a serious upper body workout trying to squeeze this stuff out, it's soooo thick!

After it dried, I thought the shape was perfect for this!

Does it make you want a cup?  Makes me wish I had an actual cup like that!

If you want this one, it's in the shop :)

While looking for something to write on this piece, I came across some great coffee related sayings.

I might need to make more just to use them...haha!

"Coffee: Creative Lighter Fluid"

"A morning without coffee is like sleep"

"Forever....the time it takes that first pot of coffee to brew in the morning"

"Coffee smells like freshly ground Heaven"

...and my favorite by Josephine Baker,

"He was my cream, and I was his coffee -and when you poured us together it was something"

Hopefully you'll be able to link up and play along, too!

Here's wishing all my Buddies in the States have a fantastic Thanksgiving...

Have lots of pie....

...and coffee to go with it!

Hugs to all my Bloggy Friends everywhere!

Cam