I’m actually only two weeks behind, I’m just working out of order a bit! Sewing always reminds me of my wee Granny and when I saw this Jolee’s sicker (about 2 years ago) it SO spoke to me. I had no use for it and just filed it away…..and then I got this prompt!!!
The usual bits & pieces of card and stuff, the fabric I bought in a quilting shop coz I loved it (thought it looked like walnut ink!).
As always, TFL!!
Lynz. xox
Sadly, in the paper this week, there was a story about a child who was abducted off a suburban street. It made me think how much life changes over the years and how lucky I was growing up in a St Louis suburb in the 1970’s – we didn’t worry about those things – we spent summers riding bikes with the neighborhood kids, swimming on the swim team, playing games like ghost in the graveyard – how much fun we had. But we adapt and change – our children find fun in other ways.
I cut out the newspaper article – cut it into squares and used walnut ink to darken the paper – used water colour pencils and oil pastels in the other squares – and a photo from the swim club!
Says: I had to leave home to find myself and in the process I found my soul mate. He was a country mouse and I am a city mouse. First we moved to the country and made a home for ourselves. Then I brought him back to the city and he loves it. We make our home wherever we are with our kids and cats. I now live just miles from the home in which i grew up but it’s like being in a different world. I am a much different person than i was as a child. I am happy now and allowed to be myself. A home is not four walls, it’s a place where you can feel safe being yourself. I like seeing the familiar plants and trees and smells. I see it so differently now. It used to be a place I wanted to escape from. I never imagined I would ever com eback here, but here I am. I only appreciate it now that I left it. I don’t know if we’ll stay here forever, but for right now in this moment, we are happy”
TFL! have an awesome art filled weekend everyone!
I used the background because I thought it looked like quaint and cozy wallpaper. I tried not to overthink this because I’m too tired to use my brain right now:) I just tried to make it look like a warm cozy house should feel.
This week’s topic was so difficult for me to create; I lost count of how many layers of paint and gesso are on this page. Because I don’t have a childhood home to return to I got caught up in the literal translation of the topic instead of my own definition of “returning to central”. Once I realized that “home” for me is turning into myself, turning to the core of me, one of my favorite quotes came to mind. It was only then that I was able to make something from the chaos on my page. Whereas I realized I could have started over on a new page (and I wanted to!), I chose to work with the layers I had already created and go through the process of discovery in one place.
So I am still here!! Still loving this.
And yes I really grew up in a peach house then a blue house.
I guess it helps those who get lost trying to find me!!
My art journal that got pushed to the side when life got busy but I finally did an entry today a really old one the wings entry and talk about recycling the girls head was in an ad I received from Willowbead and I loved it and said I must use.
just painted the background and used some stamps, paint and stickers otherwise.
Home is Where You Plant Your Heart.
I am a transplant. There are little pieces of my heart all over the world…
Been a while since I have been able to do the journal, in part because I have been traveling back to my “home” in Oregon, from my current place of living in Singapore.
This prompt caused me to do two projects, in one day. First a layout for my about me scrapbook with a picture of my home when it was being built in 1978. Later I journaled on the back about my feelings of that house. I scanned the layout and added it to my art journal page.
Basically, this project was moving and I am not sure I am done working on this issue.
Thanks for looking
Here is my entry for the week on alliances. I can’t remember the week #. Thanks for looking!
