Home Page: written down

Again, two pages, both will be posted on the home theme.

Both pages are simply painted with Black Gesso. Images glued on, stamps and rub-on letters along with my Zig Opaque writers. Boy do I need to try to get beyond the “glue” book type of posts or what… but that is about all you can do from the road.

Page one, I want to decorate my house, but I live in a rental and I have rented furnishings. Limits the imagination.

Page two, is my dream home when I can get there. Most of these posts are the very tangible superficial things, home is really something very different for me, but this is where I was at this last week.

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Two pages were created for this prompt. Both sort of revolve around the Ram Dass saying “Be Here Now”. As I grow and evolve as a person, I need to constantly remind myself to be present, to be in the now, to be a part of what is happening to me, not a bystander.

This page is rub-on letters on top of cut out images from a frequent flyer magazine nicked from Dragon Airlines on one of my many flights this week.

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I have been on the road traveling for work for the last 3 weeks and head out again tomorrow to Taiwan. I should have probably done my wheel post about travel, but I thought of the wheel of life instead!

The quote is from Anne Morrow Lindberg, A Gift From The Sea.

Modified to reload image. I hope this works

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This turned out terribly bad. It was good until I tried to glue down the vellum and it wrinkled. It went from bad to worse when I tried to glaze it some more to cover it up. But since I am taking this course to learn, I’m posting it.
I would appreciate any constructive criticism and any tips on gluing down vellum without the wrinkles.

I used the paint glaze technique again. Stamped circles with Fontwerks images, stamped “turn around” with alphabet from CTMH.

The idea was to journal about circles of life and turning around to find I had changed almost overnight.

Journaling reads:

Where are you going my little one, little one
Petals and petticoats, where did they go?
Turn around and you’re two
Turn around and you’re four
Turn around and you’re a young girl
Going out of the door.

Turn around, turn around
Turn around and you’re a young wife
With babes of your own

Where are you going my little one, little one
Blooms of red roses, where did they go
Turn around and you’re young
Turn around and you’re old
That’s a short way to travel
And so I had been told

Turn around, turn around
turn around.

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I’m way behind but this was fun to work on.

I did the glazing paint technique from The Collage Discovery Workshop book. And I tried Shimelle’s photo bleaching technique.
The stamp is MM with acrylic paint and I wrote with my new Sharpies.

If I had it to do over, I would probably use a green background. But I’ve vowed to just take my pages as they happen.

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joy madison’s collage sparked a stitching session for me this week…
I have stitched for years, and much of my home-making and beautifying includes stitches I’ve made, one way or another.
Reawakening a deep Love… rifling through my wonderful materials and threads stash….making choices, going where I am drawn… the trance of bringing a stitching into being… using a base painted ages ago: thinking and Dreaming while working rhythmically; about Home, and Being at Home, and Making Myself at Home, and experiencing how sometimes areas need intensive attention to bring them on through, and sometimes leaving it be is what’s required… ahhh, Thank you, Joy! xxx

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I stamped dark blue and purple paisley MM stamps on the background, and brushed over it with gel medium blended with red acrylic, the facing page was brushed with the same mixture, then stamped on with clean stamps to lift the paint. The little house is a collage of photos I had around, of my cat, my husband, my quilts, my shelves, laid face down on tissue prepared with gel medium. All the writing was done with a sharpie.

I grew up with embassy parents, so home is a complex subject for me.

Thanks for looking.

Kel x

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since Shimelle suggested we try something different for week three, I went digital. I like how it turned out. Simple, and to the point.

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Another page that took 3 tries to get right. The first page I am not going to show because I think it is so bad. That is one that ended up in the circular filing cabinet. It did serve a purpose because it got me going with color a little. I used chalk to make big color full letters and then just free wrote with markers.

Here is the second page. I got out some paints and just started painting meandering lines around the page. I went back and wrote BE in some of the closed in areas and then just journaled about where or how I can just be.

With the second page I didn’t feel really done so I made a third. I think I am seeing a theme for me. I have to have picture on my pages for them feel right. So I guess I will just know that now and not fight it. This page is about just being ME not about just being. I remember as a kid how easy it was to just be me and not put up a mask or pretend to be liked. This is about the early me that could just be.

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I went with the question: “is the risk worth the reward? I’m up for a promotion at work, and that is the big question hanging over my head. Is the risk of a new job worth the rewards it will bring.

I would be switching from days to nights, so I used blue paint on one side and yellow on the other. I also had three words stretching across both pages, since I consider them to fall into both categories, risks and rewards.

Those are pictures of me at work on the risk side, and pictures from home on the reward… kind of fitting.

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