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Well wanted to keep my page fairly simple as to not to detract from questions.

Yes I’m searching for answers to lifes questions!

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Following the idea of my life as a game, I created a game board with numbers corsponding to dates in my life. Where two important people in my life passed away, I represented them with black spaces. This is still a work in progress—with room to designate more dates on the square. :)

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What a great prompt! So many things went through my head this past week. There are oodles of things I’m trying to find… everything from fame and success and acceptance to peace of mind and balance… I intended to do a layout focusing on the idea of “kwam” (not sure if I’m spelling that right)—the “whole package” that Cuba Gooding Jr’s character is looking for in the movie Jerry Maguire. But when I sat down to create, something different came out.

This was fun to do—a pastel pencil background washed over with water to blur things a bit, a stamped sun on torn paper highlighted with glitter and metallic rub-ons, and other stamps, cut-out and stamped letters, and more metallic rub-ons. Different for me—I really like how it turned out. It’s nice to do something and not feel like it has to represent EVERY feeling I have about the topic—it’s just one facet, and that’s okay.

Thanks for looking!
xoxo
LainE

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This entry started off as an experiment. I was playing with a product called “Transfer Goop” by Artisans Choice and the image of the Cardinal. I wanted to add more texture around the bird, like it was cacooned and safe. So, I began adding layers of torn tissue paper, then painted with Lumineres, chalked, stamped with a big stamp from Plaid and embossed with Gold embossing powder.

What kept coming to my mind this week when playing with this layout, was the Scripture from Matthew 6. And that was the direction I took in my journaling. Basically… Instead of worrying, stressing, and spending my energies pursuing the things of this earth… I need to trust and pursue The One who created me and loves me much more than a bird! :)

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Shimelle I hope you are doing better! Last we heard from you was Monday morning & now it’s Friday. Unless I missed an email that everyone else got? I’m starting to have a worry wart moment!

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The text reads: January 29th 2006 ushers in the Year of The Fire Dog. What Westerners hear as “Woof Woof” the Chinese hear as “Wang Wang,” and “Wang” is also a Chinese word for prosperity. So Wang Wang is a way of offering wishes for a prosperous year of the dog.

But I’m so confused! Some Chinese horoscopes say 2006 will be a great year for those born under the sign of the Dog, others predict a hell year. Some Chinese companies are rumored not to be hiring Dog people in an attempt to avoid the associated bad luck.

So I was all stoked up about the year of the dog, being it’s also a Jupiter in Scorpio year. Wow, this must mean double good luck, I thought. And some Chinese horoscopes do promise a groovy year. But then I started reading the more dismal prophecies about the challenges awaiting dogs this year and freaked out. I really can’t cope with another crap year, I feel like a stretched out rubber band already. This whole damned doomed dog deal is now bothering me far more than it should … then again we dogs do dwell on stuff and worry over problems like we’re drawing on bones.

Anyway, the Chinese believe you should have flowers, preferably blooming, in the house to welcome in the new year. I bought this potted tulip, which bloomed on Lunar New Year’s Day. Surely some lovely Wang Wang is coming my way? How can anything having to do with Dogs be bad?

Made this with photos, assorted odds and ends, Tombats dingbats and a selection of fortunes from fortune cookies. One fortune reads: “Alas! The onion you are eating is someone else’s water lily.”

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Another not so artsy journal entry. This is my page for the smile prompt. Apparently sometimes I have more to say than to art.

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Well, my first thought was a quote ((as usual)) – one should strive to wonder what we are running to, and from,and why- , but I decided to not use it this week. Instead I chose a haiku I wrote:

discovered my wings.
safety’s siren song beckons.
i fly anyway.

Obviously, throughout this process, I have discovered that i am searching for freedom. Freedom from a lot of things. It sums up the past and the future and leaves it pretty open.

I expected this AJ class to fun – toe enjoy the creative process. I didn’t expect it to teach me about myself. and I like that.

This was a fun entry to do. The bird cage, window and table are patterened paper I cut up. Gel image transfered images, stamps, lots of paint, my favorite water-soluable wax crayons, oil pastels and paint.

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hi Brenda,

Just wanted to let you know that since your entry didn’t have a title it won’t let us comment on it. Maybe you wanted that….but in case you were wondering about feedback I thought I’d let you know. I think you can amend by pulling up the “article” in the textpattern file….or ask Shimelle.

What a beautiful picture and I can see why it makes you smile!!

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Hello Everyone! Here is my response to last week’s prompt. I wrote some great journalling midway through the week after a day of flurried, somewhat random transactions throughout town. I’ve since lost that piece of paper (thus journaling on this is improvised!), but the sentiment remains the same. Here’s what drove this page…....

I’ve always been a happy, smiley person in just about every encounter I have. I believe kindness is the way and that people just want to be regarded and heard. I vehemently dislike “general rudeness” because I don’t see the point in expending that energy. I understand technology, overloaded schedules, crowding, etc. etc. have contributed to the terse society and I think it’s sad.

Life is hard, very hard and we’re all in it together. Why then wouldn’t we just try to make the daily struggle a little softer for humanity overall? No, we can’t all be Ghandi and we won’t save the world with a few extra pleases and thank yous. But, in the we can choose kindness over rudeness. We can take a moment to actually regard another human being we encounter—people do respond. (okay, end of soapbox….thanks for listening).

On the page itself I wanted bright, happy, tactile, and to try a beaded edge technique. Everything is fabric and enhanced with colored pencil, gel pens, and paint. Thanks for looking!

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