Jun 1, 09:08 am
Catching Up
I have done three pages to catch up over the last 3 days – I was ill last week and the muse must have been off sick too! Anyway, these pages were done fairly quickly so I haven’t given them loads of thought really – it was quite good to do them this way instead of agonising over them – ended up to be quite fun really! Thanks for looking and reading all the blah blah blah!!
This is my page for the ‘place to be’ topic. It was on a page I had gessoed and stuck on part of a lovely card my friend had given me. I thought I’d try the wonky writing, which was fun and used MM stamps and the flower is there mainly to hide a big mistake!! Main journalling is I don’t think I’m all that good at just ‘being’. Maybe it’s a state of mind or perhaps it’s something you just lose the hang of doing once you ‘grow up’ and responsibility and children take over your life! Then there’s so little time to be anything apart from what you ‘have’ to be. A combination of all these things I think. There are a few places I like to be – alone in my bedroom, sitting on my bed, quilt over my knees, reading a book, the paper, watching tv. Anything as long as it’s just me on my own. I like to be on my back steps looking into my garden with the birds singing and the sounds of nature all around. Phew! There are other random bits of journally around the page.
This is the page about ‘home’. I had no inspiration at first for this so I gessoed a page black(!) then took random pics of ‘stuff’ around my house (strangely enough mainly collections of junk! – apart from my kids!!). I just started sticking pics down and didn’t like it much at first, but I tried not to ‘bother’ about the process and I quite like it now. I used red acrylic and stamps to write little titles around the page – HOME is where my stuff lives. Lucy. Adam. Dave. Garden. Textiles. Lotions & Potions. Where love is. Art. Books. Ducky.
Finally, the favourite day of the week spark. Another page I had prepared with a paper cutting and some more gesso. Used psx stamps for the title and journalling reads – My favourite day of the week would be any day where I can have some time for ME jsut to do whatever I want to – this journal, reading, sewing, creating or whatever – sitting in the garden doing nothing. Just having a little TIME to be able to think with an uncluttered mind…
I also like waking up on a Sunday and knowing that none of us ‘have’ to be anywhere, no classes, no school (apart from Dave who has to work some Sundays). It’s an ‘unscheduled’ day – a free day…
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