As promised earlier, I am posting stuff I made, not just stuff I found or stuff I thought about! I mentioned in previous posts that I was joining in a year-long, weekly art journal challenge. Each week there is a new journaling prompt, and the participants make an art journal page following the prompt. I did the first challenge and made a cover for my journal, and never got around to making any of the pages from the other prompts for the other three weeks so far. I've had ideas running around in Odd Brain for all of them, though, so tonight I played "catch up" and made three pages:
The second prompt was "someday", and here's my page:
If you look very closely, you can read, "figure out what I want to be when I" in between the "someday, I'll" and the "grow up". I intentionally made it hard to read, because I'm saying two things here: There's a phrase that used to be popular that I love(d) that goes, "I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up". I think it's a good thing to keep some child-like (as opposed to childish) qualities, no matter how old we are. AND, as you already know, this whole dilemma about choosing a career path has thrown me for a very long time now...
The third week's prompt was "clearly", and here's the page for that one:
Try not to be offended here if profanity is verboten at your house - I'm going with another adage here... This pic was snapped (I'm ashamed to say) in my workroom/sewing room/craft room in our old apartment just over a year ago. Christmas and work and new purchases, etc., were all dumped unceremoniously in there as I went through an extremely busy, extremely fast-paced time. This pic - along with two others - were the impetus to do some serious organizing and purging. Alas - I'm nearing this jumble again as Greg and I refinish various rooms and move things around and I acquire new things and find old ones and such-like... He just finished putting shelves in one closet for a utility closet, and in another one to make it a pantry, so this weekend I hope to make things more organized and liveable!
The last prompt - for this week - is the project I mentioned in today's earlier post. I never did find the clipart I was looking for, so I just drew my own June Cleaver-ish lady for the "under control" prompt:
Between work and elderly in-laws and "life as I know it", I feel like this A LOT! Happily, there is humor in abundance at my house - after all, Greg lives here - and so even in the midst of chaos I'm not usually too stressed...
Two things I want to mention about these art journal pages: 1) I am trying new things. Not all of them will be successful, and I pretty much don't care. This journal is about the process, not the end result. 2) My old self would re-do things until they were perfect, or at least close. This year's "new and improved" Sue is enjoying walking away from the project when it's done, whether it's perfect or not.
You may also have noticed that there is extra space on the left-hand side of each page. This is because they are all going to be bound on that side, and so I'm leaving space there intentionally.
I really, really, really wanted to play along with the challenge on Splitcoast today, too, but that didn't happen. The challenge was to use fabric, and I had The Perfect Fabric and the whole project finished in my head, but - wouldn't you know it - Greg cleaned the basement yesterday and re-stacked the boxes and bins in a different order than how I had them, and now I don't know where anything is. I spent a little time looking, but I had too many other things to do today that were higher priority, so that'll have to be stories for another day, I guess...
So - there's the saga of my day, and the accomplishments on the creative front. Thanks for stopping by, and have a great night! Off to lay my weary head down now... G'night!
