This is my response to Ali’s AEzine challenge 20 something in honor of her 20th newsletter.
I thought about this one for quite a bit and what seemed quite right to me at the moment were 20 rectangles elaboration on the 20 thoughts… here in my head. The thoughts ended up being quite random…… but I liked that a lot and enjoyed this very much…..
So I continue with my Everyday Matters Challenges. For one reasons or another I have decided to start from the top… they seem to fit me better at the moment and I can’t think of any reason not to go with it. So, this is challenge number 2- draw your lamp.
Drawing, painting and playing with paper… definitely a good cure for a day that was pretty difficult. Now I am feeling better… more together and once again calm and peaceful. Like a deep, calming breath- I feel all better now.
What do you do to calm when the day ties you up in knots?
This is how I feel at the moment. I am ready to stretch out my wings and fly, but the time is not right so I must wait. It will come soon- so I can’t get too comfortable… so I must be ready, but not impatient. I am learning.
Twisting and Turning
we dance, over and under
through between and up.
Thanks to Shimelle I completed the wonderful I Have Something to Confess project this weekend. I am so excited to have finished this project. I am about to have my celebratory cup of tea, but I thought that I would share my project first.
I decided to paint watercolor paper for my pages. I really like the way they all turned out. It let me be a bit more flexible with the colors I used. This is the cover of my book and my front page.
My first confession is that I love a good story. My only problem is that sometimes I like it so much that I rush to finish the story… so I know what happens… then I have to read it again to what what I missed.
My next confessions is that I adore Ms. Audrey Hepburn. My love affair began when I first saw Breakfast at Tiffany’ … ahh- the mean reds and darling fred
I read horoscopes… not only do I read them, but sometimes I even pay attention to their advice. It amuses me…
Another guilty pleasure is my addiction to looking at Vogue magazine. I say looking at because I really don’t read much … I don’t buy it for the articles… I buy it for the eye candy…
This confession makes me feel a bit silly… but I still harbour dreams of being a ballerina. I know it won’t happen, but when I see ballet I secretly dream of being up there on the stage. There is something magic about the ballet to me… it is so beautiful…
I confess- I do have an addiction to shoes. All shoes really… there is simply no such thing as enough. If I had unlimited funds I think that my shoe collection would be quite ridiculous… not that it isn’t now… but…
I save everything… even after clearing through massive amounts of stuff for our move I still have quite a lot. Postcards of all sorts, love letters from the 7th grade, doodles from friends… all sorts of things. The above postcard is one of those things. I think I have had that one for about… 15 years…
My final confession is that sometimes I dream of going to art school… I don’t know what for particularly, but I think it would be quite lovely. I took the above photos at the Savannah College of Art and Design… also many years ago in a workshop that I got to take at that school.
What fun- I really enjoyed making this book. When I first started I was not sure what I wanted to confess, but once I got started I just kept thinking of things… Thank you Shimelle for the gift class- So MUCH fun. Now for my celebratory cup of tea. Yeah 🙂
When I have started on my angry pages I began to see what was missing from my sad pages. I mentioned before that they did not feel quite done. I think I realize why- now… Some of these moods go together for me. Though, I am not finished with the pages yet (I may in fact be one of those people working on this for quite awhile) I can start to see how I want them to go together. Sadness slowly transforming into anger… then to fear….into stress and then I believe somewhere in there creativity, curiosity, and braininess will pull me out out of it… and then the cycle can begin again…. It isn’t a complete thought yet, but it is forming and putting itself together in my head.
I am horrible at taking pictures of myself and I have been using not easy way at my house to print pictures as an excuse… but I have been leaving spaces for me in there. It is truly coming along, but not in the almost done check that off my list kind of way… much more in the way of seeing it all come together kind of way.
This class has made me look closely at the moods in ways that I had not before. This is odd for me because since I tend to analyze things a lot… I would think that I had a fairly strong handle on what sadness, happiness, fear…. etc… mean and look like to me, but that is why I love these classes…. because just when you go and think something like that… you are pushed and stretched in a different direction and you realize, no… no you had not thought of it that way before. So thank you for that. Thank you Shimelle- for everything- and thank you everyone else for sharing their journey.
To be continued….
Jen
Sad was a hard mood for me to want to deal with in this class. I have put here some of my attempts to deal with it, but I don’t mind saying that I don’t think that I am finished with this prompt yet… there is more to say, but it is just not at the surface yet. I can feel it bubbling though… and I do believe that it will sure… in a good cathartic way though… nothing horrible. Well for now this is what I have done…..
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I had much fun putting together my happy response for the You Think You Know Me Class. It is amazing to me how powerful it can be to focus on the positive. I found myself happy- simply putting this together. Focusing and thinking about the things that make me happy. I must admit that feeling made me a little nervous for what the rest of the prompts might bring, but I suppose I can always go back to happy… Thanks for looking….
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So Shimelle’s class has been going on for a bit now… but I am just now getting to posting some of it online. This is my introduction picture and the cover of my journal. I had a lot of fun with the cover, but not so much with the picture … I tend not to like pictures of me. I didn’t quite realize how much until I tried to avoid putting my picture up. So here is the picture and cover. I am loving this class so far. It is stretching and pulling me in many directions and though it is not always comfy it generally feels good… much like exercise feels good after a long break away from it… not that I would know much about that… I tend to stick with the long breaks…. so anyway…. thanks for looking.
jen h mont 