Tough weekend

 A few days of more than decent weather but an emotional time as it's 3 years since mum slipped away in her sleep and a year since my dad joined her. On top of that it's been hard to sleep at night owing to the warmth and also Bill's groans...he went walking last Monday, slipped on a tree root on a steep slope and fell onto the handle of his walking pole! He assumed that he'd bruised his ribs but I'm starting to think that he may have cracked a few!

Enough of my woes.... I have managed to slip in a little art time this week and here are the results

Art Journal Journey 

Image: Classic movies. Word: history. Prompt: fill in the blanks: if i could meet any actress/ actor from classic movies I would meet.........because. Technique: include a pocketbook put your journaling or a picture in. Quote: cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world (jean Luc Goddard)

Art prompts galore 

Use Only Words.// SCAVENGER : pink, orange, circles, flowers, 3 things that start with the same letter as your name., 3 words of your choice, acrylic paint , doodles, black ink

Journal 52

Soar:To fly upward. To glide along at height. To rise, ascend, oraspire.Synonyms: Fly, ascend, rise, sail, arise, glide. Prompt: Create a spread explores what can be perceived from ‘above’ a situation. Play with bird or flight imagery in your journal. Oracle: What can be seen from ‘on high’ about the situation you are presenting in? What do you need to rise above? What do you aspire to?

I don't do deep introspective pieces so these little birds just called out to me after an afternoon of watching 3 buzzards flying around riding on the thermals above our garden.

I am linking with try it on Tuesday for this one. Check out everybody's entries at http://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.co.uk/

Life documented 

Monthly Theme - Bold & Bright. Quote - "Boldly be a Pop of Color in a Black & White World" Prompt - Layer stencils and use baby wipes to erase and soften. Technique - Make a shaped flap/page in your journal

I've used the last little bird in the set from the previous spread ....and a load of scraps off my desk!

Ive got a pop of yellow using a shaped flap + some b&w doodles & my little bird, 2 more flaps on the rhs that are wax crayon stencil rubbings.

Under the yellow flap is more yellow in the way of packaging from a bottle of Eau de Toilette that I've just finished.

And under that shaped flap is the quote that also includes some yellow....

Colour me positive 

Interrupt anxiety with gratitude, empathy & mindfulness 

Another non introspective....

I had saved a quote I'd seen a few days ago that seemed to fit so I typed it out....complete with typo that I only noticed once I'd glued it down on a readymade background!

Every inchie Monday 

And we have a cute little marsupial leaping into our inchie collection....kangaroo!

Hoping everyone is having a great bank holiday weekend doing the things that they love to do most.....