Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Art Journal Book Club (prompt 3) - Making New Friendships
The journaling pretty much tells what there is to say about this prompt.
Art Journal Book Club - Cover
Finally! I've finished my art work for my art journal cover. My album is an 8x8 scrapbook album (easier for me to work with). I have based my album on the Chinese quote "An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break."
If there was ever a ‘red thread’, it was my meeting Himself. Me… a small town Missouri girl just graduated from high school. Himself… a North Dakota farm boy now a Special Forces sergeant stationed in North Carolina.
Yet God brought us together.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Art Journal Book Club (prompt 2) - Self Friendship
Our second prompt is to read the section in Chapter 1 on “self friendship” and journal it.
I cruised thru this chapter pretty fast because so much of it was about learning to like yourself and making time for yourself. That’s never been an issue for me. Guess you could say I have a very healthy self esteem!
As I thought about it, I realized there has never been a time that I wasn’t ‘friends with myself’.
As a child, even tho our homes were in nice neighborhoods…we lived around some strange neighbors. At one home, my friend’s mother would not let him leave the yard… period. Not to come into our yard to play (yard…not house), not to ride his bike, not to play in the field behind our houses. (We lived in a very small town with no real crime in the mid 60s – almost ‘Norman Rockwell’). Anyway, I would get tired of only playing in his yard and would head out into the fields and woods to play and explore. We moved from there when I was about nine into a nice neighborhood with worse neighbor kids. To our north was a family of nut cases (the kid my age ended up going to prison for grand theft auto where he was killed) and to our south, that kid ended up being an arsonist who went to prison also.
Needless to say… I played alone.
Now that I’m ‘all grown up’, I still find myself enjoying solitary pursuits. When I married Himself, he was a Special Forces soldier and was deployed a lot. When he retired… he went to work seasonally on a ship in the Bering Sea.
Good thing I learned to be my own friend!
Art Journal Book Club - Title page
The one main project I have been working on is another book club… this one with a different twist. All the members are reading the same book and creating art based on prompts given by the group’s leader.
The book we’re all reading is “Fabulous Friendship Festival” by SARK. It’s a journal style book about the different types of friendship. I’m one chapter into it and I’m enjoying it so far.
We’ve had two ‘assignments’ so far. The first was to make a cover and title page for our art journal we’re doing.
The cover is taking me a bit of work... I'll have it up soon!
The title page is much more relaxed and fun, heading in the direction of the art journaling style I want to use for these projects.
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