October 09, 2006
As you know,
I love to be creative publicly. I bead in public, paint, sew bindings, read and even play publicly. This journal page started its existence in Flagstaff Arizona, where I'd fallen head over heels for a certain 5 year old boy. He wouldn't stay still long enough to actually draw him, so this is a fib-and-a-fudge type drawing.
Today, in an effort to release all things 'house sale oriented', I treated myself to coffee and painting at StarChucks (you know what I mean). And this is what came about.
Journaling is something I feel I should focus on right now. Small tid bits of time away from the crazy feelings that I call my life right now. This isn't a "should" sort of should, it is a comfort sort of should.
Am I making any sense?
Enjoy your should, until it becomes a drag not an anchor...and for whatever it's worth, I am just loving your sketches/colors.
I envy your bird-hand.
:-)
Yes, you do make sense. Having just moved myself, I find that my journal helps me assess my priorities. Which seems odd - why does drawing a picture remind me that it is important to keep my house tidy?
Love your painted page. I love praying mantises also. I had one for a pet one summer, till my mother found it under my bed and made me put it in the hedge outside. It died of frostbite. I was so mad at her!
Posted by: sherrie at October 10, 2006 10:53 PMOh, I'm liking this piece.
And, Yeah, I get you completely.
When we sold our last house and moved across the country, I found myself compulsively sewing a bed quilt. All my hand-dyes were cut in strips so I could grab and sew, then throw them in a drawer for a showing. I finished a king sized quilt in the 6 weeks between spouse moving west and the rest of us moving here.
Posted by: Debra at October 10, 2006 10:54 AMYeah, I get what you mean about the kind of should that brings comfort...
It's a beautiful piece - reminds me of your last quilt with regard to the layers of beauty overlapping and complementing each other.