Might & Drill & Bank & Stick & Angle & Wound & Entrance

A whole weeks worth of Autumn Journal word prompts … here we go …

Might …. word full of power …

Little mite facing mighty might…

More power from Drill ….

The noise of the drill cancels out all other sounds … so it is with drill : it cancels out (temporarily) all other thoughts …

Bank … not money again! but something altogether more important and interesting …

very much with Wind of the Willows in mind 🙂

Stick… sunday morning walks …

Never grow tired or too old for a game of pooh-sticks

Angle = Angels X Engels, taken from a  language angle

I like this one … the thought made me smile 🙂

And a blast from the past with Wound

winding yarn with my mother … I do remember how heavy my arms were and the smell of wool

Last but not least this week …. Entrance provoking interesting thoughts from Cinderella to a beautiful collection of old doors … went for this one … a well known secret …

One of my favourite English children’s classic books

This proves to be an interesting and enjoyable exercise so far … how one word can evoke a whole host of memories 🙂 plus it makes me do a drawing a day!

This rainy windy monday we start the week with Hail … now there’s a thought …. from Caesar to storms …

Shed & Flake & Interest

Love these words with multiple meanings although there always seems to be a relationship between the different uses of the word.
Like shed: you shed tears, a tree sheds its leaves, shed a heavy load or the garden shed where you shed your unwanted belongings as well as store the garden tools and furniture…

For shed I used the tears as leaves falling from the tree, the shed in Russian doll form shedding itself and me trying to shed a heavy load …

Shed

 

Flake …  I like Myfanwy’s idea of one thought coming into your head and then others following thick and fast …. didn’t go for the snowflake although it has so many fantastic patterns you could probably fill a whole sketchbook with it …

I love the images of flaking paint … the line studies you can do with these are as endless as the snowflake patterns. It also visualizes the flaking out that I do when immensely tired … definitely feel like my layer of civilizing paint is flaking off me then!

By the way, I seem to be using inkpen fineliners for this little journal and will stick with it I think.

The image I used for my drawing

Such an interesting line and texture … there will be follow ups I think

 

Next was Interest. I am afraid that money came up first. The non-existing interest on my non-existing money pile … hehehe … the situation there could be rosier than it is at the moment.

Of course you can’t just leave it at that … so:  there are interests as in hobbies, and curiosity, and learning how to do things,  as well as investing attention as it were,  in people for instance … it means that I look deeper and invest time and effort in finding out what is behind what I see on the surface …

So here goes Interest …

Interest

 

The one for today is Might. I have an idea already but that will need time to execute. Tonight I hope 🙂

 

My first book ;)

How to present the Autumn Journal prompts ….. urm ….

Opportunities present themselves so neatly sometimes.

Found pile of discarded paper at college that was spoiled by a faulty cutter and folded and cut it (with scissors that worked) and there you go: a book in the making.

Rescued paper

Title Page

First prompt : Dates : Date Line

Prompt 2 : Air : Coming up for Air

Autumn Journal launched

So we carry blithely on …. wonder what this month will bring.

First prompt : “Date”

First reactions: today’s date: 01-10-2014 … can play with those numbers … lot of circly O-s in there … and upright One-s … could play with them in some software program…..

… or date the fruit … I found lots of beautiful inspiring images on google …

Gorgeous looking fruit … the colours! the textures … the strong yellow stem pattern 🙂

… or date as going out for a date, having a date … most unlikely in my case but still worth considering …

Lovely image … better than all the schmalzy images of candlelight dinners with people who are too smooth looking to be true 😉

 

Lot of food for thought. I think I may stick with the fruit as it is autumn and season of harvests to be celebrated.

One more image then … or two …

This one is great for stitching I think ….

and this one is just such gorgeous colours!

 

Summer into Autumn

And then it was september already and I haven’t been anywhere near the blog. I will not abandon it but be more selective about times I spend on here. It is a good thing to log all the creative activity of the last half a year or so and keep it going like a journal proper.

Now I have a choice … I can frantically try and catch up with all the SJ prompts I have not blogged or leave them where they are and carry on blithely into Autumn.

There is no choice really 😀 so I will carry blithely on.

September is being celebrated with journalling too so I will select a few of the ones I really enjoyed.

September : another of prompts to Be Creative

Fabric book I was making for my grandson which got in the way of doing more of the prompts 😉

Haiku for september

From the first prompt on prints with liquids …

… to several manipulations later and appreciating the exercise that may lead to a design

… and some more …

an excellent process to learn and use for generating design ideas

Playing with bits of fabric and following colour theory : analogous & complimentary arranged in a pleasing composition, embellished with some buttons and made beads

Putting one particular colour in the spotlight

and play with it 😀

There will be more to come … being creative is for life 😀  and will go on and on and on …

Summer Journal Day Fortyseven

Time to delve into your memory again.

Prompt 47

Remember your best friend at school? You may or may not know where she/he is now, but write her a postcard

 

I had a ‘boy’ best friend when I first went to school at the age of 5 to about 7. We got on very well and played at each other’s houses with Lego as far as I remember…

There came a time though when the other children decided it was odd for a girl to be friends with a boy, they started chanting that we were ‘in love’ and more of that sort of nonsense. Well, it was all over then of course. Shame. Now I couldn’t care less if I am ‘normal’ or not. Then it must have bothered me.

These are the pages from the Journal…

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Prompt 48

Ironing : like or loathe …

 

I am totally indifferent on Ironing now. Mine mostly stands on my worktable in the corner gathering dust. My son and I wear clothes that do not need ironing. And we only grab it when we are going to a wedding or some such grand occasion. And then it is for shirts, the inevitable shirts.

I may iron patchworks sometimes but mostly make do with finger-pressing.

I used to hate having to do my dad’s shirts because he made such a fuss about how the sleeves needed to be done. I never got them as perfect as he wanted them so I HATE ironing shirts because it reminds me of that time.

 

My mum used to iron the sheets and I love the smell of fresh off the washing line sheets being ironed. I always helped fold them up and she only did the tops, never the whole sheet.

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Prompt 49

Write about 5 meals you would love to enjoy again

 

French toast made on the fire at Nana & Grandad’s, after taking dog & children for a last evening walk  … with all of us having dribbly buttery chins and crumbs all over 😀

 

Sunday Roast lunch after a long walk on a winter’s day …

or …

Chip butties in the middle of the night after an evening out

 

Family meals at my brother’s in Holland … laughing till my jaws ached …

 

One of our foody/drink sessions with best friends Mandy & Adrian

 

Music may be the food of love but food & family & friends is love putting one of its best feet forward 😀

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Summer Journal Day Fortysix

Start of the next batch of three …. I will catch up … I will catch up … I will …

 

Prompt 46

Earlier in this series we remembered making a camp. Now design a new one. This is just for you – it’s a secret place, and there you can be the person you want to be. However, the entrance is a door in a tree trunk and from there an elevator whisks you up into the branches of a tree! Write about your tree house.

This is a terrible prompt … I adore tree-houses and love to have one to live in. It is a total nightmare when you put it into google images :  there are too many absolutely fantastic ones to choose from.

I selected a few …

from the totally over the top luxury pad to …

Unless you  house a community in here of course.

… most boring lookslikeanormalhouse one …

Why bother a tree with a structure like this ?

to the ultra spaced-out Swedish mirror design

I am afraid this will confuse the hell out of the resident bird population!

and then there is the ugliest one ever

Like a lost space ship out of a fifties fillum ….

and the most fantastically integrated one … 

Love the way you can see all the branches.

 

and so to the one I have chosen … when I win the lottery I’ll have this one made …

May have to install a little pully-system lift … although all those steps up keep one fit of course.

However, since I don’t play the lottery there is little chance of me winning it and having a tree house like it. So it will stay in my dreams and look like this …