I am totally LOVING this idea from Lisa Sonora Beam. More & more I NEED something to keep me on track as I try to weigh out life challenges and my ART life. I have some decisions to make this week, so a sleepless night thinking of pros & cons of everything. (note to self: I so need her book! Moving it to the top of my want list…)
All I want to do is MAKE ART – why are all these decisions making me feel like I’m banging my head against the wall. So, at about 4 am this morning I decided that SIMPLIFY was going to be my INTENTION for this NEW MOON Intentions page. Living with INTENT can be different for everyone, here’s a good article by Christine Kane.
Tomorrow – March 15th is the NEW MOON for this month.
My word for 2010 is ACTION, so I am using that as part of my main intention to SIMPLIFY my life.
This journal page started with using a light coating of gesso, then pastel chalks, I used a wet brush to blend them. Had to do a light spray of matte finish to set the chalks. Then, I had to find a pen that would write on the page – a Pitt pen worked.
I didn’t intend to highlight the words by using white paper hand printed words, but I spelt Simplify and simplifying wrong….one too many “y”s so I re-wrote and glued down. Then, I thought ACTION needed to be highlighted also and I never like to have even amounts of anything….so for the 7th white paper, I highlighted “NO”.
The gold partial circle was in the bottom of the pizza box of scraps, and was calling to be used. I cut “A QUIET VOICE” out of an old book, and Imagine was printed many years ago when I used to have a scrabble font on the old PC…..should find it again for this Mac. Been wanting to use some buttons in my journal for awhile, so this side edge worked out perfect to add some (7).
I am typing these actions, printing them on a couple pages so I can have them glued to index cards for the computer area, to beside my sewing machine and on my cutting/craft table.
