Three Weeks Just Flew By

I can't believe it is nearly three weeks since my last post - where did the time go? I haven't been anywhere or done anything much. With the onset of the cooler weather I tend to hunker down inside, only emerging to go to work or food shopping.

Although -- I did drive 40 minutes a couple of weeks ago, to visit my cousin. She is in her seventies, is partially blind and has difficulty walking. She is looked after by her daughters who share the care, so every few weeks Ruth moves from one daughter's house to the next. I visited at her younger daughter's home in the outer east of Melbourne, where we had a lovely afternoon catching up and talking family history.

Because I've got so much to catch up with, I won't comment much on each piece and hopefully this post won't be too long!

Colour Me Positive Week 17 - Friendship

I found the picture right after I'd done the week 9 challenge PLAYFUL, but it ended up working well for this challenge too. The quote was : "Find your tribe. Love them hard" - Danielle LaPorte.

CMP Week 18 - Healing

This week we were to use hearts on our page and the quote was : "Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing". I found the photo on-line and it dictated the colour scheme.

 CMP Week 19 - Balance

This challenge was about achieving balance in our lives and to use feather(s) on the page. I didn't use the supplied quote, but found a shorter one : "Life is a balancing act".

Journal 52 Week 8 - Hearts

This is a catch up for the challenges Hearts or Skulls. I chose hearts and interestingly finished this spread just a few days before the CMP Week 18 challenge of Healing & Hearts!!!

Journal 52 Week 17 - Rise / Fall

This feels more like a scrapbook page to me as I've used some of my photos from Alice Springs in 2006, but it just seemed like a no-brainer to use pictures of the hot air balloon trip.

Journal 52 Week 18 - Prince / Purple

The challenge FB group feed was awash with purple rain and crying doves, so I thought I would try for a different song by Prince. I looked up a song list, thought "7" was a cool title, then I looked at a YouTube video and the lyrics. The words of the chorus are written around the edge of the page and I wrote the numeral 7 in several other languages.

Collage - P

I used a torn paper technique inspired by one of the ladies in the CMP group - she does these amazing collages for each challenge. All of these came from the RACV magazine and hopefully give a "panoramic" view.

Collage - Q

Another torn paper collage, this time from the Daphne magazines. I always thought "quixotic" meant changeable/mercurial - but while looking up words for this challenge, I discovered that it actually means dreamy, romantic or impractical.

Wow, that was a lot to catch up on - hope you weren't bored. I am having an absolute ball doing these challenges, flexing long dormant brain cells to come up with ideas and slowly regaining technique not used in forty years or more. Bye for now.