The grey and rainy weather in the Netherlands is starting to get on my nerves. It is affecting my mood lately, heck, even Mr. Mojo seems to stay rather in bed than play at the studio table.
I’m sorry dear ones, I will not make this a wining post. I better show you pictures instead of complaining… Today, I bring you another book title haiku and some art journal pages.
Haiku My Heart Friday
| Het stenen bruidsbedDe belofte aan RachelGeheel de uwe | The stone bridal bedThe promise to RachelAll yours |
“Written” (‘found’) for Haiku my Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Promises to Keep
This is a spread from a few weeks before – just playing in my art journal on a rainy day…
Risk
Next art journal spread is made for a challenge at Scrapping From The Inside Out
Last Month’s kit had the theme ‘Risk’ and challenges were published on the forum.
I like that at SFTIO, the themes and challenges go further and deeper than the ‘average’ challenges you find on the Internet. (BTW, are there still challenge blogs around? Most that I know of retired…)
Anyway, this is what Rachel from SFTIO brought us to use as inspiration.
“Do you believe that in life, the risk you take is equal to the reward? Is there a mathematical relationship between what you invest and what you get in return? Have you put everything on the line for something you truly wanted and then didn’t have it turn out your way? How did you move though that life experience and move on, or if you haven’t, what’s stopping you?
For the design twist, please use lines – journaling lines, intersecting lines, line art, whatever speaks to you.”
Thunderstorm II
And here is my Chronicles spread for last week.
I’m not satisfied – the pages did not turn out the way I pictured it but ‘soit’, I blame it on February and move on.
The Chronicles of Marit – Week 8
I wish you all a nice, SUNNY weekend – see you on Monday for
the BIG Road Trip (New York City – part two)
Oh, speaking of the BIG Road Trip: I’m looking for artists from Delaware and Maryland to write a guest post and guide us through ‘their state’. Look HERE for all the info and if you’re interested, shoot me an email at bigroadtrip[at]maritspaperworld[dot]com
I’m reading out loud “De belofte aan Rachel” It’s fun 🙂 I enjoyed hearing my own voice speaking a foreign language.
Gorgeous pages! Loving your handwriting!!
When I started reading your blog today, the gray printing on the white pages looked like the fray and rainy weather of which you spoke. I saw the day here in this same black and white. I marveled at it. It is the coldest before the sunlight, the darkest before the dawn. Frantically awaiting Spring here as well. Love your colorful journal pages.
Peace
A stone bridal bed? Sounds chilling!
Old Willow Woman
How exciting would ‘lightening in a bottle’ be, especially on a grey day!x
Great post as always. you make the titles work well in haiku.
Looks like I need to do some reading!
LOVE the blue-green journal spread today…!
That’s so clever how you use the book titles for you haiku.
fantastic journal pages Marit… living is a risk, loving a HUGE risk… but so worth it, for what would be the point of living without the risk of love?
Oh wow!! you inspire me to pick up some color pencils and start doodling if only to see a blank sheet fill in my words !!
loved each one of these .
Another brilliant bookshelf find…
you can really make these haiku work.
And glorious journal pages…
beautiful script. ♥♥
So love the whimsical design and colours of your art! Refreshingly different! And a stone bridal bed suggests quite an intimidating journey ahead!
YES! YES!You rock my world. So inspirational!
Your art journal lifts my heart up and out of this gray day!
you have me leaving my seat and racing to the bookshelves! clever artful you!
stone bridal bed:
sarcophagus for an ancient pharaoh’s visit perhaps?
that’s my guess 🙂
Hoi Marit, wat een mooie pagina’s laat je hier weer zien. Zag net een mailtje dat let it loose weer begint. Ga eens kijken of ik daar een paar vriendinnetjes enthousiast voor kan maken. Zou bijna zelf voor de 2e keer mee doen, zo leuk die interacties en inspiraties met anderen. Maar nog aan de mixed emotions en vind de big road trip ook erg leuk, dus ga me daar maar eens op storten, fijn weekend, maar eens verder met mijn sadness. Groetjes Carla
Er is hoop, Marit! Vanaf dinsdag gaat het zonnetje schijnen!! Dus nog even volhouden hè! Wel lekker zeg, zo’n journal waar je heerlijk (al dan niet geblurd) kan mopperen over alles wat tegen zit 😉 (Trouwens, het is ‘stiekEm en niet stiekUm. Ja, ik zit nog steeds met m’n neus bovenop het scherm, hihihi….)
Geniet van je weekend!!
XXXJenneke
your exquisite pages leave me speechless!
All the pages are so wonderful and so you…but I particularly like Thunderstorm II
🙂
Inspiration…
Your Road Trip Project is amazing Marit…what an undertaking…I like the way you think and then act on it
Your beautiful blue ‘wind’ page really speaks to me
Happy March dear one…I am hoping we finally get our first snow here … so far we haven’t had enough to cover the ground this winter
oxo