I love poetry.
I am especially fond of ‘found poetry’, and I mean found in all its forms… found in book titles, found in magazines, on book pages, cut out words and sentences – you name it. There is so much possible when it comes to ‘found poetry’… and this kind of poetry is also great to use on art journal pages also.

I therefore started FOUND POETRY FRIDAY – everyone is welcome to play along!

There is an “Inlinkz”-list at the end of this post. If you want to share your found poems, you are welcome to add your name to the list that will link us to your blogpost.

You can post your found poem on your own blog any time during the week, so you don’t have to make YOUR Fridays all about poetry – you just link us to the post that contains your poem. Please use the url that goes directly to you ‘found poetry post.’

Today’s poem came together pretty quick… I had that wonderful monotype laying on my desk that I wanted to use. I grabbed my folder with cut out sentences and without giving it much though, I selected sentences and words that spoke to me and that I thought would fit with the image.

Here’s the poem I found

The Future

Did you find a poem this week?
Then link us all up to your found poetry by using the InLinkz list below.

Enjoy the weekend!

[inlinkz id = 11]

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Wednesday… “Into the Studio” day… and since my energy still lingers – here we go!
(For all of you who wonder why I was offline for so long, read my Monday post here)

Here’s Wednesday’s golden oldie scrapbook layout – lifted from one of my old scrapbook albums.

(I don’t create ‘traditional scrapbook layouts’ anymore but every Wednesday I dive into my albums and lift a ‘golden oldie.’ The layouts I pick are random, YOU – blog readers – name the number of the album and layout to show. Let me know in a comment which album you want me to open next week – to avoid that you name layouts that have already been requested, you can find a list showing the ‘free’ numbers to choose from on this page.

The request came from Rasz from Rasz Art – who commented on June 28th post and asked me to open album 7 and show layout 45. This is what I found:

All the Lonely People [Eleanor Rigby]

I made this scrapbook layout in October 2009 (see the old post with detail photos HERE) and you can see that back then I started to experiment and create layouts in a different way, not following the traditional ‘scrapbook rules’. (This layout even looks a bit like an art journal page, which is what I mostly work with now…)

I am delighted that my desk does not look as empty as it did the past weeks… and I am happy to show it to you.

Here’s for WOYWW #224
(HI Julia, HI folks… glad to be back!)

I won’t play with the things on my desk today though….
’cause look what I found in the fridge this morning!

Yep… a homemade gelatine plate!

The big diner table down the stairs is absolutely the place to make monotypes, so I plan on bringing down the paint, templates and paint rollers from the studio and spend the afternoon at the diner table.

Hope your day is nice, colorful and creative too!

(Oh, and please leave your request for the next ‘golden oldie’ in a comment – the list to choose from can be found here)