Weird things happened this week. Strange vibes were in the air.
I didn’t really feel it, but when I visited a few blogs after finishing
some (art)work I tumbled from one surprise into another!

Nothing strange happened with this page (but you never know,
I became cautious!) I made this last weekend…

(21 x 29,7 cm - 8.3 x 11.7 inch)

‘Wees een onafhankelijke denker. Wees de schaker, niet het schaakstuk’
~ Ralph Charell ~

‘Be an independent thinker. Be the chess player, not the chess piece’
~ Ralph Charell ~

It has been ages since I used my embossing tools, but I did on this page.
I had fun with Tim Holtz distress embossing powder!
A close up:

The above page was made in my Miscellaneous art journal.
I had not worked in this journal for a while, and when I flipped through the
pages I came across this page I made a few Months earlier.

(21 x 29,7 cm - 8.3 x 11.7 inch)

I made this as an example for one of the prompts in Summercamp.
The booktitles form a poem…

‘My mother and I
Two women
thinking about love and power’

An idea was born: why not combine titles to form a haiku
for Haiku my Heart? Aaah, that was way too difficult!

I changed my self-imposed challenge into
‘form a haiku from words on a bookpage’…

… and I did manage to do that!

(13 x 21 cm - 5.1 x 8.3 inch)

..

(I couldn’t get the syllables right in the Dutch translation without loosing
the meaning, so the Dutch one is not a haiku.)

(*** This page is made on the wings of a ‘stange vibe’ … see later on)

I made this page at the beginning of the week.
After that, I started working on something I’d planned to do the minute
I bought carving tools: make my own alphabet stamps!

I drew the alphabet, copied it onto erasers and started curving.
It took me two evenings to complete the whole alphabet.
On the paper, you can see I drew the ‘holes’ in the letters (the O for example)
I ruined two pieces of eraser trying to get that little peace out, so I decided
to leave it alone. I kinda like the effect of the ‘closed alphabet’ though!

(*** Strange vibes were still hanging in the air)

*** Here’s what happened when I visited some blogs.

Rosie had been working on a page with a technique called ‘found poetry’…
She shows a lovely page with cut out words and sentences that form a poem.
I must have picked up her ‘vibes’.

Julie Fei-Fan showed her hand carved alphabet she cut out a long time ago.
She even left the ‘holes in the letters’ closed, she must have had the same
problem with that as I faced! Julie’s vibes were in the air too I guess…

Can you imagine I hardly dare to start a new page?!
Who’s vibes will accompany me this time?

There might even someone stand up right now and say:
‘Hey, I made a page about chess last week! You copy-cat!’

I better clean the house.
Do the laundry.
Work in the garden.

🙁

Any cleaning vibes in the air, maybe?

Hope to see you next week.