I realize I have to take better care of this couple.
I  nurse them lovingly now.
I water them, I caress them, I blow kisses to them from the place where I sit.
‘Sorry guys, I have to finish some work and then you can come out to play.’

On Sunday, I asked them politely to come out of their corner to play with me.
They did! We had fun!

Oohh, happy playful joyful Sunday!

My page ended up fun and colourful.

The Chronicles of Marit 2012 – Week 10

(Size: 24,5 x 49 cm – 9.65 x 14.86 inch)

Mr. Mojo and Mrs. Muse did tease me a bit by making me think it was week 8.
I noticed only later that I was two weeks wrong, so I had to remove
the number, put new paint on that spot and find me the matching number 10.
I do not begrudge the couple the pleasure of teasing me a bit though and they
helped me out, ’cause the mistake is hardly visible.

The days lengthen.
The temperature rises.
We experienced some nice Spring days
in the Netherlands.
Mr. & Mrs. Mojo-Muse are smiling and look
quite cosy and happy in their little corner.
The big work I faced is nearly done.
Life is beautiful.
Enjoy the week dear ones!

P.S. I just got an email from my mum.
She discovered this inspiring website and send me the link.
Just looking at those mandala’s makes me smile!
Smile with me! Go!

I used nice, heavy water colour paper for the inside pages, and a while ago,
I made a few drawings on the first pages. I’m not good at drawing, and I don’t
see myself drawing very often, so I decided to gesso the pages and make a
small ‘bonus journal’ out of it. (This journal measures 8.3 x 5.3″)

..

Being enthusiastic, I made a background on the first page immediately…
but then I got stuck.

I don’t know what it is with this journal – but I just didn’t know what to put
on this page. I flipped through magazines, looking for an image that would
catch my eye. Nothing happened. I thought about quotes, songlyrics, text…
nothing came to mind. No spark, no beginning of even the smallest fire…
I had better call this ‘my problematic journal’.

Anyway, I showed you the basic of the page.
Any ideas??

The ‘black-out’ worked on all levels.
Being over-active last week, I got stuck in all my journals last days.
I concluded I’d done a lot of ‘heavy’ pages and soul searching lately,
and that’s why I felt kinda ’empty’ starting a new page – not knowing
which topic or theme I should choose, while at the same time I longed
to create. I was saved from sinking into apathy by Michelle’s blog!
She found a site called 30 days of lists and that was just what I needed!

You get a prompt every day to make a list about something.
Nothing ‘heavy’ – just simple. You can jot it down on paper or make an
art journal page or whatever. Aaaaahhhh… hooray for ‘simplicity’!!!

Yep, my mojo started flowing, and I made this cute little journal
(5.1 x 8.3″) to begin with! In my favourite binding!!!

Why only 28 lists, you might think?
Well, this way of binding is done with signatures (double folded pages)
Each signature leaves you with 4 page-sides… so it was either 32 or 28
sides to work on. I rather skip two prompts then make up two extra lists,
so I made this journal with 28 page sides (which is 14 pages, which is 7
signatures – thought I’d say this for the extra curious ones – or lousy
mathematics 😉 )

And here’s the first page “A few things about myself”

• I’m a child of the sixties.
• I’m a true Libra – always in doubt over every decision.
• It is only recently that I dare to call myself an artist.
• I’m a writer.
• My dark brown hair is turning grey fast!
• I’m an art-teacher.
• I’m a mother, daughter & lover.

(And yes, the silhouette is me!)

I find this ‘list making’ very refreshing! It’s the opposite of the ‘Honest’
art journal, which takes energy to find the words to write, and make the
pages. I might take a break from it for a while and stick to the ‘list making’.

I started this a week later, but I’m not really planning on ‘catching up’.
It’s just relaxing and plain fun to play and make lists of all kinds of things.
So thank you Michelle, for the link that ‘saved my mojo’!!

Before I go (and make another list 😀 ) I want to thanks you for the nice
comments you left for my son about his drawings.
PennyLane posted two other drawings on songs in my heART yesterday
and he’s really proud! And-uhmmm… I am too!

I also want to thank the ladies that submitted their music-related work
to PennyLane. She is very happy with it! The music blog is getting more
and more versatile and fun to visit, so take a look at songs in my heART
(and/or submit your work)

I wish you all a great week (we’re halfway already!) and see you Friday!