It’s been seventeen (17!) months since I joined What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday… I used to share my workdesk every week but since I have a job, free time to spend in my atelier is limited. Sharing a photo of my workdesk would still be possible but it would only be fair to do so if I have the time to visit the blogs of my ‘fellow deskers’ and there usually is not enough time for that… (the ones among you who receive my monthly newsletter are aware of all the rest that I do and will agree my time is limited) and so you don’t see me very often at woyww.
So, it’s been a long time, but Sarah is still hosting the ‘deskers’ and I have a little vacation (this week and the next) to fill with whatever I want – a lot of creating going on – and I thought it would be fun to join in this wednesday to see if all my former desk-collaborators are still there. HI THERE, MY FELLOW ARTISTS & DESKERS, I plan on visiting you this week and am curious to see what you’re all up to.
For now, here’s how my workdesk looks today
It’s a rather big project I’m working on: making 80 “prompt/inspiration cards”. I got a list of “prompts” from a woman in an art journal group on Facebook. I printed those prompts and selected eighty of them. Next, I spend an afternoon making gelliplate-prints and glued those on old playing cards.
Next, I dived into my stash of scrapbook papers to glue on the back.
I’m still cutting out and gluing the prompt-sentences, and it will cost me another afternoon or so to finish the task. I might decorate the cards even more, depending on the time I have left ’cause there are more things I want to work on this week as there is: my CHRONICLES!
For all the ones who knew me from former years: yes, I am still journaling and keeping my ‘Chronicles’ going.
For the ones who don’t know me yet… I am an art journaler, I bind my own journals to fill them with all kinds of things (‘mixed media’)
I work in different journals but there’s one ‘theme journal’, The Chronicles, that I keep going since 2010 and that can be seen as a red thread… These are handmade visual year-journals in which I create a weekly spread. It’s sort of a visual diary and on its pages I comment and reflect on my days or just try to capture the week in words and pictures,
My friend Lena took photo’s of me with all my Chronicles journals the other day, ain’t this a fun picture?
Here’s the latest week spreads.
Chronicles Week 13
Gelli print background, collage (the three little pictures = details of my art, older work) and yes, I’m a bicycle race fan…
Chronicles Week 14
Painted background, washi tape, gelliprint cut out ‘eggs’ (it was the week of Easter) and I painted the heads of me and my friend on cut-out figures.
Chronicles Week 15
The big portrait is cut out of a magazine: famous bicycle racer Wout van Aert
And that’s it for me this week. Hope you enjoyed seeing me and my art again… enjoy your week!
Ah how I have missed the Chronicles!Fabulous! Love the prompt deck idea too and your gel print backgrounds are lush. The cards remind be of the card-balls I used to make with playing cards. One made from these pretty pretty colours would be stunning. Hubby and I always watched the Tour de France but haven’t found time for years now.
Lovely to see you and your art again after such. long time!
Happy a-bit-better WOYWW!
Mary Anne (2)
how wonderful to see you again, especially in the photo with your chronicles! its a shame that work gets in our creative way !! happy woyww Helen #1
Good to see you Marit – I love the photo and all those wonderful journals. You have been very busy with your gelli plates. it looks such a brilliant creative method but I’m sure it’s beyond my limited paper craft talents – give me fabric any say! And yes, I did make all the cards – I love a bit of fabric collage and free machining. x x Jo 🌈
Oh I love love love your Chronicles they are amazing, and the photo of you with all your journals it super cool. I guess I do likewise with scrapbooking although I did do a page a day for 2024 when I turned 60yrs and I do daily scripture writing as well. Hugs Bj#5
Hey there Marit, how are you doing?! I was so happy to see your name on the list this morning, lovely to see you again, we may be fewer in number but the deskers are still going strong. Great to see your chronicle pages and other artwork and that photo of you is wonderful!!
Hugs LLJ 4 xx
I’m so glad to see you’ve back Marit, and don’t mind if you lack time to visit back. I adore the backgrounds on your cards and the photo of you is great. That’s a lot of journals!
Enjoy your time off,
Happy WOYWW
Hugs
Lynnecrafts 10 xx
Hi lovely lady, great photo. It’s good to see you and we miss you obviously but we just have to fit everything in as best we can and sometimes things we enjoy have to be put on the shelf for a while. I can’t complain really but I’ve got so tied up working on cards for the club and now the baby journal that I’m not really not doing the things that I love best. Take care my friend and happy woyww, Angela x9x
It’s so lovely to see you joining in the fun this week. Sometimes work gets in the way of fun but just pop in when you can.
Hugs,
Annie x #6
Hi Marit, sorry to let you know that we heard from Chas (Neet’s husband) that she passed away on Wednesday evening. Next week’s WOYWW will be a celebration of Neet (RIP) so if you wanted to put any pictures you have of her on your blog too that would be lovely. Stay safe and Happy WOYWW. Sarah
How absolute lovely to see you Marit. So happy to know you are still Arting in your limited free time. Glad to read that you are happily busy too, my word that job at the Archive was such a perfect thing for you to find! That photo of you with your Chronicles is just perfect, I hope you’re proud of them as r look through them all regularly! The prompt cards are gorgeous, worth the work without a doubt.
Sorry I am SO late this week – the week ran off without me! I have always loved your Chronicles Journals, and your smiling face behind all of your lovely work is wonderful! I have made a lot of cards similar to what you are making. I call them “Kindness Cards” and I keep them in a box in my purse. I give them out to friends and family, letting them choose the card that is right for them (without looking of course!). Making them is a lot of fun! Lindart #13