Gooooooooddddd moooooornniiiiiinnnnnnnnngggg!
(Ha! Just wanted to do that once!)
Friday… weekend’s just around the corner and the holiday season’s begun.
Well, here in my street it is. Our neighbours across the street sprayed
(fake) snow on their windows – all kinds of Christmas bells and stars.
They draped little lights all around the window, and outside in their small
garden they put lights in the even smaller bushes.
Compared to you, Americans, this is nothing but for Dutch standards,
it’s quite exuberant.
As you maybe know, I don’t decorate much with Christmas.
Maybe a few extra candles (I happen to have them in the house all year!
I love candles!) So hooray for the neighbours!
If I start to long for Christmas lights, I just look out my windows.
And if I’m sick of it, I close the shutters. Easy peasy!
Where was I going by telling you this… ? Oh, yes, the holidays.
I started talking about it ’cause the challenge at “These Are A Few
Of My Favorite Things” was to scrap about your favourite holiday.
I (DON’T) have one…
There are a few
days in the year,
related to holidays,
on which I feel
like the girl
in this image.
(uuhm, yes, it’s
MY face in there –
sort of anyway)
and those days
are about to start!
(read further, ’cause there’s an announcement at the end of this post!)
Before I show you the layout, I will publish the journaling.
It will be more clear what this layout is all about…
Journaling:
I don’t care much for holidays. Easter, my birthday, Sinterklaas…
I don’t pay much attention to it and I don’t “celebrate”.
Even Christmas goes by like any other day – but I always look forward
to the moment right after Christmas: the Top 2000 on the radio!
Our radio stays tuned to “radio 2” and plays from (early) in the morning
’till (late) at night! We always take the (long) list out of the paper.
Every song title and time of broadcasting is on it, and that list lays
on the dining table all week. We play our own games with it.
“Don’t look – what is the next song and who’s playing it…”
I win most of the times. It’s crazy, the amount of songs I have lingering
in my mind. Not just the title… no, I can sing them all! But that’s because
most songs on the list are from my youth – music of the sixties and
seventies. One week a year it’s all about sentiment, ending with the
apotheosis: top 2000 music clips on television on New Years eve…
…and a glass of bubbles at midnight!
Used materials: Background: the "top 2000 list" from the paper of a few years back (yes, I saved it!) Acrylic paint, oil crayons, white gel pen, sheet music (thank you Ronda!)and black gel pen (handwritten journaling) The image is a collage: body from a model (cut out of a fashion magazine) photo of my own face, headphones from another magazine and I draw the eyes and painted the hair with acrylic paint and puffy paint.
So here’s my favourite “holiday-week” and this year Christmas Day will be
added too! Because of the amount of long songs in the list (and they want
to play them all!) the broadcast station decided to start on Christmas Day
(12 pm) instead of the day after…
Yeaaaahhhh, finally Christmas is gonna be a celebration for me too!!!
Detail
Detail
ANNOUNCEMENT:
In the “Top 2000 week” (December 25 – 31) I will make/publish one
layout every day, refering to a song from the Top 2000 that will be
broad casted on the radio that day! It can be a 12×12, an art journal page,
an ATC or whatever I feel like making.
Everybody is invited to play along with me!
The list with songs, times and dates will be published in the papers and
on the Internet on December 22nd. (I will put up the link on my blog)
Just e-mail me a photo of your work (in your mail, please name song title and
date/number in the top 2000 list) and I will publish it on my blog on the day
that song is playing, with your name and a link to your blog (if you like)
This is not only for Dutchies! If you want to play along, you’re very welcome!
The songs can be heard from December 25th ’til 31st, in the Netherlands on
radio 2 and (for internationals) on the Internet.
I’m looking forward to this “event” and hope you will play along!
I’m gonna light me some candles now, have me another cup of coffee
and go “freewheeling” today… after all, it’s Friday!
I might play with my art journal for a change… it feels like a day to do that!
I wish you all a happy day/weekend and see you on Monday!
Je t’embrasse!