{"id":4157,"date":"2009-07-27T20:54:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T18:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/?p=4157"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:00:00","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is going to be a chaotic post… with a lot of randomness.
\nThings are a bit hectic at the moment and the more I create,
\nthe more my “to do” list seems to\u00a0grow instead of shrink.
\nI discovered some new blogs\/artists lately (thanks to
\nthe buried treasure project<\/a>)\u00a0and the inspiration has taken flight!
\nI just can’t\u00a0choose where to start or what to begin with.
\nLots of images\/ideas\/possibilities whirl through my head and I guess
\nit all has to descend and find it’s place before I can filter “my own thing”
\nout of it.<\/p>\n

Do I sound a bit cryptic? Sorry, my English writing is not bad but
\nwhen it comes to explaining mixed feelings inside it’s hard to find
\nthe right words\u00a0in another language…<\/p>\n

So let’s stop talking and let’s start showing!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Another Leonard Cohen Art Journal page.
\nThis one\u00a0is inspired by the song “Ain’t No Cure For Love”<\/a><\/p>\n

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I used pages from an old encyclopedia, image from a magazine,
\ngesso, spray ink, machine stitching, sharpie, gel medium.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nDetail:
\n(Oh how I love
\nthose detail pics!)
\nMachine sewing
\nand gel medium.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nAnother detail:
\n(’cause I cannot
\nhelp myself!)<\/p>\n

My sewing machine
\nis doing overtime
\nlately – and though
\nthat grand old lady
\nis 28 years old, she’s
\nstill going strong!!!<\/p>\n

Let’s move on to the A to Z photo’s now – I neglected those a bit.
\n(but Andr\u00e9 isn’t on his “A to Z” blog anymore, so I’m all alone in this!
\nI didn’t count the weeks but when I’m right, it should be J this week…
\nso I had some catching up to do!)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nH = Herbs
\n(a little corner
\nin my garden)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I = Ivy
\n(have to cut
\nthe sucker
\nevery other week!
\nIt keeps growing
\nbehind my back
\nand ruining the
\nouter wall!)<\/p>\n

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J = Jewels
\n(No, I’m not a
\nrich or glamorous
\ngirl. This necklace
\nis very dear though.
\nIt belonged to both
\nmy great-grandma,
\ngrandma & mom.
\nIt goes from mom
\nto daughter.
\n(Since\u00a0I have\u00a0a son
\nI haven’t figured
\nout\u00a0what to do
\nwith it later.)<\/p>\n

Some exiting news:
\nI made a sketch for the Scrapping out LOUD!<\/a> challenge blog.
\nThe new challenge is up on Tuesday (tomorrow) and my sketch will be
\nthe “Sketch of the Week” – Isn’t that great?!
\nSo hop on over there this week to get inspired by the challenge, the sketch
\nor the word of the week (or\u00a0use all three to enlarge\u00a0your changes on winning
\na prize!)<\/p>\n

I wanna end this post with a big colour boost – get ready for this…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(This is\u00a0a sneak peek of\u00a0the Lotus Paperie lay out\u00a0I made\u00a0last weekend\u00a0–
\nand colourful it is! It will be\u00a0up on the blog on Friday, so see you then!)<\/p>\n

Je t’embrasse!<\/p>\n

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This is going to be a chaotic post… with a lot of randomness. Things are a bit hectic at the moment and the more I create, the more my “to do” list seems to\u00a0grow instead of shrink. I discovered some new blogs\/artists lately (thanks to the buried treasure project)\u00a0and the inspiration has taken flight! I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,534,42,1,132],"tags":[284,411,38,734,735,221],"class_list":["post-4157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-art-journal","category-leonard-cohen-art-journal-art-journal","category-lotus-paperie","category-uncategorized","category-photos","tag-a-to-z-photo","tag-art-journals","tag-leonard-cohen","tag-lotus-paperie","tag-photos","tag-sneak-peek","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}