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I bought Sharon's cute and quirky journal down to mama's and on a sunny afternoon we played out on her back deck in our travelling journals. Arting with a friend or loved one is even better than having a cuppa with one, but not by much.</div>
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As usual, I jumped in with no pre-planned idea and just went with it. I created a background of book pages, paper doilies, used tea bags and recycled tissue paper- if you have a keen eye you will see the same tissue paper on both my page and mama's page. </div>
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I then played with a brayer and some paint- white and ochre, once it dried I added journalling and the book paper circles I found in my stash and then sketched in a teapot and cup and saucer. Finished off with some doodling and more words-</div>
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My page in Janies Nature journal <br />in round 7 of the Australian Art Journal Swap </div>
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it is textural and was fun to play in.</div>
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Amanda's Galaxy journal arrived this month and as is usual its been a full on crazy month and I can't believe we are half way through March already.<br />We are house painting again- it seems to be an ongoing thing with us- another house and another colour scheme but the main issues atm are everything is once again packed away so I have very minimal art supplies accessible. I have some pens, a small tin of inktense pencils, a set of caran dache neocolour 11's and a dribble of white paint left in the bottom of a box I used to teach a workshop with recently. All good- Amanda has very light paper so I couldn't get it too wet anyway. </div>
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Tania and Danie from Simmer Sistars invited me to join in with their fabulous Online Art Trail for Inspire your Heart with Art Day. I encourage you to follow the trail and see what all of the other fabulous creative women have made for the day.</div>
My art piece is a page that has been created to travel in my Gaia art journal in round 7 of the Australian Art Journal Swap, I was going to go with a different theme but the extreme weather, heatwaves and bushfires and drought, has my heart aching for Gaia our beautiful Mother Earth.<br />
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As I worked in my journal I intentionally added heart shaped leaves, every one of them is a prayer for the earth. For the oceans filled with plastic, for the whales and sharks starving in that sea of human trash, for the dammed rivers drying up and the poor dying and dead fish in the stagnant ponds, for the birds with stomachs full of rubbish, for the bushland and its creatures being ravaged by fire, for the precious earth being mined and fracked and poisoned, for the air we breathe that is filled with dust, for the people. My prayer for the people is that they reconnect with the heart of Gaia, they realise this amazing and beautiful planet we live on is home, we need to respect Her and open our hearts to protect Her and nourish Her as she does us. </div>
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We ask for the presence of the spirit of Gaia and pray that the breath of life continue to caress this planet home.</div>
May we grow into true understanding - a deep understanding that inspires us to protect the tree on which we bloom, and the water, soil, and atmosphere without which we have no existence.<br />
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May we turn inwards and stumble upon our true roots in the intertwining biology of this exquisite planet. May nourishment and power pulse through these roots, and fierce determination to continue the billion-year dance.</div>
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May there be a new dispensation of pure and powerful consciousness and the charter to witness and facilitate the healing of the tattered biosphere.</div>
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We call upon the spirit of evolution, the miraculous force that inspires rock and dust to weave themselves into biology. You have stood by us for millions and billions of years- do not forsake us now. Empower us and awaken in us pure and dazzling creativity. You that can turn scales into feathers, seawater to blood, caterpillars to butterflies, metamorphose our species, awaken in us the powers that we need to survive the present crisis and evolve into more aeons on our solar journey. </div>
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May we awaken to our true and only nature - none other than the nature of Gaia, this living planet.</div>
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We call upon the power which sustains the planets in their orbits, that wheels our Milky Way in its 200 million year spiral, to imbue our personalities and our relationships with harmony, endurance and joy. Fill us with a sense of immense time so that our brief, flickering lives may truly reflect the work of vast ages past and also the millions of years of evolution whose potential lies in our trembling hands.</div>
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May you find inspiration for your heart and soul from Gaia and from our fabulous art trail today. Please go and visit <a href="https://jillvc-artstuff.blogspot.com/">Gillian Castellino at Healing Scribbles</a> or pop over to see the <a href="https://www.shimmersistars.com/">Shimmer Sistars</a> and have a look at all of the offerings.</div>
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gardening, recycling and magic-<br />
I love how you can take a pile of rubbish - weeds and food scraps and grass cuttings and fallen leaves, gather them into an intentional space and combine nitrogen, carbon and water and create magical nourishing food for our gardens and our beloved planet - pure magic<br />
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In this page I took all of the rubbish that floats around inside my head and gathered it in an intentional way - free writing all over both pages and then I added the magical ingredients of self-acceptance and self-love, gesso and collage and grew a beautiful garden </div>
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Love these colours they are scrumptious!<br />I am doing a 28 day cleanse right now, following Jason Vale's 28 day juice plan and it's going really well. I did this page on day 4 and filled it with my hopes and intentions on the left hand page and left the right hand side to journal when I am finished or very close to it. </div>
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Oh, my lovely Gypsy is home!</div>
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She is a travelling art journal from the sixth round of the Australian Art Journal Swap and has just travelled around Australia, now she is home and full of stories to share, the horses are unhitched and free to roam, so find a space by the fire, pour yourself a glass and enjoy her return with me.</div>
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Once we open up the wagon we are greeted by my gypsy woman page, she is waiting at her crystal ball and ready to tell your future. She shared her message with all on her way.</div>
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Her message is bound in red thread and tucked in behind her crystal ball when folded open and removed it reveals the stairs to enter.</div>
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There are mysterious old maps on the inside covers no doubt showing the secret gypsy pathways for her to get where ever she needed to go, they must be good maps too because she has made the full circuit and returned home.</div>
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Then she took the long road over to Western Australia, I just know we will hear many more stories about Darwin and the far north of WA but that will be at another campfire. Once she got to Perth and caught up with Deb they got serious about the palmistry and they had a bright and beautiful time. </div>
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There were many wonderful camps in Victoria however the call of catching up with Colleen in Yacka, SA, her gorgeous camp was just what was needed after the big smoke and the horses were much happier by the beautiful bubbling brook </div>
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Annabelle has a bit of a reputation for her beautiful faces and despite a heavy travel schedule supporting family on opposite sides of this vast land they really enjoyed catching up and Annabelle even beautifully captured one of the horses. </div>
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Camping with Mama,<br />
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she was putting on a show and it was going to be spectacular!<br />
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the highlight of the show has to be the snake charmer!<br />
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Thank you so much to all of the beautiful creative gypsy women who hosted my journal on her journey and worked so beautifully in her. I treasure it. She is a little worn but how could a handmade wagon cover all of those miles without showing signs of all the love and work she gathered.</div>
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More deep cleaning on self-acceptance.<br />Many layers here undergoing transformation </div>
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Are you connected to your self?</div>
Do you practice good self-care?<br />
Do you know you?<br />
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These are ongoing struggles I have, and ones I am addressing now to finally get on top of them. <br />
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So this page in my summer journalling is all about getting real with myself, owning up to all of my strengths and weaknesses and tuning in to what I am thinking and feeling right now. Accepting who I am- all of me and being honest about what is making me uniquely me, also knowing that I am as are all of you- works in progress- I am ( and you are ) worthy- of love, acceptance, respect, everything you need and desire - just as you are now.<br />
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Of course being works in progress we have a long way to go but we are fine just as we are.</div>
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I have had a bit of feedback about not showing the entire page in this summer journalling and that is because I am doing deep and personal work. I am happy to share a bit of the page and my thinking behind it but sometimes the words are for my journal only.<br />
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Oh, it's all about the energy of the sun for me right now-</div>
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I am resetting my life and addressing every area I can think of, creating long-term plans and setting things out in a methodical way. It is time to shed and burn a whole lot of things that have held me back in my past. That chapter is over and I am so open to receiving the joy and health and freedom and love of my new life. </div>
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This is another summer journalling page and I seem to be drawn to the same colours over and over again- the colours of the sun. Working with Goddess energy as well to burn off what I am shedding in my life and to clear space for all I am welcoming.</div>
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Get Unencumbered!</div>
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Plans this year are to get rid of stuff- tonnes of stuff!</div>
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I am working towards minimalism over the next 2 years. I have so much stuff cluttering up my life and I don't need much of it at all anymore.</div>
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Get Healthy!</div>
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I am continuing with a fabulous remedial therapist I have found to heal my body and seriously considering a health coach at some point this year. I am also doing a juice cleanse to kick the year off.</div>
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Get Balanced!</div>
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I feel I have been bouncing from super stressful situation to super stressful situation for over 10 years- no more- I am going to be calm and centred and grounded. I let go of everything I have no control over and I release control for those who need to step up and take their own.</div>
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Get Stable!</div>
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I have had a late diagnosis of BPD and it is a mixed blessing, it explains a lot and is a something I would rather not have. However, I am working through a DBT workbook and have such great support and understanding from my love and I am determined to change it all now.</div>
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I am creating my first ever bucket list :) It is in my art journal of course and has things I will keep doing, things I need to re-establish and new things! This year I am going to join a choir and a dance class and have started a meditation practice. If you have any good suggestions for my bucket list please leave them in the comments.</div>
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Get Excited!</div>
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Well, I already am really. I am going to buy a new van soon and deck it out as a stealth camper, long-term goal is to live in it so it has to have all I need to be safe and healthy and happy. Short term goal is to take off on lots of adventures with my love and maybe my sons if they would like but it will only seat 2 people.</div>
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Get Free!</div>
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I am no longer going to carry the weight of the world or even of my loved ones on my shoulders- a lot of my plans here are geared towards freedom. After being at home with a homeschooled single parent family for 20 years it is now my time. I am working in a wonderfully fulfilling job with a regular pay packet and saving for a future. I have plans and goals and purpose.</div>
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<br />Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05526747028900637503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401626682445720909.post-70482019479347378192019-01-07T13:22:00.000+11:002019-01-07T13:22:00.744+11:00Sarracenia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is quite fun and gives wildly varied results.<br /><br />This page instantly reminded me of another much-loved hobby of mine and that is growing carnivorous plants. I don't really go in for the fly traps, I am not exactly sure why maybe they are a bit fiddly to grow, maybe they are not quite as attractive to my eye but I do love all of the pitcher plants- they are so dramatic, often having gorgeous colours and my very favourite is the Nepenthes but the Sarracenia is a close second.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.carnivorousplants.co.uk/img/mike-king/mike-king-shropshire-sarracenias-800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://www.carnivorousplants.co.uk/img/mike-king/mike-king-shropshire-sarracenias-800.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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I love the variety in their beautiful forms, colours and patterns and I also love how playing in your art journal can uncover images just waiting for you to 'find' them. Working intuitively and without any desired outcome allows us to tap into our subconscious mind, that vast reservoir inside of us that is like an iceberg- so often we are only tapping into the tip that is above the waterline, it is all we can see and we are blinded by its brilliance. </div>
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As I was 'finding' those pitcher plants that were really very obvious to my conscious mind/eye I was pondering the sticky situations we can get drawn into in life. How we can become stuck and lose touch with our self, lose self-knowing and lose touch with our real feelings. Too busy dealing with all the 'sticky' to be able to connect with self.<br /><br />Art journalling to the rescue- I began free writing ways I can get unstuck, thinking I could be like the little frogs who catch bugs right inside the pitcher plants and how I can take my life circumstance and use them to appreciate myself and my life more. How can I address some of those stuck patterns and change them?</div>
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Not all journalling has to be deep and symbolic I also love to simply play in my journal and take inspiration from anywhere :)</div>
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My beautiful mama recently gifted me with a bunch of serviettes to use in art and one of them had Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers printed onto it, </div>
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The torn paper collage came together quickly on an already sprayed background.</div>
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The page opposite became home to a quote I liked from my fb feed and a strong woman stencil. </div>
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Do you meditate?<br /><br />I really want to begin a meditation practice this year and that is the key word really - practice- so far I am not really sure if I am doing it 'right' but I have a feeling it might be like art, in that you can not do it wrong, its just sometimes it turns out better than other times. </div>
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I use an app for guided meditation it is called Insight Timer and is good, I must use it more but for now, I am focusing on my morning meditation - 5 to 15 minutes in the morning and I think if I am consistent and remember to practice every day I will start to gain the benefits. </div>
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Continuing my Summer Journaling Play</div>
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This page came together in many layers and different media. I began by covering both sides of my journal with free writing in magenta ink- I created this page just before Solstice so my journaling was all about releasing the pain and struggles of 2018 and there was quite a bit to release I chose the magenta on a whim but it suited my passionate wording. </div>
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As its all about the sun right now I also wanted to bring in that energy and burn off and release anything still hanging around so I covered the page with more colour shine sprays in the orange and yellow tones and added sun rays in white gesso across the entire spread.<br />
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Next, I turned to my collage bits and found some garden photo strip pics in suitable colours, I kept looking through the collage and found a photocopied sun so I did a transfer in the middle of my gessoed sunburst, once she had a face she needed a full and abundant body. I painted her with a little bit of gesso and using my paintbrush in the colour shine bottles.<br />
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Once she was dry I got out my trusty black pens- a posca and a signo and doodled and journalled another layer. The bird is symbolic of me and I am at a point where I am very much flying forward into my own life, burning off the ties of who I was before and embracing my new. </div>
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The three birds is a recurrent theme in my artwork, they have often appeared in my art journal and also in my paintings and my eldest son has requested I design him a tattoo for his 21st birthday that is based on a fig tree and the three birds, I have a year to come up with it and we will collaborate on the design together. My 15yo son has also expressed interest in having the same tattoo. Personally, I am not overly keen on tattoos but they are very popular with the younger generation. </div>
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I have been pondering the passing of time a lot as we navigated this past Solstice. It is the second Solstice since the passing of my boys' father and although we were separated and I really did raise the boys as a single mum most of the time he was still a very loved family member and his absence is always felt- particularly at this time of the year. </div>
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I feel this page that was created with intuition and spontaneity is symbolic of the privilege of watching them grow and sharing that part of their life journeys. In many ways that part is finished but they will always be my little chicks.<br /></div>
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There is something about summer that finds me breaking out a new art journal every year and playing in it every chance I get. I don't know if it is the heat or the end of the year. the beginning of a new one or the energy of solstice but here I am again. </div>
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I welcome this creative and cleansing burst.</div>
It is a great opportunity to reflect on the year that was and begin setting some intentions for the new one arriving. I Shared this as a prompt on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/563420300456646/?tn-str=*F">Australian Art Swap</a> group as well.<br />
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focussing on the year we just had and the one we are about to begin.<br />
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What were the highlights/ lessons learned/ major events?<br />
What do you want to change/ leave behind/ let go of?<br />
What do you want as your focus for the new year?<br />
Do you have a word for the year?<br />
What do you want to nurture in yourself/ your family/ your home?</div>
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My page quickly filled up in cathartic release and whilst my journalling is not really earth-shattering, it has been a really tough year and I am not open to sharing this page. Plus there are some really cool photo apps out there.</div>
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May the brightest of blessings shine on you and your loved ones this solstice,<br />
what ever side of our beautiful planet you are on .<br />
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Janie's Exotic arrived the other day and I was determined to get to it early this month, so I had thought about the spice markets and wonderful tiles and colours of Morocco as being about the most exotic thing I could imagine- however the lovely Lisa Jones already took Janie's journal to Morocco so the pondering continued.<br />
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Thinking back over my life - what have I done that is exotic, I mean I love gardening and herbs and trees and art and making compost- There was that time the circus came to town and I raced down there as they were leaving to collect the elephant poo to make my most exotic compost heap ever!</div>
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Looking around my desk I spied the stencil I used for Alice so I grabbed 2 warm and 2 cool 'exotic' colours. I love pink and orange together, it makes me think of Indian sari's and teal is very exotic, as well as my favourite colour, next I picked ultramarine. I played with the stencil to cover the page and my word.</div>
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Then I scratched off the acrylic paint from the oil pastel to re-expose my word and outlined it in a white posca paint pen. And in all of that exotic- maybe even chaotic background what would be more exotic than a calm white egret. He looks like the page was built around him- pulling the whole thing together.</div>
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So I went in without any idea of where I would end up simply following my impulses and intuition and I am very happy with how it turned out and it was lots of fun.</div>
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Alice blew into Grafton is a whirlwind of crazy activity, I had a vague idea of what I wanted to do so I gessoed my spread in black and Debs gorgeous little journal sat patiently waiting for me to find the time to play day after day and suddenly- its the end of the month!<br />
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I wanted a grungy background with the iconic image of Alice stripped back to a silhouette and the harlequin diamond pattern distinctive but grungy. Where to next? I was lost and then I remembered the quirky wrapping paper I picked up at IKEA recently so cut out some collage pieces to add.</div>
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The flower faces and the mushrooms were rather Alice-ish and as it's my wonderland the funny little woodland creatures came along too. The Magic of Alice is Deb Stephens travelling art journal from round 6 of the Australian Art Journal Swap.<br />We are mustering for round 7 over at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/563420300456646/">Australian Art Swap Group</a> on fb. </div>
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Egypt!<br />What an mind boggling place, it conjures up so many images and thoughts and is one of our most documented and most studied ancient places- so many ideas were present for Annabelle's amazing travelling art journal. </div>
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We are a homeschooling family and when my lads were little my eldest was obsessed with ancient civilisations, especially Egypt. We had some dear friends spend time there and we followed their journey from home and they bought us home a stack of goodies on their return. I raided some of these for the center of this spread, all of those wonderful places to visit.</div>
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One needs hieroglyphs for Egypt and they are great graphic journal fodder too :) I have no idea what I was talking about up there but I like the way they look.</div>
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I also had the lyrics of this old song from Mental as Anything that insisted on being included so I squeezed them in too and my page came together. It is a really fun journal and Annabelle I am sure you will enjoy your journey through it on its return. </div>
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Egypt, I saw you </div>
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On the television</div>
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Egypt, can I ask you </div>
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To lend me your blue sky</div>
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And your dreamy</div>
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Virginal tenderness</div>
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I don't know you very well</div>
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But I really like you</div>
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Egypt, I'm a gonna </div>
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A, see you soon</div>
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Said I'm a gonna walk on </div>
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Your foreshore</div>
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Egypt, won't you hold me</div>
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Like I held a map of you</div>
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Egypt I'm a gonna</div>
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See you soon</div>
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Your foreshore</div>
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This month has been very circus focused</div>
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and some folks from work also attended and enjoyed it. </div>
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However aside from my own very dramatic family circus </div>
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Sharon Rogers's lovely Vintage Circus</div>
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travelling art journal from round 6 of </div>
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I have been super busy but had my vintage circus radar peculating in the back of my mind and nothing was grabbing me. I was in a shop though and there was a notice up from an old news paper story about a long ago flood that had a circus stranded in town and Samson the strongman was assisting in the rescue efforts and also put on a benefit show to support the town. </div>
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He must have loved our dear Grafton as he then stayed on and became a shop keeper or maybe it was a publican. </div>
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We almost had a strongman theme but unfortunately I didn't make the Vintage Circus connection at the time so went on my merry way and can not remember the shop or all the details beyond my curiosity in that moment and googling gave me no answers either, meanwhile time was ticking so I went back to good old google and started looking at Vintage Circus images for inspiration. While looking I didn't want to use any animals and I don't think animals in circuses are a good idea even though they could have been a great page and of course once I go going I just had fun and played and I think they fit the theme ok. </div>
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Our lovely librarian has been after me to do a display at our local library for a while and we have finally managed to get it happening. </div>
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I included a selection of hand made books by me and also others I have swapped with. </div>
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They all look pretty lovely sitting in the cabinet </div>
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If you are in Grafton, do pop in and have a peek. </div>
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I have a new little community on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1820739161312417/">River Girl Art Healing</a> fb page where I post monthly prompt lists. Everyone is very welcome.</div>
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I remember years ago seeing the amazing Teesha Moore on youtube making these gorgeous little patches to make journal covers and bags and things and it was something I always wanted to do but never got around to it.</div>
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