Watermark

FALL

   

   

   

FALL

For Digital Whisper: falling leaves. Elements from Dutchdream, Jen Maddocks, Foxy Squirrel, and Snickerdoodle Designs.

   

AUTHENTIC

   

   

AUTHENTIC

For Tangie Baxter’s Art Journal Emporium. Elements from Karla Dudley, creashens, Rosey Posey, Rebecca McMeen, and Tangie Baxter.

   

 

   

MY MUSE

   

   

MY MUSE

For an art journal challenge at The Lilypad. I combined two templates from Christa and Anne of Alamo. Other elements are from Dawn Inskip, Lynne-Marie, Paula Kesselring, and Tangie Baxter.

 

   

IF

   

   

For Take A Word: hearts. The poem is mine:

If

If I brought you a cloak
    embroidered with stars
        a staff & a crown & a steed
            would you mount it?

If I laid out a carpet
    from my veins of bright red
        if I bled & I bled
            would you walk it?

If I sent you a bird
    with a song yet unheard
        if it came in a cage
            would you free it?

If I wove silk from corn
    if I turned wheat to gold
        would you wrap yourself up?
            Would you count it?

If I gave you a colt
    with a horn in his head
        would you hold out your hand?
            Would you feed it?

If I cast down my hair
    with its stiff strands of grey
        if I unwound the braid
            would you climb it?

If I offered my head
    on a carved wooden plate
        if I died, if I'm dead
            would you grieve it?

If I hand you an apple
    from my orchard of hearts
        -- it is ripe, it is red --
            will you eat it?

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Elements are from Anna Aspnes, Adrianka, Crafty Button Designs, Courtney Designs, Amy Wolff, Jen Maddocks, Rosey Posey, and Tangie Baxter.

   

 

   

SOLITUDE

   

   

SOLITUDE

From Blue Pastures:

“Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to, but does not necessarily have at once. Privacy, then. A place apart -- to pace, to chew pencils, to scribble and erase and scribble again.

“But just as often, if not more often, the interruption comes not from another but from the self itself, or some other self within the self, that whistles and pounds upon the door panels and tosses itself, splashing, into the pond of meditation. And what does it have to say? That you must phone the dentist, that you are out of mustard, that your uncle Stanley's birthday is two weeks hence. You react, of course, Then you return to your work, only to find that the imps of idea have fled back into the mist.”

Mary Oliver

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For a challenge at Oscraps. Elements from Courtney Designs, Lynne Anzelc Designs, and Rebecca McMeen. The font is CK Ali's Hand.

   

   

FIND A WAY

   

   

FIND A WAY

For a template challenge at The Lilypad. The template and all elements are from Dawn Inskip.

   

 

   

WE ARE HERE

   

   

WE ARE HERE

For a template challenge at Oscraps. Everything is from May de Groot.

   

   

HOME

   

   

HOME

For a scriplift/copy challenge at Oscraps. Elements from Anna Aspnes, Courtney Designs, Dido Designs, Lynne Anzelc Designs, NBK Designs, Merkeley Designs, Tracy Reed, Vicki Robinson, and Vicki Stegall. The photo of Alan is mine. 

      

WHAT I DIDN’T LEARN IN SCHOOL

   

   

WHAT I DIDN’T LEARN IN SCHOOL

The sound of a whippoorwill.

How to please a lover.

What makes dough rise.

Why we hide.

How to fly.

How to please myself.

Why love hurts.

Are we math?

What Raven says.

The source of language.

How music works.  

How to read a poem.

The taste of pollen.

The sound of blue.

Why am I?

For Digital Whisper: back to school; and a journaling challenge at The Lilypad. Elements from Paula Kesselring, Lynne-Marie, and Pink Reptile Designs. The font is Pea Aleshia.

    

PLAY

   

   

PLAY

For a Three Way | Pattern your Pages challenge at The Lilypad. I chose to use circles, and then just started playing. Everything is from Pink Reptile Designs.