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Date Joined: October 15, 2017
Last Online: July 26, 2024 Birthday: August 22 Country: United States |
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Happy July! Is it summer where you are? What is that like for you?
Thanks for your thoughts and prayers and mail! I am having a super rough month. It is making my faith stronger and my immediate family is ok but this has been rough on many levels.
For the upcoming recipe swap and journal. I am open to all recipes and all size journals. Thank you in advance for sharing your recipes with me.
Today I started listening to a new audiobook Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi. Not sure if I like it yet but probably I will. I have read all of his books and some I have also listened to on audio. You would find them in the Dystopian section. There’s often an edge between the people who have resources like water, energy, food and characters or people in his books who are trying to get these basic needs met. But I also love his odd characters. Like the Wind Up Girl.
I'm currently reading about 5 books. Will settle down and focus on one of them soon.
On audiobooks, listening to the latest by Paolo Bacigalupi. I want to like it. But it is a challenge so far.
My reading goal for 2024 is about 52-55 books. And I’ve read less than 20 books this year so far. But I do love books and reading.
On the writing side. I keep a few notebooks for the various parts of my life. Work, church, exercise.
Recently I started a recipe notebook for my step-daughter though we never cook together. Our kitchen is smaller than her university apartment kitchen! But she is starting to learn how to cook. Her boyfriend is from Ukraine and started teaching her how to make his family recipes and I suppose that gives her a deeper appreciation for family recipes and holiday traditions. He has such different stories and practices. His Mom is still in Kyiv well she is not in that city as it is under attack and this week a children’s hospital was bombed.
In college, I studied history and anthropology and was very interested in family and oral history.
All that to say, I am putting together a recipe journal. I don’t have any of my Mom or Grandmothers recipes. But I remember what they made. And have tried to put together recipes and notebooks for what that was like. They traveled quite a lot surviving wars and boats back and forth across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
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Paper: I love paper!! Any kind of paper, stationery, loose pieces of paper, letter sets, postcards, notecards, ephemera.
Arts & crafts I’m into are journals, book pages like old books including illustrated flowers and plants, washi tape, wrapping paper, home made paper, yarn, tissue, packaging, found objects, and more.
Thank you for all the extras and gifts from you all!!!
Likes: [I'm always trying new styles and techniques. I don't think there's a single style that defines me unless maybe eclectic is a way to define. Though there are times I want more of a simple austere look. Then there are times I want a more busy collaged and contrasting look.]
Vintage or new but in a vintage style
Junk journals and fodder for them
Art all kinds and every style of art and crafts
Die cuts
Doodles
ephemera, any
Lace
Ribbons
Rice paper
Sari ribbon
Stationery anything
Stamped images
Stickers
Washi tape
Found objects
Dyed by ink or store bought or hand dyed fabric or yarn
Recipes
In general I like all colors.
** For Journals **
I’m making art journals, junk journals, scrapbooks and more. I use planners for work and church and include some other financial and other details in these.
For junk journals, any size works for me.
And I like all themes. To give you a few ideas, here are some: sea, nautical, floral, circus, antique or vintage even if it's new but in the vintage style, Asian theme or French style. Grunge or distressed are also good for me. I often think of French as distressed though there is the sleek French style too. I’m really all over the place.
Any theme is good as I like eclectic or putting various themes together in more a mix! Ha ha!
I have been collecting things to put into a junk journal but I haven't actually started making the journal itself. I've no doubt it'll happen. I'm having a ton of itself and enjoying the process. I hope you enjoy your process too!
Been watching lots of tv or streaming shows.
Watching the tv series Tracker. And finished eatching The Crown on Netflix.
After all these decades I o my recently started watching Law & Order but I am slowly catching up. I watch all 3 variations: the original, Special Victims, and also Organized Crime. Plus police and detective shows from Europe such as the Paris Murders, Van der walk, Murder in Sweden, and Prime Suspect the old ones with Helen Mirren.
And on Amazon, I’ve watched and rewatched The Peripheral. I even relistened to William Gibson’s audio version. I’d read the book in print too.
I think we used to call this cyberpunk fiction but I don’t know what it’s called anymore. I just like it.
And the Amazon series based on Tolkien’s Silmarillion which is ambitious don’t you think? If you’ve ever paged through this collection of myths and songs and stories. But I did enjoy the show on Amazon, it’s called The Rings of Power.
I watch the Jesus Image and EWTN. My life feels so fragile. Well it is for all of us. It can be all gone on a moment. And that makes me push myself very hard and always has. Since I was a little thing. My caretakers died when well one of my caretakers was murdered. And it sort of jaded me but I’ve been through lots and lots of therapy and prayer and 12 step programs. Art is therapy now. But I try to not make everything cathartic. Sometimes a doodle really is just a doodle!
Here are a few of the artists and makers I watch at YouTube:
My newest discovery is Caroline on the Hillside.
I’ve been adding lots of new channels I can’t keep up with them but I’m watching more reels and shorts and love all the creative inspiration!
iMarcy’s Misadventures in Mixed Media on YouTube.
Ana Bondu she works in French mostly and her specialty is Gelli prints
Barbara at 49dragonflies who makes grunge and other fun styles of journals
Claire at art_journal love
Cathy’s Garden
Denise Love aka @2lilowlsstudio and she makes intuitive abstract art very colorful
Tim Holtz
Dina Wakely
Maremi Small Art
Amity Bloom
Gayle Agostinelli
Helen Colebrook
Jackie Bernardi
Jane Davenport
Louise Heinzl
Mystele
Niamh Baly
Nicole Relax.Cut.Glue
Nik the Booksmith
Pink Odd Bird
Roxy Creations
Shabbydabbydoodah
ShanoukiArt
Shawn Petite
Susanne Rose Art
Teal and Tattered Journal
The Paper Outpost
TiffanySmplySharpe
Willowing
These are my favorites!!!
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Comments
Thank you so much for the Wizard of Oz playing cards! I love them so much. It is so lovely of you to RAK one of my wishlist items. Aloha
Thank you for the June wish for GIFT..I love this bible verse! 🕊️
Thank you Marie for the MAY Gift Wishes you sent. All were perfect choices and you made my day. I needed the Bible verse you quoted for me. Your gifts are a true blessing. Hugs, Alma
Thank you for the birthday wishes 🤗
Hi Marie! Thanks again for the GIFT May wish. Sorry for any inconvenience since I did finally get the first one. Nice tea choices.
Blessings,
Yvonne
Hi Marie! G.I.F.T. Swaps May Wishes, Thanks for the nice letter, the washi, the butterfly decks and the tea. Everything was very thoughtful.
Blessings,
Yvonne
Thank you for the JAM & the postage stamps! That was very kind of you! <3 Tracy
Thank you some much for the Random mix of favorite RAK. That was so very kind and generous of you. My dream came true! 😍
Just stopping by to say I hope you have a lovely week!
Thank you so much for the traveling notebook; its so good, i love it!