Ideas blossomed in my brain stem and spread upward. Swirling through dense jungly undergrowth. Walking through Tyn’s house on Saturday really got the creative engine roaring. I wanted to scatter black inky writing on top of the photos I took. Especially the ones with lots of white backgrounds. I printed out some 8 by 10’s and glued them into my journal. One photo of an iron sacred heart high up on a creamy wall got turned into my banner.
Oh the big book, it is a growin’! Visual Journal #9 is enormous. If I leave it too long in one place it begins to send down roots. In 7 pages it will be finished. I think I’ll plant it in the yard and see what happens.
That’s the way it goes. One idea vining out into the next. I was going to buy a travel journal, but decided to use a stack of vintage frames instead.
Cut up file folders to use as pages to write on. Insert. Cut up more stuff and stick inside. Keep adding until travel journal is uncomfortably cumbersome and heavy. Put all thoughts out of your mind of how this will fit in your lunchbox-sized suitcase. Utter nonsense. All that is important is that the idea is spinning drunkenly out of control. Where it lands nobody knows.
Here. See. This brazen flower winked at me on my way to school this morning.
I hope when you plant visual journal no. 9 it’s seeds catch the breezes and drift down under to plant themselves in my garden. Look forward to seeing the exploits in the new journal.
i love your new banner here! Vintage and aged, yet clean and crisp. Awesome work 🙂
M.A.~I LOVE, LOVE the idea of vintage frames. I would like to try that. Hey, you are giving me new & more (yikes) ideas of what to look for at the end of the month when I travel once again to our infamous Antique Festival (take a look at one of my previous posts~
http://rosa-josies.blogspot.com/2007/10/scenes-for-warrengton-aka-antique.html#links).
I’d LOVE for you to come sometime~every end of March/first of April & end of September/first of October…And~I LOVE THE NEW BANNER!!
oh yes – I’m with Seth!
xox – eb.
Utterly Beautiful
How surprised was I this morning to see your new banner?!? Beautiful. The journals look so lovely. I too want a clipping if you plant it in the yard! I also think the travel journal needs it own case- who need clean cloths anyway. Clean close are for suckers! Please stop in at Pookieville and play the “Name that saw ” game- I think you might have some good suggestions. 🙂
Hey!
Love the new look!
And that visual journal looks just delicious!
Sandra Evertson
I love your idea for a travel journal, and that picture of journal #9 is definitely inspiring!!
That journal is luscious-looking, and the photo folders are a great idea, esp. if I plaster beautiful patterns all over the outsides, too, and that FLOWER…!
I was at someone else’s place all weekend, and took about 3,000 photos, and then I got home and thought, I gotta take a million photos here, just like Mary Ann does!! Why aren’t I doing that? What’s my damn deal?
You paint pictures with your words…lovely.
COOL Banner. Love the aqua and the splendid layout.
Remember that Kinko’s can drill holes for you, but just remember to watch ’em do it and wait for your stuff (says the person who has had some stuff “disappear”).
How about making the suitcase itself into a journal? You’d be the person to do it, wouldn’t you?
Great Post.
Lisa H.
I have to find another word to express “wow” – I say that so often when encountering your pages. Bold ideas for the travel journal – find yourself a willing little bearer (not ‘bear’- they eat suitcases) to haul the weight of your tiny suitcase with the monster journal (THAT will be be another wow).
Do you leave early for school so you can stop and shoot along the way – how much of a drive , time-wise is it?
You must be on a year-round track since your off times are not the standard summer months. When do you leave and how long will you stay (I know you have this back in the past but I have to leave for school myself. I know if i start looking I’ll become sidetracked and stay too long in Dispatchlandia).
Always a good start to the day. thank you.
Your trip is drawing near; I can feel the excitement all the way out here in upper Oregonia. Love your idea of using the vintage frames; I just know you’re going to do something wonderful with them. I’m excited for you too.
I love the shot of your nearly-completed journal. There is nothing like a journal exploding with paper, color, and ephemera. Great idea for the new travel journal too.