My boys are in public school this year. EEK! We had been homeschooling Gabriel, but it just wasn't the right fit for us or our family I didn't feel like. I totally admire the people who can do it and get a good flow going with it. My hope is that one day I can come back to it. They seem to be really enjoying school so far, though the hours are hard on all of us. We are normally a pretty laid back family so to have to get up and go to bed by certain times is really rough on us! We are coping though and we so hope that one day soon we will be a bit more adjusted to the schedule!
On another note...I am here today to talk about something fun I have started doing! I have been dabbling in art journaling, mostly just going about it the hybrid way thanks to Tangie Baxter. She has the most AMAZING digi art journal products and I have found printing things off to be such a fun thing to do! I am going to talk about that more another day! I picked up this book with a Barnes and Noble coupon I had to help me because I just don't feel like a creative person most of the time. Plus I am just afraid of messiness and clutter. If you look at my scrap pages I am a fan of white space and I want to break away from that with art journaling. The book is AMAZING and it has a section on Found Poetry. Here is a definition of found poetry.
Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and/or lines (and consequently meaning), or by altering the text by additions and/or deletions. The resulting poem can be defined as either treated: changed in a profound and systematic manner; or untreated: virtually unchanged from the order, syntax and meaning of the original. (taken from HERE)
I thought this seemed like something super fun to try! I like to read and I like words, but in general I can't just sit and write that well...especially not poetry. I went to a little flea market type place around here and picked up a few old books for about 1-2 dollars a piece. Today I finally sat down and had a play! What is really great about this is that your poem doesn't have to make sense to anyone but you. It helps start the journaling process with that blank page staring at you. (I am terrified of those blank pages which is why I haven't dove right into art journaling!) Here are a few pics of my process!
If you click on the image I think you can see it bigger. :) Here's a list of the supplies I used:
- old books
- pencil
- acrylic paints
- watercolor crayons
- journal
- Tattered Angels glimmer mist
Hopefully I will back very very soon with more fun ideas for you!! I hope you all have a beautiful and safe holiday weekend!
3 comments:
This sounds like a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing, Crystal, I have to try it one day.
Oh that totally sounds fun! And something even I, the craft-illiterate, can do! I wanna see your finished product! :D
I too have been wanting to art journaling!! I've bought supplies & even some Modge Podge to help make the pages more durable. It sounds like so much fun, but I too am intimidated by the blank white page staring at me! I'm gonna give it a shot...soon...hopefully this week! :) I can't wait to see what you create! Good luck!!! :)
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