MY JOURNAL JOURNEY.

Erm - I thought someone said they didn't do random?

Love it!

Lynda

I utterly adore this page.... the crackle looks good enough to eat, like that peanut brittle stuff, and I love the way the text peeps through. You are so talented.

Ive GOT to do one of these books.

When you do a page like this how do you stop yourself wanting to fill the whole book with them right now ?

This is amazing, every time i peek at it i see something different or it makes me think of something different....for example...the seagulls remind me of a time when Stephen )aged 17) was a baby and we had a Turkish man (student at local college) lodging with us...for money of course.....

He spoke only one word of egnlish on his arrival...'hello' and when he left a year later..he could thrash me at scrabble and passed all his exams (according to him...it was my success not his) i worked onhis converstaional english, read to him, listened to him read, talk etc..corrected his spelling and grammar and punctuation...and we shared a book about a seagull called Jonathan...i now need to find this book as i cannot remember anything about it and at the time it was so inspiring...about freedom etc and perceptions of situations.

cor heck...dont i go on..sorry...now look what u started Lorraine.

i also have spent 3 days looking on internet during lunch (duty in ICT room)and after school searching ART JOURNALS..printed out shed loads of stuff...

Goaty, was it Jonathon Livingstone Seagull?

sounds very familiar? do u know it?

Know i have to google it..... my attention has been drawn ...


"begin by knowing that you have already arrived..." Quotes from the book.

""Keep working on love."

I know it too.

Im sure thats the one you mean Goaty, you've described it to a tee. There was a Neil Diamond song about it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgkk0Hdwmo8

this is apparently Neil diamonds theme tune to the film....now i adore Neil diamond even more...

cripes..what a weird and bizarre coincidence.....all three of us know it!!!!!1

and my darling Lorraine, we would have never realised our connection...if noit for the journal.....spooky hey????

Well, I'm not a lover of Neil Diamond, but that is quite beautiful. For me at present, very poignant lyrics. I love it. Words on a page that speaks of a theme...I've got my headphones on as I type.

So....HERE'S TO THE SEAGULL IN EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US.

I read it in the mid 70s. Twas by Richard Bach. It was a huge
success in the US and that's what made me see what it was all
about. I don't think it's strange all of us knowing it, as it is a
very famous story.
And yes, the seagulls on Lorraine's page do remind me of the story.
And Goaty - I adore neil Diamond too.

Well Steph, in the 17 years since reading it...no-one...i mean no-one has ever ever mentioned the story.....

I read it many, many moons ago, beacuse as Steph says, it was very popular in America.

Love the journal, Lorraine. It is absolutely exquisitely bound. Stunning!

I could never share my pages with anyone though, because they are so personal to me.

Thank you for the link to my beloved Neil Diamond. He is one of the things that has kept me going recently! I play his stuff constantly.

Bobs wrote:
I could never share my pages with anyone though, because they are so personal to me.

No, well there'll be a few I wont share either, Bobs, I'm pretty sure of that, but as there's no journaling on these, it doesn't really matter at the mo.

wow lorraine you have set me off , i want to do one too !!!! its blurdy gorgeous .
not sure if i could one myself from scratch though i might use one of my pink pig books , wire bound though they are ,,,not quite the same is it ?

ive never heard of this seagull thing you are on about .

The only seagulls I have known are the ones that sit on my mums chimney pots and peck on the windows, poo on your head etc.

This is fabulous Lorraine, look forward to seeing it IRL!

any more pages yet Lorraine? i cant wait to see them. i have been perusing the internet at work and i saw lots of super journals...made me want to go home and do some....dont think they will agree...

Well, it's been a while but finally a page that's a bit brighter.

Believe was lifted off my Christmas card from Kim and the flower was off last b/day card from Di (M).

Fabulous and what a great way to recycle.

this is lovely, well done. I love the punching at the edge, is that the bind it all....or you just very clever with a single punch. Lovely and straight. x

That's lovely, nice and positive too!

Mia and I have just looked at this and it has made us both so happy that you are looking upwards instead of downwards! Keep on upping Lorraine!! xx

Lovely page Lorraine.

Lovely page Lou , I like the idea of the recycling.

Another page from my journal. I really like this one for some reason, lol.
Sequin waste was put to use again, distress inks, stamps, promarkers, diamond glaze and some masking.

well I think we know what this is about, but what a great journal page, you've done it beuatifully.

i love this page lorraine ,the colour is great too

That's brilliant. Very subtle colours.