"I'm not Getting Older, I'm Increasing in Value" is Wendy's quote for this week. Didn't find this one easy but in the end I used Jenny Joseph's wonderful poem "Warning" - perhaps better known as "When I am Old, I Shall Wear Purple".
In my search for the words, yes I wrote it out around the outside of the blog page, I came across a super blog by James Milson. I loved the pictures he used to illustrate the poem and the information about Jenny Joseph. I had not realised she passed twelve months ago last January. Well worth a look at him! But don't stop there!! Give this blog a try, please.
I went on to read about Dandelions (see the side of his blog - "Featured and Favorited Posts) and then got a little curious about 'Little Red Bear' so clicked on the link. Love the story - I can see I like his style of writing and will be reading much more as time goes on, both of, his favourite posts, and stories of Little Bear and the family.
Anyway, my Jeudi Journal. I decided for some reason to make the background brown, starting off with an orange and going on to use brown and somewhere I must have decided on green? As so often happens I wanted to do some stencil work and it fell to my 'Diamonds in the Rough' - a firm favourite of mine. Jenny Joseph's poem came after I decided to use a figure I rarely take out, aptly called "Sunday Best" and so I hastily began scribbling the words all around the edge of my page. I did not intend to do it all but somehow it happened. Maybe I was enjoying reading it too much and got carried away.
Another figure was needed and this time I decided to use the boy. He was going to have a stick in his hand and some railings (die cut) behind him but when I got down to reading the poem I realised there was a bit too much to be included if I was going down the route of including things from the poem.
So here it is - my page for today:
Today is a special day for me, it would have been my mum's birthday so, tradition says I have to have some flowers for her. Miss you mum. xx
