This week I chose a kind of outdoor scene for my journal page. Mainly because I painted the page blue and then put some fluffy clouds on it (you can barely see them) because I knew it was going to be something to do with birds. Because I like to enter my pages in Art Journal Journey I put some simple stitching around the edges like I had done last week, it makes for a nice border anyway. There is also some stitching around the edge of the table cloth so that it complies with Halle's challenge of "A Stitch in Time".
I then had to think up a story in order to decide which Dylusion figures to put on my page and decided that the quote "When in doubt put a bird on it" could apply to a birthday cake where they hadn't known what to put on it so they put a bird (decoration of course) on it.
So my page is telling the story of the mother of twin girls hosting an outdoor birthday party for them and not knowing what to put on the cake, for a change, has decided to put a bird on it. The twins are standing there in their new party dresses and they have all, had you noticed, got matching footwear, including mum. Then, of course, you get the cheeky little boy who has his eye on the cake, peering over the edge of the table. Just hope he doesn't stick his finger in it before it is cut.
As we have just heard this past weekend The Forces Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynne, has passed at the marvellous age of 103 so what could be more appropriate than to use a bluebird in honour of her. RIP Dame Vera Lynne,
