A big welcome to Sirkka who is my latest follower. Hope you enjoy my blog in the future.
This did not turn out as planned! The quote for today from Dyan is "If you ran like your mouth you'd be in great shape". I had this idea of a jogger but did any of Dyan's figures fit the category - no! The only one resembling a jogger was this tall one with a pair of shorts on but she did have big boots on too. Ah well, the shorts outweighed the boots (although strictly speaking I would think the boots weighed considerably more than the shorts LOL).
The search was on, now I had the shorts I needed a face with a fairly prominent mouth and so I came upon this one and had to give her some hair as she comes without. Next was to find a figure that would work alongside her - ie the one who was uttering the quote. I found this fairly tall slim figure and decided she would do, now to find a head that did not look as if the whole body was doing a contortionist act. I think I managed to find one, turning to the jogger but still in keeping with the body facing the opposite way. So we have the story:
"Sarky (as in sarcastic) Sue was out for a walk in the fields with her little dog, which had run off chasing rabbits somewhere, when along came her old enemy from school days Penelope Pit-Stop. Penny, as she is known these days, was out jogging in her new outfit of spotted shorts with a top that had matching sleeves. Well, a girl has to look her best whether out in town or jogging in the countryside, afterall you never know who you are going to bump into. Oh ho, oh no, was that Sarky Sue ahead? Yes, it was, and Sarky Sue was known for never missing an opportunity. The two of them had clashed many a time whilst at school and things had not got any better as they had grown up.
Penny was all for jogging on past but suddenly she heard Sue shout out "If you ran like your mouth you'd be in great shape". This annoyed Penny so much that she had to stop and compose herself before carrying on with the run. A deep breath or two and she was composed enough to continue on her way, much to the annoyance of Sarky Sue. Better not to get into another of those school day slanging matches!"
As I wanted to enter my page into Art Journal Journey where the lovely Jo has set the challenge for us to use "Texture" on our pages I decided to use some heavy gesso down the left hand side of my page and I chose one of my favourite stencils of a border of leaves. It came out really well but I should have painted the page first as you may not see the great texture on a scan. So I outlined the leaves in white pen where they were on the green grassy area. With hindsight I should have left them as they were as the Gesso really did a good job on its own and the leaves are quite prominent without any markings. Ah well, we live and learn.
Once again I cannot put any labels on my post. Yes, the block is there down the right hand side saying "labels", then telling me to "separate labels with com..." and underneath "No matching suggestions". The problem is it will not let me add anything, nothing shows as it did last week with a list and a tick box alongside each label. Anyone else had this problem and if so any ideas how to resolve it please?
