Made a complete mess yesterday of my journal page. Went over it with a pale blue that I mixed myself and then decided to use my Eco-Friendly green paint! It came out oily - you know, when the paint pigment does not mix. Being in a tube I had shaken it well, or so I thought, but obviously not enough. It made such a mess. I then went over the whole thing with a baby wipe and got most of it off so used Forest Moss Distress Ink instead through a stencil. Then my black pen would not work!
I never normally use this type of stencil and it is supposed to represent a meadow - not a bit wintry as I hope to bring some Spring into your step when you look at this.
The quote is "I'm running out of people I can't stand" and so the story this week is about Shelley:
"Shelley is a little grumpy at the moment and it shows in everything she does. She has a wide circle of friends at school but slowly but surely every single one of them is annoying her. Take Emma for example - the other day she wore exactly the same shade of lipstick as Shelley, much to Shelly's annoyance. Not only that but she had bought the matching shade of nail varnish too. That really hit home as Shelley could not afford to buy it for herself - and Emma did not offer to let her use hers!
Then there was Sandra, she decided to be best of friends with Gemma who Shelley could not stand. How could she do that? So that meant Emma and Sandra were definitely not in the friendship circle any more as far as Shelley was concerned.
Peter, Imogen and Saira had called but with the mood that Shelley was in she did not know whether she wanted to hang around with them or not. The temptation was there to say "No" to their invitation to go out but she realised that if she was not careful she would end up with zero friends. All that was left for her was to give herself a good talking to and she did. She popped back in the house and shouted to her friend, Mr Nobody, "I'm running out of people I can't stand" in the hopes that he would advise her one way or another as to what she should do. In the end she went out to meet them, better to have some friends than no-one."
I am entering this into Erika's challenge over on Art Journal Journey where the theme is 'Favourite things' - now what do we value such a lot? Friendships. Friends are more precious than materialistic things and it is the start of a new year when we wish friends all the happiness in the world. So today I wish you all a Very Happy New Year, may your cup overflow with happiness.
