Oh dear, the snarky comment from Tim Holtz this morning is "You drink too much, you have questionable morals. You're everything I ever wanted in a friend." So now I need to think of a story to include this comment which I am not finding easy. I have been stamping and fussy cutting some figures so hopefully I can use one or two of them as they will be the correct size for my square journal.
"Lolly had gone Downtown to Gear Alley where her friends all hung out. They were known as 'GAG' which stood for the 'Gear Alley Gang'. Jax and Alfreda, her two best buddies, were already there as was Eric, the boy she knew had a crush on her. Lolly was not a particularly nice girl and could be bitchy to others making their lives a bit of a misery. In fact she and Jax tried to make Naomi's life a misery whenever they could and poor Naomi, who had been elected leader of the gang, spent many a sleepless night because of the snide comments they made whenever the opportunity arose.
It was Jax who had got there early that day and she had been speaking to Eric who had asked her to have a word with Lolly as he wanted so much to be her boyfriend. Jax promised she would have a word with her friend as soon as she could.
Lolly arrived, wearing a new blue dress and some shiny new boots she had bought the day before. Lolly was never short of money and spent spent spent whenever she could. She had even been to the hairdressers that morning and had a new hairstyle to impress others with.
Jax wasted no time at all and whispered in Lolly's ear that Eric wanted to be her boyfriend. Lolly was not too sure about it, to be honest he was too nice for her.
"Get your head in gear. Why don't you tell him "You drink too much. You have questionable morals. You're everything I ever wanted in a friend." said Alfreda laughingly.
Lolly looked across at him, realised he was wearing quite new and fairly expensive clothes, and he had the latest fashion, a straw boater on his head. Maybe he wasn't too bad a catch despite his bad habits. Besides which she would be the first to have a boyfriend in GAG. It might not be a bad idea. It could be useful to have a boy in the little coven she had made. Yes, she would have Eric dangling for a short while whilst she made her mind up; and she could use him to her advantage too with his questionable morals."
For some reason I found this comment a little difficult to use. Maybe the 'nicer' comments of late did it. However, I began by colouring my figures in and used colours from the cooler range as the leaves were falling outside the window and reminding me that autumn is here and soon the leaves will be in the lovely rich reds and oranges that I so enjoy. I wanted my page to be autumnal but in order to join in with my theme at Art Journal Journey I had to include, not leaves, but gears in some way. Despite managing to slip the words (in gear) into the conversation it wasn't enough so I decorated the top of the page with a selection of gears. I just hope this is acceptable especially as it is my theme, 'In Gear', I am trying to show. I and the Moderators at Art Journal Journey would love to see you join us with your rendition of the theme. Go on, I know you can.
