Day 143 Goody, goody, gum drops

Day 143 Goody, goody, gum drops

143:365
02/20/13


Louise Hay daily affirmation:   
“It is a joy and a delight to plant new seeds, for I know these seeds will become my new experiences.” 

Inspiration exercise from Noah Scalin’s 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Make something in which the sense of taste is the essential component.   



Media:  Scrapbook paper, Magazine photos, Mod Podge, Metallic Sharpie 

Time:  50M 

Comments:  The sense of taste must come into play with this sweet treat.  
(Not great for the blood sugar, but a definite feast for the eyes.)  
Tying in today's affirmation... maybe the seeds to be planted could be vegetables instead of gum drops?

Day 142 New day, New me?

 142:365

02/19/13

Day 142 New day, New me?

Louise Hay daily affirmation:   “This is a new day.  I am a new me.”

Inspiration exercise from Noah Scalin’s 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Cut holes in the pages of a magazine or book so that what you reveal beneath creates something new.

Media:  Scrapbook paper, Catalog and magazine photos, Tissue paper, Mod Podge

Time:  1H:20M

Comments:  Sometimes the daily affirmations take some convincing to believe.  Can feel a little contrived and obscured behind the tissue paper of everyday life.... Much like the images inside the circles in this collage.  (They are  less legible than I envisioned in my head.)  Ironically enough, I've been feeling lately a bit like these images- a pig, a flower, and a couple of oddly shaped cherubs- obscured from clear view.   

Had a chance to use the circle cutter that I received as a Christmas gift for this collage, though, so there is that.  Still looking for clearer view and trusting the process to get there.  

  

Day 141 Birds of gratitude

Day 141 Birds of gratitude

141:365
02/18/13 

Louise Hay daily affirmation:   “I think differently.  I speak differently.  I act differently.  Others treat me differently.”

Inspiration exercise from Noah Scalin’s 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Make a paper pop-up.   

Media:  Scrapbook paper; Magazine photos; Poetry book pages:  Chickadee by Hilda Conckling and Down in the Hollow by Aileen Fisher; Graph paper; Mod Podge; Fabric pattern tissue

Time:   1H:30M 

Comments:  The theme of this collage with its pop-up birds is an homage to Randel Plowman's work.   I recently ordered one of his 2013 collage  calendars and received an unexpected level of good customer service upon delivery of my order.  With much gratitude  and appreciation. 

Link for more info:  http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FACollageADay

   

Day 140 Thinking about Art

Day 140 Thinking about Art

140:365
02/17/13

Louise Hay daily affirmation:   “My new world is a reflection of my new thinking.”

Inspiration exercise from Noah Scalin's 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Create a rebus.  A visual puzzle in which a combination of images and letters are combined with +/- symbols to lead the viewer to read specific words or phrases. 

Media:  Scrapbook paper, Magazine photos, Modge Podge, Sharpie

Time:   2H

Comments:  Today's collage is a combination of symbols and words that make up the affirmation of the day.  Gnu is new.  A bench sitting on a super shiny floor is a reflection.  Mixed carvings of ancient marble busts and a futuristic robot symobolize thinking, both old and new, that comes together in the Artistic process.  

Day 139 Wallpaper gone wild

Day 139  Wallpaper gone wild

139:365

02/16/13

Louise Hay affirmation:   “I use my affirmative thinking to create exactly what I want.”

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Make something that will decay over time.

Media:  Scrapbook paper, Tissue paper, 1980’s Design Magazine photos, Modge Podge

Time:   1H:30M

Comments:  The bedroom photo in today's collage is from a 1980's interior design magazine.  It harkens back to the days when matching wallpaper and bedding were in vogue.  Overabundant prints on every room surface are a design trend that (fortunately for all of us) decayed over time.  

As for today's affirmation, the outline of the bird next to a fence reminds me of the wood privacy fence we are currently working to replace after 20+ year of wear and tear (and decay).  

We've found that at our house, working with contractors requires a lot of positive thinking and energy to create exactly what we want.  Have to keep eyes on the end goal and try not to let the details get the better of us.

Day 138 Pushing up daisies

Day 138 Pushing up daisies

138:365

02/15/13

Louise Hay affirmation:   “My life is ever new.  Each moment of my life is new and fresh and vital.”

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Make something inspired by a fictional character. 

Media:  Scrapbook paper, Grid Vellum, Watercolors, Magazine and Catalog photos, Modge Podge

Time:   1H:30M

Comments:  My fictional character is a cartoon goon from a magazine ad that, in this case, is using his big hammer to push up pretty flowers.  Above the ground, all is new and fresh and vital.   Below, mysterious.  

Day 137 Morning Valentine

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Day 137 Morning Valentine 

02/14/13

Louise Hay affirmation:   “I am in the process of positive changes.”

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Look at the morning sky when you first get up today and make something inspired by what you see.

Media:  Scrapbook paper, Brown paper bag, Magazine photos, Candy packaging, Mod Podge

Time:   45M

Comments:  Valentine’s Day and my morning started with a sweet gift.  Puppy themed greeting card, strawberries, and heart-shaped box of chocolates to start the day.  

Day 136 Deserving the best

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Day 136 Deserving the best

02/13/13

Louise Hay affirmation:   “I deserve the best, and I accept it now.”

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Create a life-size person using your clothes and/or whatever else you have at hand.

Media:  Calendar and tissue paper, Magazine photos, Matte medium, Modge Podge

Time:  50M

Comments:  This outfit is a little more formal that I typically wear, especially the height of the heels, but I like it and love that there's a t-square and roll of drawings that accessorize the look.  She must be a designer!    

Day 135 A week's wages

135:365

02/12/13

Day 135 A week's wages

Louise Hay affirmation:   “I trust the process of life to bring me my highest good.”

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Make a rubbing by placing paper over rough objects and using charcoal or chalk to pick up the details.

Media:  Newspaper, Magazine and catalog photos, Tracing paper, Colored pencil, Mod Podge

Time:   1H:10M

Comments:  Lot of weird energy at work lately. Lot of reasons to feel gratitude that I get paid to do what I do. Lot of reasons to be glad I have dogs that are happy to see me when I get home.  Lot of reasons to scan the want ads.   Weeks like these and all I can do is trust the process of life to bring me my highest good. 

Day 134 There was an old lady

134:365

02/11/13

Louise Hay affirmation:   “I have a happy, slender body.”

Day 134 There was an old lady

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Reinterpret your favorite childhood story.

Media:  Google images for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Modge Podge

Time:  1H:10M

Comments:  Funny how this project is going.   Some days the affirmation of the day and the exercise from the 365 Daily Creativity Journal sync up in ironic ways...Even though all were pre-determined at the beginning of the year-long project with no thought to aligning subjects of one with the other.  I figured, the more random, the better, for sparking creative connections.  

Today's affirmation "I have a happy, slender body" just happened to fall on the day where the 365 exercise has to do with childhood stories.  My favorite book as a kid was about an old lady who successively eats a fly, spider, bird, cat, dog, goat, cow and horse.  Would love to see her happy, slender body after all that!?!    

Found some interesting graphic interpretations for the nursery rhyme/book on Google images to help illustrate.  

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly,
I don't know why she swallowed a fly,
I guess she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
It wiggled and wriggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a bird,
How absurd! to swallow a bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wiggled and wriggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a cat,
Imagine that! to swallow a cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wiggled and wriggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a dog,
What a hog! to swallow a dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wiggled and wriggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a goat,
Just opened her throat! to swallow a goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wiggled and wriggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she'll die.

 There was an old lady who swallowed a cow,

I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wiggled and wriggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a horse,
She died—of course!